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Re: iMac alerts
Board: Computers, iPods, and Other Electronics
Reply to: #956179 by Aunt Agatha
Jan 30, 2018 7:33am
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I found the preferences. Notifications. Had all banners turned off already. And do not disturb turned on when screen locked. But there was no way to choose do not disturb all the time. So ended up adding time limit to do not disturb. 12am to 11:59pm. I should have work! Would still love other hints!
Re: iMac alerts
Board: Computers, iPods, and Other Electronics
Reply to: #956210 by windsurfgator
Jan 31, 2018 6:58pm
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Hoping for more help suggestions!

Even with the do not disturb on from 12am to 11:59pm on, text messages are still popping up in the right hand corner.

And when my son logged on to the computer this morning, reminders from earlier where there.

How do I turn off messages and reminders all the time on the iMac??
Re: iMac alerts
Board: Computers, iPods, and Other Electronics
Reply to: #956338 by windsurfgator
Jan 31, 2018 7:15pm
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Just for laughs, when you're in system preferences->notifications, do you have "none" selected for alert style, and also every box unchecked (show notifications, etc), for each app (calendar, FaceTime, etc)?

Just having do not disturb on should work, so that's bizarre. And just for laughs again, in the do not disturb section, you have the box checked next to the time frames, right?

If you've done all that and they're still popping up, I would bring it in to the apple store, because that's weird.
Re: iMac alerts
Board: Computers, iPods, and Other Electronics
Reply to: #956339 by kudichan
Feb 4, 2018 6:02pm
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Notifications... "no alert" was selected for both messages and reminders. I went to everY]y other option (photos. iBooks. Etc... which had never alerted before) and changed to none.

Weirder part. The “do not disturb” I changed previously to 12pm to 11:59am was back to 10pm to 7am. Why???

Don’t really want to take the desktop to the Apple store. Would have to carry on public transportation. Hoping to get more suggestions to try here!
Re: iMac alerts
Board: Computers, iPods, and Other Electronics
Reply to: #956515 by windsurfgator
Feb 5, 2018 3:22pm
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Just a odd thought... when I learned about time (quite a while ago) it was common knowledge that the 12 hour clock did not have places for 12 am or 12 pm... it was either 12 noon or 12 midnight...

11:59 was am before noon and 12: 01 was pm two minutes later. Similar for midnight... after all that was what AM and PM were... Ante Meridian and Post Meridian... before Noon or after Noon... Midnight was covered by that of course... but Noon was the big factor... since that was when time was set.

I'm not sure today's computers can handle 12am / pm at all well.

One reason I use 24 hour clock settings. And I use year / month /day for dates... enough of the random variants of month day or day month plus year... enough of confusing numeric dates by people... at least state the month in text... most people can figure out that 4 digits is the year and up to 2 digits is the day...

This is at least partly tongue in cheek... but it is a real subject... I'll refrain from picking on macs... since the subject is time.
Re: iMac alerts
Board: Computers, iPods, and Other Electronics
Reply to: #956338 by windsurfgator
Feb 5, 2018 6:01pm
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I don't have a kid's acct on my Mac, but here are some things to look at (trouble-shooting in the dark, here) I made an acct in the Parental Controls area just to see what it looked like...

When you are in your child's acct, did you turn off all of the notifications in his system preferences?

When you logged in as him (into his acct) the first time, did you use your apple id? If so, and if you did not dis-allow messages (looks like a blue conversation balloon w/a smaller white balloon ...) in the Parental Controls->Limit Applications area, that might be why your stuff is showing up on his screen...

I also noticed that in Notifications you can drag/move applications that are directly listed under "In Notification Center" so that they are under "Not in Notification Center". After logging into his acct., try dragging all those applications down, so there is nothing left in the "Notification Center"

Good luck!
Re: iMac alerts
Board: Computers, iPods, and Other Electronics
Reply to: #956555 by JampersandJ
Feb 7, 2018 9:06am
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Hoping this fixed it!!! Thanks to your suggestion about notifications, I noticed an edit button. That didn’t work. But then there was a tiny symbol (like a slightly turned peace symbol) in the bottom right corner of notifications. I clicked on that and gave myself one time access. THAT was where I could uncheck reminders and messages. Not sure why I could uncheck those in his account from my account. AND had to go into his account to uncheck?!?

But thanks to everyone who helped with this!!!
Re: iMac alerts
Board: Computers, iPods, and Other Electronics
Reply to: #956635 by windsurfgator
Feb 7, 2018 10:45am
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Not sure why I could uncheck those in his account from my account. AND had to go into his account to uncheck?!?

My guess is that his account was set up as some master account, though a different term was probably used. You'll need to research this to see how to switch it.