Notifications appear on the devices you used most recently. If you’re not active in Chat, notifications appear on all devices signed in to your Google Account.
You'll automatically get notifications when you create or respond to a message or if you're @mentioned.
You can turn off automatic notifications, or customize your notifications by:
- Device
- Conversation
- Space
- Thread
You can customize notifications within the product you use, such as Google Chat or Gmail. You can set up email reminders for messages you haven't read in more than 12 hours.
Tip: If you have multiple Google Accounts, you can set different notification settings for each account.
- Go to Google Chat.
- At the top right, click Settings
Settings.
- To turn on notifications for Chat messages, under "Desktop notifications," check the box next to "Allow chat notifications."
Settings.Optional: To play a sound for incoming chat notifications, under “Notification sounds,” select the sound you want to use.
Optional: To turn email notifications for unread messages on or off, under "Email notifications," select Only @mentions & direct messages or Off.
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- At the top right, click Settings
- Click the "Chat and Meet" tab.
- Under "Chat notifications settings," click Manage chat settings.
- Select "Allow chat notifications."
- Under "Notification sounds," select the sound you want to use.
Tip: To turn off chat notifications, select None.
- Go to Google Chat or your Gmail account.
- Select the conversation participants or space name.
- At the top, next to the conversation participants or space name, click the Down arrow
or More options
- Choose an option:
- Notify always: Get push notifications and a notification dot for all new messages.
- Notify less: Get push notifications and a notification dot when you’re @mentioned; a thread you follow gets a new message; or if someone in the conversation uses “@all.”
- For spaces with threads: To receive a notification when someone starts a new thread, check the box next to “Also notify for the first message of new threads.”
- Notifications off: You won’t get any push notifications, but @mentions & @all will continue to get a notification dot.
or More options 
Tip: Even if you turn off notifications, you'll still get a red notification dot for @mentions and direct messages.
- Go to Google Chat or your Gmail account.
- On the left menu, click on the person's name to open the conversation.
- In the window that appears, click More options
Turn off notifications or Turn on notifications.
Turn off notifications or Turn on notifications.When you follow a thread, the number of new messages appears next to the message or space. You automatically follow threads you start, reply to, or are @mentioned in.
Important: This option is only available if you have selected the "Notify less" notification setting.
- Go to Google Chat or your Gmail account.
- Open a space.
- Point to the thread.
- At the top right, click Follow.
Tips:
- To unfollow a thread and stop notifications, next to the thread, click Following.
- Even if you turn off notifications, you still get a red notification dot for @mentions and direct messages.
Where notifications appear
When the Chat mobile app is open, notifications appear there. Notifications don’t appear:
- Online at chat.google.com.
- In the Chat desktop app
- In Chat in Gmail
While the Chat app is open, the message "You're receiving Chat notifications here" appears. Learn more about the Chat standalone app.
Related topics
- Mute notifications and change your availability status in Google Chat
- I’m not getting Google Chat notifications
- Install the Google Chat standalone app
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