Comments on: Disable Notification Center & Remove the Menu Bar Icon in OS X Mountain Lion

By: lou

lou — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:11:47 +0000

Hey !

Thanks a lot.. it was so annoying to get all those reminders for updates available when you’re actually doing something else and you don’t care. I got rid of all the apps notifications but couldn’t with those ones. I was always pushing them back on the side and they’d reappear every 5 min.

And get them back is so easy as well, when you’re more in the mood.

cheers guys

By: free

free — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:23:54 +0000

I tried all steps to enable notification, but it still missing from my mackbook air. Also tried customize ,show all preferences in sys prefer..wht to do to get the notification center.pls help.

By: James

James — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:33:14 +0000

Hey, if you like daily notifications about OSX updates that cannot be dismissed, or turned off; then power to you.

Personally that’s the only form of notification I get (calendar, mail etc. all runs through different systems).

Notifications about things that are almost definitely not going to matter to me at the time, that I can’t even dismiss without launching the App Store? no

By: mrsleep

mrsleep — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:52:45 +0000

Amen, sing it to heavens! You are right on, and these people whining are dinks. Not everyone wants the same things, we should be able, especially with computers, to be able to pick and choose which features we want to use. I have NO need for notifications on my computer, I have a phone for that, and toolbar space is at a premium, I don’t need a useless to me icon on there. The fact that I have to drop to a command line to acheive this is outright ridiculous.

By: John

John — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:15:58 +0000

HI
I TRIED THIS METHOD on my laptop – it worked fine
but on my mac mini (same system 10.8 on both) and received this error message:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
launchctl: CFURLCreateDataAndPropertiesFromResource(/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist) failed: -10
launchctl: no plist was returned for: /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
launchctl: no plist was returned for: /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
nothing found to unload

By: Jimbotron

Jimbotron — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:17:31 +0000

Thank you very much for this! Despite what some people seem to suggest, there are indeed other reasons to upgrade to MS beside the notifications bar. My objection is simply that it is not customizable. I do not need to be reminded every day of pending upgrades; I sort them out on my own, with my own schedule, like an adult, rather than with mom nagging me to clean my room. For the rest of you out there complaining about our wanting to disable this feature: really? Does it affect your user experience? No. So why not just be quiet about it? I disabled it and I’m happier for it! Thanks again.

By: Rolston

Rolston — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:45:58 +0000

Thanx a ton guys ! That was cool |B

By: JD

JD — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:52:34 +0000

Rico, did you really upgraded to ML just because of Notification Center? Didn’t you know there are a few more new features in ML?

Anyways, I don’t need Notification Center either! (I hate it actually) I upgraded to Mountain Lion because of other features/software I find useful.

By: lhl

lhl — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:04:39 +0000

Only for a single day, then it comes back. Especially if you have Apps that aren’t updatable (or are avoiding a Software Update), then you will constantly have the notification pop up/never go away (there’s no way to take it out of the Notifications preferences).

Unloading via launchctl is the only solution.

By: Mr M

Mr M — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:34:43 +0000

Thank you for this. That annoying update reminder was killing me. I’ll update my computer on my time, piss off Apple.

By: Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:11:20 +0000

To remove the free space immediately, execute “killall Dock” in the CLI.

By: Cahil

Cahil — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:35:06 +0000

I didn’t upgrade in order to have a notification center. Many applications require Mountain Lion such as Xcode.

Makes sense?

Additionally, I don’t get the idea that Apple dictates a totally extra feature and pushes people to find a way to get rid of it.

Totally agree with Miguel. Seems hipsters are the new target audience of Apple.

By: Mr J

Mr J — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:22:15 +0000

Even quicker and seems to work:

Option-click the icon top right.

Greys it out

By: Mr J

Mr J — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:12:58 +0000

Thanks for this – for me it’s an unnecessary workflow interruption.

Bizarre though, that you can’t simply disable it in preferences.

By: smctech

smctech — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 05:07:41 +0000

you can make this trick survive restarts by doing this
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui Disabled -bool true

for some crazy reason the permissions went squanch-wise so I also need to do
sudo chmod 755 /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist

and you can re-enable it by going back to false
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui Disabled -bool false