turn off automatic watch functionality for new cards
Asked by Paula Kwaschik:

Recently whenever I create a new card it automatically activates the watch function that I then have to manually deselect every time.

This is really annoying. How can I change it? Didn't find anything under Settings.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Andy Heinzer
body: Hi Paula,

Sorry for the inconvenience here. We have received a lot of feedback about this autowatching feature that was recently enabled in Trello. As a result we are planning to disable the auto-watch feature on creation of new cards for now. However there is still an auto-watch enabled for any user that changes a due date on a card, that one will remain in effect for the time being.

I would expect this change to take affect sometime between now and by end of day tomorrow (Thursday) for all Trello sites.

I hope this helps.

Andy

comments: author: Paula Kwaschik
body: Hey there, it's still the same on my end..


author: Jodi LeBlanc
body: That's strange, other users are reporting it as fixed. Are you using the app or browser? Did you log out and back in?

Thanks for your patience,

Jodi


author: Paula Kwaschik
body: Fixed now! Logging back in and out worked, should've tried that before, sorry.

Thank you so much for the great support!


author: Jodi LeBlanc
body: That's wonderful to hear [@Paula Kwaschik](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2456730) - glad it is now working for you now!

Have a fantastic rest of your day,

Jodi


author: Jodi LeBlanc
body: Hi [@Paula Kwaschik](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2456730), the Trello team made a temporary change as part of an experiment that includes the behavior you're seeing. There isn't currently a way to disable that, but I've passed your comments about the change along to the team. Sorry for the frustration in the meantime! Let us know if there's anything else I can do to help.

Have a great rest of your day.

Jodi

comments: author: Paula Kwaschik
body: Thanks for your quick reply! I would be really grateful if there's some kind of solution for those of us who don't love this new behaviour, like a possibility to disable it under settings.

Other than that I'm a great Trello fan and use it for my private life as well as work!


author: Jodi LeBlanc
body: Thanks [@Paula Kwaschik](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2456730) - I hope to hear back from the Trello team tomorrow. I will post an update on this thread when I know more. Thanks so much for your patience.  
Jodi


author: Jodi LeBlanc
body: \|Great news [@Paula Kwaschik](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2456730) - see Andrew's note below :)


author: Jodi LeBlanc
body: Hi Paula, there is confirmation that this issue has now been fixed for Trello users, I am marking the question as resolved.

Have a great evening,  
Jodi


author: Martin Kayes
body: Auto Watch is back - now it also turns on automatically when you add a comment to a card.

I've had Trello support confirm that this is supposed to happen, but they pointed out that there is a 'Watch' tick box underneath the comment box that you have to untick.

On my tests today I unticked it and the box appears to remain unticked on any additional changes to cards on the board. I hope it permanently stays unticked. Fingers crossed.


author: Joanie Boissonneault
body: Hi,   

I have this problem now and logging out and in didn't change it.

It's really annoying. I use trello for work and make about 30 cards a day.


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