Press and hold theOptionkey and selecttheNotification Centericon.

The Notification Center icon will be grayed out, indicating that Do Not Disturb is active.

To turn off Do Not Disturb, press and hold theOptionkey and select theNotification Centericon again.

Scroll down to reveal more options in Notification Center

Your notifications will start coming through again.

If you don’t manually reactivate notifications, Do Not Disturb automatically turns itself off the following day.

Select theNotification Centericonin the menu bar.

The Do Not Disturb option in Notification Center

Alternatively, swipe left with two fingers from the right edge of the Mac trackpad.

Scroll up in Notification Center to reveal two options:Night ShiftandDo Not Disturb.

On older versions of macOS or OS X, scroll down.

The settings gear in Notification Center

Toggle theDo Not Disturbswitch to theOnposition (blue).

To deactivate Do Not Disturb, toggleDo Not Disturbto theOffposition (gray).

Select theNotification Centericonin the menu bar to launch the Notification Center tab.

The checkbox to schedule Do Not Disturb

Select thesettings cogin the lower-right corner to pop launch the Notifications controls window.

UnderTurn on Do Not Disturb, choose the check box next to the time boxes.

grab the up and down arrows to set the schedule.

The time range for scheduling Do Not Disturb

To receive calls while Do Not Disturb is active, set those preferences within the same window.

hit the corresponding check box to allow all calls or repeated attempts from the same number.

Call options for Do Not Disturb