Stop receiving Chatter updates from a record, person, group, or topic by toggling the Follow button on its detail page.
- Open the entity you follow
Navigate to the record, user profile, group, or topic detail page. The current follow status shows next to the entity name.
- Click the Following button
The button reads Following when you currently follow the entity. Click it. A confirmation tooltip appears and the button label changes to Follow.
- Confirm in the feed
Open your personal Chatter feed (Home tab, Chatter). New posts from the unfollowed entity should no longer appear. Existing posts already in your feed history stay visible.
- Verify auto-follow does not re-subscribe
If the entity is one your role auto-follows (record owner, queue subscriber), your unfollow overrides the rule. No new subscription is recreated on the next save.
- Bulk clean stale follows
For a quarterly cleanup, open the Chatter Following list under your profile and click Unfollow next to each closed opportunity, archived project, or inactive group you no longer need.
Toggle on the detail page. Affects only that record, person, group, or topic.
Profile, Following tab. Click Unfollow next to each entry. Fast way to clean a long follow list.
Delete EntitySubscription rows for the target Subscriber or Parent IDs. Used for admin-driven migrations and deactivation cleanups.
Separate from follow. You can stay following an entity but turn off the email or push delivery from Setup, Personal Settings, Email Settings.
- Unfollowing a private Chatter group is not the same as leaving it. To fully detach, click Leave Group; otherwise you remain a member with no feed updates.
- Direct @mentions notify the user even after an unfollow. If a user does not want any notifications from a record, the @mention senders must be informed; unfollow alone does not block them.
- Auto-follow workflows do not re-subscribe an unfollowed user, but a manual click Follow by the user resets the override. Train senior users to leave the entity unfollowed if they want to stay quiet.
- Bulk unfollow via Data Loader requires admin access to EntitySubscription and does not respect the 500-follow user limit. Use it carefully on shared user accounts.