Manage YouTube notifications

YouTube notifications let you know when there are new videos and updates from your favorite channels and other content. Nosotros'll send you notifications for channels you lot're subscribed to and may besides send notifications based on your interests. To change your notifications or plow them off completely, use the instructions below.

Notation: Notification settings may differ slightly past device.

Difference between Notifications and Subscriptions Feed

Subscriptions feed, available on both mobile and a computer, will testify all recently uploaded videos from your subscriptions.

Notifications tell you when there are new videos and updates from your subscriptions. We'll send emails, notifications on mobile, or inbox notifications on your calculator. When you subscribe to a channel, you'll automatically get personalized notifications with highlights of activity.

To get all notifications from a subscribed channel, tap the Notification bong . The bong will then modify to a ringing bell to indicate that you've selected all notifications.

Yous won't go notifications if a channel's audience is set equally made for kids. The notification bell will also be gear up to no notifications . You won't be able to modify this setting.

What the notification bells hateful for channel subscriptions

 Personalized notifications (Default)
 No notifications
 All notifications

If you subscribe to a video or aqueduct with an audience that's set as made for kids, your bong setting will automatically exist set to no notifications, and will be grayed out.

How to make sure you're getting YouTube notifications on your phone or tablet

Earlier you start: Make sure you're signed in to the right business relationship. Your YouTube account settings can exist found here:

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. At the superlative of your screen, click your profile pic.
  3. Click Settings.
  4. Click Notifications.

Become updates from specific channels

When you subscribe to a channel, yous'll automatically get notifications with highlights of its activity and all new videos will exist in your Subscriptions feed. You lot can alter your notification settings to let you know every time a channel publishes content or plow them off completely.

Get updates from a aqueduct when you subscribe to it:

  1. Go to the channel page or sentry folio.
  2. If you lot're not subscribed, click Subscribe. When you subscribe to a channel, you'll automatically get personalized notifications.
  3. Click the Notification bellto switch between getting "All notifications" and "Personalized notifications."

If y'all unsubscribe and so re-subscribe to a channel, your notification settings will be reset to personalized or no notifications. If you'd like to become a notification for every upload, brand sure to turn on all notifications.

Check your notifications

You tin can at present bank check and get notifications on your calculator.

  1. In any browser, open YouTube.
  2. At the summit of the page, click the Notification bell  to check notifications.
  3. Select the notification you lot're interested in to view the video or comment.

You can too manage your notifications from your reckoner inbox.

  1. Next to the notification, click More .
  2. ClickHibernate this notification,Turn off all from <channel name>, or Turn offall [type of notification] updates.

Select the type of notifications yous desire

Y'all can control what kind of notifications you lot get from YouTube and how you get them.

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. Go to your notification settings.
  3. Under different sections on the page, select the notifications you want:
    • Subscriptions: Notify y'all about activity from the channels you're subscribed to.
    • Recommended videos: Notify y'all of videos you might similar based on what yous watch.
    • Activity on my channel: Notify you about comments and other activity on your aqueduct or videos.
    • Action on my comments: Notify yous when your comments get likes, pins, or <3s.
    • Replies to my comments: Get updates when someone replies to your comments.
    • Mentions: Notify you lot when others mention your channel.
    • Shared content: Notify yous occasionally when your content is shared on other channels.
  4. Under "E-mail notifications," choose what types of electronic mail notifications you want to get.

Manage Google Chrome notifications

You can cull to get YouTube notifications when using Google Chrome browser. When you plow them on, you lot'll go pop-upward notifications in your browser with updates from channels you subscribe to.

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. Get to your notification settings.
  3. Under "Desktop notifications," click the button side by side to Chrome to turn notifications on or off.

If you don't have the "Desktop notifications" option, your Chrome browser notifications may be blocked. Unblock notifications with the instructions below.

  1. Click the padlock in the search bar of Chrome.
  2. ClickSite Settings.
  3. Get to "Notifications" under the "Permissions" section.
  4. Click the Down arrow, and selectAllow.

Divergence betwixt Notifications and Subscriptions Feed

Subscriptions feed, available on both mobile and a computer, volition show all recently uploaded videos from your subscriptions.

Notifications tell you when there are new videos and updates from your subscriptions. We'll send emails, notifications on mobile, or inbox notifications on your computer. When you subscribe to a channel, yous'll automatically get personalized notifications with highlights of activity.

To go all notifications from a subscribed channel, tap the Notification bell . The bong will and then change to a ringing bong to bespeak that you've selected all notifications.

Y'all won't get notifications if a channel's audience is set as fabricated for kids. The notification bell volition also be set to no notifications . Yous won't be able to change this setting.

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