Manage iPhone notifications on Mac
After iPhone Mirroring connects to your iPhone, notifications from your iPhone automatically appear alongside notifications from your Mac.
How to get iPhone notifications on Mac
Your Mac receives notifications from your iPhone only after you have used the iPhone Mirroring app to connect it to that iPhone. Follow the setup steps here:
iPhone Mirroring: use your iPhone from your Mac
How iPhone notifications work on Mac
After iPhone Mirroring connects to your iPhone, your Mac automatically receives notifications from your iPhone, even when iPhone Mirroring is not in use. Your iPhone must be turned on, but does not need to be nearby.
If your iPhone is nearby, interacting with an iPhone notification opens the related app in iPhone Mirroring, so that you can continue your task in the app.
iPhone notifications on your Mac show an iPhone badge in the corner of the app icon.
If you clear a notification on your iPhone, it's also cleared on your Mac. If you get many notifications from your iPhone, the Notification Grouping setting on iPhone can be helpful: notifications that are grouped together can also be cleared together.
If you use iPhone Mirroring to connect to your iPhone from another Mac, that Mac also receives notifications from your iPhone.
If you have more than one iPhone signed in to your Apple Account and nearby, you can choose the one that your Mac uses for mirroring and iPhone notifications:
Choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Desktop & Dock in the sidebar
Choose your iPhone from the iPhone pop-up menu on the right. This menu appears just below the “Use iPhone widgets” setting when your Mac detects more than one iPhone that can be used for mirroring.
How to turn off iPhone notifications
Use your Mac or iPhone to control which iPhone notifications your Mac receives.
Mac
Choose Apple menu > System Settings.
Click Notifications in the sidebar, then click “Allow notifications from iPhone” on the right. This setting only appears after you use iPhone Mirroring to connect to an iPhone.
Turn “Allow notifications from iPhone” off or on. When it’s on, you can control notifications for each iPhone app.
If an app’s setting says that mirroring is disabled from your iPhone, go to Settings > Notifications on your iPhone and check the app’s setting there, including the Show on Mac setting.
If an app’s setting says that the app is installed on this Mac, you can only receive notifications from the Mac app, not the iPhone version of that app as well.
iPhone
Go to Settings > Notifications.
Tap the name of an app.
To prevent both your iPhone and your Mac from receiving notifications from that app, turn off Allow Notifications.
To prevent only your Mac from receiving the notifications, turn off Show on Mac.
To see a list of each Mac that used iPhone Mirroring with your iPhone and can receive its notifications, go to Settings > General > AirPlay & Continuity > iPhone Mirroring. If you swipe left on the Mac name, then tap Delete, that Mac can no longer receive notifications from your iPhone, unless it’s used to set up iPhone Mirroring with your iPhone again.
