VoiceOver reading messages upon startup

By Alicia Krage, 7 November, 2024

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hi community, I'm hoping you can help with this. It's a minor issue but I find it a little bothersome.

When I power up my mac, I notice that it automatically starts reading my most recent message. I don't always want to be informed of messages first thing, so it's annoying that it automatically does this. I even have the "show previews" setting set to never, so I don't know what else to do. I also made it so messages no longer appears in the notification center.
It only does this with messages, to, not emails.

Any other suggestions?

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