How to Stop Amazon’s Email, Text, or Smartphone App Notifications Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman March 15, 2017, 4:04pm EDT Amazon can notify you about purchases, shipments, and delivery delays by email, text message, or push notifications from the Amazon app. Use Notifications on your Mac Notifications are a great way for your apps to keep you informed and appear in the upper-right corner of your screen. Learn how to customize alerts and use features like Notification Center and Do Not Disturb.
One of the Apple Watch's most important features is the ability to keep you connected to your notifications without needing to have your iPhone in your hand or even in your pocket all of the time. I often miss important text messages because my iPhone is too far away from me to hear my alerts. But with Apple Watch, all of your notifications are at your fingertips, as if someone is next to you, tapping you on the wrist whenever you get an alert. We've got a tutorial for you today that will explain how to set up and manage notifications so that you get the alerts you want and aren't distracted by the ones you don't want.
Set Up Notifications
Notifications on Apple Watch are actually mirrored from your iPhone by default, so any app you have notifications enabled for on your iPhone will also appear on your Apple Watch. To make sure you don't miss any notifications, you can turn on a Notification Indicator that will display a red dot on your watch face if you have unread notifications.
- Enable compatible apps on your iPhone via Notification Center that you want to receive alerts for. It is likely these apps are already enabled on your iPhone, but it is a good idea to check on them.
- Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
- Tap the My Watch tab.
- Select Notifications from the menu list.
- Toggle Notification Indicator to the On position.
- You can also set your notifications to private so that it requires you to tap the screen in order to see it.
Customize Notifications
Some Apple apps, like Calendar, Mail, and Messages are customizable with a few additional features. Be sure that the notification you wish to customize is already enabled on your iPhone first.
- Open the Apple Watch App on your iPhone
- Tap Notifications
- Select the app you wish to customize
- Change 'Mirror my iPhone' to 'Custom' to see your options, like sound, haptics, and repeat options.
View and Respond to Live Notifications
Viewing a notification is as simple as raising your arm. To respond to it, scroll to the bottom of the notification and tap the button to perform the action.
You can also dismiss a notification by swiping down on it or scrolling to the bottom of it and tapping Dismiss.
View and Respond to Unread Notifications
When you receive a notification on Apple Watch that you do not view right away, as long as you have the Notification Indicator turned on you will see a red dot at the top of your watch face, so you can access the notifications at any time.
- Navigate to the watch face, and then swipe down from the top of the screen.
- Rotate the Digital Crown or swipe up and down to scroll through unread notifications.
- Tap a notification to respond to it.
- Clear a notification by swiping to the left on it and then pressing clear. Use a hard 'Force Press' on a notification to bring up an option to clear all notifications.
Silence Notifications
If you are in a meeting, going to the movies, or would like to otherwise be undisturbed for a short period of time, you can do so two ways.
Silent Mode
- Navigate to the watch face, and then swipe up.
- Swipe to the Settings glance.
- Tap Silent Mode
- You will still feel a tap when a notification arrives.
Do Not Disturb
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- Navigate to the watch face, and then swipe up.
- Swipe to the Settings glance.
- Tap Do Not Disturb.
- Both sound and vibrations will be turned off.
By managing and customizing your Apple Watch notifications, you will be able to ensure that you stay connected to the things you want while avoiding distractions from unnecessary alerts. Plus, for those times when you just need to disconnect, you can silence your notifications temporarily.
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Amazon can notify you about purchases, shipments, and delivery delays by email, text message, or push notifications from the Amazon app. It’s even possible to enable all three types of notifications, and you’ll be bombarded with duplicate notifications whenever you order something.
But while these can be useful, you probably don’t want all three of them at once. Maybe you’ve decided you don’t want notifications at all—the package will get there when it gets there. In that case, here’s how to disable each of those notifications.
How to Disable Amazon’s Marketing Emails
It’s not possible to disable all emails from Amazon. You’ll always get an email when you place an order on Amazon, and when Amazon ships the package to you.
If you’d like to disable other types of email notifications, you can sign into the Amazon website and head to this page—which you can find from Account & Lists > Message Center > E-mail Preferences & Notification.
Disable any promotional emails you don’t want to receive under “Promotional Emails”. To no longer receive any promotional marketing emails, check the “Do not send me any marketing email for now” box and click “Update”.
How to Stop Amazon’s Delivery Text Messages
Amazon can send SMS messages to your mobile phone number with updates on your orders and deliveries. If you’d like to avoid these because you’re already receiving emails anyway, you can disable them.
To unsubscribe from your phone, reply to one of Amazon’s notifications with “STOP” or text “STOP” to 262966.
If you want to do it from your PC, sign into Amazon’s web site and head to this page. Alternatively, you can click the “Account & Lists” option, then scroll down to the Settings section and click “Manage ‘Shipment Updates via Text'” link under Account Settings. From there, click the “Unsubscribe” button to stop receiving SMS messages about shipments.
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How to Silence Amazon’s Push Notifications on Your Phone or Tablet
If you use the Amazon app on your iPhone or Android phone, you probably also get push notifications whenever something is shipped or delivered. To stop these, open the Amazon app on your phone, open the menu, and tap “Settings”. Tap the “Notifications” option in the list.
Disable the types of notifications you don’t want to receive. For example, if you disable “Shipment Notifications”, you won’t get a notification when Amazon ships you a package. If you disable all the options here, you won’t get any notifications.
How to Filter Amazon Email Notifications
Amazon always sends you order confirmation and shipping confirmation emails. These are useful. After all, if someone accessed your account and fraudulently ordered items with your payment methods, you’d want to know that there was a problem.
But you may want to prevent these emails from arriving. If you’re already seeing a notification in the Amazon app each time Amazon mails you a package, you may not want to see the same information in your inbox.
Email services offer filters that can prevent emails from reaching your inbox. Amazon.com sends order confirmation emails from
[email protected]
when you order an item and shipping confirmation emails from [email protected]
when it ships an item to you. With this information, it’s easy to create a filter (through your email service, like Gmail or Outlook), that sorts the messages for you.To hide only shipping confirmation emails, just create a filter that tells emails from
[email protected]
to skip your inbox. For example, in Gmail, click the down arrow at the right side of the search field. Type [email protected]
into the “From” box and click “Create filter with this search”.Select “Skip the inbox (Archive it)” and click “Create filter”. Gmail will automatically archive shipping confirmation emails when you receive them, so you won’t see them in your inbox.
Other email services allow you create automatic filters or rules that work in a similar way. Check the settings or Google your respective email client for more information on how.
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