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Comment by RHSeeger | Hacker News Reader

My Mac tells me 5+ times per day that it's unable to backup something or another because I'm not logged into the Apple cloud or whatever it's called. And there's not obvious way to make it stop.

This is not unique to Windows.

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If you don't want to receive notifications from iCloud, go into Notifications in the System Settings and uncheck the box next to iCloud in the list of what is allowed to send notifications.

How do you do you block One Drive on Windows from nagging you constantly?

True that was the other reason I moved off it. Linux and KDE have never bothered me about such matters <3

However macOS doesn't cram this party advertising, news headlines, shopping coupons and (for now) AI services down your throat.

You can't turn off notifications on MacOS AFAICT, but you can set "quiet hours" to 24 hours a day. So now I only see any notifications if I happen to be using my computer at exactly 10:00 pm.

If you have any notifications you actually do want, this isn't a viable solution. But personally I have yet to ever see a notification on my computer which I considered important.

You can quite literally just turn off notifications on macOS.

May I ask how?

I'm aware you can disable notifications for a single app at a time. Is there a way to disable them entirely?

I don't run into that, but I do have an iCloud account and I'm logged into it, which probably helps. I'm logged into my Microsoft account on Windows, too, but it is still pushy.

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