Use this guide to enable browser notifications for Slack in Chrome.
Enable Notifications
- The first time you log into Slack or after clearing your cache, you will most like see this message at the bottom of your Chrome window:
- Slack needs your permission to enable desktop notifications.
- Click the link on the bottom that says "enable desktop notifications."
- Next, on the pop up, click "enable" and "allow."
- If that was successful, you will see a notification preview in the bottom right corner of Chrome.
Are You Still Not Seeing Notifications?
Verify notifications are enabled in Chrome
Click the "Site Information" button in the web address bar:
- It is the small icon with two slider controls immediately to the left of app.slack.com in the address bar.
Ensure that "Notifications" are turned on.
Reload your browser window, if necessary.
Verify notifications are enabled in your Preferences
- Click your profile icon in the lower-left corner.
- Select Preferences.
- Under Notifications, ensure all options are set correctly.
Still Not Seeing Notifications?
- Click the 3 dots in the upper-right of Chrome.
- Select Settings.
- In search bar at the top, type: notifications.
- Click Site settings.
- Under Permissions, click Notifications.
- Under Default behavior, ensure Sites can ask to send notifications is selected.
- Under Allowed to send notifications, click Add.
- Enter app.slack.com.
- Click Add.
- Go back to your Slack tab and refresh it.