To help you focus on your most important notifications, set specific people as VIPs to make their messages stand out.
Manage VIPs
Add or remove VIPs
When you add VIPs, messages they send in channels, direct messages (DMs), and group DMs will appear in the VIP unreadssection at the top of your sidebar. You can add up to 300 people, from both your organization and external organizations, as VIPs.
Desktop
Mobile
Click your profile picture in the sidebar.
Select Preferences from the menu.
Click VIP.
Search for and select the person you’d like to add. To remove a member from your VIP list, click Remove.
Tap your profile picture.
Tap VIP.
Search for and select the person you’d like to add. To remove a member from your VIP list, click the remove icon.
Customize notification sounds for VIPs
Once you've added people as VIPs, you can customize your preferences so that notifications from VIPs have a distinct sound from other notifications.
Desktop
Mobile
Click your profile picture in the sidebar.
Select Preferences from the menu.
Scroll down to Sound & appearance.
Select an option from the drop-down menu under Notification sound (VIP messages only).
Tap your profile picture.
Tap Notifications.
Tap VIP system options, then select your notification preferences. (If you've already set a notification sound, tap Sound to change it.)
Allow notifications during Do Not Disturb
You can set notifications from your VIPs to always be delivered, even when Do Not Disturb (DND) is enabled.
Desktop
Mobile
Click your profile picture in the sidebar.
Select Preferences from the menu.
Click VIP.
Check or uncheck Always allow notifications from VIPs.
Tap your profile picture.
Tap Notifications.
Tap the toggle next to Always allow notifications from VIPs.
Filter VIP activity
In Activity, you can filter your notifications to only see updates from VIPs. When viewing all activity, unread notifications from your VIPs will appear at the top of the feed.
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Mobile
Click Activity in the sidebar.
Click the VIP tab at the top of the activity feed.
