# Why am I not getting YouTube notifications from channels I subscribe to? — Adinand Channel Sorter Last reviewed: October 20, 2026. HTML version: https://channelsorter.com/answers/youtube-notifications-not-working/ **Usually because the channel's bell is on Personalized, not All, and YouTube says plainly that Personalized sends only some uploads.** Subscribing turns on personalized notifications by itself, and that setting brings alerts “for some regular uploads, Shorts, and live streams” (*YouTube Help: Manage YouTube notifications (Android)*, read 20 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3382248?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid). Even on All, the same page warns that “not every new upload will result in a notification.” Work down the checks below in order. The first three are your own settings, and YouTube's help for creators says “Viewer notification settings cause almost all notification issues” (*YouTube Help: Fix subscriber notification problems*, read 20 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7389684?hl=en). ## 1. The channel's bell Open the channel page or one of its videos, tap the **Notification bell** next to **Subscribed**, and pick **All** (same Android page). What the other two mean: - **Personalized:** YouTube decides per person. “The definition of "personalized" differs by user,” and the signals include your watch history, how often you watch the channel and how often you open notifications. - **None:** no alerts at all from that channel. On a computer, the bell switches between “All notifications” and “Personalized notifications” (*YouTube Help: Manage YouTube notifications (computer)*, read 20 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3382248?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop). **If you unsubscribed and came back,** set the bell again: according to the computer page, a re-subscribe puts it back “to personalized or no notifications”. ## 2. Your phone or browser is blocking YouTube Device settings sit above anything you choose inside YouTube. YouTube's creator help says it directly: “a subscriber's device setting can override YouTube and prevent notifications from reaching subscribers” (*YouTube Help: Fix subscriber notification problems*, read 20 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7389684?hl=en). - **Android:** Settings app › **Notifications** › **App notifications** › **All apps** › YouTube (*YouTube Help: Manage YouTube notifications (Android)*, read 20 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3382248?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid). - **iPhone:** Settings app › **Notifications** › YouTube (*YouTube Help: Manage YouTube notifications (iPhone)*, read 20 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3382248?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS). - **Chrome on a computer:** in YouTube's notification settings, “Under “Desktop notifications," click the button next to Chrome”. If that option is missing, YouTube says “your Chrome browser notifications may be turned off” (computer page above). ## 3. YouTube's own notification settings Inside the app: profile picture › **Settings** › **Notifications**, then choose the types you want (Android page above). On a computer the same screen splits phone and desktop alerts under “General” from email under “Email notifications” (computer page above). The creator page adds a channel-by-channel list on mobile, under **Settings** › **Notifications** › **Channel settings**, which is worth a look if one channel went quiet and the rest did not. ## 4. Limits on YouTube's side that you cannot change These come from the help YouTube writes for creators (*YouTube Help: Fix subscriber notification problems*, read 20 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7389684?hl=en): - **Three a day per channel.** “Viewers can get a maximum of 3 new video notifications from each channel in a 24 hour period.” A channel that uploads in bursts can also see its alerts paused: post more than 3 videos in a short time and YouTube “may temporarily stop sending notifications for 24 hours.” - **Late on purpose.** Personalized alerts “are sent at the optimal time for each individual subscriber”, so some arrive hours after the upload. Subscribers on All “are typically told within minutes”. - **The creator opted out.** A creator can untick “Publish to Subscriptions feed and notify subscribers” for a video, and quickly making a video private after publishing stops the sending. - **Made for kids.** If a channel's audience is set as made for kids, you get no notifications and “You can't change this setting” (computer page above). ## 5. All, but you stopped watching One rule catches people who chose All long ago: if you “haven’t watched or engaged with the channel in a while”, its alerts appear only inside the app, under the bell at the top right of Home (*YouTube Help: Manage YouTube notifications (Android)*, read 20 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3382248?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid). Nothing on your phone, but the alert is there when you open YouTube. ## Still nothing? YouTube has an interactive troubleshooter that starts by asking whether the problem is one channel or every notification, then which device (*YouTube Help: Get help with YouTube notifications*, read 20 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/troubleshooter/9334012?hl=en). Its later answers load only as you click through, so we have not quoted them here. And remember the fallback that never depends on alerts: the Subscriptions feed “will show any recently uploaded videos from your subscriptions” whatever the bell says (*YouTube Help: Subscribe to YouTube channels (Android)*, read 20 October 2026 — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/4489286?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid). If that feed is missing videos too, the problem is elsewhere: see [Subscriptions feed not showing videos](https://channelsorter.com/answers/youtube-feed-not-showing-videos/). If what you want is fewer alerts, not more, [turning off notifications for a channel](https://channelsorter.com/answers/turn-off-notifications-for-a-youtube-channel/) is the reverse of this page. Related: [How do I turn off notifications for a YouTube channel?](https://channelsorter.com/answers/turn-off-notifications-for-a-youtube-channel/) · [YouTube Subscriptions feed not showing videos?](https://channelsorter.com/answers/youtube-feed-not-showing-videos/) · [Why won't the YouTube subscribe button work?](https://channelsorter.com/answers/youtube-subscribe-button-not-working/)