Updated July 2026

OnlyFans Notifications: What They Are, How to Turn Them On or Off, and Why You Stop Getting Them

OnlyFans sends three kinds of notification: email, push, and in-app. You control each one in settings, and the most common reason they go quiet is not a bug. It is an email landing in spam or a push permission that was never turned on. Here is how all of it works.

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Settings control

Every type is a toggle you can turn on or off

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Push is optional

Enabled in advanced settings, not on by default

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How do OnlyFans notifications work?

OnlyFans has three notification channels. Email notifications go to your inbox for things like new posts, messages, and payment activity. Push notifications ping your phone or browser, but you have to switch them on in advanced settings first. In-app notifications show up in the bell icon when you are logged in. You manage all of them under Settings, then Notifications, where each one is a simple on or off toggle.

If notifications stop, the cause is almost never the platform. Emails most often land in a spam or promotions folder, push notifications get blocked at the phone or browser level, or a toggle got switched off. Push has always been the least reliable channel, so email is the one to keep on if you want dependable alerts about your account.

Last updated July 2026. Notification menus can vary slightly between the web and app versions.

The three types of OnlyFans notification

Each channel does a slightly different job. Knowing which one carries what helps you decide what to keep on and what to mute.

Type	Where it shows	Best for
Email	Your inbox	The most reliable channel. Good for account, payment, and subscription alerts you cannot afford to miss.
Push	Phone or browser pop-up	Instant alerts for new posts and messages, but it must be enabled and can be flaky. Not on by default.
In-app	The bell icon when logged in	A running history of activity: new subscribers, tips, likes, comments, and messages while you browse.

For creators, notifications are also a business signal: a new subscriber, a tip, or a renewed subscription each fire an alert, and a sudden drop in them can flag a problem worth checking against your billing and account details.

How to turn OnlyFans notifications on or off

You control everything from one place. The steps are the same whether you want more alerts or a quieter inbox.

Open Settings, then Notifications

Go to your profile menu, choose Settings, then the Notifications section. This is where email preferences live as individual toggles you can switch on or off.

Enable push in advanced settings

Push notifications live under advanced settings, not the main menu. Turn them on there, and allow notifications when your phone or browser asks for permission.

Fine-tune what you keep

You can keep email and push on together, or use email only. Mute the categories you do not care about and keep account and payment alerts on so nothing important slips by.

To go quiet, switch off the categories you do not want and revoke push permission at the device level. To make sure you never miss an alert, keep email on and add the OnlyFans sender address to your contacts so it stops routing to spam.

Why you are not getting OnlyFans notifications

When alerts go silent, work down this list. The fixes near the top solve most cases and take seconds.

Symptom	Likely cause	Fix
No emails at all	Filtered to spam or promotions	Check spam and promotions folders, mark as not spam, and add the sender to your contacts.
No push on your phone	Push never enabled or blocked	Enable push in advanced settings, then allow notifications in your phone or browser permissions.
Some alerts but not others	A category toggle is off	Reopen Settings, then Notifications, and switch the specific categories back on.
Nothing since you changed devices	Permission not granted on the new device	Re-allow notifications on the new phone or browser. Permissions do not carry over.
Nothing loads at all	A wider access or login problem	Confirm the site is reachable and you are logged in before blaming the notification settings.

If the whole site is unresponsive rather than just the alerts, the issue is access, not notifications. Our guides on whether OnlyFans is down and on login problems cover those cases, and once you are back in, your notification settings will be exactly where you left them.

OnlyFans notification questions answered

Go to your profile menu, open Settings, and choose the Notifications section to switch on email alerts by category. Push notifications are separate: enable them under advanced settings, then allow notifications when your phone or browser prompts you. You can run email and push together or use email only, which is the more reliable of the two.

The most common cause is email filtering, where OnlyFans messages land in a spam or promotions folder, so check those first and mark the sender as safe. For push, the usual problem is that it was never enabled in advanced settings or the device blocked permission. A specific category toggle being switched off explains missing alerts of just one kind.

Open Settings, then Notifications, and switch off the email categories you no longer want. You can turn all of them off or mute only certain types, like likes and comments, while keeping account and payment alerts on. Changes save immediately, so the next matching event will not email you.

Yes. Creators receive notifications for new subscribers, renewals, tips, messages, likes, and comments across email, push, and the in-app bell, depending on which channels they have enabled. These alerts double as a live read on how the account is performing, so most creators keep the money-related categories on.

Push has always been the flakiest of the three channels because it depends on your device and browser cooperating, permissions staying granted, and the app running in the background. When push goes quiet it is usually a device-level permission or battery setting, not OnlyFans. If you need dependable alerts, keep email notifications on as your backup.

Your in-account email preferences follow your account, but push permission is granted per device and per browser, so it does not carry over. If you switch phones or browsers and lose push alerts, re-enable notifications in advanced settings and grant permission again on the new device.

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