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title: "Manage your channel-specific notifications"
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By default, your web and desktop notification preferences apply to all channels you’re a member of. You can customize your per-channel notification preferences for any channel you're a member of for the following actions:

- [Mute channels](#mute-channels)
- [Ignore channel-wide @mentions](#ignore-channel-wide-mentions)
- [Message notification sounds](#message-notification-sounds)
- [Auto-follow all new threads](#follow-all-new-channel-threads)

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You have 2 ways to manage notification preferences per channel:

1.  Select the channel name, then select **Notification Preferences** from the drop-down list.

![Select the channel name dropdown to access channel-specific notification preferences.](/images/channel-notification-settings.gif)

2.  Alternatively, select the channel's **View Info** <img src={useBaseUrl('/img/ui/information-outline_F02FD.svg')} alt="Use the Channel Info icon to access additional channel management options." className="theme-icon" /> icon, and then select **Notification Preferences** in the right pane.

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Tap the channel name, and then tap **Mobile Notifications**.

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## Mute channels

All channels are unmuted by default, including direct and group messages, as well as private and public channels.

You can choose to mute or unmute a channel at any time as follows:

- Select **Mute Conversation** or **Unmute Conversation** for direct and group messages.
- Select **Mute Channel** or **Unmute Channel** for private and public channels.

Once a channel is muted:

- All notifications for that channel are disabled, including email, desktop, incoming call ring tones, and push notifications.
- The muted channel displays a mute icon next to the channel name.
- The channel is greyed out in the channel sidebar, and doesn't appear bold to indicate unread messages unless you’re [@mentioned](/end-user-guide/collaborate/mention-people) in that channel directly.

## Ignore channel-wide @mentions

By default, you're notified every time someone uses channel-wide [@mentions](/end-user-guide/collaborate/mention-people) including [@channel and @all](/end-user-guide/collaborate/mention-people#channel-and-all), as well as [@here](/end-user-guide/collaborate/mention-people#here).

When you choose to ignore channel-wide @mentions in channels, the channel name is bolded in the channel sidebar for new unreads unless it's muted.

## Message notification sounds

From Mattermost v10.1, when you configure Mattermost to notify you about all new messages, or mentions, direct messages, and keywords only, on a per-channel basis, you can also specify an audible message notification sound to play for those notifications.

## Follow all new channel threads

By default, you don’t automatically follow new conversation threads in any channel unless you start a thread or reply to a thread, follow a thread, or are @mentioned in a thread.

When using Mattermost on your mobile device, you can configure Mattermost to automatically follow every thread in a channel.

1.  In a channel, tap the **More** icon <img src={useBaseUrl('/img/ui/dots-horizontal_F01D8.svg')} alt="Use the More icon to access additional message options." className="theme-icon" /> to the right of the channel name.
2.  Tap **View info**.
3.  Tap **Follow all threads**.

Tap **Threads** in the channel list to access all threads you're following, and to unfollow threads you no longer want to follow.