I cannot delete website from notifications centre, despite deleting them on Safari

In the menubar of the Finder go to > "Go to" and press "Go to folder" almost at the bottom. As an alternative, you can also press "Shift Command G" at once on your keyboard, it will do the same.

In the Pop-Up window enter " /Users/username/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/RemoteNotifications ". You have to replace username by your name or whatever is the username you are using for your computer. If the name of your useraccount / your computer is for e.g. Peter, than it's " /Users/peter/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/RemoteNotifications ".

Once entered, a folder will appear ("Remote notifications") in which there might be folders like "web.cnn.com" or "web.spam.com" or any other website, that appears also as an entry in >> System Settings >> Notification Centre. Now delete any of those folders, you don't want to have as an entry in Notifications Centre. Close >> System Settings and reopen >> System Settings >> Notification Centre again to look if the entries disappeared. Normally they will. Restart Safari. Let the "Remote notifications" folder open during the entire procedure to be sure that Safari doesn't recreate the different "web.websitename.com" folders again. I had to delete those "web.....com" folders two or three times until they disappeared forever.

I hope I could help.

PlacidBeing wrote:

I have tried this before to no avail, the entry remains here. Unchecking "show in notifications center just grays the whole panel but the entry remains.

Deleting the entries from Safari is supposed to also remove them from System Settings. If this isn't working, then some critical system security database is corrupted. Unfortunately, there are many 3rd party system modification apps that hack around and attempt to "clean up" this database.

You can try that yourself in the Terminal with the following command:

sudo tccutil reset All

Just to clarify, I don't recommend running this command. If you do need to run it, then your system is seriously corrupted. Whatever corrupted it is likely still there and will corrupt it again in the future.

But what do I know? Maybe you'll run it and it will magically fix everything.

If not, your only option will be to erase the hard drive and reinstall the operating system. This is actually my recommended course of action. You can restore your user files and user accounts, but that's all. Do not attempt to restore any apps, software, system settings, or "other files". If you restore any of that, it will put everything back the way it was. In the future, be more careful about installing 3rd party apps.

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I'm unsure if this will be helpful, but I also recently needed to stop unwanted notifications. after I cleared them in safari settings, and turning off "Allow websites to ask for permission to send notifications", I immediately received two more notifications. so I restarted my Mac. once booted up again, the notifications stopped.

PlacidBeing wrote:

Hello,

Everything is in the tittle, I did delete websites which I had authorised to send me notifications in Safari's settings. Yet, I still have a lot of entries in the notification centre in Mac OS setting that I cannot delete... I use Mac OS 13.6.9.

The notifications in system settings are app notifications. If you want to remove one of them, you have to right click or control click on one of them and choose "Reset notifications...". This will remove that entry from the list. But it can still ask again the next time it runs.

The Other thing I did notice

You have Share across devices

Meaning, you turn it OFF on this computer but somehow it will be turned ON by the Share across device computer or iPhone or iPad

You may need to go to each other devices and turn On Deny

PlacidBeing wrote:

Thanks for the answer, I have tried this before to no avail, the entry remains here. Unchecking "show in notifications center just grays the whole panel but the entry remains.

Those are web site notifications. You have to remove them using Safari > Settings > Websites > Notifications.

Once you remove them from Safari, they will also be removed from System Settings.

I'm literally dealing with the same issue as stated in the initial topic post.

System Settings > Notifications --- I have three websites that cannot be deleted (only turned off or reset).

Safari Settings > Websites > Notifications --- there are no websites listed here.

Users/Username/Library/Caches/com.apple.safari/RemoteNotifications/filenames -- empty. No websites listed.

For reference, the websites listed in System Settings > Notifications are:

ebay website

paramountplus website

estebantorreshighschool (website link that no longer works)

Even allowing notifications in Safari and returning to these websites does not initiate them requesting to send me notifications. I had hoped going back to these places would somehow add them to the Safari list again but I it's not happening.

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Post a Screen Shot of >> System Setting >> Notification Centre showing the websites as Listed

As far as I can see.

The Only Place that Websites would be listed are Safari >> Setting >> Websites

Just to the Clear.

What is presented in above image is Not from Safari >> Notifications be from System Setting Notifications

To potentially Turn then OFF

Example for Carbon Copy Cloner which is Installed Third Party Application

The original question from OP was " I cannot delete website from notifications centre, despite deleting them on Safari "

That " specific question " has been answered by at least 2 - 3 different contributors

So the new question related to System Setting >> Notification become another unrelate question to the original question

So and respectfully, which question is it the User ( you ) actually want answered ?

Where did you type in - /Users/username/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/RemoteNotifications/filenames

Not sure where that is typed and how to access the files that come up when you do type it in. Thank you.

Add on

From what I am seeing in System Setting >> Notification Centre

There is no listing for Safari in System Setting >> Notification Centre

Thusly the request for the Screen Shot