Alexa has a very useful function, connect with your Amazon purchases and shipments and notify you of news what is on them. However, you may want to disable this option. Therefore, we teach you how to make Alexa not notify you of the status of your purchases.
Many find it useful to turn this feature off, because so they don't ruin possible surprises, like shopping for gifts this Christmas, which you will have done at the last minute as always.
Or better yet, in the middle of that family reunion, Alexa won't tell on your weird tastes and "alternative" hobbies, singing that another compromising clunker is coming up that you're spending your salary on.
How the notification service works
In case maybe you haven't noticed, or you have your Amazon speaker Echo recently released, Alexa connects with your Amazon account to inform you of the status of your orders.
In this way, you will be able to:
- Notify you when a package is ready for delivery.
- Notify you when a package has been successfully delivered.
Besides that, you can also:
- Notify of the items that make up the order. in a speaker Echo no display, that means listing it out loud to let everyone know you apparently don't have enough yet funky. if you have the model Echo Show with screen, the name of the products will also appear there.
- Notify of the items that make up the order and that, in addition, are gifts because you marked them as such during the purchase on Amazon. Alexa has the option to distinguish this in notifications, but remember that only if you specified it correctly.
Thus, if there is no danger that nobody will hear what you have bought for them and spoil the surprise, they can also inform you of the status of the gift when it is delivered and when it arrives.
As you can see, the options are varied and you can configure the deactivation of Amazon purchase notifications in a granular way and to your liking. Let's see how to do it.
How to turn off all purchase notifications
For that, we have to enter our Amazon Alexa mobile application.
There you will see the menu in the form of burger for the bottom right that says "More". Press and, in the new screen that appears, we access the section of "Settings".
Once there, we will see the "Notifications" section, is the one that interests us, so we click on it.
You will see that several options appear, the first is the one that suits us and is called "Shopping with Amazon". We also press there.
In the new screen that appears, you will see 6 options to check or uncheck. Some are activated (appearing colored) and others will be deactivated (appearing white), as you can see in the image below, in which we show you all that there are.
If you don't want to complicate your life, and you want disable any order related notificationsSo it's very simple, just uncheck everything and leave each option white.
When you do, the purchases will be a total secret between you and Alexa, without anyone else finding out.
However, we must recognize that some of these purchase notifications are really useful. For this reason, you may want to have some of the options enabled. We tell you which ones you should play in each case.
Other specific notifications to disable
We have explained the general deactivation, but, as we indicated, some may be useful to you and therefore you want to be more specific about what you want to have active or not.
How to disable Alexa from saying the content of your orders aloud
If you want Alexa to notify you of an order and its shipping status, but you don't want me to sing out loud what it contains, then you should disable the options that are grouped under the heading "Include product titles".
It has no loss, because are the first three options that appear on the "Purchases with Amazon" screen of the application that we have seen above.
This way, you'll get order updates but without Alexa blabbing about what's inside the box.
Of course, another person who lives or is in your house can find out that an order is on the way or that it has arrived at its destination, and it is possible that they ask or investigate.
How to turn off Alexa notifications about returns
your speaker Echo It can inform you of the status of the returns, in addition to the status of the orders. If this doesn't interest you, You can deactivate it by tapping on the “Refunds” option until it is blank.
It is not difficult to find it either, because this option is below the three that we have just seen.
How to disable order updates in general in Alexa
If you want to turn off notifications for orders, including those you have in mode Subscribe and Save, the option you are looking for is called "Order Updates" and it is below the previous one.
Again, tap until it's blank.
How to turn off Alexa from making recommendations and offers
In this same section you have the option that Alexa recommend deals and products based on your purchase history. Regardless of whether you want me to notify you of the status of your orders or not, you probably want to disable this, so it's also on this screen.
It's all about choice «Recommendations and offers» and it is the last of the 6 that we are seeing, so you know, touch and leave it blank.
The options that come by default in the application is that it notifies you of the status of orders and returns, but that it only shows the items included in the order when they are not gifts.
If for some reason you want Alexa to also say aloud (or show the content on the screen) of the gifts, you will have to leave the first 3 options that we have seen activated.
This is interesting if there is no danger that your child or your partner will hear that you have again caught the cheapest option when it comes to buying something for them.
As you can see, Alexa can be very helpful and sometimes also tell on what you don't want. So that what you buy at Amazon does not happen to you, now you know how to deactivate notifications of your orders on your smart speaker.