Amazon’s email, text, and smartphone app notifications are a nuisance. They keep you up-to-date on what’s going on with your Amazon account, Prime memberships, and other products. But they can also be a nuisance because they’re often too late. To stop Amazon from sending you notifications when something important happens, follow these steps:
- Open the Amazon app and sign in to your account.
- Click the three lines in the top left corner of the main screen (the one that says “Notifications”).
- Click the “Notifications for this account only” button to turn off all notifications for this account.
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.
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”.
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To hide only shipping confirmation emails, just create a filter that tells emails from ship-confirm@amazon.com to skip your inbox. For example, in Gmail, click the down arrow at the right side of the search field. Type ship-confirm@amazon.com 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.
