How do I manage message notifications?

Choose which channels notify you and how push, email, and desktop alerts work.

Notification preferences work at two levels: a global default for how you want to be notified, and per-channel overrides for the channels that need different treatment.

Steps

1. Open Settings → Notifications to set your defaults for push, email, and desktop alerts.
2. Open a specific channel's notification settings to override the default — for example, muting a busy channel whilst keeping push on everywhere else.
3. Save. Changes apply immediately across your signed-in devices.

What you can control

• Push notifications on mobile and desktop.
• Email digests or alerts for messages you might have missed.
• Per-channel behaviour: all messages, mentions only, or muted.

Tips

• @mentions can be configured to notify you even in a muted channel — check your channel-level settings if you want a true hard mute.
• Notification settings are personal; muting a channel for yourself doesn't change anything for other members.

Related

• How do mute, @here, and @channel work?
• How do I change notification preferences?

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