# Notification level button always says "tracking"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-level-button-always-says-tracking/395465
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [February 8, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-level-button-always-says-tracking/395465 "2026-02-08T11:27:44Z")
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-level-button-always-says-tracking/395465/1 "2026-02-08T11:27:44Z")

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The notification level button always has a “tracking” tooltip/title, regardless of the actual notification level.  
It seems this button is called “notifications-tracking” internally, but I would expect the tooltip to reflect the actual notification level.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/c/2/cc26395f4c7b19bac3b8a3fa36b208771993cfd7.png)

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 11:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-level-button-always-says-tracking/395465/2 "2026-02-08T11:33:08Z")

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> [@Tracking button hover is misleading](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-button-hover-is-misleading/386876):
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> At present, the notifications-tracking-trigger-btn gives “Tracking” on hover: As you see in that example, the category is actually set to Normal. The problem with the use of the word “Tracking” is that it is one of the options; therefore, it strongly implies that option is the active one. It would be better to either: Remove the text on hover or Change the text to make it a bit clearer (such as “Tracking level”) or Make the text on hover correlate with the chosen selection (if …

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-level-button-always-says-tracking/395465/3 "2026-02-08T12:10:02Z")

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You are so much better in searching 😱

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-level-button-always-says-tracking/395465/4 "2026-02-08T12:10:06Z")

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-level-button-always-says-tracking/395465/5 "2026-02-08T12:10:09Z")

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-level-button-always-says-tracking/395465/6 "2026-02-09T18:55:20Z")

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A post was merged into an existing topic: [Tracking button hover is misleading](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-button-hover-is-misleading/386876)