Waiting for an important email you don’t want to miss? Set up notifications in Gmail so you’ll know as soon as it arrives.
Set up notifications
On Android devices
Note: If you use multiple accounts in the Gmail app, you need to change this setting for each account.
- Open the Gmail app.
- At the top, tap Menu Settings.
- Select your account and scroll to Notifications.
- Tap Inbox notificationsand select your notification settings.
- (Optional) To change notification settings for certain labels in your inbox:
- Tap Manage labelstap a label, such as Important.
- Tap Sync messages Last 30 daysor All. If you don't synchronize messages, you can't turn on notifications for that label.
- Choose the notification settings for that label.
- Repeat steps for any other labels you want to get notifications for.
Note: Your Android device has other notification settings that are separate from the Gmail app.
On Apple iOS devices
Note: If you use multiple accounts in the Gmail app, you need to change this setting for each account.
- Open the Gmail app.
- At the top, tap Menu Settings.
- Tap your account.
- In the Notificationssection, tap All new emails.
- When you see a notification on your device, swipe it to the left to Reply or Archive.
On the web
- Open Gmail .
- At the top right, click Settings See all settings.
- Scroll down to Desktop notificationsand select New mail notifications onor Important mail notifications on(if you use Priority Inbox).
- Click Save Changes.
Note: Notifications appear on Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari when you're signed in to Gmail and have it open.
Turn notification sounds on or off
On Android devices
- Open the Gmail app
.
- At the top left, tap Menu
Settings
.
- Select your account.
- Under “Notifications,'' tap Notification sounds.
- Under “Email” or "Chat and spaces," tap Notification sound Sound.
- Choose the notification sound you want or tap Noneto turn off sound.
- To turn off notification sounds, tap None.
On Apple iOS devices
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app
.
- At the top left, tap Menu
Settings.
- To change your notification, under "Notifications:"
- Email: Tap Email notifications Notification sounds.
- Chat and Spaces:Tap Chat notifications Notification sounds.
- When sounds are on, the name of the sound displays.
- Choose the notification sound you want to use.
- Tap Noneto turn off sound.
On the web
- Open Gmail .
- At the top right, click Settings
See all settings.
- Scroll to “Desktop notifications.”
- Click New mail notifications onor Important mail notifications on.
- Next to "Mail notification sounds, "select a sound from the list.
- To turn off email notification sounds, select None.
- At the bottom of the pageclick Save changes.
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