Change Notifications preferences on Mac

On your Mac, use Notifications System Preferences to specify when you don’t want to be disturbed by notifications, and to control how apps show notifications in Notification Centre.

To change these preferences, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Notifications. Select Do Not Disturb or an app on the left, then view or change settings on the right.

Open Notifications preferences for me

Option	Description
Do Not Disturb	Stop notifications during the time period you specify, when the display is in sleep, when the screen is locked, or when you mirror the screen (for example, while playing a presentation). To receive call notifications even when Do Not Disturb is on, select the call tickboxes. When Do Not Disturb is on, the Do Not Disturb icon is shown in the menu bar. See Use Do Not Disturb.
Allow Notifications from	Turn notifications on or off for the selected app. When you turn notifications off, the app’s alert style and other notification options are dimmed.
Alert style	Select a style for the app’s notifications: None: Notifications don’t appear on the screen. Banners: Notifications appear on the screen and disappear after a while. Alerts: Notifications stay on the screen until you dismiss them.
Show notifications on lock screen	When you wake your Mac from sleep, app notifications you received while it was sleeping are shown in the login window.
Show in Notification Centre	List the app’s recent notifications in Notification Centre. Notifications older than 7 days aren’t shown.
Badge app icon	Let the app show the number of notifications on its icon in the Dock. For example, Calendar shows a badge on its icon when you receive invitations.
Play sound for notifications	Let the app play notification sounds.
Show previews	Show a preview in notifications for the app. For example, if you receive an email, you see a preview of the email in the Mail notification. always: Previews are always shown (even in the login window). when unlocked: Previews are shown only when you’re logged in to your user account. never: Previews are never shown. Note: If you choose a setting from the “Show previews” pop-up menu at the bottom of the preference pane, it’s applied to all apps.
Notification grouping	Choose whether and how the app’s notifications are grouped in Notification Centre: automatic: When more than one notification is received, automatically group them. by app: Notifications are grouped by app; the app with the most recent notification is listed first. off: Notifications are grouped by app; the apps are sorted based on the order in which they’re listed in Notifications preferences when this option is chosen. You can reorder apps in the list by dragging them up or down.

Helpful?

macOS User Guide

Change Notifications preferences on Mac