Windows 11 to Rename Focus Assist, Get New Notification Improvements

Microsoft is working non-stop on improving the experience with Windows 11, and the company is obviously planning a bunch of changes whose purpose would be specifically to allow the operating system to better align with customer expectations.

Most recently, Twitter user @thebookisclosed came across a series of new tweaks that would come to Windows 11 in a future update and which should obviously show up for insiders in an upcoming build.

More specifically, it looks like the notification priorities are now displayed separately in the Settings app, as Microsoft therefore wants the experience overall to be more straightforward.

Then, it looks like Focus Assist is being renamed to Focus, all for the same reason: everything in Windows must become easier to use, and a simpler approach helps achieve this purpose.

Everything still in the early days

Obviously, the work on all these improvements is still in the early days, and it could take a while until the new changes go live for all users out there.

Microsoft is conducting all kinds of experiments these days, and the company says it’ll use the Dev channel in the Windows Insider program specifically to test such ideas.

“As part of this ongoing evolution, Insiders will see us lean more heavily on the Dev Channel as a place to incubate new ideas, work on long lead items, and control the states of individual features,” the company said.

“This allows us to experiment in a few ways by rolling features in stages to monitor quality and your feedback (which we’ve been doing a lot of already) and testing variations of features (often referred to as “A/B testing”). Features and experiences from these builds could show up in future Windows releases when they’re ready. In some cases, these concepts will never ship, but by experimenting more, we can better refine experiences, and deliver solutions in Windows that truly empower our customers to achieve more.”