Tap Notifications. Select a notification level. Get notified for important emails. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app. In the top left, tap Menu Settings. Select your account. Tap Notifications High priority only. Turn off notifications. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app. In the top left, tap Menu Settings. Select your account. So on the Mac, you can turn of audio notifications by going to Mail, Preferences, General. And then set the New messages sound to “None.” Then you can create some rules that result in the action of playing a sound. Turn Off Mac OS X Mail (or All) Desktop Alerts To disable all Notification Center alerts (for the rest of the day): Click the Notification Center icon in the OS X menu bar while holding down the Alt key. The simple fix for this bug then, is to disable and remove all notification sound options from Thunderbird, on OS X 10.8 and above, and let Notification Center deal with it. For the majority of users, and according to Apple, that is the correct solution. Turn off notifications on all the social apps, the shopping apps, the fitness apps, the notifications from Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle. If you want to leave texting, phone calls, and WhatsApp.
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