How to disable notifications on Mac – Easy Steps

For many Mac users, notifications are useful and welcome. They make sure you don’t miss anything important or not, but there are times when you want notifications to leave you alone. Fortunately, disabling them is quite simple. Here are the step-by-step instructions to disable notifications on Mac. There is more than one way to do it, and we show you all of them. Don’t forget to turn them back on when your time alone is over.

How to manually enable Do Not Disturb

Using Do Not Disturb is the easiest way to turn off notifications on Mac. This will prevent you from seeing or hearing notifications (although you can see them by opening Notification Center). There are several ways to turn on this feature.

Paso 1. The easiest way to turn on Do Not Disturb is to hold Option (labeled alternative on some Macs) down and click the icon for the Notification Center. It’s the far-right icon in the menu bar that looks like three lines stacked on top of each other.

Paso 2.The notification center icon will change from black to gray. It means Do Not Disturb has been activated. It will stay on until midnight or until you tell it to.

Paso 3.Alternatively, there is another way to activate Do Not Disturb. Swipe left from the right edge of the touchpad; this will open the notification center.

Stage 4. swipe down and two options will be revealed at the top of the notification center: Night Shift and Do Not Disturb.

Paso 5. Click the dial next to Do not disturb to turn it on. As with the previous method, this will turn it on until midnight or until you decide to turn it off.

Paso 6. Finally, if neither of the above two methods work for you, you can create a custom keyboard shortcut. System preferences and click Keyboardthen click on the tab Shortcuts. In the left column, click mission controlthen check the box next to show notification center and enter your preferred shortcut. Close System Preferences when you’re done.

How to automatically schedule Do Not Disturb

If you tend to be busy at the same time most days and don’t want to be bothered by notifications, you can set Do Not Disturb to turn on automatically.

Paso 1. Click on the logo Apple in the upper left corner of your screen, then click in System Preferences. You can also click the System Preferences icon in the Dock; it looks like a set of gray gears.

Paso 2. From there, click notices.

Paso 3.In the section noticesclick on Do not disturbat the top of the left sidebar.

Stage 4. There are several options here. You can enable Do Not Disturb at set times (for example, during your business hours if you use your Mac for work) or when the screen is idle and/or locked. on when your Mac’s screen is mirrored to TVs and projectors, so you’re not interrupted during a movie or presentation.

Paso 5. If you want to allow people to call you when Do Not Disturb is on, check the box next to Allow calls from anywhere You can also choose to only allow repeat calls, in case someone tries to contact you with something urgent.

How to turn off notifications from a certain app

While Do Not Disturb is useful, it disables notifications for all apps on your Mac. You’ll want to use another method if you just want to prevent certain apps from bothering you.

Paso 1. As before, click System preferences and select notices.

Paso 2. On the left side of the window, find the app whose notifications you want to stop.

Paso 3. You should see a switch that says Allow notifications from [Nom de l’application].ON Click on it; the toggle should change to gray. It’s as simple as that: now you have blocked alerts from this app.

Stage 4. If you don’t want to block notifications entirely, but need to prevent pop-ups from appearing on your screen, you can limit alerts to Notification Center. In your configuration, in [Nom de l’application] alert styleSelect Neither. After that, you can uncheck the boxes. show notification preview,ON app icon badgeand Play sound for notifications.

Now you can specifically look for alerts in Notification Center when it’s convenient for you, instead of having them appear on your screen while you work.

In this guide, you have learned how to turn off notifications on Mac. If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know in the comments. Also refer to this guide if you want to learn how to enable Do Not Disturb mode on Mac.