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title: What Happens When You Opt Out of Chatter Approval Requests from Classic Approval Processes?
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description: By default, when your org has Approvals in Chatter enabled, you receive approval request notifications by email and Chatter. Here’s what happens when you opt out of the Chatter posts.
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# What Happens When You Opt Out of Chatter Approval Requests from Classic Approval Processes?

By default, when your org has Approvals in Chatter enabled, you receive approval request notifications by email and Chatter. Here’s what happens when you opt out of the Chatter posts.

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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.

- If you opt out while an approval that you’re assigned to is in progress, you see notification posts if you’re following the approval record.
- If you’re following the approval record, you see approval posts from the record with non-approver content.
- For approval notification posts that you’ve already received, you see non-approver content.
- The Approve and Reject buttons are removed from existing approval posts in your feed.

#### 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.")
- [Opt Out of Approval Request Posts from Classic Approval Processes in Chatter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.collab_approval_requests.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "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.")