YouTube suddenly not sending you any email notifications?
You may have received email notifications from channels you have previously subscribed to.
If email notifications are enabled, you’ll receive emails about new uploads, live streams, premieres, etc.
But lately, these notifications have disappeared from everyone’s inbox.
As a result, you may be wondering why you stopped receiving email notifications.
In this article, you’ll learn why your YouTube email notifications aren’t working and how to fix it.
Table of contents
- Why aren’t my YouTube email notifications working?
- Why does YouTube remove email notifications?
- How to fix YouTube email notifications
- Conclusion
Why aren’t my YouTube email notifications working?
Your YouTube email notifications are not working because YouTube removed it.
As of August 13, 2020, you will no longer receive email notifications from channels you’ve subscribed to.
YouTube removed email notifications for new uploads, live streams, and premieres as of August 13, 2020.
This means that you will no longer receive notifications from channels you have subscribed to.
However, you can still receive notifications from the YouTube app or your browser if you have them enabled.
So, if you want to check notifications from channels you’ve subscribed to, you have to do it outside of your email.
Disabling YouTube subscription email notifications affects all email service providers, not just Gmail.
This affects all email service providers, not just Gmail.
Whether it’s Hotmail, Gmail, or Yahoo mail, you won’t be able to receive email notifications from YouTube anymore.
Why does YouTube remove email notifications?
YouTube removed email notifications because almost no one opened them, it cluttered users’ inboxes and increased engagement with mobile push notifications.
Only 0.1% of users open their YouTube email notifications.
Some users also complain that these notifications clutter their inbox.
Removing email notifications increased engagement on mobile push notifications and subscription feeds.
According to YouTube, only 0.1% of these email notifications are opened.
This is an extremely low open rate.
That said, removing email notifications will only affect 0.1% of YouTube’s 2 billion user base.
Second, email notifications clutter your inbox.
YouTube has received complaints from users that subscriber notifications are cluttering their inboxes.
By getting rid of these notifications, it frees up a lot of inbox space.
Finally, YouTube conducted a test and the results showed that the engagement rate of mobile push notifications and subscription feeds increased after removing email notifications.
Also, it doesn’t affect the viewing time.
In the end, YouTube justified the removal of email notifications based on these reasons.
How to fix YouTube email notifications
There are three ways to fix YouTube email notifications.
Use the workaround URL, enable desktop notifications, or enable mobile notifications.
You can use the workaround URL, enable desktop notifications, or enable mobile notifications.
Using an alternative URL will allow you to view your subscription activities.
By enabling desktop notifications, you will be able to receive subscription notifications on your browser.
Finally, turning on mobile notifications will send push notifications from channels you’ve subscribed to on YouTube.
Here are instructions on how you can use each of these.
1. Workaround URL
The first way you can view the subscription message is by using the workaround URL.
There is a resolution URL that you can use to view subscription notifications.
One way to see your subscription notifications is to visit your subscriptions feed.
Here is the link to the URL: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions?flow=1.
It’s not the best solution out there, but it works as intended.
The link will take you to the subscriptions feed where you can see the video list of the channels you are subscribed to.
It will display it as a grid or as a list (if you are using the YouTube app).
Your subscriptions feed lets you see all the latest videos in one place.
This is the same as you did when viewing it in your email notifications (e.g. Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail).
2. Turn on desktop notifications
Second, you can enable notifications on your desktop.
This will allow YouTube to send you notifications in your browser (e.g. Chrome).
Here’s how you can enable desktop notifications:
- Go to YouTube.
- Tap your profile icon and go to Settings.
- Navigate to Notifications (from the left sidebar).
- Turn on the switch for “Desktop notifications”.
By enabling desktop notifications, you’ll get notifications on your desktop even when you’re not on YouTube.
When you turn on desktop notifications, you’ll get notifications even when you’re not on YouTube.
The notifications you will receive are based on your preferences.
You can change the type of notifications you want to receive at any time.
To change the type of notifications you want to receive, scroll down the notification settings page.
Under “Your preferences” you can change the type of notifications you want to receive (e.g. subscriptions, recommended videos).
Notifications on your preferences are turned on by default, so you’ll have to turn off those you don’t want to receive.
For example, if you don’t want to receive notifications for suggested videos, you’ll need to disable this feature manually.
3. Turn on mobile notifications
The last way is to enable YouTube notifications on your mobile device.
If you regularly use the YouTube app, you can enable notifications in your device settings.
Since YouTube no longer sends email notifications, enabling mobile notifications is a great alternative.
Here’s how you can enable mobile notifications for YouTube on iPhone.
- Go to your device settings.
- Scroll down and find the YouTube app.
- Tap on “Notifications”.
- Tap on “Allow Notifications”.
Here’s how you can enable mobile notifications for YouTube on your Android device.
- Go to your device settings.
- Open “Apps”.
- Scroll down and find the YouTube app.
- Tap on “Notifications”.
- Tap on “Allow Notifications”.
By enabling notifications on your device, YouTube will send push notifications based on your preferences.
You can change your preferences by going to your notification settings.
By default, notifications about your preferences are turned on.
Notifications about your preferences are enabled by default.
So you’ll have to manually turn off the notification(s) you don’t want to receive.
Conclusion
As of August 13, 2020, YouTube has removed email notifications.
This caused outrage in the YouTube community as many users complained that they wanted the video back.
Despite the complaints, it’s highly unlikely that YouTube will revert the email notifications.
For now, it’s best to enable desktop or mobile notifications to be alerted to subscription activity.
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