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On my iPhone I can use the Control Center to toggle Do Not Disturb on and off whenever I want.
On my Mac I checked in System Preferences > Notifications and I can set it on a schedule, but there’s no option to show a Do Not Disturb icon in the Menu Bar.
How can I easily toggle Do Not Disturb on/off on my Mac without going into System Preferences or having to use Terminal?
As for the current version of iOS (7). No, there is not. Apple only offers the Do Not Disturb feature and the settings for notification center which are currently not controllable by Siri.
You can just setup a global keyboard shortcut for it in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Mission Control
Or if you definitely want it from the command line, an applescript to do this (assuming you setup the keyboard shortcut to use cmdshiftoptctrlD.
Note that you still MUST setup a keyboard command in System Preferences for this to work.
Put the below script into a file, say, ~/dnd.applescript
ignoring application responses
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "D" using {command down, shift down, option down, control down}
end ignoring
Now you can run osascript ~/dnd.applescript from the command line to toggle your DND setting.
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Option + Click the menu bar
Actually, there is a Menu Bar icon, of sorts.
To toggle Do Not Disturb you can just hold the option key down while you click on the Notification Centre icon at top right of your Menu Bar.
Doing this will instantly make any visible notifications disappear and grey out the icon. You can still click on it to manually show/hide the Notification Centre whenever you want, but Do Not Disturb stays active.
NOTE: Do Not Disturb will stay active until the next day (when it becomes inactive again) or until you once again hold the option key while clicking on the Notification Centre icon.
Keyboard shortcut
You can also create a keyboard shortcut. To do this:
Now you should be able to use that Keyboard shortcut to toggle Do Not Disturb on/off as required.
NOTE: If a keyboard shortcut you've set up doesn't work, then it's most likely already in use for another purpose within macOS. Likewise, if it doesn't work while you're in a particular app, then it may conflict with an app-specific shortcut. In either case you will need to change your shortcut.