

To accomplish this, open up the Mail app’s preferences using Command +, and make sure you’re on the General tab. The final step is to adjust our notification settings so that we only receive notifications for messages that come in from our VIPs. If this is your first VIP contact, you’ll notice that a special new VIP mailbox has appeared in your Mail app sidebar. Within that menu, find and click the entry called Add to VIPs and your contact will be added.

Next, hover over the sender’s name and click the downward arrow that appears to open up an options menu. To begin, open up Apple Mail and find a message from one of the contacts you want to designate as a VIP. Here’s how to set up and use VIP notifications in Apple Mail on both macOS on iOS.

If you’re like most people and leave notifications enabled for every new message, you’ll quickly find yourself frustrated by the number of times these notifications interrupt your focus. It doesn’t take long for an email inbox to overflow, does it?
