How to view, delete or manage SharePoint Alerts
Whenever you make changes to your site content, SharePoint sends an email or text message as an alert to your Outlook account. If you want to change this default setting, try disabling SharePoint alerts. This tutorial describes how a user can view, manage or delete SharePoint alerts.
If you’re using the Office 365 SharePoint subscription, alerts are enabled by default, but if you have permission to manage a site in SharePoint, you can view, manage, or delete SharePoint alerts. Here’s how!
Manage SharePoint alerts
Although SharePoint alerts appear, they also offer a lot of valuable information that can be used to resolve a problem. In this article we will look at the following aspects:
- View and cancel SharePoint alerts in SharePoint
- Cancel alerts in SharePoint Online.
1]View and cancel SharePoint alerts in SharePoint
In the list or library where you have defined the alerts, select the List or library tab.
Choose ‘Alert me“
Then select “Manage my alerts“
When directed to “My alerts‘ on the site,
Find the alerts to delete.
Then check the box corresponding to the alert you want to delete.
Finally, click on ‘Delete selected alerts»And when prompted to confirm, choose OK.
2]Cancel alerts in SharePoint Online
To display your alerts from a page of the site, in the list of options to access the list or the library, select the “ellipsis” menu (visible as 3 dots).
then, from the list of options displayed, select “Manage my alerts “.
Select the alert you wish to delete by selecting “Delete selected alerts “ option.
Hit ‘OKAY’ button.
Thereafter, you will not receive an email in Outlook, even if you want to keep track of changes in your document libraries.
Read more: How to enable / disable synchronization for the SharePoint document library.