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KevinJardine
KevinJardine
Honored Contributor
November 30, 2025
Question

focusUI for Noesis

  • November 30, 2025
  • 16 replies
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I sometimes use focusUI when a player enters a world to send them directly to a CustomUI to start the game. However, focusUI does not seem to work for NoesisGUI panels. 

Any suggestions?

    16 replies

    gausroth
    gausroth
    Honored Contributor
    November 30, 2025

    This seems like a bug. Please submit a bug report. The only things I can think of would be to move the player to the UI panel and perhaps set speed to 0 so they have to interact with it.

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      KevinJardine
      KevinJardineAuthor
      Honored Contributor
      December 1, 2025

      Thanks, I have set the player speed (via the spawn gizmo) to zero for mobile as well as reporting the bug. The issue reported in this thread by BeardOrDie is a problem for desktop and VR so I could not use the speed solution there as the player has to move around before the focus prompt appears.

      gausroth
      gausroth
      Honored Contributor
      December 4, 2025

      A temporary work around could be to have a cui gizmo scaled to fill the area the noesis gizmo fills and focus on the cui gizmo. I was able to focus on a leaderboard gizmo and still interact with the noesis ui.

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      BeardOrDie
      BeardOrDie
      Participant
      December 1, 2025

      Same issue for me. I have to have the player move a bit toward the gizmo to enter the focus radius. I can't have the player spawn already in the focus radius, or they won't get the Focused interaction prompt. Not ideal.

      KevinJardine
      KevinJardineAuthor
      Honored Contributor
      December 1, 2025

      Yes, I see that behavior in the desktop editor as well. Fortunately spawning within the focus radius on mobile always seems to maintain the focus prompt for me. It's just that focusUI does not work for NoesisGUI so I have to depend on the player manually clicking on the prompt to zoom in on the panel.

      BeardOrDie
      BeardOrDie
      Participant
      December 4, 2025

      There is also inconsistency with the presentation of a full screen Noesis panel. Sometimes it focuses entirely, filling the phone screen with my Noesis panel (ideal). I have safety margin at the top to allow for the meta buttons. But sometimes, with no change the World, entering the focused interaction mode will not focus in all the way, leaving a bit of the world visible behind the panel at the top and bottom, making my margins unnecessary. But I'd rather be given the option, or just default to a full screen focus mode. The zoomed out presentation is not ideal and I don't believe it's intended. This may or may not be related to the issue where the first load of a world is at terrible resolution and oddly zoomed in, but leaving and coming back in fixes that resolution issue.

        KevinJardine
        KevinJardineAuthor
        Honored Contributor
        December 20, 2025

        I got a response back saying that this problem only occurs in the desktop editor and focusUI actually does work in mobile. My issue report has now been archived.

        https://developers.meta.com/horizon/feedback/horizon-worlds/investigations/1531418558107029/

        I thought that I had tested it in mobile but will check again.

        gausroth
        gausroth
        Honored Contributor
        December 21, 2025

        Mine was also archived and I recreated it showing that it did not work in preview. Half working is still not working imo.

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        andrewtek
        Up and Coming
        January 4, 2026

        I am still seeing this behavior today when I call:

        player.focusUI(this.props.focusEntity, { duration:.75, fillPercentage: 0.9 });

        In my case, the above code is called when grabbing a GrabbableEntity, as opposed to entering the world.

        If focusEntity is a Custom UI, the zoom and focus works as expected. If focusEntity is a Noesis UI, nothing happens at all. I have tested via preview in the Desktop Editor and via preview web and preview mobile. 

        I was able to sort-of work around this by placing a Custom UI with a transparent background in front of the Noesis UI, but this seems inefficient and potentially not without side effects.

          KevinJardine
          KevinJardineAuthor
          Honored Contributor
          January 4, 2026

          I can confirm. I tested NoesisGUI on mobile and focusUI does not work for me at all.

          I will see if they will reopen my ticket.

            gausroth
            gausroth
            Honored Contributor
            January 4, 2026

            Upvote this bug report if you are experiencing this issue. Feedback Center | Meta Horizon OS Developers

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              andrewtek
              Up and Coming
              January 4, 2026

              That link goes to a "This page isn’t available" page for me.

              gausroth
              gausroth
              Honored Contributor
              January 5, 2026

              Are you logged in?

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