How Do You Turn Off Notifications For Facebook Groups

The quick answer: open the group, tap the three dots next to Notified or Invite, then choose Notification Settings and switch to Off, Highlights Only, or Friends' Posts. You can do this for one group in under 30 seconds, or turn off group notifications everywhere in one go from your main Facebook settings.

Why this matters more than it sounds

I run and moderate several Facebook groups for my own audience, and I also sit inside dozens of other people's groups for research. The single biggest reason people leave a group they like isn't the content, it's that the notifications get overwhelming and they mute the whole platform out of self defence instead of just the group. That's a real shame because most groups just need a tweak, not a blanket ban. A group with 500 members posting a few times a day can easily send you 20 to 40 notifications if you don't manage this, and most people don't know there are four different levels between "everything" and "nothing."

Turn off notifications for one specific group (mobile app)

1. Open the Facebook app and go to the group.
2. Tap the three dots (•••) underneath the cover photo, usually next to the Invite button.
3. Tap Notification Settings.
4. Choose from: All Posts, Highlights, Friends' Posts, or Off.

Choosing "Off" stops all notifications from that group completely, but you'll still see its posts in your feed if you scroll to it. Choosing "Highlights" is the middle ground I recommend to most people, Facebook's algorithm picks the posts it thinks are most relevant (popular discussions, posts from admins) and only notifies you for those.

I've gone deeper on this in Why Is Facebook Marketplace Not Working For Me.

Turn off notifications for one specific group (desktop)

1. Go to the group page on facebook.com.
2. Click the three dots below the group's cover photo.
3. Select Notification Settings from the dropdown.
4. Pick your preferred level, then click Save.

The desktop menu wording is identical to mobile, so if you manage your groups from a laptop during work hours this takes the same 20 to 30 seconds.

Turn off notifications for every group at once

If you're in a lot of groups and want a clean slate rather than muting them one by one, go to Settings & Privacy, then Settings, then Notifications, then find the Groups section. From there you can set a default for all groups you join going forward, plus adjust push, email and SMS notifications for groups separately. This is the setting most people don't know exists, and it's the one that saves you real time if you're a member of 15+ groups like a lot of small business owners and parents end up being.

A real example from my own inbox

I had a client last year who was a member of 34 different Facebook groups for her business networking, and she'd stopped opening Facebook on her phone entirely because of the notification volume, which meant she was missing genuine client leads inside those groups. We went through and set her top 6 groups to "All Posts," her next 10 to "Highlights," and muted the rest to "Off." Her notification count dropped from roughly 60 a day to under 12, and she started engaging with it again within a week because it stopped feeling like a chore.

Mute notifications temporarily instead of turning them off

If you just want quiet for a set period, for example during a work sprint or a holiday, you don't need to change the notification setting at all. Go to the group, tap the three dots, and look for "Mute Group" or similar wording depending on your app version, which pauses notifications for 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days without you having to remember to turn them back on later. This is the option I use most for groups I care about but don't need real-time.

What "Off" doesn't do

Turning notifications off for a group doesn't remove you from the group, doesn't hide the group from your groups list, and doesn't stop the group's posts appearing in your main News Feed if Facebook's algorithm decides to show them. If you want to stop seeing a group's content entirely, that's a separate step: go to a post from that group in your feed, tap the three dots on the post itself, and choose "Unfollow Group" rather than adjusting notification settings.

A note on Messenger notifications from group chats

People often confuse Facebook Group notifications with Facebook Group Chat notifications inside Messenger, they're controlled separately. For a group chat, open the chat in Messenger, tap the group name at the top, then Notifications, and choose Off or a mute duration from there. If you've followed the steps above and you're still getting pinged, check whether it's a Messenger group chat attached to the Facebook Group rather than the group's main feed.

Turning off email notifications from a group

Even with push notifications fully switched off, plenty of people are still getting pinged because Facebook is emailing them separately. This lives in a completely different menu and it's the one step most guides skip. Go to Settings & Privacy, then Settings, then Notifications, then Email, and you'll see a section for Groups. Untick anything you don't want landing in your inbox, or set it to "Only notifications about your account, security and privacy" to stop group email entirely while keeping account alerts. I've seen people spend months muting groups in-app while still getting 15 emails a day, purely because this second setting never got touched.

Why the "Highlights" setting is worth trusting

A lot of people distrust algorithmic filtering and default straight to "Off" for every group, then wonder why they missed something important, like an event date change or a time-sensitive offer inside a group they paid to join. In my experience running groups, Highlights does a decent job, it weights posts by comment count, reactions and whether an admin posted, so the announcements tend to surface even when day to day chatter doesn't. My advice for any group where you'd be upset to miss a genuine update, a paid membership group, a school group, a landlord's group, is Highlights rather than Off. Save "Off" for groups you joined once and never really engage with.

If the notification settings menu isn't showing at all

Occasionally the three dot menu on a group won't show Notification Settings as an option, usually because you're viewing the group from a shared link before you've fully joined, or because the group has restricted notification controls for non-members. Join the group first (or make sure your join request has been approved), refresh the page or restart the app, and the option should reappear. If it still doesn't, check you're on the latest version of the Facebook app, since older versions sometimes hide this menu under a different label like "Get Notifications."

One thing worth flagging about Marketplace and event notifications inside groups

If a group hosts Marketplace listings or events, those can trigger their own separate notifications even when you've set the main group notification level to Off. Event reminders in particular come from a different system tied to the event itself rather than the group, so if you're still getting a ping about an upcoming meetup after muting a group, go into that specific event and tap "Going," "Interested" or "Not Interested" accordingly, or find the three dots on the event and turn off its reminders directly.

I have written more around this on the site: How Do You Turn Off Notifications for Facebook Groups (Without Leaving Them), How Many Facebook Groups Exist in 2026 (And Why the Number Is Mostly Useless), Why Is Facebook Group Engagement Dropping Lately (And What Admins Won’t Say Out Loud).

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For the next step, read the Facebook group privacy guide.

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Frequently asked questions

Why am I still getting Facebook group notifications after turning them off?

Usually because there's a separate Messenger group chat linked to that group with its own notification setting, or because you also have email notifications switched on for groups in your main Facebook settings, which is a separate toggle from in-app push notifications.

Does muting a Facebook group notify the admin or other members?

No. Muting or turning off notifications, and unfollowing a group's posts, are completely private actions. Nobody in the group, including admins, can see that you've done this.

Can I set different notification levels for different groups?

Yes. Each group has its own independent setting (Off, Highlights, Friends' Posts, or All Posts), so you can keep full notifications on for a small group you're active in while muting a large group you only check occasionally.

What's the difference between muting a group and leaving it?

Muting stops notifications but keeps your membership, your post history, and your access to the group's content intact. Leaving removes you entirely and you'd need to request to rejoin (or be re-added) to get back in, including losing access to any group-only content.