One of the new features introduced in Capture One 22 is the new notification system on the Mac. The software now uses the system wide notification system to let you know when various tasks are completed, such as merging panoramas, or even just exporting images. While this is useful, it can also get annoying, especially if you’re doing a lot of things in succession. Luckily it’s easy enough to control these notifications or turn them off completely.

Toggle notification settings in Capture One

To access the notification settings in Capture One 22, simply go to the preferences, and then select the notifications tab.

Here you can choose which tasks for which you wish to receive notifications. The options are:

When exporting is completed
When HDR images are merged
When Panoramas are stitched

Personally, I disable the export notification, because it gets annoying really fast, especially if you’re exporting a lot of images one at a time.

Capture One 22 Preferences - Notification Settings

Control the type of notifications

Part of the annoying thing with the default notifications is that they stay up - and you can end up with loads of them piled up. You wouldn’t mind so much if they went away. Luckily you can easily change the behaviour so this is what happens. To be fair, this may not be Capture One’s fault, and might just be the default setting in macOS.

To change the behaviour, you need to go to the Mac OS System Preferences app. Here’s what to do:

Open System Preferences
Go to the “Notifications and Focus” section. (It may be just called notifications in earlier versions of macOS)
Make sure you’re on the Notifications tab
Locate the settings for Capture One 22
The default type should be “Alerts”
Change this to “Banners”
You can change the other settings here if you want.

System Preferences Dialog Box Screenshot showing the Notification Settings for Capture One 22

This should make the notifications disappear after a short while but they will remain in the notification centre. In my opinion this makes them much easier to manage.

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