How To Turn Off Email Notifications on Mac

Do you want to stop annoying email notifications from popping up while working on your Mac? You may find this difficult, but the whole process is pretty straightforward. 

To help you with this task, we have written an extensive guide on how to turn off email notifications on Mac with easy-to-follow instructions. We will also discuss some ways to troubleshoot email notification issues.  

Turning Off Email Notifications on Mac 

If you don’t know how to turn off email notifications on Mac, our following step-by-step method will help you go through the whole process in no time.

1. Click the Apple icon. 
2. Select System Preferences.
3. Click “Notifications.” 
4. Select “Mail.”
5. Toggle off “Allow Notifications” or select the “None” option under “Messages alert style” to stop receiving email notifications on your Mac’s screen. 

Are Email Notifications Not Working on Your Mac?

Try these fixes if you are trying to disable email notifications because the Mail app is not showing them on your Mac. 

Fix #1: Re-Enabling Notifications 

The first thing to fix the issue with your email notifications is to re-enable them in the following way.

1. Click the Apple icon. 
2. Open System Preferences.
3. Click “Notifications Focus.”
4. Select the Mail app from the list. 
5. Toggle off “Allow Notifications.” 
6. After a few seconds, toggle on the option and select any option from “Banners” or “Alerts” to receive email notifications on the screen. 

Fix #2: Re-Enabling Your Email Account 

Another way of fixing email notification issues is by re-enabling your email account using these steps. 

1. Open Mail.
2. Click “Mail” on the menu bar. 
3. Open “Preferences.”
4. Click “Accounts.” 
5. Select the email provider. 
6. Uncheck “Enable this account,” turn it back on, and you will receive the latest notifications from the mailbox. 

Fix #3: Adding Your Email Account Again 

You can also try adding an email account again in the Mail app on your Mac to fix the issue with these quick steps. 

1. Launch Mail.
2. Click “Mail” on the menu bar. 
3. Open “Preferences.”
4. Select “Account.“
5. Select the email provider and click the “-“ sign at the bottom. 
   
6. Next, press “+” and add back the same email account; you will start receiving notifications afterward. 

Fix #4: Adding Mail As an Exception in Focus Mode  

If you still face problems getting email notifications, add Mail as an exception in Focus Mode using these steps. 

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Click “Notifications & Focus.” 
3. Select “Focus.” 
4. Click “+” in the “Allowed Notifications From” menu. 
   
5. Type “Mail” in the search box for quick access, or scroll to select the Mail app from the list.
6. Click the “Add” button to add the Mail app as an exception and start receiving notifications while keeping Focus Mode on. 

Fix #5: Disabling Sharing Focus Mode Settings on iOS Devices 

With these steps, you can also disable the same Focus Mode on the linked iOS device to troubleshoot email notification issues on your Mac. 

1. Open Settings on the linked device. 
2. Tap “Focus.”
3. Toggle “Share Across Devices” off. 
   

Afterward, the Focus Mode on your iPad or iPhone will not impact the settings on your Mac. 

Fix #6: Disabling Protect Mail Activity 

Fix notifications on your Mac by disabling the iCloud+ Mail Privacy Protection by doing these steps.  

1. Open Mail.
2. Click “Mail” on the menu bar. 
3. Open “Preferences.”
4. Select “Privacy.” 
5. Uncheck the “Protect Mail Activity” option to disable the feature, and you will start receiving email notifications.  

Summary 

In this guide, we’ve discussed how to turn off email notifications on Mac. We’ve also discussed a few fixes to try when the Mail app is not showing notifications on your device.

Hopefully, your question has been answered in this article, and you can now focus on your work without getting interrupted by different email notifications showing up on your Mac screen.  

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