Remove Focus Sessions from Clock App

Hi Ck. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

I've not yet heard of Focus Session bothering anyone. But I do notice that for some reason I'm not signed into the Clock app even though I'm signed into Windows with my MS Account.

Perhaps if you sign out of that one app at the top of the settings it will back off. There shouldn't be any reason to sign into the Clock except to enable it to access your data for the Focus sessions which you do not want.

It bothers *me* anytime I open an app and it chooses to default to a setting I NEVER use just because the app's publisher is trying to push a new feature.

In this particular case, something meant to reduce distraction has become one.

I guess everybody wants irony, but nobody wants to pay for it.

Like CK, I'll be switching to a third-party app.

Unfortunately it's still the same on me

You are right, it pops up on me periodically if I don't use it for a while. I can never decide if programmers are unable to do better or just unwilling to do better, and that includes their bosses too lol.

It bothers me too.

This was the first link when searching for "timer how to disable focus sessions"

Three pages in (on my screen) of nothing but people complaining about the Focus Session (FS) showing up when starting the Clock app. Well, add me to that list. It has frustrated me ever since Microsoft started the FS. Nothing in the Settings to disable it. I even tried to drag the option from the sidebar and move it down the list so the Timer will be the first option and hopefully start there when I open the app like in the good old days... nope.

I'm so glad someone mentioned an alternative, so I WILL be installing Hourglass right after I post this message and will be taking Clock off my Taskbar and no longer using it. I was going to say how Microsoft are shooting themselves in the foot, but it seems apparent that they don't care. This has obviously been an issue for users from the beginning and up until now, still hasn't been addressed. Oh well; the user will do what the user needs to do.