Help with Facebook post notifications 25 June 2022 at 2:56PM in Techie Stuff 4 replies 74 views

Davina40

When I read an interesting post and click on "Turn on notifications for this post" I don't get any notifications (by this I mean in the bell icon).

I've gone to settings/notifications and turned on everything but this hasn't worked. It's the same on Android and on desktop. I've tried deleting/reinstalling the app but this didn't work.

I still get some notifications e.g. memories, a friend sharing a post. 

Can anyone help? 

J_B

It's facebook, it has a mind of it's own, get used to it! 

A post about tanning lotion keeps popping up in my newsfeed, despite me blocking it!

Go figure!

Neil_Jones

If you comment on a post, post notifications will automatically be turned on. If you turn on notifications for a post, you'll get notified whenever someone comments on the post. You won't get notified when someone replies to a comment.

So in other words:

... I'm a post!  <-- if somebody replies to this you get a notification.

......I'm a reply to the first post <-- you'd get notification of this as it is a reply to the first post.

.........I'm a reply to a reply <-- you wouldn't get a notification of this.

............I'm a reply to a reply to a reply <-- you wouldn't ge a notification of this.

......I'm a 2nd reply to the first post <-- you'd get notification of this.

Basically:  If somebody replies to anything other than the original post, you don't get notified.

Davina40

Thanks for the replies. The problem though is that I'm not getting notifications for the replies to a post. As an example, I clicked "turn on notifications for this post" to a post on a popular group at 21:40 and there have been several replies (and replies to replies and replies to replies to replies) since but I've had no notifications at all. As I said, I turned on everything I could find so in theory I should be getting push notifications, email notifications, and SMS notifications. But, nada.

J_B

Some people just type F (short for following perhaps?) as a comment ... does that then notify you?