How to Customize Message Notifications on macOS Sierra

This step-by-step guide explains how to customize message notifications on macOS sierra. It covers the required setup, the main actions, and the checks that help prevent common problems.

Unlike the messaging app on iPhone, iPad, Mac users here macOS Sierra can customize more settings with the Message app, such as changing the notification interface, choosing how to notify, how to display the message, . With these settings options, we can change the message notification to make it easier to work. In this article, we will guide the basic steps to be able to manually adjust message notifications on macOS Sierra.

Step 1

Start by we select The Apple icon On the machine interface. Next, select the System Preferences Item.

Step 2

In the System Preferences interface, navigate to the Notifications Section.

Step 3

In this new interface, in the app list on the left, we select The Message app . Looking to the right interface will be the setting for the messaging app.

In the Messages alert style section, select the notification type on the screen interface when a new message arrives with the following options:

• Banner type : the message appears from the top right corner of the screen and automatically turn off.
• Alerts style : notification appears on the screen until you turn it off.
• None : no notice board appears.

Step 4

Next to the options below, we only need to tick or uncheck the options that do not want to be set up.

With Show Message Preview There will be 2 options, including Always (Always show content) and When Unlocked (When not locked, you can view the content). Depending on how you want to display the message content preview, select such a setting.

Ideally to avoid accidental messages being seen by others, users should check the When Unlocked Option. So when the computer is in lock mode, when a new message arrives, the content will not appear but only the notification.

Step 5

With the last 3 options we select or uncheck the box with the following adjustment:

• Show in Notification Center : select the arrow to change the amount of latest information allowed to display in the notification bar.
• Badge app icon : announces the App's icon .
• Background for Notifications : interface for notifications.

Depending on the need to use and the convenience of each person when using the messaging app Messages we adjust the notification options accordingly. Besides, users can change the settings with other apps in Notifications interface with the same way as the Messages app on macOS Sierra.

Refer to the Following Articles

• Instructions on how to install macOS Sierra (clean install) 10. 12 on Mac

• How to create a macOS Sierra installed USB drive 10. 12

• How to turn off the Gatekeeper on macOS Sierra install the app outside the App Store