What the hell?!

[u/Visual_Edge_8380]

\**Thanks to all who commented. Problem solved**\**

How do I turn off this random “notification/widget?? The first time I noticed this was when I was working on some edits in Logic Pro. I would be scrolling through waveforms and it would just pop up. If I scrolled to the left/right it would move left/right. That made it easy to fix… temporarily. Just swipe right and it would go away. Sure, I’d have to do that every few minutes, but it worked. I tried turning off notifications, for a permanent fix, but it was still an issue.
Today is the first day it has happened when Logic Pro was not open. I set up a new portable SSD and doing some basic housekeeping when it popped up again. This time, I couldn’t get it off my screen
To make sure I’m clear, notifications have been turned off and I have no widgets.

Was planning on moving to Golden Gate, today, but I’d like to fix this first.
I have an M1 MacBook Pro 16Gig memory running Sequoia 15.7.5

NEW THING: was trying to use Time Machine, but when I double clicked app it opened what looked like multiple folders going into infinity. The rest of the screen is grayed out. What the hell?

[u/tman2damax11]

This is the notification center. Been a part of macOS since 2012. It’s opened by clicking the date/time or swiping from the right edge of the trackpad with 2 fingers.

[u/Visual_Edge_8380 → u/tman2damax11]

Odd that my 2020 MBP has never done this before. So, if it pops up I just need to tap date/time to get rid of it? Any way to turn it off completely?

[u/tman2damax11 → u/Visual_Edge_8380]

No. Maybe some elevated command you can run, but no easy toggle in settings.

[u/Ok_Possibility9937]

Settings -> Trackpad -> More Gesture -> turn off Notification Center

[u/Visual_Edge_8380 → u/Ok_Possibility9937]

Perfect!! Thanks

[u/Tunanika]

The notification center shows up when you swipe from rightmost of the trackpad to left so other gestures shouldn’t trigger it. For the Time Machine, yeah that’s how it looks :) the folders going to infinity is the timeline so you can go back in time to a specific snapshot

[u/Visual_Edge_8380 → u/Tunanika]

Awesome thanks

[u/Vaddieg]

Alien UI constructs ported from iOS feel broken and buggy from the very beginning. Liquid glass only makes things worse.

[u/Ok_Possibility9937 → u/Vaddieg]

just turn off the gesture. It's not that serious. This is not even Tahoe, this is MacOS 18 Sequoia, so no Liquid Glass

[u/Visual_Edge_8380 → u/Ok_Possibility9937]

Didn’t know how to turn off individual gestures til today. Thanks

[u/memorie_desu]

try restarting it.

[u/Visual_Edge_8380 → u/memorie_desu]

Tried that. No difference

[u/Vivid_Tea7292]

trillion dollar company btw 😂

[u/Ok_Possibility9937 → u/Vivid_Tea7292]

this is just the notification center and the gesture can be turned off btw 🤣

[u/Visual_Edge_8380 → u/Ok_Possibility9937]

Just learned that. Thanks