How to use Notification Center on a Mac

Apple’s MacOS offers notifications that appear in the upper right corner of the screen. These can be for new email messages, meeting reminders, task reminders, and app-specific notifications. If you don’t respond to the notification right away, it hides, but it doesn’t disappear completely.

The Notification Center provides quick access to these active notifications, as well as a customizable collection of handy widgets. Using the notification center to manage notifications and use widgets is quick and easy.

Open Notification Center on MacOS.

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Open and close Notification Center

There are two methods for opening and closing the Notification Center.

Step 1: To open Notification Center, select Time and date section in the menu bar or swipe two fingers from the right side of the touchpad.

Step 2: To close the Notification Center, select Time and date section or use a two-finger gesture to the right side of the touchpad.

Manage notifications in the Notification Center

There are several actions you can take with notifications within the Notification Center.

Step 1: As notifications arrive and are not processed, they accumulate in the Notification Center in per-app arrays. To see all notifications in a row, simply select the top notification.

Expanded notification in MacOS notification center.

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Step 2: Choose Show less to return the notification stack to a condensed state. To close the notification stack completely, hover over it x button and select Clean everything.

Clear all notifications in MacOS Notification Center.

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Step 3: It is possible to control the app’s notification settings from the Notification Center. If the notification has a “>” in the upper right corner, select it, then select it Triple points menu button. In the example below, you can turn off the notification for an hour or a whole day, or turn off notifications completely.

Control your notification settings in the MacOS Notification Center.

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Manage widgets in the Notification Center

Widgets make Notification Center even more fun and useful. It’s easy enough to manage your widgets.

Step 1: You can control the active widget by pressing the *Control * key and clicking on the widget with the mouse or touchpad to select it. In the menu that appears, you can choose a different size, edit widget properties, remove a widget, or edit all active widgets.

Edit the active widget in the MacOS Notification Center.

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Step 2: If you choose Editing widgetsyou will be presented with a screen that allows you to remove widgets, add new widgets, and change the layout of active widgets.

Edit all active widgets in MacOS Notification Center.

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