Notifications and subscriptions
You can choose to receive ongoing updates about specific activity on GitHub through a subscription. Notifications are updates that you receive for specific activity that you are subscribed to.
Subscription options
You can choose to subscribe to notifications for:
- A conversation in a specific issue, pull request, or gist
- All activity in a repository
- CI activity, such as the status of workflows in repositories set up with GitHub Actions
- Repository issues, pull requests, releases, security alerts, or discussions (if enabled)
You can also choose to automatically watch all repositories that you have push access to, except forks. You can watch any other repository you have access to manually by clicking Watch.
If you're no longer interested in a conversation, you can unsubscribe, unwatch, or customize the types of notifications you'll receive in the future. For example, if you no longer want to receive notifications from a particular repository, you can click Unsubscribe. For more information, see Managing your subscriptions.
Default subscriptions
In general, you are automatically subscribed to conversations by default when you have:
- Not disabled automatic watching for repositories or teams you've joined in your notification settings. This setting is enabled by default.
- Been assigned to an issue or pull request.
- Opened a pull request or issue.
- Commented on a thread.
- Subscribed to a thread manually by clicking Watch or Subscribe.
- Had your username @mentioned.
- Changed the state of a thread, such as by closing an issue or merging a pull request.
- Had a team you're a member of @mentioned.
By default, you also automatically watch all repositories that you create and are owned by your personal account.
To unsubscribe from conversations you're automatically subscribed to, you can change your notification settings or directly unsubscribe or unwatch activity on GitHub. For more information, see Managing your subscriptions.
Customizing notifications and subscriptions
You can choose to view your notifications through the notifications inbox at https://github.com/notifications and in the GitHub Mobile app, through your email, or some combination of these options.
To customize the types of updates you'd like to receive and where to send those updates, configure your notification settings. For more information, see Configuring notifications.
To keep your subscriptions manageable, review your subscriptions and watched repositories and unsubscribe as needed. For more information, see Managing subscriptions for activity on GitHub.
To customize how you'd like to receive updates for specific pull requests or issues, you can configure your preferences within the issue or pull request. For more information, see