# Turn off Confluence approval emails

To stop Confluence approval emails for yourself, open **Notifications** under **Manage** in the Approval sidebar and switch off **Send me email notifications**. It changes nothing for anybody else. A site administrator can turn approval emails off for everyone with the **Email notifications** switch on the **Notifications** tab in **Global settings**.

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## Before you start

| **You need**                    | **Why**                                         |
| ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| Anyone                          | To change your own emails.                      |
| A Confluence site administrator | To turn approval emails off for the whole site. |

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## Turn them off for yourself

1. In the Approval sidebar, open **Notifications** under **Manage**. You can also use the **Notifications** section of your Capable settings.
2. Switch off **Send me email notifications** (or **Email** in your Capable settings).

The same page has **Send me Slack notifications** and **Send me Microsoft Teams notifications**, so you can move your notifications to chat instead of turning them off altogether.

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## Turn them off for everyone

1. Open **Global settings**. Site administrators find it under **Manage** in the Approval sidebar, or in Confluence administration.
2. On the **Notifications** tab, switch off **Email notifications** on the **Email** card.

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## What happens next

* Your choice applies to this Confluence site only.
* A site-wide switch beats a personal one. If an administrator turns email off, nobody gets it, whatever their own setting says.
* Requests still appear on your Approval dashboard and under the page title, so nothing is lost. See [See which Confluence pages are waiting for my approval](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/see-which-confluence-pages-are-waiting-for-my-approval.html).

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## Related

### [Notifications](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/notifications.html)

Every notification, who gets it, and how to change it.

### [Set up Slack notifications for Confluence approvals](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/set-up-slack-notifications-for-confluence-approvals.html)

Get requests in Slack instead.

### [Set up Microsoft Teams notifications for Confluence approvals](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/set-up-microsoft-teams-notifications-for-confluence-approvals.html)

Get requests in Teams instead.

### [Setting up approval notifications](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/setting-up-approval-notifications.html)

All notification how-to guides.

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_Fewer emails, and nothing missed._