How to Stop Email Notifications from Facebook

How to Stop Getting Emails from Facebook

Facebook sends a lot of email notifications. Comments, tags, friend requests, security alerts, event reminders. If your inbox is full of them, you can turn them off in a few minutes.

Here's how to stop Facebook email notifications on every platform.

How to Turn Off Facebook Email Notifications on Mobile

1. Open the Facebook app.
2. Tap the Menu icon (three horizontal lines).
3. Scroll down and tap Settings & Privacy, then Settings.
4. Scroll to Notification Settings and tap Email.
5. Select Only notifications about your account, security, and privacy.

This stops all promotional and social email notifications. You'll still get important security alerts like login attempts and password changes.

How to Turn Off Facebook Email Notifications on Desktop

1. Log into Facebook in your browser.
2. Click the down arrow (or your profile icon) in the top right corner.
3. Select Settings & Privacy, then Settings.
4. Click Notifications in the left sidebar.
5. Click Email.
6. Choose Only notifications about your account, security, and privacy.

This works the same as the mobile method, just from your computer.

How to Stop Facebook Emails Using the Unsubscribe Link

If you don't want to dig through Facebook's settings, you can unsubscribe directly from any notification email.

1. Open any email from Facebook.
2. Scroll to the very bottom.
3. Click Unsubscribe.
4. Follow the prompts to confirm.

This removes you from that specific email type. You may need to repeat it for different notification categories.

How to Stop Receiving Emails from Facebook in Gmail

If Facebook emails keep showing up after you've changed your settings, you can block or filter them in Gmail.

Block Facebook emails:

1. Open a Facebook email in Gmail.
2. Click the three-dot menu in the top right.
3. Select Block.

Set up a filter to auto-delete:

1. In Gmail, go to Settings > Filters and Blocked Addresses.
2. Click Create a new filter.
3. In the "From" field, type facebookmail.com.
4. Click Create filter.
5. Check Delete it or Skip the inbox.

This catches all Facebook emails automatically, even if new notification types get added later.

In Outlook:

1. Open a Facebook email.
2. Click Junk.
3. Select Block Sender.

How to Stop Facebook Emails in Bulk

If Facebook is one of many senders flooding your inbox, cleaning them up one at a time takes a while.

InboxPurge is a Chrome extension that lets you unsubscribe from unwanted senders and delete old emails in bulk.

1. Install InboxPurge from the Chrome Web Store.
2. Open Gmail and connect InboxPurge.
3. Find Facebook in your sender list.
4. Unsubscribe and delete all old Facebook emails in a few clicks.

It's useful when you want to clean your whole inbox, not just stop one sender.

Can You Stop All Facebook Emails Completely?

Yes. Setting your email preference to "Only notifications about your account, security, and privacy" stops almost everything. Blocking facebookmail.com in Gmail or Outlook catches the rest.

The only emails you can't avoid are critical security notifications like login alerts. But those are rare and worth keeping.

FAQs About Stopping Facebook Email Notifications

Will turning off email notifications affect my Facebook account?

No. Your account, posts, messages, and in-app notifications all stay the same. You just stop getting emails about them.

Can I stop some Facebook emails but keep others?

Yes. In Facebook's notification settings under Email, you can choose between all notifications, only recommended notifications, or only account and security notifications. You can also unsubscribe from specific email types using the link at the bottom of individual emails.

What if I still get Facebook emails after changing settings?

Give it a day for changes to take effect. If emails continue, block facebookmail.com in Gmail or Outlook using the filtering steps above. This is the most reliable method.