MacLife UK – August 2019

To preview or not...
Check the options below. If you choose
to allow notifications to appear when your Mac
is locked, consider whether you want to allow
previews to be displayed. You can choose to
allow them only when your Mac is unlocked.

Notification Centre
To see older notifications, click the list–
like icon at the far right of the menu bar, then
Notifications tab. They’re listed chronologically
by default. You can select another sort order at
the bottom of System Prefs’ Notifications pane.

Safari preferences
Websites viewed in Safari can send you
notifications about new content. To manage
these, switch to the browser and pick Safari >
Preferences. Click the Websites tab and then
Notifications in the list on the left.

Sound notifications

In addition to, or instead of, popping up

on screen, you can have notifications appear

in Notification Centre, so you choose when to

view them. You may also want to turn off audio

alerts, especially if you work near other people.

Limit Mail intrusions

In Mail, you can limit notifications to be

from just the people you designate as VIPs

(see Genius Tip, top right). In Mail > Preferences

> General, select VIPs from the pop–up menu

labelled “New message notifications”.

Tailor site settings

You’ll see a list of sites that have

already asked for permission to display

notifications. Set each one’s menu to Allow

or Deny. To stop unlisted sites from asking

in the first place, uncheck the bottom box.

GENIUS TIP

A VIP in Mail can be

anyone you choose.

To add one, hover over

the sender name

in a message, click

the arrow to the right

and pick “Add to VIPs”.

GENIUS TIP

You can go straight to

System Preferences’

Notifications pane by

displaying Notification

Centre and clicking

the cog (bottom right).

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