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?
Pushover is a simple push notification service that integrates easily into web apps like IFTTT, network monitoring systems, security cameras, shell scripts, and anything else that needs to send alerts to your iPhone, iPad, Desktop, and other robot-like mobile devices. App has a free 7-day trial. 2 days ago Beyond that, the simpler workaround might be keeping the Gmail app essentially just for notifications and using the native Mail app to actually use the account. (You can also set the native Mail app to fetch new mail every 15 minutes - not quite push as it's not quite immediate, but depending on your needs 15 minutes might be OK for email.). With our push event in the service worker we can test what happens when a message is received by triggering a fake push event using DevTools. In your web app, subscribe to push messaging, making sure you have User IS subscribed in your console, then go to the Application panel in DevTools and under the Service Workers tab click on the Push link.
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:
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:
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:
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.
Web Push Notifications![]() 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:
Apple Push Notification
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!
At my work I deal with custom push notification a lot (with payload containing custom data and the app performs different action based on the data), there's several app out there providing push notification testing service but they either don't support auth key, is a electron app, doesn't support drag and drop p8 / p12 file (why do they all grab credential from keychain?!) or flat out doesn't work.
There's also some website that allows you to upload certificate / keys and send push notification, I don't feel safe uploading credential to other website, what if they store it and use it to spam my app later on??
Frustrated, I coded this app on a whim and here it is, hope this app can help you test push notification easier!
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Pushever app doesn't collect any data from you. No amount of data is collected in any manner. Your push service credentials and payload are stored securely in macOS Keychain, Pushever app doesn't make any internet connection other than to Apple Push Notification Server.
FAQQ: How do I generate .p12 / .pem certificates?Answer: Follow the step for generating push certificate here Q: What's the difference between the trial version and the full version? Progressive Web App Push NotificationAnswer: The trial version can't edit the payload data and will use a preset payload dataQ: Is this a native app? Answer: Yes, the app is written in Swift. If you have encountered any bugs or want some feature to be implemented, feel free to create an issue at the Github repo here, thanks! ?. Push Notification ApplicationsPush Notifications Mac App Windows 10Have other questions? Contact me at [email protected]Comments are closed.
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