Did in-product notifications change recently (2026-06) to include own changes?

Question

Hi everyone,

I'm back from 2 weeks of vacation, not working with Jira during that time and get confused, because I see lots of in-product notifications about my own changes. I'm somewhat sure this didn't happen before and doesn't make too much sense to me. Why should I be notified about having closed a task or updated some fields in it a few seconds after I did that?!

While I can totally think of that some people like that info by mail for reasons, and I'm one of those, I don't want the same detail as in-product notification. My workflow is that those notifications are mostly based on OTHERS changes to tasks I'm interested in and therefore need to have look. My own changes are just spam and make those notifications more difficult to use.

So, do I remember wrongly that this wasn't the case before or did they really change something? In case of the latter, is there some setting I'm missing? I don't see anything to exclude my own changes from in-product notifications and don't remember if there were any in the past. Are there any additional discussion about that topic or even reported bugs already I might vote at?

Thanks!

Thorsten Schöning · Answer

As I said already, I want mail notifications for my own changes, so that is enabled. I DO NOT want in-product notifications for my own changes and that doesn't seem to have a corresponding setting.

So, does that mean that you did "improve" the in-product notification experience and changed how own changes are considered? Because if so, it's annoying and at least put the same settings like for mails into in-product notifications to allow me to opt-out of my own changes. Which I'm pretty sure was the default behaviour until "recently".

Nikola Perisic · Answer

Hello @Thorsten Schöning

For your own changes, there is a personal settings.

There are two types of notifications:

Email preferences

Default notifications

Since you have mentioned that you are getting spammed with in product notifications, you should check the default notifications. But before that also check the You make the changes to work items.

Thorsten Schöning · Answer

We had discussions about notifications settings in the past already, like in the following example. But from my understanding this changed my mail notifications only, not the in-product ones, while right now I'm wondering about the spammy in-product ones. So did they just "improve" again on those and things are really new and spammy for me?

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Take-control-of-your-inbox-with-new-ways-to-manage-Jira/ba-p/2637342