How Do You Turn Off The Ding For Imessage On Mac

Hi bnichols75, A quick question about that - I had discovered that same process you described above, BUT in my scenario (I have 3 iMacs, and one of the is at our Business and we don't want our employees reading our imessages, but want them to benefit from the syncing of all the other things like Calendar, Emails etc, which we have been doing for the last 3 years). My question is: Will signing out of icloud (from within preferences in imessage) aside from simply 'unselecting enable', then sign me out of all icloud features? Or will it simply just deactivate imessage because it's being done from within the Preferences inside of iMessage? I want to make sure that doing the 'sign out of iCloud', (from within the imessage application) that it wont sign the entire imac out of iCloud because we still want our business imac to have access to all the other cloud features, like the apps, calendar, email etc. Just NOT the iMessages. Sorry, I bet this is written more confusingly than it needed to be, but hope you understand what I'm asking. Thanks in advance!

Thanks bnichols75, This finally worked for me. But how crazy a Support System in which Apple leaves this up to users to tell each other.

Turn off iMessage on iPhone or iPad. It is very straightforward to turn off iMessage on an iPhone or iPad. Unlock your phone and navigate to Settings. Select Messages. Toggle off iMessage at the top. To be thorough I suggest leaving it ten minutes or so and then send a test message to someone you know on iMessage. Compose an SMS and send it to see what happened. If the message appears in green speech bubble, it was sent via SMS. IMessage is an instant messenger service for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that allows users to send SMS-like text messages and MMS-similar multimedia messages as long as you have activated iMessage. In our last post, we have talked about how to activate iMessage on iPhone X/8/8 Plus. Turn Off iMessage On iPhone. Disabling iMesage on iPhone is pretty easy. Go to the Settings menu of your iPhone; Choose Messages from the Settings menu; And in the Messages menu, look for iMessages; You will notice a slider next to it which allows you to turn it off. The slider will be green if it is on. When you turn on iMessage, whether on your Mac or iPhone, you’ll be able to save data while communicating with friends from any of your Apple devices, which is why enabling iMessage is particularly wonderful if you have a limited data plan.

How to get paint tool sai full version for free mac. A bit like the blind leading the blind. I know of people who have missed major appointments over this crazy iMessage thing.

I just lost a few days worth of messages, and NOT through consciously selecting some option. I think the firm needs to go look again at it's own HCI guidelines. Predictability of outcomes needs to be central to the ecosystem. The confluence of Mac OS X and IOS is just way way too complicated and spread all over the place at the moment. Apple Footer • This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.