The Fastest Way to Unsubscribe From Facebook Emails
Our research in The Most Annoying Email Newsletters in 2025, with 10,292 subscription sources and approximately 200,000 emails analyzed, uncovered something interesting: Facebook ranks high among senders people most often mark as spam.
One of the main reasons? It sends emails from multiple domains and email addresses, making it hard for users to fully unsubscribe.
Even if you click “unsubscribe” in one message, Facebook might continue to send emails from a different address you haven’t blocked yet.
To avoid this mess, there's a faster and more reliable way. This method makes sure you catch every sender variation Facebook uses – without needing to guess or go hunting through your inbox:
Step 1: Open Clean Email and sign in to your email account. On mobile, use the iOS or Android app.
Step 2: Go to the Unsubscriber section.
Step 3: Search for facebook. You’ll see all the senders listed under both domains.
Step 4: Click Unsubscribe on each of them– or just block both domains completely if you want zero emails from Facebook.
Which Facebook Emails Should You Unsubscribe From?
We recommend starting with notification@facebookmail.com and notification@priority.facebookmail.com—these are the most frequent and often the noisiest. They cover likes, comments, mentions, and other general activity that can overwhelm your inbox. Unsubscribing from these can instantly cut down the clutter.
Emails from friendupdates@facebookmail.com, close_friend_updates@facebookmail.com, and groupupdates@facebookmail.com are more personalized—covering updates from friends or Facebook Groups. While they may contain content you care about, they still tend to pile up quickly. If your inbox feels overloaded, it’s reasonable to unsubscribe from these too.
Messages from memories@facebookmail.com are rare and mostly nostalgic, so whether you keep them is entirely up to you.
Emails like pages@facebookmail.com (for page admins), noreply@facebookmail.com, and advertise-noreply@facebookmail.com may be safe to unsubscribe from if you’re not actively managing a page or running ads.
You can also skip developer@facebookmail.com unless you're using Facebook’s developer tools.
⚠️ Important: Do not unsubscribe from security@facebookmail.com, confirm@facebookmail.com, or update@em.facebookmail.com. These addresses send critical messages about account access, verification, and legal/policy updates. Keeping them ensures you're aware of any issues that might affect your account’s safety.
Types of Notifications by Facebook Email Address
| Email Address | Typical Notification Content |
|---|---|
| notification@facebookmail.com | General interactions: likes, comments, tags, messages, or friend requests. |
| notification@priority.facebookmail.com | Time-sensitive alerts: priority messages like replies or mentions. |
| security@facebookmail.com | Critical security alerts: login attempts, password changes, suspicious activity. |
| friendupdates@facebookmail.com | Posts and updates from friends in your network. |
| close_friend_updates@facebookmail.com | Activity from people you marked as “Close Friends.” |
| groupupdates@facebookmail.com | Notifications from Facebook Groups: new posts, comments, and mentions. |
| memories@facebookmail.com | “On This Day” reminders, old post highlights, and memory shares. |
| noreply@facebookmail.com | General system alerts like email confirmations, name changes, or app notifications. |
| advertise-noreply@facebookmail.com | Updates related to Facebook Ads: billing info, campaign approvals, and performance notices. |
| update@em.facebookmail.com | Legal and account updates: privacy policy changes, terms of service updates. |
| confirm@facebookmail.com | Email address confirmations and new account verifications. |
| pages@facebookmail.com | Activity from Facebook Pages: comments, likes, new followers, and content updates. |
| developer@facebookmail.com | Platform updates for Facebook developers: API changes, alerts, and feature updates. |
| notification+alias@facebookmail.com | Regional, segmented, or language-specific notifications (e.g., notification+fr@...). |
How Most People Try to Unsubscribe From Facebook Emails: 3 Methods
If you’d like to unsubscribe from Facebook emails, you can try one of these three main methods.
1. How to stop emails from Facebook on mobile app
If you want to unsubscribe from Facebook emails through the mobile app, simply follow these steps:
- Open the mobile app and click on the menu in the top right corner.
- Scroll down to Settings & Privacy, then tap Settings.
- Scroll down to the Notifications section, and tap Notification Settings.
- From here you can choose which specific notifications you receive, and you can also go to the Email section and unselect notifications for email.
📌 Note! Adjusting notifications through the mobile app may have syncing delays or not fully apply to all domains/senders if accounts are linked (e.g. Meta Business Suite, Instagram).
2. How to stop Facebook from sending emails in a browser
Believe it or not, stopping unwanted message allerts through Facebook on the web browser is very similar to the mobile app.
- Open your web browser.
- Go to www.facebook.com and login.
- Click on the dropdown menu in the top right corner.
- Click Settings & Privacy, then click Settings.
- Click on Notifications on the left hand side.
- Go to Email and select the arrow to reveal more options.
- Under Email Frequency, select "Only about your account." This will opt you out of all messages except important ones about your account, security, and password.
📌 Note! Some unsubscribe actions may still result in a few emails over the next few days.
3. How to stop getting Facebook emails in your email service provider
As you can tell, stopping emails from Facebook involves lots of steps if you go through their mobile app or the website. For this reason, you may want to stop emails directly through your mail service provider. Here’s how to do that:
- Pull up your email via your web browser or smartphone app.
- Search for a message from Facebook and open it.
- Scroll to the bottom of the message and look for the words “If you don't want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future, please unsubscribe.”
- Click on the word “unsubscribe.”
- From here, you can click on “manage notification settings” and opt out of emails.
Bonus: How to Unsubscribe from All Facebook Emails with Block Feature in Clean Email
Like many other corporations, Facebook uses multiple mail addresses and subdomains for all of the different messages it sends. This can make unsubscribing from all of them very difficult. However, the app makes this process incredibly easy with the Block Feature. In fact, you can block all Facebook emails with these simple steps:
- Open your Clean Email account.
- Click on Inbox or All Mail smart view.
- In the search box, type in “facebook.com” (without quotation marks).
- Press on the “Select All” button, then press “Block.”
Move Facebook Emails to a Dedicated "Read Later" Folder
The Read Later feature lets you move your Facebook messages out of your inbox without completely deleting them. If you’d rather do this than unsubscribe, follow these steps:
- Sign into your app’s account and click on the Unsubscriber button.
- Type “@facebook” in the search box.
- Push the “Read Later” tab on top.
Set an Automatic Rule To Filter Emails from Facebook
Clean Email also offers an Auto Clean feature so you can filter incoming emails automatically using the rules you set. You can use the Auto Clean feature to mark your Facebook emails unread, archive them, or move them to a specific folder using these steps:
- Launch the app and click Auto Clean from the home screen.
- Choose the “Selected and future similar emails” option.
- Select the rule that you want to apply to your Facebook emails.
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