Clearing Multiple Notifications

[jackk]

Hi,

I was looking for a workflow that can clear existing notifications from Notification Center panel. I found few but none of them seems to work with Alfred 4 / MacOS 12.3.1. If anyone can help that would be awesome.

 

Links that i found

https://github.com/skotzko/shhhhh

https://github.com/skotzko/shhhhh/issues/7#issuecomment-874773375

https://www.ryanmo.co/2016/04/18/clearing-multiple-notifications-in-mac-os-x/

 

Thanks

 

 

[vitor]

Those stopped working because they rely on GUI automation and Apple has since changed the Notification Centre. At the time I looked into it (and likely still the case) there wasn’t a good alternative to doing so.

 

Your best bet is to learn to live with those notifications, instead of trying to clear them. Note they won’t go on forever, they only go back seven days and anything older disappears, so there’s no need for manually clean them up.

[jackk]

Dang that's unfortunate.

[Mattias]

This would be a great function.

[alfredpanda]

@vitor have you seen these?

https://github.com/Ptujec/LaunchBar/tree/master/Notifications#readme

https://gist.github.com/lancethomps/a5ac103f334b171f70ce2ff983220b4f

 

I'd love to be able to clear with an Alfred shortcut.

Edited August 16, 2022 by alfredpanda

[vitor]

10 minutes ago, alfredpanda said:

I'd love to be able to clear with an Alfred shortcut.

 

The code is JXA, so you can do it in an Alfred Run Script with language set to /usr/bin/osascript (JavaScript). My previous reply still applies: those solutions use GUI automation, which is why they break when Apple makes changes.

[TomBenz]

On 8/16/2022 at 5:03 PM, vitor said:

 

The code is JXA, so you can do it in an Alfred Run Script with language set to /usr/bin/osascript (JavaScript). My previous reply still applies: those solutions use GUI automation, which is why they break when Apple makes changes.

 

Tried https://github.com/zakyum/alfred-notification-dismisser and some scripts but there are not very reliable. Perhaps will live with notification as it is instead of clearing all. 

[Stephen_C]

See also my reply to your other post here.

 

Stephen

[bartoszpet]

This one works perfectly (tested with macOS Monterey 12.6): https://github.com/bpetrynski/alfred-notification-dismisser

[alfredpanda]

How are you making this work? It's not working for me on 12.5.1.

 

I have notifications in Notification Center.

I run it in Alfred.

...nothing.

 

I wondered if Notification Center had to remain open, but it's impossible to do that.

 

 

EDIT:

 

Got it—I was misunderstanding. This will indeed clear any persistent notifications on screen - thank you. It won't however clear what's in notification center.

Edited September 26, 2022 by alfredpanda

[kanera]

Runs well on Monterey (12.6) but I cannot get it to work on Ventura (13.2). ideas or pointers - thanks?

[sepulchra]

this script was updated and works: https://gist.github.com/lancethomps/a5ac103f334b171f70ce2ff983220b4f

[kanera]

Many thanks - does indeed work! 🙏

[jackk]

I slightly modified the above script to work on macOS Ventura 13.3, Unfortunately this won't clear all notification just one at a time.

 

tell application "System Events"
    try
        click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 of application process "Control Center"
    end try
    try
        set _groups to groups of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of window "Notification Center" of application process "NotificationCenter"
        repeat with _group in _groups
            set _actions to actions of _group
            
            repeat with _action in _actions
                if description of _action is in {"Schlie§en", "Alle entfernen", "Close", "Clear All"} then
                    perform _action
                end if
            end repeat
        end repeat
    end try
    key code 53 # Escape Key
end tell

 

[Sorehead]

I'm not a programmer and don't understand how to use an apple script in Alfred. Could someone explain?

[Stephen_C]

All you need to do is to copy the quoted script to a Run Script action in Alfred (see this help page about that action). When you double click on the action set it to /usr/bin/osascript (AppleScript). In this case you won't need the lines Alfred automatically adds (because you're not passing in any variable) so you can simply select all and overwrite with a copy of the quoted script from above.

 

Then all you need to do is to trigger the script—so before it add a hotkey or keyword trigger.

 

Stephen

[Sorehead]

Thanks, Stephen_C! It worked. 

[Stephen_C]

Good!

 

Stephen