Never miss a beat — get notified the moment an important email lands. You can enable or disable notification alerts across desktop, web, and mobile so you're always in control.
Desktop
In Superhuman Mail, hit Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) → Notifications and check or uncheck the box next to Email notifications.
When enabled on Desktop and web, push notifications will come through for all emails, unless Important • Other is enabled. In that case, you’ll only receive emails that Mail has identified as high priority. This mostly overlaps with the Important Split.
To properly receive or turn off push notifications, make sure they’re adjusted in your device settings as well.
Mac
- Hit Cmd+Space → Notifications.
- Under Application Notifications, scroll down to and click on Superhuman.
- If you would like to receive push notifications from the Superhuman Mail web app, you’ll also need to do this for Google Chrome.
- From there, toggle Allow notifications on or off.
- You can also choose how to display notifications, whether to show a badge icon, and whether to play sound for push notifications.
Windows
- Hit the ⊞ key to open the Start menu.
- Click on the gear icon to open Settings.
- Go to System > Notifications & actions.
Toggle Get notifications from apps and other senders on or off.
- Under Get notifications from these senders, toggle Superhuman on or off.
- If you would like to receive push notifications from the Superhuman Mail web app, you’ll also need to do this for Google Chrome.
6. To choose how to display push notifications and whether to play sounds, click on the app name to adjust those settings.
Google Chrome
Click on the site information button on the lefthand side of the URL bar:
From the menu that appears, click on Site settings.
Under Permissions > Notifications, select Allow or Block from the dropdown menu.
- If you’d like to enable or turn off sounds, go to Permissions > Sound and select Allow or Mute from the dropdown menu.
Mobile
You can adjust your Mobile push notifications like so:
- Pull down from the top of the inbox, then swipe right — like you're making an "L" — to open Superhuman Command
- From the modal that appears, type Notifications.
- On the Notifications page, tap the account you’d like to adjust your notification settings for.
- From there, tap which type of notifications you’d like to receive.
- All will notify about all new messages.
- High Priority will notify you about new messages Superhuman identifies as high priority.
- Split Inbox will notify you about new messages in the Split Inboxes you select.
- Off will not notify you about any new messages.
5. If you'd like to receive notifications from specific Split Inboxes, tap Split Inbox, then select which Splits you want notifications from.
6. To properly receive or turn off push notifications, make sure they’re adjusted in your mobile device settings as well.
iOS
- Tap on the iOS Settings app.
- Tap on Notifications.
- Under Notification Style, swipe down to and tap on Superhuman.
- From there, toggle Allow Notifications on or off.
- You can also choose where to display notifications, whether to show a badge icon, and whether to play sound for push notifications.
Android
- In the Mobile app, pull down from the top of the inbox, then swipe right — like you're making an "L" — to open Superhuman Command.
- From the modal that appears, type Notifications.
On the Notifications page, tap Manage notifications.
- This will take you to your device’s App notifications page for Superhuman Mail where you can toggle Allow notifications on or off.
- You can also choose where to display notifications, whether to show a badge icon, and whether to play sound for push notifications.
Badge Notifications
The little red circle on the Superhuman Mail app icon is known as a badge notification.
Desktop
On Desktop, the badge shows the total number of emails in your current Split, both read and unread. There isn’t currently a way to customize what the badge shows on Desktop.
Mobile
On iOS, you can customize what the badge shows.
- Pull down from the top of the inbox, then swipe right — like you're making an "L" — to open Superhuman Command.
- From the modal that appears, type Badge Settings.
- Select what you would like the iOS badge to show.
- High Priority Unread will show messages that Superhuman Mail identifies as high priority for your most recent account.
- Unread will show unread messages for your most recent account.
- Off will not show a badge.
There isn’t a way to customize what the badge shows on Android yet.
FAQs
How do I change the sound for Superhuman Mail notifications?
There isn’t a way to customize the sound associated with Superhuman Mail notifications yet. For now, you can enable or disable sound for notifications in your device notification settings.
How do I customize my notifications to only come through for specific Splits on Desktop?
As of now, there isn’t a way to customize Desktop notifications in this way. If enabled, push notifications will come through for all emails, unless Important • Other is enabled. In that case, you’ll only receive emails that have been categorized as High Priority.
You can customize your push notifications on a per Split basis on Mobile though. Just pull down from the top of the inbox, then swipe right— like you're making an "L" — to open Superhuman Command, and type Notifications.
Why aren’t push notifications coming through?
In order to properly receive notifications, you’ll want to make sure they’re on both in the Superhuman Mail app and on your device. Please use the instructions above to make sure everything is set correctly.
It’s also worth keeping in mind that, if you have Important • Other, push notifications on Desktop will only come through for emails Superhuman Mail has identified as high priority. If an email isn’t identified as high priority, you won’t receive a push notification for it.
On Mobile, you can customize what emails you receive a push notification for. Please see the instructions above.
Why does the badge show a higher number than the unread emails in my inbox?
On Desktop and Android, the badge will show the count of total emails in your current Split, both read and unread. There isn’t currently a way to adjust this.
On iOS, you can adjust what the badge shows in your Badge Settings using the steps outlined above.