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paulmz Author

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macOS Catalina automatically enables Do Not Disturb via "Presentation Mode" when external display connected.

This question was asked a few times before. The most recent I've found is from November of 2019 but is closed to further comments:

macOS Catalina automatically enables Do N… - Apple Community

As the other linked question states, the ""When mirroring to TVs and projectors" is not enabled. Despite this setting never being enabled, "Do Not Disturb" is consistently enabled when the computer is turned on while connected to an external display - which is every time the computer is turned on.

I don't see any other system settings for "Presentation Mode". As the previous question theorizes, this may be caused by another application. Regardless, it's still a system issue that Apple needs to look into. But waiting for Apple to fix something is fairly pointless. Does anyone have insight or a remedy?

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Mar 21, 2022 9:13 AM

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