diff --git a/app/main/package.json b/app/main/package.json
index 14416543..83fa3895 100644
--- a/app/main/package.json
+++ b/app/main/package.json
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
     "electron-is-dev": "^2.0.0",
     "electron-updater": "^4.6.5",
     "lodash.debounce": "^4.0.8",
-    "node-notifier": "^8.0.2",
+    "node-notifier": "10.0.1",
     "universal-analytics": "^0.4.23",
     "uuid": "7.0.3",
     "v8-compile-cache": "^2.1.1"
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
     "@jest-runner/electron": "^3.0.0",
     "electron-devtools-installer": "^3.2.0",
     "@types/lodash.debounce": "^4.0.6",
-    "@types/node-notifier": "^6.0.1",
+    "@types/node-notifier": "8.0.2",
     "@types/universal-analytics": "^0.4.4",
     "@types/uuid": "7.0.3",
     "babel-core": "^6.26.3",
diff --git a/app/main/src/main.ts b/app/main/src/main.ts
index 30e2ca92..d3329a29 100644
--- a/app/main/src/main.ts
+++ b/app/main/src/main.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ import {
   FullscreenState,
   setFullscreenBreakHandler,
 } from "./lifecycleEventHandlers/fullScreenBreak";
+import WindowsToaster from "node-notifier/notifiers/toaster";
+import NotificationCenter from "node-notifier/notifiers/notificationcenter";
 
 const onProduction = app.isPackaged;
 
@@ -241,6 +243,32 @@ function createSystemTray() {
   });
 }
 
+type NotificationProps = {
+  title: string;
+  message: string;
+  actions: string[];
+  callback?: (err: Error | null, response: string) => void;
+};
+
+function notify(props: NotificationProps) {
+  // This is because it can take different types depending on the initialised OS.
+  // Just for some reason, whoever sorted the types out of this library only really considered JS rather than TS.
+  const notification: WindowsToaster.Notification &
+    NotificationCenter.Notification = {
+    icon: notificationIcon,
+    title: props.title,
+    message: props.message,
+    actions: props.actions,
+    appID: "com.roldanjr.pomatez",
+    sound: true,
+    wait: true,
+  };
+
+  notifier.notify(notification, (err, response) => {
+    if (props.callback) props.callback(err, response);
+  });
+}
+
 if (!onlySingleInstance) {
   app.quit();
 } else {
@@ -303,40 +331,31 @@ if (!onlySingleInstance) {
 
     const autoUpdater = activateAutoUpdate({
       onUpdateAvailable: (info) => {
-        notifier.notify(
-          {
-            icon: notificationIcon,
-            title: "NEW UPDATE IS AVAILABLE",
-            message: `App version ${info.version} ready to be downloaded.`,
-            actions: ["View Released Notes"],
-            sound: true,
-            wait: true,
-          },
-          (err, response) => {
+        notify({
+          title: "NEW UPDATE IS AVAILABLE",
+          message: `App version ${info.version} ready to be downloaded.`,
+          actions: ["View Released Notes"],
+          callback: (err, response) => {
             if (!err) {
               shell.openExternal(RELEASED_NOTES_LINK);
             }
-          }
-        );
+          },
+        });
       },
       onUpdateDownloaded: (info) => {
-        notifier.notify(
-          {
-            icon: notificationIcon,
-            title: "READY TO BE INSTALLED",
-            message: "Update has been successfully downloaded.",
-            actions: ["Quit and Install", "Install it Later"],
-            sound: true,
-            wait: true,
-          },
-          (err, response) => {
+        notify({
+          title: "READY TO BE INSTALLED",
+          message: "Update has been successfully downloaded.",
+          // Temporarily commented out due to an issue with snoretoast https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/issues/332
+          actions: ["Quit and Install" /*, "Install it Later"*/],
+          callback: (err, response) => {
             if (!err) {
-              if (response === "quit and install") {
-                autoUpdater.quitAndInstall();
-              }
+              //if (response === "quit and install") {
+              autoUpdater.quitAndInstall();
+              //}
             }
-          }
-        );
+          },
+        });
       },
     });
   });
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 97f9105a..999153bc 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -3994,10 +3994,10 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/ms/-/ms-0.7.31.tgz#31b7ca6407128a3d2bbc27fe2d21b345397f6197"
   integrity sha512-iiUgKzV9AuaEkZqkOLDIvlQiL6ltuZd9tGcW3gwpnX8JbuiuhFlEGmmFXEXkN50Cvq7Os88IY2v0dkDqXYWVgA==
 
-"@types/node-notifier@^6.0.1":
-  version "6.0.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/node-notifier/-/node-notifier-6.0.1.tgz#282bb8c37d69be3343c359efc8b9c97fad46a0e9"
-  integrity sha512-PBkKwgjxu2aA24zh5Rng8FlL03R4zopZbTtzeKbWLfF+AMeHBMk3Ls12K/yZchYhe/riuiarPXcRJGUBLGb15w==
+"@types/node-notifier@8.0.2":
+  version "8.0.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/node-notifier/-/node-notifier-8.0.2.tgz#77c5de29c6e8adb915222b01864128cc3e78d553"
+  integrity sha512-5v0PhPv0AManpxT7W25Zipmj/Lxp1WqfkcpZHyqSloB+gGoAHRBuzhrCelFKrPvNF5ki3gAcO4kxaGO2/21u8g==
   dependencies:
     "@types/node" "*"
 
@@ -12760,16 +12760,16 @@ node-machine-id@1.1.12:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/node-machine-id/-/node-machine-id-1.1.12.tgz#37904eee1e59b320bb9c5d6c0a59f3b469cb6267"
   integrity sha512-QNABxbrPa3qEIfrE6GOJ7BYIuignnJw7iQ2YPbc3Nla1HzRJjXzZOiikfF8m7eAMfichLt3M4VgLOetqgDmgGQ==
 
-node-notifier@^8.0.2:
-  version "8.0.2"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/node-notifier/-/node-notifier-8.0.2.tgz#f3167a38ef0d2c8a866a83e318c1ba0efeb702c5"
-  integrity sha512-oJP/9NAdd9+x2Q+rfphB2RJCHjod70RcRLjosiPMMu5gjIfwVnOUGq2nbTjTUbmy0DJ/tFIVT30+Qe3nzl4TJg==
+node-notifier@10.0.1:
+  version "10.0.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/node-notifier/-/node-notifier-10.0.1.tgz#0e82014a15a8456c4cfcdb25858750399ae5f1c7"
+  integrity sha512-YX7TSyDukOZ0g+gmzjB6abKu+hTGvO8+8+gIFDsRCU2t8fLV/P2unmt+LGFaIa4y64aX98Qksa97rgz4vMNeLQ==
   dependencies:
     growly "^1.3.0"
     is-wsl "^2.2.0"
-    semver "^7.3.2"
+    semver "^7.3.5"
     shellwords "^0.1.1"
-    uuid "^8.3.0"
+    uuid "^8.3.2"
     which "^2.0.2"
 
 node-releases@^2.0.13:
@@ -17596,7 +17596,7 @@ uuid@^3.0.0, uuid@^3.3.2:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/uuid/-/uuid-3.4.0.tgz#b23e4358afa8a202fe7a100af1f5f883f02007ee"
   integrity sha512-HjSDRw6gZE5JMggctHBcjVak08+KEVhSIiDzFnT9S9aegmp85S/bReBVTb4QTFaRNptJ9kuYaNhnbNEOkbKb/A==
 
-uuid@^8.3.0, uuid@^8.3.2:
+uuid@^8.3.2:
   version "8.3.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/uuid/-/uuid-8.3.2.tgz#80d5b5ced271bb9af6c445f21a1a04c606cefbe2"
   integrity sha512-+NYs2QeMWy+GWFOEm9xnn6HCDp0l7QBD7ml8zLUmJ+93Q5NF0NocErnwkTkXVFNiX3/fpC6afS8Dhb/gz7R7eg==