Mac OS: Moving Your Notification to a Different Display
I work on a Macbook Pro connected to an external 4K monitor. I keep all of my work-related apps on the larger screen, while my calendar, remindes, notes, and Spotify are on the smaller one.
All of my notifications have always appeared on the screen of my Macbook Pro for as long as I can remember. It had never bothered me before, but after getting in trouble for missing several important Slack messages, I realized I needed to do something.
I did some research and here's what I found out:
Moving Your Notification to a Different Display
It's easy to set up multiple displays on macOS. Simply go to System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement and drag the screens to where you want them to be.
Take note of the white bar on top of the small screen icon. That is, believe it or not, the Menu Bar. It handles a lot of things, including notifications!
I simply dragged it to the screen icon on the left, and after a few flashes, my external display became my main monitor (displaying notifications), and my Macbook Pro became the extension monitor.
Moving the menu bar icon, however, will rearrange your desktop. So, if your applications are spread across multiple desktops, consider cleaning them up first.
I hope this was useful. Happy coding!
Cheers!
B2B Sales Executive | Data-driven pipeline management | Team work, team growth
10 个月Hi Jim Zandueta, thanks for sharing this useful tip! The dual-screen setup seems perfect for multitasking, and it's impressive how you tackled notifications head-on with a simple macOS tweak.? P.S.: your clear explanation made it a breeze for me to try too. Much appreciated!
AWS Solutions Architect, DevOps product engineer
1 年This helped me a lot! In my case, my slack notifications were not working, even though I had the notification settings shared display set.
Entrepreneur, Educator, Innovator
1 年Hi! Running Mac OS Sonoma, and this has all changed. I found this article and then realized that there is no longer a white menu bar shown when you try to arrange screens. Here's the new way. Open "displays," then click "arrange," then right-click on the screen where you want your notifications to show and select "main display". Tada! Notifications on my main display instead of my MacBook that is off to the side. So much better!
THANK YOU, Jim!!
Developer by chance, designer by choice
1 年Amazing. So handy for presentations when you don't want the team to be reading all your notifications ??