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With macOS®, app notifications became an integral part of our lives. We get notified about upcoming events, scheduled meetings, emails, Facebook messages, birthdays, and websites we accidentally subscribed to.

Don’t get me wrong, notifications are extremely useful and help optimize workflow.

But what if sometimes we need quiet time to focus on important tasks, avoid distractions, give a presentation, or simply sleep? How to turn off all the Mac® notifications?

I’ll cover the steps needed to stop getting app notifications in macOS, either all at once or one by one.

1. Disable All Distractions with an App

The easiest way to disable all notifications on Mac is to use Parallels Toolbox. Toolbox is a Swiss-Army knife for MacOS that brings convenience of smartphones to desktop, which allows you not only to switch to Do Not Disturb mode on the fly, but also keep your focus with Presentation Mode that Instantly disables those embarrassing pop-ups or bouncing icons.

The application automatically detects when additional displays are connected and prevent any distractions to occur. Additionally you can quickly get ready for a presentation with easy access to hide a messy desktop or lock screen when you’re done with work.

Here are just a few of other 30+ amazing features of Toolbox:

Download Video – Grab music and videos from Youtube, Vimeo or Facebook and watch them offline.

Clean Drive and Free Memory – Free up extra disk space and keep your Mac optimized for the best performance.

Take Screenshots or Record a Video with a single click for quick cut-and-paste jobs.

You can download Toolbox and try it out for free here (no registration needed).

2. Pause Notifications from Notification Center

To quickly stop receiving notifications until midnight, do the following:

1. Click on the Notification Center icon in the menu bar.
2. Swipe down until you see the Do Not Disturb label.
3. Switch on Do Not Disturb mode.
4. Alternatively, hold down the Option key while you click the Notification Center icon.

When Do Not Disturb is on, the Notification Center icon on the right is dimmed. During that time, the notifications arrive silently in Notification Center until midnight or the scheduled time.

3. Enable Do Not Disturb for Your Preferred Amount of Time

Mac users can specify when they don’t want to be disturbed—as well as set how apps show notifications—with Notifications System Preferences.

To turn off notifications for your preferred time, do the following:

1. From the Apple Menu in the top left corner, open System Preferences.
2. Select Notifications.
3. Stop notifications during the specific time range, when the display is sleeping, or when you’re mirroring the screen.

4. Disable Safari Notifications

Push-up notifications in Safari are a relatively new feature, but more and more websites are offering them. Usually, a user voluntarily subscribes to a website’s notifications from a pop-up window. Sometimes, however, it happens accidentally.

To disable unwanted notifications from a website, do the following:

1. Open Safari and click Safari -> Preferences in the top menu bar.
2. Open the Websites tab.
3. Select Notifications on the left-side menu.
4. Choose which website notifications you want to disable.

Hint: if you need to uninstall apps, it’s not recommended to drag them to the trash as different applications tend to leave lots of unwanted files on you hard drive. It’s best to use a dedicated uninstaller tool, like Toolbox Uninstall Apps. You can download Toolbox and try it out for free here.

5. Turn Off Updates Notifications

The App Store in macOS pushes update notifications for installed apps whenever they become available. To turn them off, you can now simply do the following:

1. Click on the Apple menu in the top bar.
2. Open System Preferences.
3. Find the App Store.
4. Turn off the “Automatically check for updates” option.

That covers all the steps for turning off notifications on your Mac. Make sure to turn them on again when you’re done with your project so you don’t miss any important notifications!

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This page lists various tips and tools for macOS.

macOS tips

Here are some useful tips if you are new to macOS.Even if you are not new, these keyboard shortcuts may come in handy.

If you are switching from Windows to macOS, these tips may be useful.

Taking screenshots and videos

On a macOS, there are a few screen shot key shortcuts that can be very helpful:

• command + shift + 3 - takes a screen shot of your entire screen(s - it will create an image for each screen you have)
• command + shift + 4 - allows you to select an area on the screen to take a screen shot (it will create one image of your selected are)
• command + shift + 5 - brings up a tool that allows you to do all of these things as well as create a video (with audio) of all or part of your screen.

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In the case of command + shift + 3 and command + shift + 4, if you also hold your control key (so, command + shift + control + 3), your screen shot will be in your clipboard. Alternatively you can quickly select the screenshot preview in the bottom right corner and press command + c.

You can paste the screenshot from your clipboard into a lot of applications with command + v. GitLab supports pasting the screenshot into issue descriptions, comments and the Web IDE.

If you have a screen shot in your clipboard, you can open the Preview and then create an image from the clipboard using the File -> New from clipboard.

For screen recordings, you can use Quicktime Player to capture an area or the full screen.Open the application and, under the File menu, select New Screen Recording, or press command + control + n.

Disabling macOS notification center

During a presentation or screen share, you might want to disable your notifications on macOS to prevent distractions or possible embarrassment.

The Notification Center can be quickly disabled by Option-Clicking the menu bar icon in the top right of your screen.This disables notifications until the next day.Option-Click again to re-enable immediately.Alternatively, click on the Notification Center icon, then scroll up to reveal the 'Do Not Disturb' toggle.

If your laptop is a MacBook with a Touch Bar, note that you can assign a handy 'Do Not Disturb' button on your Control Strip.In System Preferences, navigate to Keyboard settings and click 'Customize Control Strip…' to add this.

Locking your screen

On your macOS menu bar

1. Click on the Apple logo  menu
2. Click “Lock Screen”

Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut ⌃+⌘+Q (ctrl+cmd+Q).

On your macOS Touch Bar

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1. Open System Preferences > Keyboard
2. Click Customize Control Strip…
3. Drag the Screen Lock icon to the Touch Bar
4. Done!

With Alfred

With enabling Alfred and e.g. replacing Spotlight's Cmd + Space shortcut, you can do speedy locking with your keyboard:

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1. Press Cmd + Space.
2. Type in lock. After repeating this for a while, you can just type l.
3. Enter to lock the screen.

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Keeping your Mac awake

There are some great app-based solutions that will keep your Mac awake listed in the macOS utilities table below, but there’s also a really simple built-in way to do this:

The options being used here are -d to prevent the display from sleeping, -i to prevent the system from idle sleeping, and -s to prevent the system from sleeping when running on AC power. Running the caffeinate command like this will just start a never ending process in your Terminal that you can later ctrl+c (⌃+c) to exit, allowing the system and displays to sleep once again. You can also set a timeout (in seconds) with the -t option to automatically exit the caffeinate command at some later time. For example, to prevent the system or displays from sleeping for 1 hour, you can run:

macOS utilities

The following macOS utilities are favourites among GitLab team members.Make sure to join the #macOS Slack channel for Questions and tips about using macOS.