macOS includes a feature called Screen Time, originally ported over from iOS. It meticulously tracks exactly how many hours and minutes you spend using specific applications and websites. By default, every Monday morning, macOS triggers a system notification delivering your “Weekly Report,” informing you whether your screen time was up or down compared to the previous week.
If you use your Mac exclusively for work, this notification is both irrelevant and slightly demoralizing—of course your screen time is high, you were working. If you do not want to be interrupted every Monday with a usage report, you can disable these specific notifications without disabling the Screen Time tracking itself.
How to Stop the Weekly Screen Time Report on Mac
You can turn off these notifications directly within the main Screen Time settings menu.
- Click the Apple Logo in the top-left corner of your Mac’s screen.
- Select System Settings (or System Preferences on older macOS versions).
- Scroll down the left-hand navigation sidebar and click on Screen Time.
- Look for a toggle switch near the bottom of the main window labelled Include website data (this is good to verify, but not the notification).
- To stop the notifications, go back to the left-hand sidebar and click on Notifications.
- Scroll down the list of applications until you find Screen Time. Click on it.
- At the very top of the Screen Time notification preferences, you will see a toggle switch labelled Allow notifications.
- Click the toggle switch to turn it completely Off.
By revoking notification permissions for the Screen Time system service, your Mac will still quietly log your application usage in the background (which you can review manually in System Settings), but it will never again interrupt your Monday morning with a pop-up report.