---
title: Notifications and mute
type: how-to
section: spaces
summary: Set what a single conversation notifies you about from its row menu, and set the default for everything in Spaces settings.
applies_to:
  clients: [web]
sources:
  - evolve-front-end/components/team-chat/page-nav/use-room-row-actions.ts
  - evolve-front-end/components/team-chat/notification-preferences/team-chat-global-notification-settings.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/components/team-chat/chrome/team-chat-browser-push-prompt.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/app/i18n/locales/en/team-chat.json
verified:
  at: 2026-09-04
  env: code
  by: content-lane-spaces
ttl_days: 45
related: [spaces/unread-and-mentions, spaces/notifications-are-not-arriving]
aliases: [team-chat/notifications, spaces/mute]
---

1. Open the context menu on the conversation's row in the navigation column.
2. Open **Notifications**.
3. Choose **All messages**, **Mentions**, **Nothing**, or **Use default ({{level}})**.

The row menu also holds **Mute notifications**, with **Mute for 15 minutes**, **Mute for 1 hour**, **Mute for 3 hours**, **Mute for 8 hours**, **Mute for 24 hours**, and **Mute until I unmute**. Once a conversation is muted its menu shows **Muted** and a single **Unmute**.

Threads carry the same pair of settings on their own rows, so a noisy thread can be silenced without silencing its channel.

## The default for everything

1. Choose your name at the bottom of the navigation column to open **Spaces settings**.
2. Under **Notifications**, choose **All messages**, **Mentions**, or **Nothing**.

This is your account-wide default. Any conversation left on **Use default ({{level}})** follows it. The most specific setting wins: a thread's own setting overrides its channel's, and a channel's overrides your account default.

## What mute changes and what it does not

Muting stops the notification and takes the conversation out of the **Unread** view and out of the unread roll-up; the row then reads **Muted; excluded from roll-up**. Two things still get through: a mention of you by name, and a conversation you marked as unread yourself. Setting the level to **Nothing** instead of muting shows **Notifications off** on the row.

## Browser notifications

While a Spaces tab is open in the background, Spaces offers **Stay up to date** with **Enable browser notifications for direct messages and Spaces mentions while this tab is in the background.** Choose **Enable notifications** and allow the browser prompt. **Not now** dismisses it, and it does not come back on its own.

## If it did not work

- **Notification preference could not be updated. Try again.** is a service failure. Choose the level again.
- **We couldn't load notification preferences. Try again.** in **Spaces settings** means the default could not be read. Choose **Retry**.
- **Browser notifications are blocked** with **Allow notifications for this site in your browser settings, then try again.** means the browser refused. Change the site permission, then choose **Try again**.
- Nothing arriving at all is covered by [Notifications are not arriving](/help/spaces/notifications-are-not-arriving).