How to take control of macOS notifications
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#674A9)
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge
Are you annoyed by how quickly the macOS notification banners that appear in the upper-right corner of the screen disappear? Has it ever annoyed someone you know? Is that person so frustrated with macOS notifications and multitasking that they write an 826-word attack against the preferred platform of many of their Verge colleagues?
Well, maybe I can help you make it a bit less annoying. All it takes is deciding which app notifications you'd like to keep on-screen, which you want to hide automatically, and which you'd prefer to only show up as a red badge on your dock.
A note: for these directions, I used a Mac loaded with macOS Ventura. If you have macOS Monterey or older, your directions and screens may be slightly different.
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