Notifications on your Mac are ready to help you by letting you know about something you think you care about. For example updates in https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lily-plant-identification/id1570145257. Obviously, your Mac has no way of knowing what notifications you want to see or when you want to see them... unless you tell them to.
In this article, we will tell you how to turn off unwanted notifications and how to configure where and when you see notifications.
Turn off notifications for a specific app
Turning off notifications for a specific app is pretty easy.
- Open System Preferences on your Mac. Go to Apple menu > System Preferences (Settings).
- Click on Notifications.
- Find the app whose notifications you want to disable and tap on it.
- At the top, turn on the switch next to Enable Notifications.
Set app notifications
You can change the notification settings for each app. If you still want to receive a notification, you can turn off the sound or change the notification type.
- Click on the app in System Preferences > Notifications.
- Select the notification type: None, Banners, or Notifications. Banners will disappear by themselves. For warnings, you have to manually click to remove them.
- You can configure several settings for this app's notifications, including whether it plays a sound. You can turn off the sound by turning on the switch next to the Play notification sound.
Customize where and how notifications appear
You can change how notifications work and how and where they appear.
- Disable notification preview
- Open System Preferences and click on Notifications.
Above you can see the notification center settings. You can choose when or whether to see previews in a notification. Click the menu option next to Show Previews. Choose Always, When Unlocked, or Never. This setting also becomes the default setting for each individual application.
Disable notifications when the screen is asleep, locked or split
- Open System Preferences and click on Notifications.
- Above you will see the notification center settings. Choose if you want:
- Enable notifications when the screen is in sleep mode.
- Enable notifications when the screen is locked.
- Enable notifications when the screen is mirrored or split.
Disable all notifications at specific times
If you want to disable notifications only at specific times, you can use focus mode. There are a few ways to do this; you can schedule the focus mode to turn on at certain times of the day, you can turn it on manually whenever you don't want to be interrupted by notifications, and you can use one of the built-in focus modes or create and customize.
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