See Block messages for more information about how to add or remove addresses or phone numbers. Review addresses or phone numbers of people that are blocked. Learn how iMessage and FaceTime are designed to protect your information and allow you to choose what you share. When someone starts a conversation with you, you send messages using the email address or phone number the person used to start the conversation. If you want to continue to send and receive iMessages, but dont like the distraction of push notifications, you can turn off just your iMessage Notifications in your Macs System Preferences. The person receives messages sent from the email address or phone number you choose. You can turn off iMessage on Mac by signing Out of Account in your Message app. The first line of defense is therefore to deactivate the messages and then activate them after a few seconds. It might sound a bit counterintuitive, but it works like the turn off and on again. The per-conversation setting overrides the preferences setting.Ĭhoose the email address or phone number that you want to use when you start a new conversation with someone. One of the reasons you turn off messages on your Mac is because they don’t work as expected.
You can also send read receipts for a conversation only. Later on, if you want to re-enable this feature, just repeat the following steps. Turn on read receipts so that people who send you messages see when you’ve read them. Turn off Messages If you simply don’t plan to text from your Mac, turning the service off is extremely easy. See the Apple Support article Add or remove your phone number in Messages or FaceTime.
You can update this list on the Apple ID account website. Select the email addresses and phone numbers that other people can use to send you messages. However, if you want to make sure you’re seeing the most up-to-date messages on your Mac-for example, if you just switched to a new Mac-you can click Sync Now.
When Enable Messages in iCloud is turned on, your Mac will automatically be updated. Update your Mac so that all your texts from your other Apple devices appear. Store your messages in iCloud so that you can see the same messages on all devices if you use Messages on more than one device.įor more details, see Access your messages on all your Apple devices.
Sign out and stop receiving messages on your Mac. Unlike other pre-installed apps, it’s impossible to completely delete and uninstall the iMessage and FaceTime apps.