WhatsApp notifications not working on Mac

This issue still persists and is a bug of the latest WhatsApp update. So I thought of using the pervious version of the app and notifications in it just work fine. https://whatsapp-desktop.en.uptodown.com/mac/download/4588528 You can download the previous version from this link.

had the same issue since a few weeks.. finally resolved.. try this -

1. You must be on v2216.8 I assume if you downloaded directly from the WhatsApp website
2. Press Cmd+Q to quit the app.
3. Restart WhatsApp
4. Now without downloading or updating anything, check version should have automatically changed to 2218.8 (this is what happened for me by itself)
5. The notifications should now be working!

Hi there I had this problem too, but I've fixed it!

Here's how I did it:

1. Download the WhatsApp web app (from the App Store)
2. Login to your WhatsApp web account (by scanning the code from your phone)
3. Close the Whatsapp web app on your Mac
4. Ask a friend to send you a message on WhatsApp
5. On the top right you'll get a notification saying "configure WhatsApp notifications"
6. Click that and you can choose your notification settings within system preferences
7. Now WhatsApp will appear among the apps within system preferences!

This should solve the problem! Hope it helps.

I've struggled with this issue for a long time, and I finally got it to work!

apple_lukas wrote:

I just started using my macbook pro 14.

When using whatsapp I don't get notifications. I enabled notifications in the app settings.

In macbook system preferences -> notifications&focus whatsapp is not even amongst the apps which is weird because I figured it should be.

I tried to download whatsapp through web and through app store , outcome is still the same.

Not all apps are optimized for macOS notifications

I have the exact same problem. I've been using Whatsapp on mac for the past 3 years, everything worked fine but after the update whatsapp notifications seemed to have disappear from system preferences.

Same here. I don't get notifications even on Watch.

It stopped working all of a sudden, and I don't even have Whatsapp notifications option in System Preferences notifications options.

Tried uninstalling iPhone app, uninstalling Desktop app and deleting all related files in ~/Library. I also tried to contact Whatsapp support: they sent me to the article about how to activate the notifications -.-

Seems like a Whatsapp bug to me...

Me too! I un-install and re-install back the Whatsapp app and I still don't receive any pop up notification message. But only when Whatsapp calls it does give pop up notification! I think it's a bug. My system preferences under notifications, Whatsapp app is not appearing there too!

If you are getting notification on your Mac from all other sources, except Whatsapp, it's not an Apple issue. It is a Whatsapp issue. Apple doesn't own Whatsapp. Meta (Facebook) owns Whatsapp and they need to fix whatever their issue is.

Guys - i downloaded yesterday from whatsapp site the intel version for the desktop and it's was with the version you mention.

this morning i opened the app again and i got the newer version. so check this out.

Hey Guys I found a simple solution to this issue, go to your user directory and toggle all hidden files using the command ( CMD + shift + . ) and automatically Whatsapp notification will start working back on.

As per my understanding, this has started since the new MacOS update. Now its either that the app is not able to get the access to the notification panel or there is some bug in the new OS update. I hope they fix it soon tho. hampering the workflow a lot.

Wow, that's BS on WhatsApp's part. Like others here, I have the same issue -- both on my Intel-based iMac and my M1 MacBook Air. WhatsApp notification was working fine before this latest version. This is totally a bug on WhatsApp.

I also used to get banner notifications, but rcently was not getting the same, I thought to reinstall it....deleted the previous app and same thing happened, it got deleted from system preferences also...

I have same issue here. After last update I've lost all kind of WhatsApp notifications in my MacBook. After reading some reply's I believe we must wait for a new release but meantime, we can all go back to WhatsApp web (which is not useful if you need to make any call, but we'll still get the notifications back)