Getting no notifications from friends

Hi DEATHGR1N,

We appreciate you reaching out to us and understand your frustration. We recommend powering down your console, unplug the console and router for five full minutes, and power your console back on. This will clear your cache. If you still see issues, we recommend
refreshing your profile by removing it and adding it again. The steps listed on our

support page for profiles should help.

Hi, Lazydaydreamer! Thank you for reaching out.
I'm AJ, an Independent Advisor for the Xbox Community.

Considering you are receiving notifications for both when your friends come online and when they start streaming, it's likely they are set as favorites in your friends list.

For your reference, this is the description for favorite friends on Xbox:

"Favorite friends are listed first in your friends lists. You will see when they are online or live streaming."

Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent only the 2nd notification from popping up, as the reason why you get it is the same for the 1st notification.

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There are two ways to stop receiving these notifications:

1) Edit friendship:

- Go to your friend's profile, select "Change Friendship" and select "Friend" from the list of available options. This will prevent you from receiving both the 1st and 2nd

2) Change your notification settings:

- Go to Settings > Preferences > Notifications > Xbox Notifications > Friends, and uncheck the box for "Friend notifications on"
* Please note that this will disable notifications for all friends, not just your favorites.

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Alternatively, some things that could work for you are:

- Disabling notifications banners only at Settings > Preferences > Notifications
- Changing the default notification position at Settings > Preferences > Notifications
- Or mute the notification alert sound by going to Settings > General > Volume and audio output > Additional options.

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Please let me know if you have any further questions, I'd be happy to help.
Best regards.

The notification system could for sure use improvement! I have also had issues with people adding me and never getting the notification. Or the old notifications from friends that added me a year ago will keep popping up but not the new ones.

The problem here isn't with adding friends specifically, but with the notification system, which is very buggy and intermittent.

In theory, adding friends is easy: You get the notification, you press view profile, then add friend.

Or you pick a player from the recent players list, then add friend.

Or... Well you get the idea. The problem is undoubtedly with the notifications. Every morning I get two notifications: One to say [gamer] and three other people added me as a friend, and one to say [gamer] and two other people requested to join my club.

The dates are from January and March, and no matter how I clear them, they won't go away.

In the meantime, if you want to add someone specifically, I suggest obtaining their gamertag, pressing the Xbox button, going to the friends tag and selecting search for person.

They should have this. We get a notification when we receive a txt message from a friend regardless if on a 360 or 1, so the same should apply for friend notifications. Especially friends who we add to our favourites list. 360 and 1 do run on "Xbox Live"
so we should have the ability to receive such notifications without having to search up the friend to see their online status whether they're online on not.