I'm trying not to just resist everything new in mac OS right away, but this whole focus concept and do not disturb mode turning on without me asking it to and not having any option to disable it is just too much. I can imagine maybe using this in some exceptional circumstances where it actually occurred to me to do so, but I definitely want it to be a conscious decision.
In the preferences I could find no off switch. I tried setting it to only turn on when I'm in Antarctica and off when I'm not but it didn't seem to actually work as the little moon icon remained there even after this. I also tried to scheduling it to operate in a one minute window but even after that window elapsed it continued to be in 'do not disturb mode'. I don't tend to get a whole lot of notifications nor rely on them much but frankly the idea that they're being suppressed not under direction from me is infuriating and I don't want that to happen.
I'm not so sure. When I look at that menu, I only see the options for a Focus.
Upon another check, yes. If you go to that menu, and press the selected Focus, it turns off. I guess I never tried that.
Just a tip, if you tap the icon of current mode(moon for me) it toggles, tap the text to bring up all the modes, if you want to turn on a different mode.