You have a tonne of options on macOS to turn off notifications from websites, apps, and contacts.
Receiving notifications every few minutes can be annoying, regardless of whether you’re working hard at your job or watching a TV show in its entirety. Thankfully, turning off incoming notifications on your Mac is simple. You have the option to completely turn off alerts or to muffle website notifications.
Disable Notifications for Specific Apps via Settings
It’s possible that you’re getting too many notifications from a single app. The best course of action in these circumstances is to turn off the app’s alerts. Take these actions to achieve that:
1. In the menu bar, click the Apple logo in the upper-left corner to navigate to System Settings > Notifications.
2. Navigate to the Application Notifications area and choose the app for which you wish to turn off notifications.
3. Toggle off the switch next to Play sound for notification if you want to stop getting audio notifications from the app. Toggle off the switch next to Allow notifications if, on the other hand, you would prefer not to receive any alerts at all from the app.
Temporarily Mute App-Specific Notifications
MacOS also allows you to disable notifications from a certain programme for a predetermined amount of time. This is what you must do:
1. Click the date and time in the upper-right corner of the menu bar to open the Notification Centre.
2. To temporarily mute a notification you’ve got from an app, control-click on it. Once you have, select either silence for 1 Hour or Mute for Today based on how long you would like to silence notifications.
Silence iMessage Conversations on Your Mac
You can also turn off direct alerts from friends in the Messages app, just like on an iPhone, if they constantly pinging you while you’re working.
Open the Messages app and choose the discussion with the person you want to silence in order to accomplish this. Select the checkbox next to “Hide Alerts” after clicking the Info (i) button in the upper-right corner of the screen.
As an alternative, you can choose to Hide Alerts from the menu by Control-clicking on the conversation thread that you wish to stop.
Go to System Settings > Notifications > Messages and turn off the switch next to Allow notifications if you want to completely stop getting notifications from the Messages app.
Silence Notifications for Websites on a Mac
If you want to stop getting notifications from a certain website, you can disable browser notifications completely by going to System Settings > Notifications > [Your Browser] and flipping the switch next to Allow notifications. You will need to go to the settings of your browser in this situation.
Safari
To turn off notifications for a particular page in Safari, follow these steps:
1. Open Safari and select it from the menu bar.
2. From the dropdown menu, select Settings, then navigate to the Websites section.
3. Select Notifications from the left sidebar.
4. Locate the website you want to quiet down, then select the option by clicking on its name. Select the option labelled Deny from the list to remove its authorization.
Google Chrome
In Google Chrome, follow these steps to cease getting notifications from a website:
1. Click the three dots in the upper-right area of the screen after opening Google Chrome.
2. Select Settings via the menu dropdown.
3. Click Site settings on the right after selecting Privacy and security in the sidebar on the left.
4. Now, under the Permissions section, scroll down and select Notifications.
5. Navigate to the “Allowed to send notifications” section and find the website you wish to quiet. After doing so, select Block from the dropdown menu by clicking the three dots next to the name of the website.
Mozilla Firefox
In Mozilla Firefox, follow these steps to cease getting notifications from a website:
1. Click the three-line icon in the upper-right corner of the screen after launching Mozilla Firefox.
2. Select Privacy & Security from the left sidebar by choosing Settings from the dropdown menu.
3. Once you reach the Permissions area, scroll down. Next to Notifications, click the Settings… button.
4. Locate the website you wish to be inactive, then select Allow from the list under Status. Lastly, choose Block from the selection that drops down.
Silence Mac Notifications With a Focus Mode
Focus mode is one of the finest methods to reduce distractions on your Mac. This is how to make one:
1. Navigate to System Preferences > Attention from the left sidebar.
2. To add a new Focus setting, tap the Add Focus… button. You may also select one that already exists. When asked what you would like to focus on, select Custom.
3. Give your Focus mode a name, then personalise it with an icon and colour choices. Click OK once you’re finished.
4. Now, click Allowed People in the Allow Notifications section if you want to stop receiving notifications from a certain person. Proceed to select the Notifications option and adjust it to Silence Some People.
5. After selecting the contacts, tap the addition (+) symbol. After you’ve chosen every contact you wish to quiet, click Done.
In a similar vein, you can decide not to get notifications from particular applications. Under the Allow Notifications section, click Allowed Apps. Then, pick all the apps you want to silence by clicking the addition (+) symbol underneath, setting the option next to Notifications to Silence Some Apps.
Do you set aside a specific time each day to work on tasks? Or is there a certain place, like a café or library, where you find it easier to concentrate? If so, we advise setting up your Focus mode to activate on its own accord based on the time and place.
To accomplish this, click Add Schedule under Set a Schedule after selecting the Focus mode you just created.