Delete, or at least hide the messages app in Ventura

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Delete, or at least hide the messages app in Ventura

Hi community! I wish to work on my mac studio, without ever getting a notification that I've received messages on my phone. I have searched everywhere I can, and have not found a solution. I've tried:

signing out
removing the messenger app from the doc
turned off notifications for messages in System Settings

It appears that I cannot simply delete the messages app in ventura, but please correct me if i'm wrong. Even after taking these steps, each time a message goes to my phone, the messages app appears in my dock with a bubble, which I find distracting... and I don't want it! Can you help me?

OS 13.0

M1 chip mac studio

Mac Studio (2022)

Posted on May 23, 2023 8:19 PM

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Person_2099

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May 23, 2023 9:22 PM in response to Peter Litvin

To stop receiving messages on your Mac try the following:

Open up Messages on your Mac
Go to the Message Menu and select 'Settings'
Select the 'iMessage' Tab
Uncheck Enable Messages in iCloud
Choose 'Sign Out'

Following this, remove iMessages from your toolbar by secondary clicking on the icon in the toolbar and selecting 'Options' > 'Remove from Dock'

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