How do i disable imessage on mac

i don't need to see imessage on my mac, how do i disable that feature

Settings > Messages > iMessage > Off.

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How do i disable iMessage from my mac, i have looked at other comments and there is no option to disable it when messages are open

how do i disable iMessage from my mac, i have looked at other comments and there is no option to disable it when messages are open

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How can i disable imessage from automatically starting up when i turn on macbook air?

how can i disable imessage from automatically starting up when i turn on macbook air? i dont know my imessages to pop up on my laptop when it turns on. But i dont want to disable imessage totally on my macbook.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
First of all, check that Messages is closed when you turn off your MacBook. This is so important because, by default, OS X will reopen all opened apps the next time you start your Mac.
Apart from that, when you go to  > Shut Down, or  > Restart, in the window you see to restart or turn off your MacBook, unmark "Reopen windows when logging back in". This will avoid that your Mac opens all opened apps the next time you start the MacBook, so Messages won't start automatically at startup

How can i disable imessage on my notebook?

I'm very sick of receiving text messages on every device. How can I disable imessage on my macbook pro so I don't receive texts that I wish to receive only on my phone?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
If you do not want to receive your text messages on your Mac, open Messages, go to Messages menu (in the menu bar) > Preferences > Accounts, choose your iMessage account and untick your phone number or disable your account

How can I disable imessage from old phone?

how can I disable imessage from old phone number / iphone I no longer have?

iMesssage to old phone
If you move to another phone and forget to turn off iMessage then read “if you no longer have the device in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5661 If you still cannot resolve it call Apple http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
To deactivate iMessage http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5185
Read http://m.samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00053450&fm_s eq=62995

HT201269 How do I disable imessage on a phone that was traded to Best Buy ?

How do I disable 'imessage' on an i phone that was traded to Best Buy?

Do this first
Wipe iPhone/iPad/iPod touch clean
There are a few steps to do:
Switch off iMessage in Settings > Messages
Switch off FaceTime in Settings > FaceTime (iPod touch 4th Generation or later, iPhone 4 or later and iPad 2 or later)
Delete iCloud in Settings > iCloud > Delete Account
Finally Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings.
Un-register your device: https://supportprofile.apple.com
Now you can sell/give.

HT3529 I am no longer using an iPhone, how do i disable iMessage?

I am no longer using an iPhone, how do i disable iMessage? I have already reset the iPhone back to factory defaults but when iPhone users text me it goes to iMessage and i do not receive the texts.

Only two ways I know of: 1. Put your sim back in the iPhone & turn iMessage off, or 2. If you registered your phone online with Apple, & setup a support profile, delete the phone from your profile.

TS1702 How do I disable imessage?

How do I disable imessage?

Go to Settings...
Disable iMessage (Turn it off).
Lock the ability to change account settings. This is done under Restrictions settings. By doing this, your child cannot turn iMessage back on. Only those with the Restrictions password can do so.
When you open iMessage, it says it is restrcited!
Here is a link with pictures that helped me in my original quest to fix this issue:
http://www.bewebsmart.com/ipod-ipad-iphone/how-to-restrict-imessage/

How can I disable iMessage notifications on iPhone while using Messages beta on Mac?

Hi all! I'm very excited about the new Messages app on my Mac, which allows iMessage between Macs and i devices! Just downloaded it right now and it's excellent! However, I notice a possible flaw in which whenever I receive a message from someone, it will notify me on both my Mac AND my iPhone! As you might imagine, it's pretty annoying given iMessages are flying through on my Mac. I was wondering if anyone knows how to stop iPhone notifications when messaging on Mac. I hope this feature will be added in ASAP from Apple if it doesn't exist yet! Thanks in advance!

You would have to turn it off on the phone. Read receipts as referenced above is not related to your question at all.
I don't find it to be too irritating, but I don't message frequenly enough for it to get all that annoying.

How can I disable iMessages from archiving messages and attachments?

I noticed while browsing ~/Library\Messages/ that iMessages has been archiving my messages (Archive folder) and saving attachments (in a separate Attachment folder). Under the settings for iMessages on OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion, I don't see any options to disable this. The only thing close to that is already unchecked: Save history when conversations are closed.
Any ideas why iMessages is saving all this information? How do I disable it? My concern is that it's going to keep accumulating data overtime. I don't want to keep having to go back in there and delete those two folders constantly.

Hi,
This somewhat date back to the way iChat's Saved Chats were once Stored.
At iChat 5 (in Snow Leopard) you could choose to see the last chat - (when opening an new chat with a person you had chatted with before) or parts of the Last Chat in terms of the Last so many IMs.
Example Pic of iChat 5's Prefs
Since then the management choices of the Save Chats has changed in both iChat 6 and Messages.
Messages stores Chats two ways if they are iMessages.
You can elect to Save them in Messages > Preferences > Messages.
It also store the chat.db and other databases items which includes the Attachment items
The chat.db is the bit that fill in the "history" if you iMessage the same person even if you are not saving the Chat in a formal sense in the App's Preferences.
This is irrespective if your delete the Conversation from the Messages main window.
How big these Databases get obviously depends on your iMessages usage.
Striker's link seems to be about a similar issue on an iPhone (I presume it transfers to other iOS devices) but I am not sure that it is relevant in this situation.
Edit.
I should have been clear that you cannot change the database behaviour.
9:49 pm Sunday; October 6, 2013
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.4)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
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How do I disable iMessage on my MacBook pro?

I have purchased a MacBook Pro for Christmas and whilst viewing different applications I couldn't close the message application unless I typed in my Apple id password. Now, I am recieving iMessages at not only my iPhone and iPod but my mac too. How can i disable this on my mac???

I just figured this out, yay! You need to be on your laptop to do this. Open the iMessage app, then look up at the top left of the screen on your laptop and it should be the apple icon, "messages", File, Edit, View, History, etc. Click on "Messages", then click on "Preferences", then click on the accounts in the box on the left - because a pop-up will open after you click on "Preferences". I was unable to remove the accounts, but I was able to uncheck all the boxes and disable the accounts. Voila! Mission accomplished.

How can I disable iMessages history?

How can i disable iMesage history? Under the settings for iMessages on OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion, I don't see any options to disable this. The only thing close to that is already unchecked: Save history when conversations are closed.

Hi,
Messages still uses the com.apple.ichat.plist (and the other ones that had iChat in them for the accounts)
The two new ones for iMessages (com.apple.imservice.imessages.plist and com.apple.imessage.bag.plist) only hold the server info on one and the Apple ID and the Aliases you use with it in the other.
I have not discovered anything in any of the .plists that deal with how the "history' is saved (other than whether Chats are Saved on Closure).
In previous versions of iChat there have been hints at MacOSXHints that do various things such as this one that changes the order of the Info when Selecting iTunes Playing as th Status Message
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050610163358263
To use it in Messages you have to change the iChatAgent bits to IMAgent.
I did search their site for 10.8 and Messages but found nothing that related to doing anything with the Saving or History of chats and conversations.
I don't work for Apple.
My "knowledge" is centered around iChat and Messages, which I have been posting about since 2004.
8:32 PM Monday; September 2, 2013
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.4)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

How do i disable iMessage entirely?

We are an apple family - phones, ipads, mac laptops and mac desktops. They are all logged into my apple ID, for obvious reasons - share apps, as well as ensure the kids can't stumble into anything I don't want them to, kids too young to have their own ID, etc. But with this new Maverick and iOS7, now the entire family can see my text messages and, for obvious reasons again, I don't really want the kids to see my text messages (particularly not those my wife and I exchange).
Yes, I've disabled iMessage on devices, but on the macs it's a pain (why it's not somewhere in settings is beyond belief). And then every time there's a new update, I have to go round every device and disable it again. And then I have to rely on the kids not turning on imessage again - and of course, they're young things that like to try new things, so they do turn it back on.
The whole idea is basically a nightmare idea designed by a 25 year old in California who's never had a thought about families. So... since I can't control it centrally, how to I kill off iMessage for good from my apple ID? And Facetime (same reasons)?

Welcome,
I have a similar situation (4 kids, Mrs etc).
What I have done is I have one AppleID for iTunes (App, music etc) which is shared across all devices (only I know the password), then one AppleId per person for iCloud (iMessages, Facetime and Mail). Plus I can use Find my Phone to track where the kids are!
Works for me, your situation may be different.
Regards,
Shawn

How can I disable iMessages from going to my iMac?

I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. Since then, iMessages won't be delivered to my iPhone. They always get delivered to my iMac. This is especially annoying because I'm not home most of the day and texting is a primary means of communications, particularly with my better half.
I have quit Messages on my desktop, but iMessages still get delivered to Messages on the desktop. I took my desktop offline (no Internet connectivity), and iMessages just get queued in the cloud somewhere until I get home and bring my desktop online again. Nothing but regular text messages go to my iPhone. I have even disabled my Apple account in Messages on the desktop, but iMessages are still being delivered there. I never had this problem prior to Mountain Lion.
My better half, also with an iMac and iPhone, doesn't have any of these problems. I have verified that all the settings are the same between his and my desktops and iPhones. But I still have the problem. I don't use Messages on my dekstop and have no interest in receiving messages there.
Is there a way that I can disable iMessages from going to my desktop or otherwise limit iMessages to only my iPhone? Please help!

OK, problem solved. I think the issue is that I was a .mac account holder turned MobileMe turned iCloud (and still getting screwed over apparently). My Apple ID is @mac.com, but my email address is @me.com when Apple forced us all over. Messages on my desktop was set up with my mac.com Apple ID, while Messages on my phone was set up with my me.com email address. I went into appleid.apple.com and merged my primary email address and Apple ID to the mac.com address. I logged out of Messages on both the desktop and phone, logged back in with my Apple ID, and then had to delete the conversations from both my and my other half's iPhones.
Interestingly, it took about five minutes for both phones to delete the conversations, and the phones were completely unresponsive during this time. After that, I sent a text (iMessage) from my other half's phone to mine, and voila! It works. Apparently @mac.com does not equal @me.com... Apple sees them separately. What a nightmare, but I'm glad it's working now.

How can I disable iMessage for some of my contacts?

I have unlimited text, but limited data on my iPhone 5s. I only want to receive/send iMessages to a select few on my contacts list who have iPads and then use SMS for my iPhone friends. I tried disabling my phone number as a receive/sender, but it only lets me disable my email. How can I make it so I don't have to turn off iMessage to send SMS messages to other iPhone users? It's very problematic. I end up receiving all my messages from those with iPhones on iMessage when I turn it back on, which defeats the purpose of me sending an SMS message to them in the first place. If I disable iMessages completely it keeps me from being able to communicate with my iPad using pals. I can't win either way.

I've seen this type of question asked before, but I couldn't find anything recent that really helped me.

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