Apple’s Focus filters are a great feature, but they have a glaring blind spot: group chats

Apple’s Messages Focus Filters help hide unwanted individual contacts during Work focus, but they fall short with group chats.

If an allowed person is in a group thread, the entire chat stays visible, which weakens the distraction-reduction benefit.

The article says this creates awkward tradeoffs for users who want finer control over interruptions.

It suggests Apple should add more granular group chat settings, possibly tied more closely to Screen Time.