How to Turn Off @everyone Notifications on Facebook

If a Facebook group keeps notifying you that someone mentioned everyone, you can turn off the alerts without asking the group admin to remove your membership. Meta's Facebook Help article about @everyone in groups says members can disable @everyone notifications. The control is yours as a member. It does not erase the group post, prevent the author from typing the mention, or guarantee that you will stop seeing that post in the group.

The confusing part is that “everyone” can mean different things on Facebook and Messenger. This guide concerns a Facebook group post or comment that uses @everyone. A group chat in Messenger, a Facebook Page, and a personal profile have different controls. First identify where the notification came from. Then change only the setting that matches it.

Check whether the alert came from a Facebook group

Open one of the unwanted notifications and look at the original item. Is it a post or comment inside a group you joined? Does the text contain a highlighted @everyone mention? If so, the group setting described here is relevant. Meta says the mention is used in a group post or comment to address group members collectively. It also says notification delivery has limits: some members will not receive an alert because they opted out, hit notification limits, are not group members, or are otherwise ineligible.

If the alert opens a Messenger conversation instead, use that conversation's notification controls. Changing a Facebook group's setting should not be treated as a way to mute a Messenger chat. If it opens a Page post or another kind of notification, do not assume it is the same group mention. Check the actual notification category before turning off a broad set of alerts.

You may see wording such as “mentioned you and others” rather than a literal @everyone in the notification preview. The original post is a better place to verify what happened. A regular mention of your individual name and a group-wide mention are different events, even if the alert previews look similar.

Turn off the group mention alert

Start from the group that sent the notification. Open the group in Facebook, find its Notifications or Manage notifications control, and look for an option referring to @everyone or group mentions. If your version of Facebook offers that option, turn it off and save the change. Return to the notification settings to confirm that the new state stuck. Menu labels and placement can differ between the phone app, Facebook Lite, and a browser, so follow the description of the control rather than an exact sequence of icons.

Meta's group Help article confirms the member's ability to turn off @everyone notifications; it does not establish a single menu path that is stable across every device. If the group screen offers only broader choices such as all posts, highlights, or no group notifications, read each choice before selecting it. Turning off every notification from the group is a wider decision than suppressing the @everyone alert alone. You may miss ordinary posts or updates you still want.

You can also look in your Facebook account's Settings under Notifications for a category concerning tags, mentions, or batch mentions. Use this route only if the relevant option appears in your current account. An account-wide mention setting can affect more than one group, so check its description before changing it. A setting shown in an older screenshot may have moved or may not be offered to your account.

After changing a setting, ask yourself what you actually want to stop: the app's push alert, an email, or the in-app notification. Facebook may offer separate channels. Turning off one channel may leave another enabled. Check the specific channel if alerts continue rather than repeatedly changing unrelated privacy settings.

If you only want fewer notifications from one post

You may want to follow the group while avoiding updates from a single busy discussion. Open that post's notification or menu and look for an option to stop notifications about that post, if Facebook offers one. This is narrower than muting all group mentions. It affects the particular discussion, not necessarily future @everyone mentions in the same group.

Another possibility is that the notification came from replies to a post you commented on, rather than from the @everyone mention itself. Open the item and look at the notification wording. If it refers to a reply, changing the mention setting alone may not address it. The most useful troubleshooting step is to match the alert to its source before deciding which category to disable.

Can an admin switch off @everyone for every member?

Do not rely on a supposed Page or group-admin switch that automatically disables all members' @everyone notifications. Meta's group article documents member opt-out, eligibility rules, and usage limits. It does not document a universal admin control that forces every member's notification preference off.

Admins and moderators can choose whether to use @everyone in their own posts and comments where the feature is available. They can also explain to members how to manage their own notifications. Meta says eligibility depends on group size and role, and the mention has frequency restrictions. Avoid promising that every group member can type the tag, or that every member receives an alert every time it is used.

If you manage a group and members complain about excess mentions, review how often your team uses the mention. Reserve it for genuinely important group updates and write a clear post title so people can understand the message without opening repeated alerts. These are editorial choices, not a hidden Facebook setting or a way to override members' notification preferences.

Why the mention may still appear after you opt out

Turning off an alert changes notification delivery; it does not edit someone else's words. You can still open the group and see the post containing @everyone. It may also appear in your Feed, depending on how Facebook displays group content to you. Seeing the text again is not by itself proof that the notification switch failed.

If you continue receiving what looks like the same alert, compare the time, group name, and original item. It might be an earlier notification that was already in your list, a new mention from a different group, or a reply alert from a discussion you follow. Recheck whether the control was saved for the right group and whether you changed the channel that is still reaching you. Do not treat a screenshot of a toggle as proof that Meta has applied it to every surface on every device.

If the setting is missing, update the Facebook app through your device's official store and check again. You can try Facebook in a browser to see whether your account has a clearer notification menu there. If you still cannot find a targeted control, use the Facebook Help Center or the app's report option to describe your device, group, and notification wording. Broader group notification controls are a fallback only if you accept losing other alerts from that group.

What turning off @everyone does and does not do

The useful distinction is between a mention and a notification. A group member can opt out of alerts caused by the collective mention. That does not remove their name from a membership list, stop them from viewing posts, or prevent others from writing to the group. It also does not change notifications in an unrelated Messenger group chat.

For most people, the shortest path is to open the group that generated an alert and inspect its notification options. If a targeted @everyone setting is available, switch it off, then verify which kinds of alerts continue. If you administer the group, respect member preferences and avoid telling people a group-wide tag guarantees that they have read an announcement. Meta explicitly lists several reasons a member may not be notified at all.