> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://learn.cleftnotes.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Focus Filters

> Shape Cleft around work, rest, travel, and every other Focus

Focus Filters let each Apple Focus change how Cleft looks and behaves. Keep work notes out of Personal time, quiet Cleft during a meeting, or begin a voice note when a capture Focus turns on.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Focus Filters for Cleft are available on iPhone and iPad in Cleft 1.15.0 or later.

## Add Cleft to a Focus

**1. Choose a Focus**

Open the **Settings** app on your iPhone or iPad, tap **Focus**, then choose the Focus you want to change.

**2. Add the Cleft filter**

Scroll to **Focus Filters**, tap **Add Filter**, then choose **Cleft**.

**3. Choose what changes**

Turn on the options that suit this Focus, then tap **Add**.

## What a Cleft Focus can do

* **Hide Notes With Tags.** Keep notes with selected tags out of view while this Focus is active.
* **Favorites Only.** Show only notes you have marked as favorites.
* **Quiet Mode.** Silence Cleft's in-app sounds and haptics.
* **Auto-Start Recording.** Begin one voice note when the Focus turns on.
* **Recording Quality.** Choose the audio quality Cleft uses during this Focus, including recordings started from CarPlay.

Changes take effect as you enter or leave the Focus, so you do not need to relaunch Cleft.

### When Auto-Start Recording fires

**Auto-Start Recording** starts a voice note at the moment the Focus turns on, and only then. If you open Cleft while that Focus is already on, you land on your notes rather than in another recording, so reopening Cleft after an interrupted capture picks up where you left off. If CarPlay is already connected, the recording starts there.

To use **Favorites Only**, open a note's more menu and choose **Favorite Note**. Choose **Remove from Favorites** there whenever you want to take it out of that Focus view.

> [!TIP]
>
> Try a Work Focus that shows favorites and hides personal tags, or a Capture Focus that starts a voice note and uses your preferred recording quality.

## Edit or remove a filter

Return to **Settings → Focus**, choose the Focus, then tap **Cleft** under Focus Filters. Change your choices, or tap **Delete Filter** to stop that Focus from changing Cleft.

Turning off a Focus restores your normal note list, sounds, haptics, and recording quality.


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