# Why is Safari sending me a notification for every response to this thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-safari-sending-me-a-notification-for-every-response-to-this-thread/991518 "2023-10-13T17:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-safari-sending-me-a-notification-for-every-response-to-this-thread/991518/1 "2023-10-13T17:06:02Z")
Is there something about the way the below thread was set up or changed when it got renamed that is making this happen? Hamas attacks Israel, October 2023. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-safari-sending-me-a-notification-for-every-response-to-this-thread/991518/2 "2023-10-13T17:14:45Z")
Check the notifications options at the bottom of the thread. It gives four different options. Sounds like you may have accidentally bumped it up to the highest notification option. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-safari-sending-me-a-notification-for-every-response-to-this-thread/991518/3 "2023-10-13T17:25:48Z")
Thank you. I’ll give that a try. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-safari-sending-me-a-notification-for-every-response-to-this-thread/991518/4 "2023-10-13T20:59:17Z")
In my case this happens whenever I create a thread because it defaults to “Watching”. I need to change it to “Tracking” for it to behave normally. Since you are the OP in that thread, renaming it might have reset it as if it was a new thread you had just created. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-safari-sending-me-a-notification-for-every-response-to-this-thread/991518/5 "2023-10-18T14:19:56Z")
I agree. When I create a thread, I get an alert on my avatar in the upper-right corner of the message board. If I don’t go to the thread, then after an interval I receive an email. This is Watching mode. If I no longer have anything relevant to say in my own thread, I’ll switch to Tracking. In that mode, I can see when there are new posts in the thread, but I don’t receive a notification. In Normal mode, you are only notified if someone responds to you, quotes you, or tags you. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-safari-sending-me-a-notification-for-every-response-to-this-thread/991518/6 "2023-10-18T22:20:19Z")
If you go to your Preferences page, there’s a tab for Email which lets you set your email preferences independent of a thread’s status.