Geek Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/stop-apple-support-community-emails.jpg" alt="Stop Apple Support Community Emails" title="stop-apple-support-community-emails" width="620" height="293" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20985" /></p> <p>Rant time! Waking up this morning to 49 new emails from “Apple Support Communities Updates” was less than pleasant, especially considering I had already unsubscribed from all email notifications the night before – or so I thought. </p> <p>It turns out that <strong>you have to unsubscribe to email notifications from each individual thread</strong> that you are engaged with on Apple’s Discussion Boards…</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">Stop Emails from Apple Support Communities Updates</h2> <p>Feels a bit weird to be <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/troubleshooting/">troubleshooting</a> this, but here’s how to finally shut the email updates off:</p> <ul> <li>Click on any link to get to Apple’s Support Communities and then <strong>click on your profile name</strong></li> <li>Look on the right side for the “Actions” box and <strong>click on “Manage email notifications”</strong> – yes believe it or not this is separate from the above option to manage your email notifications</li> <li>Click on each box to check what threads you want to unsubscribe from, or check the topmost box to unsubscribe from all threads you have participated in</li> <li>Click on the “<strong>Remove selected notifications</strong>” button</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/stop-email-notifications-apple-support.jpg" alt="Stop email notifications from Apple Support Communities" title="stop-email-notifications-apple-support" width="620" height="329" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20988" /></p> <p>Oddly enough <em>you have to manually unsubscribe for every thread you participate in</em>, so even if you have unsubscribed from other threads in the past but then participate in a new thread, you’ll have to do this again. <span id="more-20984"></span> This is an annoyance that is not made clear when the message at the bottom of any such support email suggests you can opt out directly from that link:</p> <blockquote><p>“You are receiving this email from Apple Support Communities. You can change your email preferences in your Apple Support Communities Profile.”</p></blockquote> <p>But no, when you click on that link, you get a variety of checkboxes with “Yes” and “No” options to manage your email subscriptions – except they don’t seem to actually do anything. I saved “No” as my options after the first barrage of emails and continued to get inundated with more Apple Support Communities updates that I didn’t want. </p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/unsubscribe-apple-support-communities-emails.jpg" alt="Unsubscribe from Apple Support Communities Updates and Emails" title="unsubscribe-apple-support-communities-emails" width="620" height="465" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20986" /></p> <p>This was my first encounter with this, which I feel extra stupid about because a friend of mine recently complained about this exact issue. They complained about getting spammed by hundreds of Apple’s support emails after unsubscribing, to which I arrogantly replied “just click unsubscribe!” because it’s usually that simple with Apple, but not so here. Kind of stupid and very un-Applelike, it is annoying enough that Apple <a href="https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/email.html">even has a separate tutorial</a> on how to unsubscribe from emails and notifications. Maybe they should just make the initial “Unsubscribe” buttons actually work instead? 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