There are users who find Notifications on Mac helpful while there are others who find them distracting. Hence, macOS provides the option to enable, disable and change notifications on Mac.
Enable or Disable Notifications On Mac
The notification center on Mac keeps you informed about what is happening on your Mac and elsewhere in the world by displaying Alerts, Banners, and badge notifications from apps that you make use of on your Mac.
By default, most apps on Mac have their notification style set to Banners. However, you can change the notification style to Alerts or totally disable notifications for apps that you are not particularly interested in getting notifications from.
Unfortunately, there is no global setting for notifications on Mac. Hence, there is no way to disable or change the notification style for all the Apps at once on your Mac.
However, you can focus on certain active apps that appear to bother you quite often with Alerts or banners and change their notification behaviour or totally disable notifications from such active apps.
Steps to Enable/Disable Notifications On Mac
It can be really distracting to get notifications from Mail or Message App while you are trying to focus on work and trying to get something done.
During such busy periods you can silence Mail or Message app Notifications on your Mac by following the steps below.
1. Click on Apple Logo in the top menu-bar and select System Preferences… in the drop-down menu.
2. On System Preferences screen, click on Notifications.
3. On Notifications screen, select the App for which you want to Enable or Disable Notifications.
4. To disable Notifications for the selected app, set the Alert Style to None (See above image).
5. Whenever you feel the need to enable notifications on Mac, change the Alert Style from None to either Alerts or Banners.
Change Notifications Style On Mac
macOS provides the option to select notifications in the form of Alerts and Banners.
The main difference between these two types is that Banners appear at upper-right corner of the screen and automatically disappear, while Alerts remain on the screen of Mac, until they are dismissed by manually clicking on them.
This means that you are better off setting the Notification style to Alerts, in case you want to make sure that you do not miss any notifications for a particular app on your Mac.
1. Click on Apple Logo in the top menu-bar and click on System Preferences… in the drop-down menu.
2. On System Preferences screen, click on Notifications.
3. On Notifications screen, select the App for which you want to Change Notification Style and set the Notification style that you want to Enable (Banners in this case).
You can set Notifications style to Alerts when you want to make sure that you do not miss any notifications from a particular App on your Mac.
As you can see from the screen shot above, you can also Enable or Disable Notifications on the Lock Screen of your Mac and also choose whether or not a Lock Screen Notification should show a Message preview.