If you do allow notifications, you may also have the option to deny the site from knowing your location, which accomplishes a similar goal. Simply choose “Don’t Allow” to block the website from pushing anything. Safari makes this option very obvious with a drop-down window when you enter a new website. Remember, most websites must give you an option to allow push notifications. However, you don’t need these kinds of notifications all the time, so switching them off is possible as well. There may be some sites that you want to monitor for deals during the holidays, or sites you want to turn on for news notifications during bad weather. Why should you leave websites in “Deny” mode and not remove them? Because sometimes you may want to switch notifications at certain times.
In this case, highlight the website by selecting it, and use the “Remove” button toward the bottom of the window to take it away completely. Step 4: Remove any websites you wantĪs you go through the sites, you may find some (or all of them) that you have zero interest in and never want notifications from. You may want to consider switching to a different browser. Note that Safari updates are no longer available on Windows, which will eventually compromise the safety of the browser on that operating system. This part may look a little different if you have an older version of Safari, but the process should work generally the same way. Going through the sites one by one is a great way to customize the notifications that you see. Some sites may already be on “Deny” if you have blocked them. You can simply switch to “Deny” for any websites that you don’t want bothering you. You will notice that each website has, on the right hand, a little drop-down menu with options to “Deny” or “Allow” permission to send notifications. If you want to forget the whole notification thing as soon as possible, just uncheck the “Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications” at the bottom. Think about organizations you may be a part of, sites that are very important to you, and so on. It’s a good idea to check out these website to see if there are any notifications that you actually want to keep. Now, this will open up a section in the middle of the window that will show you all the websites that have asked for permission to push notifications to your operating system - which you don’t want to happen in most cases. Look down until you see an option for “Notifications” and select that. Now look to the sidebar menu on the left, where you will see a lot of different options to control how websites deal with various MacOS features. There’s a lot you can change here, but to deal with notifications, look at the top of the window and choose the “Websites” option. Preferences will open a new window with all the important Safari settings. One of the early options in the dropdown menu should be “Preferences.” Choose this to begin.
At the top left corner of your screen (your full screen, not the Safari window), look for the menu item “Safari” and select it. Make sure your Safari browser is open on MacOS.
Here’s how to turn them off in Apple’s web browser. No one likes unwanted messages pushed to their private desktop all the time, so you may be desperate to remove a few (or all).