Q: How to move notification alerts?

I'm surprised that this doesn't come up more.  I find it infuturaiting how it covers search bars and various buttons in all sorts of apps.  Lower right would be better - but I'd even rather just center right screen as there's almos no reason to ever click over there. 

There currently is no way to move it. However, if you select snooze it will hide it for 5 min then reappear. If it was at the bottom then it would hide the dock for ppl that have it at the bottom. Apple decided it would be better at the top, but you can submit your idea to Apple on their website because it would be nice to have the option to move it.

This sort of thing is getting to be par for the course with Apple. They introduce a new "feature" which might have been nice, but I'm offered zero configurability and its default implementation impedes my workflow. So I have to spend effort figuring out how to completely disable whatever turd Apple has dropped in my lap most recently.

I now have "do not disturb" turned on 24/7, which disables this particular bit of malware. It started with my "media center" Mac Mini (for which the feature was entirely, offensively inappropriate from day 1) but as of now this "fix" is on all my machines with notification center.

P.S. I'm still running iTunes 10 on Yosemite, but it's a hack. Eventually it will stop working and I'll be forced to drop iTunes. For the first time in over twenty years I'm wondering how long before the OS itself leaves me in the same boat. Except, unlike with iTunes, there really isn't a viable alternative for the OS – yet.

Well expressed, marshaul.  I agree.  This is just one of so many issues across the entire OS. A once devoted user community is getting restless. @appleisbroken

Yes this is really annoying and I came here in hope of the answer also. Where have all the creative developers gone in Apple? The mobile phone is not everything to a lot of people, especially their long time Mac evangelists. You used to be able to open any Apple application (before they were apps) and just work it out. Now you have to google basic requirements. bob

I would also like to be able to configure this. I use the notifications the way, I think, Apple intended; to see when I have a new email or when a new message comes in. Sometimes I am trying to do something in my browser and the notifications are coming in fast and furious and I CAN'T CLOSE A TAB. It is so annoying. Or since I use two monitors with my mac, maybe I could select the notifications to come up in a different monitor.

If anyone can solve this mystery I desire to move the notifications too, they pop up when I am trying to browse.  UGH!

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

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Still cant move it! This drives me totally NUTS! My constant skype notifications stop me repeatedly from selecting a new tab, and cover the far right one. I dont want to turn off my skype notifications, so I generally have to wait till there is a break in conversation till I can open a new tab!!! Drives me NUTS!!

Actually there is a replacement for iTunes and I use it on every mac I own. Cause lets face it who wants to read that Terms and Conditions every time theres an update just to find they messed with the UI some more. Go check out Enqueue and be done with it. It supports more formats than iTunes out of the box and can even decode FLAC on the fly without having to convert it to that ALAC proprietary apple crap.

Two versions later and this is still not fixed, in fact it's worse. They removed the ability to dismiss or sleep notifications, as well. It's the little things like this that make Macs a pain to use. My frustration is building.

I find the inability to configure this very frustrating. I elevate my monitor so that it's at eye level as ergonomics experts will recommend you do. This positions that top right corner of the display right in my right eye's blind spot. There are blood vessels blocking my view of that corner of the screen. So I can't see notifications if I'm looking at the center of my screen which is most of the time.