By the way, I didn’t realize until late this summer that the portrait orientation of iPadOS now lets you rearrange the apps/widgets separately in that view! Helps a lot to have good layouts in both setups
How do you make that work? When I rearrange widgets in portrait mode, they get messed up in landscape mode. I’m using the latest version of iOS 15 on an 11” 2020 iPad Pro.
I’ve had my iPad Pro w/pencil for almost 2 years now and after watching your videos, I’ve learned more about my iPad and various apps in the last hour or so than I have in 2 years!!! Thank you for bringing so much productivity and inspiration to my iPad use.
Yes there is a way that you can have different wallpapers for each Focus mode. I have done it by getting the change of focus to run a shortcut to change the wall paper. The only drawback I fund was you have to put the image you are using into its own album. Apart from that it works fine. I also have the focus made change my watch face as well.
@@SuperDadsBaby The way I did it was to have an album for each image that I wanted to use for each wallpaper. I then used Shortcuts to set that image as the current image for either Home or Locked wallpaper or both. The shortcut was triggered by the change in Focus mode. Hope that makes sense
Great video! You can change the wallpaper of your Home Screen within each focus mode by including the “set wallpaper” automation within each shortcut. Hope that helps!
Honestly, I found your channel through YT recommended and it was by far THE BEST recommendation YT has ever made (tech topics). Aesthetically pleasing, suiper useful tips and nice overall length of your videos. Plus, you opened my eyes and made me fall in love with my iPad once again! Thank you and keep it up! I’ll recommend your channel around too ;)
Man this has been a challenge. However, after watching your video and doing a little research I was able to set wallpapers with the widget switch. Man you’re a blessing. Thank you so much for the help.
This video has been so helpful! Just got my m1 iPad Pro today and am setting it up and this has helped loads! If you want to have a focus mode on on one device but not all if you go to focus in settings there should be an option to “share across devices” and when you turn it off you can have your iPad in whichever focus mode and your phone/Mac in another! Once again great video and I hope what I’ve said helps someone that didn’t know!!! :)
You can set focus to a specific device and prevent it from 'sharing' focus on other devices as well! I really like the shorcut idea, definitely going to give it a try!
I just wanted to pop in to thank you for sharing these incredibly useful shortcuts and setup. I was even able to incorporate the changing of wallpapers as I get into different modes. Really going to help with my 2022 priorities. Happy New Year all! P.s. love your aesthetic.
Great video! I just got an ipad and never heard of the shortcut feature until now. Your instructions were clear and easy-to-follow! Thanks so much, just subscribed ^^
you can set the shortcut to change the wallpaper go to the shortcut you want to customize search for find photos filter the photo you want limit it by 1 photo and then search for set wallpaper then click on that little right arrow in circle next to photos deselect show preview and select or deselect perspective zoom as you like it
You honestly deserve way more subscribers than you got. Keep up the good work, its only a matter of time before your channel gains more popularity among tech enthusiasts.
This is very useful, thank you! Finally managed to differentiate my drawing, gaming and studying setups. Customizable docs would be perfect, you're right
I have adapted your setup further for my own workflow… On the home/startpage I actually don’t need the home shortcut and added another one for a further custom focus homepage (‘news’ in my case). Each focus homepage has only a single shortcut, which stops my focus mode and takes me back to the startpage, rather than four shortcut in the widget. It gives me a bit more real estate on each homescreen and I rarely need to navigate between the individual focus modes. But that’s just me…
I’m so grateful for explaining us your setup! It really sorted things out and even helped me to find a way to automatically play and/or pause spotify with a modification of your Lofi shortcut!
Hi I've been thinking about screen productivity for a long time, but I didn't know exactly how to set it up. Thanks to you, I can do it now, so thank you very much for that. Great video
Very good tips! But I can't create a link between the focus and a shortcuts. Could you give me a hint why I don't see the "set focus" step while creating a shortcut? Thanks!
How you did it? How you change your homescreen when you push game launcher… please explain in detail because i am new to apple system :) thank you very much
Hey man, Thanks so much for this. I’ve got it setup on my iphone now, as this device can be a major distraction for me while working. Love your videos, keep it up!
Thank you mate, exactly what I was looking for! Definitely subscribed to your channel and keep up the great work with your content, these are not only great looking but also very useful videos.
Sry if this is a weird question, but what were the books on the top right of the ipad point of view angle. They looked really interesting and couldn't find them from the limited amount I could see. Loved the video it was super helpful, it just was stuck in my head that I wanted to see what thy were.
Hey. I think you could create an automation with a trigger of when a particular focus is turned on. But first create shortcuts to set your wallpaper to a certain image. In your automation, choose the run shortcut action to run the desired one. Turn off ask to run and you're good! You've got great content on your channel. Well done!
this is awesome and thank you. I have been running around juggling all sorts of "tasks" and have never really had time to much around working out how focus mode works. Now, not only do I have a good handle on it but also the confidence to give it a go. Top video - easy to understand and to follow along with. Off now to check out more on the channel :-)
Love your videos!!! I have over 700 apps, mostly from “Apps Gone Free” that I want to try using someday. They are mostly organized in category folders. When you create shortcuts to a specific home screen that you create and hide all other apps, do the hidden apps still slow down your iPad? I’m sorry if I am not explaining this correctly! 1) I would love to do the shortcuts and make new home-screens for Bible Study, productivity, games, Finance, Shopping, etc. 2) I’m worried that as I create new home screens, with me already having 700+ apps in my normal home screen, this would slow down my ipad, iphone when using it. 3) When you create new home screens for the shortcuts, are the apps you put on that home screen still in the normal home screen and in the library? a) Does this use up more (I’m sorry but right now I just can’t think of the right terms for this) b) Would it be better to delete the apps in our normal home screen when we add them to a new home screen shortcut? c) What about deleting those apps from the library, or is that not possible? 4) Do you know of an app that we could rate the apps we have a) Categorize them b) Date purchased or downloaded c) Cost i) One time ii) Subscription 1. Start date 2. Sub period (Mnthly,) 3) Cancel date 4) Why canceled d) Pros & Cons e) What it’s missing for my needs f) Rating, 1-5 or 1-8 g) Keep, h) Remove from home screen until they update app i) Delete j) Somehow be able to copy/paste comments & reviews k)Etc Sorry this is so long!!! (｡ŏ﹏ŏ)😔
The only focus mode I've been making use of is the Fitness one that starts up when I open an app that I use. And in this usage, having all my devices go into this mode has been fantastic. I'm going to give the screens a try though as I think it'd be really handy for a few different things. Thanks for the video!
Is there anyway to sync which calendars will show depending on which focus mode you’re in? For example your casual mode will show your personal calendar on the calendar widget and your productivity mode will show your school/work calendar
Fantastic video, thank you. I’ve come back here many times when I need to adjust my set up. However today, I noticed you can no longer hide home screens since the upgrade. I came back again today as my shortcuts stopped working. Do you think it could be because you can’t hide home screens as you do in your steps? Many thanks.
@@ByteReview that would be so awesome if you could. I’ve tried many times and I can’t get the shortcuts to work anymore when it was working fine before. The only thing I think it can be is due to the hide screen thing not being an option.
How are you able to jump back to the main screen when you click the "Home" widget? I like that Home is not a focus mode but any time I am in a different focus mode and click "Home", it just changes to the Home wallpaper but still stays on that same page. Thanks!
Hello i just found this video 😊 its all so good , but can you explain how to do your shortcuts for the lofi station button that you have . Tnx so much.
I just got my iPad mini yesterday with Apple Pencil 2 and I was shocked how awful my handwriting is. I was hoping to replace my notebook. I bought a matte screen protector from TechArmor (was highly recommended for drawing by RUclipsr). Do you have any tips on how I can make writing feel better and more legible?
I’m afraid you lost me when you said “this is really simple so stay with me” as I got completely lost and couldn’t figure out how to get the various home screens with focus modes done, let alone get them onto the home screen widget. Do you have a printed version of this or another way to trouble shoot as now I can’t find the other screens and I’m stuck on one! Thanks. I love all your videos and want to get tthe most out of my iPad.
Am loving this! Did the same to my iPad today. Tried the wallpaper changing and was met with setbacks. The wallpaper was zoomed and my perspective zoom were off on the shortcuts' automation tab. Any tips on this? Thank you!!
Hi from Turkey. Just bought an ipad pro. The interface looks kind of different in yours. Trying to set up but somehow it is not working. A help would be very nice of you. Thx.
Cool video! I have a system for combatting distractions further however which makes use of configuration profiles. You’re device needs to be supervised using a Mac, but then you can run shortcuts that install profiles which disable certain apps for a certain period of time. It works better than Screen Time because ST can be easily bypassed. With profiles I find that I can just install them quickly and know that distracting apps cannot be accessed until the profile expires and deletes itself in the evening. A more nuclear option, but one that seriously has boosted my focus in recent months
I think it's possible to create Shortcuts automations which change your wallpaper when certain focus mode gets turned on or off! Tried it a couple of times and it works decently (although sometimes it's not "instant") :D Loved the video!
By the way, I didn’t realize until late this summer that the portrait orientation of iPadOS now lets you rearrange the apps/widgets separately in that view!
Helps a lot to have good layouts in both setups
Referring to 1:06
@@MatthewCassinelli No waaaaay! Thanks for the tip - wish I'd noticed this before the video!
Nice find - I didn’t know about this either 😅
Going to play around with this a bit too
Thanks for that! Can't wait to go make some changes!
How do you make that work? When I rearrange widgets in portrait mode, they get messed up in landscape mode. I’m using the latest version of iOS 15 on an 11” 2020 iPad Pro.
I’ve had my iPad Pro w/pencil for almost 2 years now and after watching your videos, I’ve learned more about my iPad and various apps in the last hour or so than I have in 2 years!!! Thank you for bringing so much productivity and inspiration to my iPad use.
My pleasure! Glad you're enjoying the videos
Separate docks for each focus mode would be huge!!
Right?! I would love that
Thats actually genius!
That would be outstanding!!!!
That’s. Amazing! :D
You seriously make some of the most helpful and aesthetic content on RUclips. Really glad I found your channel, keep it up!
Thanks, Tim!
Yes there is a way that you can have different wallpapers for each Focus mode. I have done it by getting the change of focus to run a shortcut to change the wall paper. The only drawback I fund was you have to put the image you are using into its own album. Apart from that it works fine. I also have the focus made change my watch face as well.
Could you please elaborate
@@SuperDadsBaby The way I did it was to have an album for each image that I wanted to use for each wallpaper. I then used Shortcuts to set that image as the current image for either Home or Locked wallpaper or both. The shortcut was triggered by the change in Focus mode. Hope that makes sense
Another great tip!!! Thanks so much!!!!
Could you explain exactly how you used shortcut to do that
I’m a uni student and getting an iPad Air soon and this video has been helpful, considering in implementing the different focus modes! Thank you
Focus modes are life changers for me personally, they have cut down my distractions by a mile and helped self discipline immensely!
That's good! Such a useful addition
Great video! You can change the wallpaper of your Home Screen within each focus mode by including the “set wallpaper” automation within each shortcut. Hope that helps!
Oooh yes, I've got it sorted now! Thanks!
Great!!! Thanks so much!!!
whilst the app icons change quickly, I am finding that the wallpaper takes at least 2 seconds to change,,, any idea how to speed that up?
Thank you for the video! You can actually disable "Share Across Devices" in the focus settings.
AHHH how did I miss this!
Thanks! So we could then create new shortcuts, etc., for the different devices, like iphone or iWatch. Is that correct?
Honestly, I found your channel through YT recommended and it was by far THE BEST recommendation YT has ever made (tech topics). Aesthetically pleasing, suiper useful tips and nice overall length of your videos. Plus, you opened my eyes and made me fall in love with my iPad once again! Thank you and keep it up! I’ll recommend your channel around too ;)
Thank you so much! Welcome to the channel and I’m glad the content is helpful 🙌🏻
Man this has been a challenge. However, after watching your video and doing a little research I was able to set wallpapers with the widget switch. Man you’re a blessing. Thank you so much for the help.
I have to say, your advice is very clear and is genuinely a game changer for my iPad use - thank you!
This video has been so helpful! Just got my m1 iPad Pro today and am setting it up and this has helped loads!
If you want to have a focus mode on on one device but not all if you go to focus in settings there should be an option to “share across devices” and when you turn it off you can have your iPad in whichever focus mode and your phone/Mac in another!
Once again great video and I hope what I’ve said helps someone that didn’t know!!! :)
You can set focus to a specific device and prevent it from 'sharing' focus on other devices as well! I really like the shorcut idea, definitely going to give it a try!
I notice this now, wish I'd seen it while I was making the video haha! And yeah, the shortcuts widget is awesome
Thanks!!
bro you’re very sympathic and make great videos! props! English is on point haha
CAN T EVEN KNOW HOW HELPFUL THAT WAS SOOO THENK YOU SOOO MUCH
Some of the best tips I've seen so far on this matter.
Excellent video. Can you share the shortcut you created for the LoFi music trigger?
I just wanted to pop in to thank you for sharing these incredibly useful shortcuts and setup. I was even able to incorporate the changing of wallpapers as I get into different modes. Really going to help with my 2022 priorities. Happy New Year all! P.s. love your aesthetic.
Awesome! Glad it was helpful, got another video in the works that builds off this so stick around 👀
This is amazing. Didn’t even know this kind of thing was possible with iPads lol
Glad it was helpful! iPads can be super useful if you can get these sorts of things working right
Great video! I just got an ipad and never heard of the shortcut feature until now. Your instructions were clear and easy-to-follow! Thanks so much, just subscribed ^^
You can also select to not share across devices for your focus modes in their creation/management pages
Ace. When you make a shortcut to turn other focus off, can you make go to first Home Screen page?
This was the first youtube tech video I’ve ever taken notes on while watching. Thanks so much! Your content is absolutely beautiful
Ahh thank you Ben, really glad you enjoyed it and it was helpful!
you can set the shortcut to change the wallpaper
go to the shortcut you want to customize
search for find photos
filter the photo you want
limit it by 1 photo
and then search for set wallpaper
then click on that little right arrow in circle next to photos
deselect show preview
and select or deselect perspective zoom as you like it
I hate myself for not looking into that harder
@@ByteReview
Glad I can help
And btw
Awsome video man
Your videos are something else
Keep it on
@@omarashraf27 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks! \ (•◡•) /
Love the shortcuts idea. Genius.
I haven't stopped suing them since!
You honestly deserve way more subscribers than you got. Keep up the good work, its only a matter of time before your channel gains more popularity among tech enthusiasts.
Thank you, and I'll keep making videos until the subs show up!
I love your vibe, your music and the effects on your videos
Thank you!
Unpredicticably useful!!
Great video! Could you please share your Lofi shortcut? I’d love to have that one :)
This is very useful, thank you! Finally managed to differentiate my drawing, gaming and studying setups. Customizable docs would be perfect, you're right
Awesome, glad it was useful! And yes, give us those custom docks!
Have seen a few of your vids and finally subscribed. Keep it up and keep bringing good vids.
I have adapted your setup further for my own workflow… On the home/startpage I actually don’t need the home shortcut and added another one for a further custom focus homepage (‘news’ in my case). Each focus homepage has only a single shortcut, which stops my focus mode and takes me back to the startpage, rather than four shortcut in the widget. It gives me a bit more real estate on each homescreen and I rarely need to navigate between the individual focus modes. But that’s just me…
I’m so grateful for explaining us your setup! It really sorted things out and even helped me to find a way to automatically play and/or pause spotify with a modification of your Lofi shortcut!
These productivity apps are just what I needed! 💫 Keep rising to be who you want to be! 💫 #keeprising #risingtobe #riser #irise
3:53 nice music taste - fellow beatles fan myself!
Hi
I've been thinking about screen productivity for a long time, but I didn't know exactly how to set it up. Thanks to you, I can do it now, so thank you very much for that.
Great video
🙏🏻🙏🏻
I just got an iPad for the first time and this is going to help so much! Thank you for the fantastic video🥰
You can change focus modes to not turn on on all devices and only the device that it’s turned on on.
Just set my iPAD. Thanks so much! And I subscribed!!
I like your desk setup man
Ive been waiting for your next video and it was definitely worth waiting & watching!
Great video content!
Glad it was worth the wait!
Will definitely be trying the focus modes. Great idea!
This is crazy good and going to immediately help me separate Personal modes from Work modes. Thanks.
Good to hear!
Very good tips! But I can't create a link between the focus and a shortcuts. Could you give me a hint why I don't see the "set focus" step while creating a shortcut? Thanks!
Thank u for introducing me to focus modes
When I click home button I can’t redirect to the first page, how can I do that? Please reply!
How you did it? How you change your homescreen when you push game launcher… please explain in detail because i am new to apple system :) thank you very much
Found this to be very helpful and inspiring! Thanks for making.
Thanks for checking it out 🙏🏻
Hey man,
Thanks so much for this.
I’ve got it setup on my iphone now, as this device can be a major distraction for me while working.
Love your videos, keep it up!
Glad it was useful!
Thank you mate, exactly what I was looking for! Definitely subscribed to your channel and keep up the great work with your content, these are not only great looking but also very useful videos.
Thanks! I didn't know you could have repeats of apps, that's going to make things a lot better
So useful!
this is so informative! I never thought of any of those before! thank you
Glad it was helpful!
loving your videos!!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Love this!
Imma give it a try for sure!!
Let me know how it goes!
Great information. Thanks man!
That’s exactly the video I needed. Thks for sharing ;-)
This is fantastic! I didn't know this was a thing. It will definitely help from now on especially when I'm studying!! Thanks so much :))
No problem! It’s super useful
Really like the wallpaper
Really like your videos! Keep it up mate!
Thanks!
Sry if this is a weird question, but what were the books on the top right of the ipad point of view angle. They looked really interesting and couldn't find them from the limited amount I could see. Loved the video it was super helpful, it just was stuck in my head that I wanted to see what thy were.
This is awesome. This really got me rethinking how I use my iPad. Thank you, this is very helpful!
🙏🏻🙏🏻
This was super helpful! Keep up the good work!
Glad it was helpful!
u can change the backgrounds of each focus mode in shortcuts
Your a genius.
Amazing tutorial thanks
Wow! Amazing and very useful, thanks!
Hi there! Nice job man. Keep it up
Hey. I think you could create an automation with a trigger of when a particular focus is turned on. But first create shortcuts to set your wallpaper to a certain image. In your automation, choose the run shortcut action to run the desired one. Turn off ask to run and you're good! You've got great content on your channel. Well done!
Would love to see a notion set-up video :D
Yeah? I have been tempted!
@@ByteReview YESSSSSS! :D
this is awesome and thank you. I have been running around juggling all sorts of "tasks" and have never really had time to much around working out how focus mode works. Now, not only do I have a good handle on it but also the confidence to give it a go. Top video - easy to understand and to follow along with. Off now to check out more on the channel :-)
Glad it was helpful, and welcome to the channel!
Love your videos!!! I have over 700 apps, mostly from “Apps Gone Free” that I want to try using someday. They are mostly organized in category folders. When you create shortcuts to a specific home screen that you create and hide all other apps, do the hidden apps still slow down your iPad? I’m sorry if I am not explaining this correctly!
1) I would love to do the shortcuts and make new home-screens for Bible Study, productivity, games, Finance, Shopping, etc.
2) I’m worried that as I create new home screens, with me already having 700+ apps in my normal home screen, this would slow down my ipad, iphone when using it.
3) When you create new home screens for the shortcuts, are the apps you put on that home screen still in the normal home screen and in the library?
a) Does this use up more (I’m sorry but right now I just can’t think of the right terms for this)
b) Would it be better to delete the apps in our normal home screen when we add them to a new home screen shortcut?
c) What about deleting those apps from the library, or is that not possible?
4) Do you know of an app that we could rate the apps we have
a) Categorize them
b) Date purchased or downloaded
c) Cost
i) One time
ii) Subscription
1. Start date
2. Sub period (Mnthly,)
3) Cancel date
4) Why canceled
d) Pros & Cons
e) What it’s missing for my needs
f) Rating, 1-5 or 1-8
g) Keep,
h) Remove from home screen until they update app
i) Delete
j) Somehow be able to copy/paste comments & reviews
k)Etc
Sorry this is so long!!!
(｡ŏ﹏ŏ)😔
Wowww it really help me a lot Ty man I appreciate it
oh wow this is so good!
The only focus mode I've been making use of is the Fitness one that starts up when I open an app that I use. And in this usage, having all my devices go into this mode has been fantastic. I'm going to give the screens a try though as I think it'd be really handy for a few different things. Thanks for the video!
No worries, glad it was hjelpful!
Is there anyway to sync which calendars will show depending on which focus mode you’re in? For example your casual mode will show your personal calendar on the calendar widget and your productivity mode will show your school/work calendar
I’d like to do that also!!!
Definitely going to start playing w/ focus mode after this. What type of mechanical keyboard are you using?
Thank you…great video! Really helped.
You’re welcome!
How do you make the productivity widgets??? I have now seen 4 videos, and none explain how to set them up!
Fantastic video, thank you. I’ve come back here many times when I need to adjust my set up. However today, I noticed you can no longer hide home screens since the upgrade. I came back again today as my shortcuts stopped working. Do you think it could be because you can’t hide home screens as you do in your steps? Many thanks.
Oh how frustrating. Maybe I need to update this video
@@ByteReview that would be so awesome if you could. I’ve tried many times and I can’t get the shortcuts to work anymore when it was working fine before. The only thing I think it can be is due to the hide screen thing not being an option.
How are you able to jump back to the main screen when you click the "Home" widget? I like that Home is not a focus mode but any time I am in a different focus mode and click "Home", it just changes to the Home wallpaper but still stays on that same page. Thanks!
I love that you have My Neighbor Totoro running in the back
What a film 😍
Great help in setting up the focus modes and shortcuts… when switching focus how do you close the apps of the focus??
Hello i just found this video 😊 its all so good , but can you explain how to do your shortcuts for the lofi station button that you have . Tnx so much.
I just got my iPad mini yesterday with Apple Pencil 2 and I was shocked how awful my handwriting is. I was hoping to replace my notebook. I bought a matte screen protector from TechArmor (was highly recommended for drawing by RUclipsr). Do you have any tips on how I can make writing feel better and more legible?
What anime is playing in the background while you’re talking? Love the aesthetic of it and would like to check it out.
Very helpful video btw!
0:23 it is a daily battle that he fights pretty much everyday. I, on the other hand, have daily battles that I don’t fight everyday
I’m afraid you lost me when you said “this is really simple so stay with me” as I got completely lost and couldn’t figure out how to get the various home screens with focus modes done, let alone get them onto the home screen widget. Do you have a printed version of this or another way to trouble shoot as now I can’t find the other screens and I’m stuck on one! Thanks. I love all your videos and want to get tthe most out of my iPad.
Am loving this! Did the same to my iPad today. Tried the wallpaper changing and was met with setbacks. The wallpaper was zoomed and my perspective zoom were off on the shortcuts' automation tab. Any tips on this? Thank you!!
Hi from Turkey. Just bought an ipad pro. The interface looks kind of different in yours. Trying to set up but somehow it is not working. A help would be very nice of you. Thx.
Totoro! 😍
Mindblowing setup!! Which calender widget you added in Productivity setup?
It’s called Dawn iPhone only but works on iPad well
Useful Tips. Thanks
Would it be able to work on iPad mini 6? The focus modes i mean.
really helpful thank you. How do ı close the notification of “ X focus mode on” thing from the top like a notification. You dont have it. Thank you
Cool video! I have a system for combatting distractions further however which makes use of configuration profiles. You’re device needs to be supervised using a Mac, but then you can run shortcuts that install profiles which disable certain apps for a certain period of time. It works better than Screen Time because ST can be easily bypassed. With profiles I find that I can just install them quickly and know that distracting apps cannot be accessed until the profile expires and deletes itself in the evening. A more nuclear option, but one that seriously has boosted my focus in recent months
Oooh that’s interesting, I’ll look into that
Thank you very much!
ok, following your step by step instructions but when I go into "All Shortcuts" I do not have a "Home" shortcut.
I think it's possible to create Shortcuts automations which change your wallpaper when certain focus mode gets turned on or off! Tried it a couple of times and it works decently (although sometimes it's not "instant") :D Loved the video!
Yep, looks like you can - I've got it working nicely now! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Wow are you able to share how to do this or the automation?
Thanks!! Please share how to do this!!
Hi I have a question, how do I configurate the shortcuts to go to an especific homescreen?