Receiving notifications from deleted friends

Hello Chesca,

Try power cycling (support.xbox.com/.../power-cycle-console) the console and see if this stops these notifications.

You may also want to turn notifications off, power cycle, then turn notifications back on to see if that makes a difference.

Let us know how you get on.

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.

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.

Set you privacy setting to only received notifications from your friends. See if that will help.

I'm having this same issue, and it's really annoying. Deleting and blocking the gamer profile doesn't work, nor does doing a hard reset/full power cycle, nor does deleting your gamertag from your system and then signing back in. It has to be a Microsoft
issue. I am in the Preview Program, and "LostSoul 301281" isn't, so I guess it has nothing to do with that. Either way, I'm sick of getting these alerts for players I don't play with, and I wish I could stop it from happening.

By the way LostSoul, I agree with you about the friends system. I wish being friends was a mutual choice between both parties how it was years ago. I don't like the anybody can follow you without your approval. Maybe an option to allow that separately
if your a popular streamer and you want to allow followers, but not the same perks that come with being friends with another player. I wish Microsoft would fix this. We can't even get a hold of them to try anymore. Their customer service is super difficult
to reach at this point. So annoying when you pay $70 a year for their service and you can't even talk to somebody to get this fixed. They made it so hard to talk to a real person. You have to jump through too many hoops to figure it out.