Similar to issues with notifications in previous Mac OS's, my "Banner" notifications are not auto removing themselves from my desktop screen. Every app on my Macbook Air is set to "Banners". That should make them disappear after 30 seconds or so. That is not happening. Anyone got a solution?
MacBook Air, macOS 15.6
Make a TM backup or some other method to backup the computer before proceeding
Hold the Option key >> Finder >> Go
This should enable you to get to your user account >> Library
Move to Preferences and find the com.apple.ncprefs.plist file
Drag the file to a safe place
Do not delete it in case thing go wrong
Shutdown the machine then restart again
Test of the Notification issue persists or not
If Not, you can delete that file
Slight correction on this... it appears that this notification issue is only occurring with Apple MAIL notifications. They pop up on the screen and do not disappear. Other app notifications do disappear normally. And, yes, the MAIL notifications setting is for BANNERS. I have also run Disk First Aid on this laptop.
AMCarter3 wrote:
Slight correction on this... it appears that this notification issue is only occurring with Apple MAIL notifications. They pop up on the screen and do not disappear. Other app notifications do disappear normally. And, yes, the MAIL notifications setting is for BANNERS. I have also run Disk First Aid on this laptop.
A friendly suggestion, that does fall outside of your original question
To get your replies to your question in chronological order by Date
Click on your User Name >> >> " Edit Profile and Preferences "
Scroll way down and look for >> >> " Other Preferences "
Change the >> >> " Default thread sort " to Oldest
In specific rely to the Mail Notifications
Your reply arrived to me @ 11.44 Hrs EDT
I was away from the computer until now, 12.10 hrs EDT
When I looked at the Top Right for notifications
There is was sitting, waiting for me to Action It
Had I first opened Mail and effectively opened your email
The Notification Banner would disappear.
If all else fails, use the previous suggestion
Good idea, however it did not work. Or, at least it didn't appear to work at first. After following your suggestion, I went back into the Notification prefs and checked each app that had a notification "stuck" on my screen. In each case, Notifications was NOT ON. After turning each app's notifications to ON, the screen notification disappeared. So, maybe now the issue is fixed? Only time will tell. This feel like progress.
Good work there 👍
There are times when putting things OFF and back On does perform some Magic of sorts 🤞
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