Remove Focus Sessions from Clock App

Bravo for your comment.

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.

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

Thanks for that tip. I will give it a try.

Just thought I'd drop a follow up on this. For the past week it seems that the app has always been opening on timer for me. Not sure if anything was done since there was no update logs (or that I can't find any), but I'm happy with the way it's working now.