Remove Focus Sessions from Clock App

Even with all focus assist settings and automatic rules turned off, every time I pull up the clock app to set a timer it starts on the Focus Sessions tool.

Is there a way to completely turn off this feature, or do I just need to get a clock app from a 3rd party?

Hi,

When I logoff, I leave some time on the Timer (a few seconds or more). The next time I login and open the Clock, the Timer will appear instead of Focus sessions. This has been working for about a week. I don't have a need for Focus sessions, but I use the Timer all day for various projects. Hope this helps.

lotus19

I've wracked my brains for decades trying to figure out what drives their (Microsoft's) UI decisions. I've come to 2 probabilities:

1. Enterprise MBA customer or above. Anybody else is irrelevant.
2. Design by committee who are run by MBAs or above.

Occasionally they slip up and let design decisions go through by people who actually use the product and are people who make things.

It's incredibly frustrating. I am so glad for the Hourglass suggestion. Thank you.

Bravo for your comment.

Hi Greg.

Does the irony of you replying that you haven't heard of anyone being bothered by it to someone clearly bothered by it escape you, are you a professional gaslighter or just some poor schmuck uncorking pre-authored responses?

Anyway, this carp bothers me and I would love the ability to at least banish Focus Sessions to the bottom of the options, so that the one thing I use the app for, which is Timers, would be there on startup. Let users arrange the UI to their needs instead of your metric-algorithmic wants.

In short, Microsoft: stop being ducking annoying. Your "news" feed that you patched in a while back and made a pain in the posterior to remove again is just another iteration of your incessant need to annoy your users and forcefeed them your newest "well, got to justify my salary" bullcarp.

IT'S **** ANNOYING the focus session app in CLOCK!