Silence!

April 3, 2025 7:09 AM

My MacBook has started pinging when my iPhone gets a text. How do I stop it? I don't want them to be connected at all, I want texts to exist only on my phone.

My Macbook is running Sonoma 14 and I have an iPhone 13, if that matters.

posted by vanilla.extract to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

I'd start by doing the opposite of the advice here.
posted by hydra77 at 7:12 AM on April 3 [1 favorite]

To stop all messages reaching your Mac, open the Messages app on your Mac, go into Settings > iMessage and click "Sign Out".

hydra's advice will stop your Mac getting SMS/RCS text messages (green bubbles) but will not do anything to stop messages from other Apple users (blue bubbles). If green bubbles are the only thing you want to stop then follow that advice.
posted by caek at 7:13 AM on April 3 [2 favorites]

This is a Sonoma thing with the iPhone mirroring. There’s settings on your Mac to turn off mirroring notifications. I don’t have a link right now but if you search for those terms there’s a help page. I did it last night because I left my laptop on the dining room table and the notifications were driving my partner batty.
posted by matildaben at 9:25 AM on April 3 [1 favorite]

It has done this for me since long before Sonoma and iPhone mirroring. I simply have had Messages running on the MacBook as well as on the phone. It doesn't ping on the Mac if I have Messages off, but I can open Messages on the Mac and see my current messages, and write new ones if I want to.
posted by lhauser at 12:30 PM on April 3