# Setting a category's notifications to "tracking" not working as expected?

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**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [February 24, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-categorys-notifications-to-tracking-not-working-as-expected/219313 "2022-02-24T19:58:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-categorys-notifications-to-tracking-not-working-as-expected/219313/8 "2022-03-31T11:17:36Z")

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This one I think I do have a repro for. 🙂

When you change the `user default notifications` for a group, it should give you a pop-up like this, which will let you choose whether you override existing preferences or not:

 ![user default notifications](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/4/847a74e4194005dcab635591b83034e4858a9674.jpeg)

I’ve just had a quick run through on my test site, and I think I’m getting some unexpected results:

- Create group
  - With admin as Owner
  - Who can message this group? = group members, moderators and admins
  - Default notification level = Watching

- Send group message so the inbox appears in the message menu
- Confirm correct notification level for user ✔ (flip to desktop view if on mobile)  
  
- Manage/Interactions
- Change `default notification level` to Normal (and save)
- Would you like to apply this change historically? = Yes
- Confirm correct notification level for user after change applied ✔ (now ‘Normal’)  
  
- Add a second user to the group.

Expectation: this new user will have the current group default notification of ‘Normal’. However they got the original group notification of ‘Watching’.

Does that marry up to what you’ve been seeing @jerry0?

If so, this sounds like a different issue to @mbauman’s, so may need to be split off into a new topic to track it better.

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