How To Turn Off Sounds For Imessage On Mac Sierra

Hi bnichols75, A quick question about that - I had discovered that same process you described above, BUT in my scenario (I have 3 iMacs, and one of the is at our Business and we don't want our employees reading our imessages, but want them to benefit from the syncing of all the other things like Calendar, Emails etc, which we have been doing for the last 3 years). My question is: Will signing out of icloud (from within preferences in imessage) aside from simply 'unselecting enable', then sign me out of all icloud features? Or will it simply just deactivate imessage because it's being done from within the Preferences inside of iMessage? I want to make sure that doing the 'sign out of iCloud', (from within the imessage application) that it wont sign the entire imac out of iCloud because we still want our business imac to have access to all the other cloud features, like the apps, calendar, email etc.

Tutorial: How To Disable Or Turn Off iMessage On Mac. Updated: December 20, 2018. Upon reaching this point, you will no longer receive ANY notifications coming from your iMessage on your Mac in any form (popup, icon or sound). This only need to be done once, but if you wish to reenable them later you can follow the same process. It's pretty easy to tailor these sorts of sounds, though it can be an arduous process. Here's how to get started. To turn off notification sounds on your Mac. Click on the menu. Select System Preferences. Click on Notifications. Click on the name of the app whose behavior you'd like to modify. Uncheck Play sound for notifications.

Just NOT the iMessages. Sorry, I bet this is written more confusingly than it needed to be, but hope you understand what I'm asking. Thanks in advance!

Thanks bnichols75, This finally worked for me. But how crazy a Support System in which Apple leaves this up to users to tell each other. A bit like the blind leading the blind.

Sega mac emulator. I know of people who have missed major appointments over this crazy iMessage thing. I just lost a few days worth of messages, and NOT through consciously selecting some option.

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Hi, Are you saying that the number on the Dock Icon to indicate a new messages never goes away and also shows at least 1? There are at least two ways of looking at the info as presented - either there is a missing messages you can't see or the dock badge is stuck with a miscount. Go to System Preferences > Notifications Find the Messages settings and turn all of them Off, The Alert/Banner type, the Sounds and the Dock Bounce. Quit Messages. Re-open Messages. Does the badge still appear? If it does restart the computer as well.