Stop receiving notifications for unwatched pages (that I created)
Asked by Florian Martin:

Hi,

I'm getting notifications (not emails, I found an option to turn that off) from pages that I created at some point but that I am not watching. How can I stop getting those notifications?


Answers:
author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Florian Martin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4158136) As I understand you are the creator of a page and are receiving notifications for any changes on that page though you are not watching it anymore. I couldn't find enough documentation on how to stop such notifications. This can be easily solved by changing the creator of the page, but currently it is not possible and there is a [feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-7247) raised for it, you can vote and start watching it for updates.

Changing the creator of the page is possible on server/DC instance by performing database changes. You can try - Export pages from cloud -\> import in server -\> perform DB changes -\> export server pages -\> import in cloud to change the creator of the page. Refer [this thread](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-change-the-creator-of-a-page-on-Confluence/qaq-p/715774) for more details.

Alternatively, you can ask new owner to copy the page you created and delete the old one. You can even write a REST API to do this if the number of pages is huge.

Hope this helps.

comments: author: Florian Martin
body: Hi [@Kishan Sharma](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/554991),

unfortunately, we're not using Confluence Server or DC. But thank you for the hint with the feature request!

This would still require someone being willing to receive these notifications, but maybe a deactivated user can also be assigned otherwise.

So as far as I understand the current situation, there is no solution for the cloud case. Thank you for giving these details!


author: Kishan Sharma
body: Glad that helped [@Florian Martin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4158136) ?


author: Angus Gibbins
body: I've got the same problem, I'm getting notifications about pages I authored 2 years ago while in a different team/role. I don't need to know about them getting updated, and even though I've unwatched them, I'm still getting notifications about them.

It's a bit of a pain TBH


author: Jacob Brunson
body: Hi [@Florian Martin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4158136),

Is it possible that you are watching the *space* which contains the pages? That would still give you notifications even if the pages themselves are not watched.

Best,  
Jacob

comments: author: Florian Martin
body: Hi [@Jacob Brunson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3498124),

then it should be listed in *Settings -\> Watches -\> Space Watches*, right? But only my own space is listed there.

Edit:  
Come to think of it, is there something like an administrator setting that overwrites regular users' settings?


author: Alexis Robert
body: Hi [@Florian Martin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4158136) ,

by default Confluence will add a page author as a watcher. It's called Autowatch, you can turn this off in your profile, in the Email settings section : [https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/watch-pages-spaces-and-blogs-139579.html#:\~:text=other%20notification%20options-,By%20default%2C%20Confluence%20will%20assign%20you%20as%20a%20watcher%20of,section%20of%20your%20user%20profile](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/watch-pages-spaces-and-blogs-139579.html#:~:text=other%20notification%20options-,By%20default%2C%20Confluence%20will%20assign%20you%20as%20a%20watcher%20of,section%20of%20your%20user%20profile).

Let me know if this helps,

--Alexis

comments: author: Florian Martin
body: Hi [@Alexis Robert](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1213386)

thank you for the timely response. But unfortunately, this does not solve my problem. I turned off autowatch and I actively unwatched the pages that I created quite a while ago (just checked - it is still not checked and the pages are not watched). Nonetheless, if somebody changes something on these pages, I receive an unwanted notification. As I created a lot of page stubs for other people to edit, this makes it hard/time-consuming to filter out the notifications that are actually relevant.


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