Feb 24, 2016 If you feel the same way, here’s how to quickly turn off iMessage notifications on your Mac. Open the Messages app on your Mac. Click the Messages menu item in the Menu Bar, and click on “Preferences.” In the Messages Preferences window, click the “Accounts” tab. Click on the Messages app in your Mac to open it. Go to your iPhone. Tap Settings Messages. Tap Text Message Forwarding. You'll see a list of all your devices linked to your Apple ID. Choose the one you want to send and receive messages and select On. You'll see a six-digit code pop up in Messages on your Mac.
While many users appreciate being able to receive text messages no matter which Apple device they’re using, a number of us may find the constant iMessage notifications while working on our Mac a bit distracting. If you feel the same way, here’s how to quickly turn off iMessage notifications on your Mac.
Mar 12, 2020 To close a conversation in your Mac’s Messages App, select one from your list and tap on the X that appears at the end, just underneath the date or time of the last posted message. Tapping the X closes the conversation BUT does not delete it–despite conventional wisdom.
- Open the Messages app on your Mac.
- Click the Messages menu item in the Menu Bar, and click on “Preferences.”
- In the Messages Preferences window, click the “Accounts” tab.
- Click the account you wish to disable in the left pane, then click the “Enable this account” checkbox to clear it.
- Click the “Sign Out” button.
The above steps will completely turn off sending and receiving iMessages on your Mac. But what if you just want to turn off the constant notifications, and retain the ability to use Messages when you wish to?
- Click the Apple logo in the upper left hand corner of the Menu Bar of your Desktop.
- Click the “System preferences…” menu item.
- Click the “Notifications” icon in the System Preferences window.
- Select “Messages” in the left-hand pane.
- Click “None” for the “Messages alert style.”
Now, you won’t be bothered by Notifications for the Messages app, but will still be able to send and receive them on your Mac, as needed.
With the release of the public beta of Messages for the Mac, it’s easier to follow your online chats when you’re switching between your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac — or at least it should be. Not all of your conversations, however, will appear on all your devices depending on how those chats started, and sorting out what shows up where can be a bit of a headache. Lucky for you The Mac Observer worked through the mess for you.
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The fact that Messages for the Mac is beta — meaning it isn’t ready for primetime — won’t stop people from using the app in mission-critical situations, which is exactly why it will leave users baffled when they don’t see chats where they expect. For now we’ll have to hope that the confusion surrounding where messages appear gets sorted out during the beta test phase.
Messages from Your iPhone
Assuming you start a Messages conversation on your iPhone, and you’re chatting with another iPhone user, your messages will appear only on your iPhone even if the chat is routed through Apple’s messaging service instead of your cell carrier’s SMS plan.
You can tell the difference between a Messages conversation and SMS by checking the color of the Send button in your chats. A blue button means you’re chatting through Apple’s service, and a green button means your messages are routing through your cell carrier’s SMS service as regular text messages.
A green button means your message is SMS. Blue means Apple’s Messages service.
It looks like the reason for the isolated conversation issue comes down to Messages on the iPhone favoring phone numbers over email addresses for chats with other iPhone users even if you set an email address as your Message Caller ID. Your settings for Message Caller ID are simply ignored when chatting iPhone to iPhone.
Messages from Your iPad or iPod touch
Starting a conversation from your iPad or iPod touch works more like you expect thanks to its reliance on an email address from your Messages Caller ID. Relying on an email address means there’s a higher likelihood your chats appear and update in real time across all your devices.
It doesn’t matter if you start from the email address linked to someone’s Messages account, or their iPhone phone number. Messages will update the conversation on all your devices.
Tax software small business mac. If you start a conversation with someone via their email address, then start a second chat via their iPhone number, Messages will dutifully merge the two together — at least for you. The recipient, however, will still the chat only on their iPhone.
Get it Together
Think starting a Message chat on your Mac, iPad or iPod touch ensures you’ll see the conversation on all your devices? Think again. Messages looks to Address Book to see who an email address belongs to. If the address isn’t associated with a contact, your chats with a specific person won’t merge together if they have different emails set as their Caller ID on their various devices.
If your friends don’t have the email address you’re using for your Messages Caller ID in their Address Book, they may not see your chats in a single thread. Also, setting your iPhone’s Messages Caller ID to the same email address you use on your other devices will help keep multiple chat threads with the same person together when they’re viewing your conversation an iPad, iPod touch or their Mac.
Assuming you have more than one email address linked to Messages, you can take steps to help your friends know when you’re starting a chat by making sure you use the same email address as your Messages Caller ID across all of your devices. Here’s how:
- On your iOS devices, tap
SettingsthenMessages. - Tap
Received At. - Tap
Caller ID. - Select the email address you want to use as your Messages Caller ID.
- On your Mac, launch
Messages. - Go to
Messages > Preferences. - Click the
Accountstab then select your iMessages account. - Choose the email address you want to use as your Messages Caller ID from the
Caller IDpop-up menu.
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Apple’s decision to release a beta version of Messages for the Mac is great because we get a chance to try out the unified messaging system before OS X Mountain Lion ships this summer. The downside is that we’re using beta software and there are a few kinks that still need to be worked out. Apple has a few months to work through those issues before springing Mountain Lion on us.
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