Getting rid of announcement about image creation.

By Khomus, 9 March, 2025

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Hi all.

I keep getting this random announcement about genmoji or whatever they're called and image creation being available. Hitting VO-o for notifications doesn't show anything, I just get stuff about adding widgets. How in the world do I get rid of this?

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By PaulMartz on Sunday, March 9, 2025 - 18:09

I don't get that message, but I've ran into several situations where notifications are pointlessly repeated, such as "DropBox added a login task," something like that.

Lately, I've been hearing a random message that announces, "System Settings has new window," or something to that effect, with no corresponding notification in the notification area. Window Chooser looks normal, so I have no clue what it's trying to tell me.

By Levi Gobin on Sunday, March 9, 2025 - 18:27

This announcement is used for when a particular app has a new window or dialogue.
I have seen it say system settings has new window with no new window, but usually, this announcement gets triggered when an app that’s in the background brings up a new window.
For example, if you start copying a large file in Finder, but before the window displaying information about the copy operation appears, you press command tab to go to a new app, when that window opens in Finder, voiceover would say finder has new window.
Also, if the operation were to fail for any reason and you were in a different app and didn’t see the system dialogue, voiceover would probably say finder has new system dialogue.
These can’t be accessed in the notification center, but you can command tab to finder, and then use the window chooser to find the new window, or the application chooser, then go to system dialogues to view any system dialogues on the screen.
Hope this helps

By TheBlindGuy07 on Sunday, March 9, 2025 - 19:00

Try to go to it with vo+n, then vo+space, action menu with vo+cmd+space and close or equivalent should help.

By Khomus on Sunday, March 9, 2025 - 20:58

That did it. I'll have to tyr and remember VO-n.

By PaulMartz on Monday, March 10, 2025 - 00:32

I just got this message, and it was announced as follows.

System, has new window

Note the pause after the word system. There is nothing in the notification area and no new windows or system dialogs, so it's a bit of a mystery.

By Levi Gobin on Monday, March 10, 2025 - 00:38

I have seen that announcement said as:
System, has new, window.
I think that was a Ventura thing.