Notifications Bypassing Sleep Focus

I using multiple iOS apps to track sleep. I manually put both my iPhone 15 and Apple Watch 10 into Sleep Focus every night, and take it out of Sleep Focus manually every morning. I have no schedules set in Sleep Focus. I allow certain People’s Notifications to get through under Sleep Focus, but NO Apps Notifications. That’s a recent change, previously I allowed several Apps Notifications but recently deleted all of them (two days ago?). Now all of my iOS applications seem to be respecting that change. All but one - Life360. Not sure if anyone is familiar with that app, but it is sending me notifications while in Sleep Focus. Specifically, it is vibrating my wrist (haptic) with no sound when Life360 sends a notification during Sleep Focus, and that is enough to wake me up. I checked every possible setting that I could come up with, in Life 360, iPhone, Apple Watch, both on the phone and watch side, sounds and haptics, as well as the apps and sleep focus areas. Cannot figure out why this one app is getting through but I need to fix it or stop wearing my watch to sleep, which is not a good option. I’ve reached out to Life 360 and their support staff. Hoping maybe someone in the Apple Support Community might have some ideas as well. Thank you.

Apple Watch Series 10, watchOS 11

Posted on Mar 21, 2025 5:25 AM

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Mar 21, 2025 6:14 AM in response to mlb32704

Do you need to keep notifications for that app on? You said you checked every possible setting but not specifically that you checked the notifications settings.. What I mean or how I would do this is by simply opening the settings app and searching "notifications." Then I would go through the results until perhaps coming across a solution to your issue. (there may be a lot if yours returns as many as mine thanks to siri and the many applications I have.


You may also find a solution to your problem by adjusting the privacy settings for that app within settings and check siri's settings connected to the app.


I suppose it could be helpful to know what the specific notifications you're receiving are for and just going through the sleep focus settings again to make sure you're not overlooking something simple. You sound like you're comfortable with tech, but even then we are all able to miss something from time to time thats painfully obvious upon second inspection. 🤦🏻‍♂️


One other thing I'd ask and check is if you're having your watch notifications mirror your iphone's settings? Maybe something like that can keep you from having to not sleep with your watch or something like deleting the Life360 app.


I dont know or have any experience with Life 360 per se, but a quick search shows that it appears to be a 3rd party application that does a lot of the same stuff your apple devices already are capable of doing natively without the bloatware.


Good luck. Sorry I couldn't offer any specific solution for you.

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Mar 29, 2025 4:44 AM in response to mlb32704

I had a similar issue and I have solved it. Under Sleep focus settings select "Allow notifications from" and delete any app that appears there. When you go back to the previous screen, under Apps it should say "None allowed". Test it during the day to make sure nothing gets through

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Mar 21, 2025 11:43 AM in response to d_Alexander

“One other thing I'd ask and check is if you're having your watch notifications mirror your iphone's settings? Maybe something like that can keep you from having to not sleep with your watch or something like deleting the Life360 app”


Lightbulb/duh moment…just turn off mirroring on my watch when I go to sleep, turn it back on in the morning. I do a couple of other workarounds at bedtime anyway, I’ll just add it to the list. Should do the trick. The Life 360 app developer has not been helpful so far and they are one step away from saying call Apple :) Thank you.

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Mar 29, 2025 8:16 AM in response to lobsterghost1

Typo "how the". And it's not presumptuous it's factual. Apps run inside the operating system and are governed by the OS. If you instruct the OS to block notifications from all apps, then no notifications should pass. If they do, the issue is with the OS not doing its job. It has nothing to do with the app developers and everything to do with apple.

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Mar 29, 2025 8:18 AM in response to Julian0401

Julian0401 wrote:

Typo "how the". And it's not presumptuous it's factual. Apps run inside the operating system and are governed by the OS. If you instruct the OS to block notifications from all apps, then no notifications should pass. If they do, the issue is with the OS not doing its job. It has nothing to do with the app developers and everything to do with apple.

Again, you don't know what I know or don't know. But thanks for your presumptuous comment.

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