A Safe Driving App that Just Might make you Crash – Focus — Screen-Free Driving Review

Well intended, badly executed. Wasted over a dozen hours … conservatively. I downloaded this app because it’s title came up in a search for ‘focus’ … I wanted a productivity app. Then, around the same time, I updated to iOS11 and suddenly my car was telling me … over and over and over and over … to “Turn off your phone if you’re driving. If you’re not driving shake your phone.” And that’s it… no idea why it was suddenly happening … no indication what feature was saying it … it wasn’t Siri. Three hours on the phone with Apple. They never heard of it. Searched the web to see if anyone else had this problem … nope. Take it to the Apple Store. Genius appointment. They have no idea. Apple says “Record it please” … so I have to borrow an iPad to do that … how else might I? Calls are made to Apple to find out if this is a bug with Do Not Disturb … which is turned off. They think it’s my car … OnStar… which I don’t have active. They think it’s Buick’s message. But the car, 2007, has no BlueTooth. Apple says reset the phone to factory. Back it up, do that. Nothing. Apple says RESTORE the phone. Back it up, do that. Nothing. By now I’ve heard this message a hundred + times and just about every time I do I have to restart the phone … why? … because once it says what it says any other audio app doesn’t come back to full volume .. podcast, Apple music, Pandora, anything. Two months until today. Once again I searched the web with the exact words and someone else made a reference to it. Unreal. It’s absolutely stupefying that the message makes NO REFERENCE to where it came from. At the end simply have a super cute baby voice say “Focus App”. First time I’ve never left a negative review about an app. First time! An entire day … maybe a half-dozen people … trying to solve this absolute mystery.
Review by WeDesignOurLives on Focus — Screen-Free Driving.