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title: Opt Out of Approval Request Posts from Classic Approval Processes in Chatter
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description: By default, after your org enables Approvals in Chatter, you’re notified about approval requests by email and a Chatter post. To stop seeing the Chatter posts, opt out. If you do opt out, the posts don’t appear in your feed but they do appear in the associated record’s feed.
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# Opt Out of Approval Request Posts from Classic Approval Processes in Chatter

By default, after your org enables Approvals in Chatter, you’re notified about approval requests by email and a Chatter post. To stop seeing the Chatter posts, opt out. If you do opt out, the posts don’t appear in your feed but they do appear in the associated record’s feed.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d174864e86 ">To view an approval request post for a record:</td>

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Important Try [Flow Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.automate_automated_approvals.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "As your company grows, so does the complexity of your approvals, often requiring input from multiple people in different departments across different time zones. This complexity can mean that you spend more time waiting for each person to complete their review in the right order. Flow Approval Processes helps you coordinate multistep reviews that involve users, systems, and conditional paths."), a modern alternative to Classic Approval Processes. This new feature provides a more flexible, user-friendly flow-based interface, and it can trigger on record changes, supporting Apex extensibility and detailed logging for compliance and audit trails. It supports dynamic routing based on data and business rules, unlike Classic Approval Processes, which are tied to specific objects and offer limited support for processes by using conditions. With Flow Approval Processes, you can monitor submitted records and quickly identify bottlenecks, giving you unprecedented visibility into approval workflows. And, like Classic Approval Processes, Flow Approval Processes don’t consume automation credits or orchestration runs.

1. In the page banner, click your profile avatar, and select **My Settings** (Salesforce Classic) or **Settings** (Lightning Experience).
2. Enter My Feeds in the Quick Find box, then select **My Feeds**.
3. Deselect **Receive approval requests as posts.**
    
    You see this setting only when approvals are enabled in your org.
4. Save your changes.

#### See Also

- [Classic Approval Processes User Preferences](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_change_approval_user_pref.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Identify a delegated approver and control whether you receive approval request emails.")
- [Personalize Your Salesforce Experience](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.user_overview.htm&language=en_US)