---
id: getting-started.where-do-notifications-appear
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/getting-started/where-do-notifications-appear
category: "Getting started"
subcategory: "Notifications"
question: "Where do Storage Studio's notifications show up?"
alt_questions:
  - "What is the bell in Storage Studio?"
  - "Storage Studio notification center"
  - "Does Storage Studio use macOS Notification Centre?"
  - "Where are Storage Studio alerts?"
  - "Storage Studio notifications explained"
  - "Where do Storage Studio's notifications appear?"
  - "Storage Studio notification bell"
  - "Do Storage Studio alerts show in Notification Centre?"
  - "storage studio notifications mac"
  - "What is the bell icon in Storage Studio?"
short_answer: "In the app's notification bell and, matching it, in macOS Notification Centre as \"Storage Studio\". Informational items arrive quietly, warnings show a banner, important ones can break through Focus, and each clears once resolved."
tags: ["notifications", "bell", "notification centre"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/getting-started/notifications-during-focus", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/getting-started/what-is-the-live-status-line"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# Where do Storage Studio's notifications show up?

In two places, which always match. Inside the app, the **notification bell** at the top of the window collects things worth a glance: background jobs that need attention, trial and plan reminders, clean-up suggestions, drive connect and disconnect notices, and occasional short messages from the team.

Every one of those also appears in macOS's own **Notification Centre** as "Storage Studio", so you see it even with the window closed:

- informational items arrive quietly, without a banner,
- warnings show a banner,
- important ones can come through during a Focus.

Each notification appears once and clears when it's no longer relevant, so nothing piles up.