Toggle Do Not Disturb macro not working in Mojave

[Patrick]

I have a simple macro that toggles Do Not Disturb off, pauses 3 minutes, and then turns Do Not Disturb back on. It doesn’t work in Mojave.

I often like to turn off Do Not Disturb. The problem is, I’ll forget to turn it back on. I created this macro to solve the problem. (F4 is the keystroke set in my System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts to toggle Do Not Disturb. Simply typing F4 still works as expected.)

This has not worked since I upgraded to Mohave. It doesn’t matter whether I trigger it with its keystroke or with the status menu. I have Keyboard Maestro set up in Accessibility and all of the other macros I’ve tested since installing Mohave work.

As a test, I created a new macro with the same first action and no other actions to find out if that would toggle Do Not Disturb. Even that didn't work.

Any ideas?

[peternlewis]

Yes, see:

Resolving Issues Due to macOS Mojave

Continuing the discussion from Ready for Mojave: Wiki Post on Resolving Mojave Issues UPDATED: 2019-09-02 16:53 GMT-5 ** First, see this KM Wiki Article:** Accessibility Permission Problems (Mojave & Catalina) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In addition to the suggestions made by Peter @peternlewis in the above announcement, you might consider the following: You will have to ensure you enable Accessibility for both Keyboard Maestro and Keyboard Maestr…

and specifically:

MacOS Mojave broke simulate keystroke (ctrl + arrow)

Yes, simulated keys that are hot keys of the system or other applications, that use arrows or function keys apparently don't trigger the hot keys in Mojave. I have reported this to Apple (and done all the hard work of providing them with a test application). No idea if they will resolve it, for all I know they think this is a security feature.

This bug has been reported to Apple, together with an application to demonstrate the issue. Who knows if they will fix it. One solution is to change the hot key to toggle DND to something that does not use the function keys and thus can be simulated.

[Patrick]

Thank you! I changed the DND shortcut for a workaround. I hope Apple provides a solution.