Are you also annoyed and tired by Spotify’s notification badge in the dock of Mac OS X? I totally was and found a simple list of instructions on apple.stackexchange.com and want to show you how to remove this “feature”.
If correctly used, notification badges are a cool thing. They notify you when an app wants your attention. Spotify abuses this feature and shows the number of pending notifications inside its app. That means: If you ever subscribed to somebodies playlist and this playlist is updated, you will be notified. Same goes for stuff like new tracks of your favorited artists. You have no control over these notifications and will always be notified. Otherusers are also annoyed by this misbehavior but nothing changes 🙁 Thats why my Spotify is mostly minimized to the background and when opened it shows this ugly notification badge in its UI:
Its annoying and always tries to steal my attention. Same goes for the Mac OS X dock icon:
Normally, you can open the system preferences and can disable the notifications. However, Spotify isn’t listed (although it uses the notification APIs of Mac OS X).
The instructions from stackoverflow write this missing entry into the notification database, so that it shows up in the list. Only after that you are allowed to disable Dock notifications:
Here’s the code of Ryan Patterson’s stackoverflow entry, in case it ever gets deleted:
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- Same goes for the Mac OS X dock icon: Normally, you can open the system preferences and can disable the notifications. However, Spotify isn’t listed (although it uses the notification APIs of Mac OS X). The instructions from stackoverflow write this missing entry into the notification database, so that it shows up in the list.
- Download Notify for Spotify for macOS 10.14 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. Notify for Spotify displays a notification when a new song is played in Spotify. Compared to other notifier apps, it allows you to skip songs directly from the notification and also provides an optional menu bar app to easily control playback.
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Email and push notifications
Spotify can keep you in the loop with emails to the email address registered on your account, and push notifications direct to your mobile device.
Log in to your account page and head to Notifications settings in the menu on the left to manage your email and push notifications.
Note: To receive push notifications, you must allow notifications for the Spotify app in your phone settings.
Unsubscribe from emails
Your account page gives you control of your notification updates, including emails, but you can also remove yourself directly from the mail listing by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of a Spotify email.
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Macos Notification Center Widgets
The next time you receive a notification, tap Learn more. From there, you can stop them showing for the artist you received the notification from, or stop them showing altogether.
Macos Spotify Notifications Settings
Last updated: 28 November, 2019