{"id":7915,"date":"2021-02-01T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2021-02-01T17:38:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T22:38:48","slug":"keep-your-mac-quiet-at-night-and-during-presentations-with-do-not-disturb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/keep-your-mac-quiet-at-night-and-during-presentations-with-do-not-disturb\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Mac Quiet at Night and During Presentations with Do Not Disturb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re all accustomed to the Do Not Disturb feature on our iPhones since they\u2019re with us for most of the day and often spend the night next to the bed. But Apple long ago added Do Not Disturb to the Mac as well, and it\u2019s useful for muting your Mac at night to eliminate unnecessary noises and for preventing unwanted notifications during presentations. In System Preferences &gt; Notifications &gt; Do Not Disturb, you can tell macOS to turn the feature on during specific times, when the display is sleeping or locked, and when mirroring to another screen. Or, you can turn on Do Not Disturb manually\u2014you might want to do this when giving a presentation with Zoom or another videoconferencing app. In macOS 10.15 Catalina and earlier, do this in Notification Center by clicking it at the far right of the menu bar, scrolling up, and enabling the Do Not Disturb switch. In macOS 11 Big Sur, you find Do Not Disturb in Control Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Do-Not-Disturb-Mac-1.png\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"809\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Do-Not-Disturb-Mac-1-1024x809.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Do-Not-Disturb-Mac-1-1024x809.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Do-Not-Disturb-Mac-1-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Do-Not-Disturb-Mac-1-768x607.png 768w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Do-Not-Disturb-Mac-1-150x119.png 150w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Do-Not-Disturb-Mac-1-600x474.png 600w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Do-Not-Disturb-Mac-1-696x550.png 696w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Do-Not-Disturb-Mac-1-1068x844.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Do-Not-Disturb-Mac-1.png 1336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re all accustomed to the Do Not Disturb feature on our iPhones since they\u2019re with us for most of the day and often spend the night next to the bed. But Apple long ago added Do Not Disturb to the Mac as well, and it\u2019s useful for muting your Mac at night to eliminate unnecessary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,25,112,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7939,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions\/7939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}