This App Can Change Where MacOS Toast Notifications Appear
Notifications on a Mac typically appear in the top right corner. In most cases this is fine, but on larger displays you may not notice what’s happening in the top right corner if you’re reading a document on the left side of the screen. Wouldn’t notifications be better in the middle, the way they appear on iPhone and iPad?
PingPlace is a free Mac app that will move your notifications to other corners or even to the top center of your screen. The app is located in the menu bar and allows you to choose between the four corners of the display, as well as the top and bottom middle.
Setting up the app is easy: just download it, drag it into your Applications folder, and launch it. You will be asked to enable access permissions for the application, which is common for this kind of setting application. You can then choose where your notifications appear by clicking the icon in the menu bar.
It worked for me, although not without some oddities. For example, when I set notifications to the center, the widget area also moved to the center. Of course, some people may prefer this, but I like the widget area to be on the right side of the screen.
The app doesn’t launch with your Mac by default—you can change this by checking the “Launch at login” button in Settings. And that’s all for options.
This isn’t the only app that makes dealing with notifications easier—there’s also an app that dismisses notifications with a keyboard shortcut . We hope that in a future version of macOS such applications will become unnecessary.