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Channel notifications

You can configure desktop, mobile, and email notifications on a channel by channel basis.

Configure notifications for a single channel

These settings will override any default channel notification settings. In muted channels, channel notification settings apply only to unmuted topics.

  • Via channel settings
  • Via personal settings
  • Mobile

  1. Hover over a channel in the left sidebar.

  2. Click on the ellipsis ().

  3. Click Channel settings.

  4. Select the Personal tab on the right.

  5. Under Notification settings, toggle your preferred notifications settings for the channel.

  1. Go to Notifications.

  2. In the Notification triggers table, find the name of the channel you want to configure. If the channel is currently set to the default channel notification settings, you can select it from the Customize another channel dropdown at the bottom of the table.

  3. Toggle your preferred notifications settings for the selected channel.

To reset a channel's notifications to the default settings, hover over its name in the notification triggers table, and click the reset to default notifications () icon.

Access this feature by following the web app instructions in your mobile device browser.

Implementation of this feature in the mobile app is tracked on GitHub. If you're interested in this feature, please react to the issue's description with 👍.

Configure default notifications for all channels

These settings only apply to channels where you have not explicitly set a notification preference.

  • Desktop/Web
  • Mobile

  1. Go to Notifications.

  2. In the Notification triggers table, toggle the settings for Channels.

Access this feature by following the web app instructions in your mobile device browser.

Implementation of this feature in the mobile app is tracked on GitHub. If you're interested in this feature, please react to the issue's description with 👍.

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