You can choose how Gmail notifies you when you get new emails. The types of notifications you can customize depends on your device.
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Turn Gmail notifications on or off
You can get email notifications on Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari when you're signed in to Gmail and have it open in your browser.
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- In the top right, click Settings
See all settings.
- Scroll down to the "Desktop notifications" section.
- Select New mail notifications on, Important mail notifications on, or Mail notifications off.
- At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.
See all settings.Important:
- If you use inbox categories and turned on notifications for new mail, you'll only get notifications about messages in your Primary category. Learn about inbox categories.
- If you turn on notifications for important mail, you get notifications for everything marked as important.
I'm not getting any notifications
- You won't get any notifications if you turned off all notifications for your browser.
- If you use Windows 10, you get notifications outside of your internet browser. Turn on your Chrome notifications in the Windows Action Center.
Turn notification sounds on or off
- Open Gmail.
- At the top right, click Settings
- Scroll to “Desktop notifications.”
- Click New mail notifications on or Important mail notifications on.
- Next to "Mail notification sounds," select a sound from the list.
- To turn off email notification sounds, select None.
- Scroll to the bottom