Here’s how to set up birthdays in the Calendar app on your Apple devices.Īpple Calendar includes a birthday calendar that can display all birthdays that you have in iCloud Contacts. With a quick flicker from both screens, my desktop appeared on the display in front of me, and my computer was acting as the extension monitor.Apple Calendar for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and doesn’t just keep track of all your events and appointments in one place but shows the birthdays of your friends and contacts as well. I opened up System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement and dragged the icon with the white bar at the top into the middle. It took me all of about 15 seconds to rectify. Note: No offense to kale lovers out there. But I think it may have had something to do with missing out on an hour-long Microsoft Teams thread discussing what my office was ordering for lunch, and I ended up with a kale salad. So, what finally prompted me to ask myself, “How can I make notifications show up on a different display?” I’m not sure, to be honest. I remained a very unhappy and oblivious dolt, jeopardizing my job and familial relations. Move Menu Bar, ergo Notifications.” But nothing.
Or maybe I did see it, but my brain didn’t make the mental connection. What I didn’t notice was the white bar at the top of the small monitor icon to the right. The Default Display Arrangement Preference Screen A little screen to the right (like my laptop) and two larger ones to it’s left, so I didn’t change anything. When I originally set up my multiple displays in System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement, the icons were organized in the order that seemed to make sense to me.
Check out the Rocket Yard Guide, Tips for Using the Mac’s Notification Center. Note: You can choose what notifications you receive and when. Mentally dozing off for that long isn’t good because I’m not thinking about checking to see if an important email comes in, or if one of my kids has sent me a time-sensitive text, or if my twitter feed needs my attention because the Kardashians’ have something vitally important to share. It’s usually the uncomfortable urge to use the bathroom that wakes me up from my trance, or I succumb to the annoying hunger pangs from missing lunch by several hours. If nothing distracts me (like an alert popping up in front of my face), hours can fly by without me noticing anything but the project absorbing me at the time. You see, I tend to get “in the zone” when I’m working. Why? Because I’m a cotton-headed-ninny-muggins, that’s why.Īnd why was this a big deal anyway? Why did it matter which screen the notifications appeared on? Well, perhaps my peripheral vision is lacking because I was consistently not seeing the incoming notifications, and that was not optimal. No thought given that this could be changed. Because the MacBook Pro to my right was the actual machine doing the work, and the other displays were just dummy screens, it made perfect sense to me that notifications would appear there. My current display set-up has my 2018 MacBook Pro to my right and two 27″ ASUS screens, one to my left and one directly in front of me.
I sunk to a new low of cluelessness as it never even occurred to me that I could move the pop-up alerts to one of the other several monitors I use. I didn’t actually forget how to make Notifications appear on a different display, but that’s only because I had never done it before. Well, the awkwardness plagues me once again, but not in quite the same way. Something I should have known how to do because I had done it dozens of times before and completely forgot. I posted an article a while ago, admitting my shameful ignorance when it came to How to Move the Dock from One Monitor to Another on a Mac because it was something so simple.