Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS Tahoe
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- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages and calls
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
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- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Control your iPhone from your Mac
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio with AirPlay
- Make and receive calls and text messages on your Mac
- Use your iPhone internet connection with your Mac
- Share your Wi-Fi password with another device
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans from iPhone or iPad
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Sync music, books, and more between devices
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- Get started
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- Accessibility features for vision
- Get started with VoiceOver
- Zoom in on what’s around you
- Zoom in on your Mac screen
- Increase font size and icons
- Adjust the display colors
- Hover to zoom in on text and colors
- Listen to or change how text appears in apps
- Customize onscreen motion
- Increase the size of what’s on your screen
- Make the pointer easier to see
- Have your Mac speak text that’s on the screen
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
View app notifications on Mac
Many apps on your Mac use notifications to let you know about upcoming events or reminders, incoming calls, and more. Notifications appear briefly in the top-right corner of the desktop or stay there until you close them.
On your Mac, move the pointer over a notification, then do any of the following:
Expand or collapse a stack of notifications: If an app’s notifications are grouped, multiple notifications are stacked. To expand the stack and show all of the notifications, click anywhere in the top notification. To collapse the stack, click “Show less.”
Take an action: Click the action or click Options. For example, in a notification from the News app, click Read Story. Or in a notification from the Calendar app, click Options, then choose a Snooze duration.
See more details: Click the notification to open the item in the app. If an arrow
is shown to the right of the app name, click the arrow to show details in the notification.Mute, unmute, turn off, or change an app’s notification settings: If an arrow
is shown to the right of the app name, click the arrow, then click 
.When you mute notifications, they aren’t shown and don’t play a sound when they arrive.
Clear a single notification: Click
.Clear all notifications in a stack: Hold the pointer over the
for the top notification in the stack, then click Clear All.
In some apps, the first time you open it you’re asked to choose whether or not you want to receive notifications from it.
Notifications from some apps, such as Calendar or Reminders, can be time sensitive; for other apps, such as Home, they can be critical. The first time you receive a time-sensitive or critical notification, you’re asked to allow or not allow these notifications when a Focus is active.
Your choices are saved in Notifications settings, which you can change at any time. See Notifications settings.
Tip: If you need to minimize distractions by silencing all notifications—or allowing only certain notifications to appear—use a Focus, such as Do Not Disturb or Work. See Set up a Focus.