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Add contacts as VIPs

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 that they send in channels, direct messages (DMs) and group DMs will appear in the VIP unread messages section at the top of your sidebar. You can add up to 300 people, from both your organisation and external organisations, as VIPs.

Desktop

Mobile

  1. Click your profile picture in the sidebar.
    Static image of a cursor clicking on the profile picture menu in the Slack app
  2. Select Preferences from the menu.
  3. Click VIP.
  4. Search for and select the person that you’d like to add. To remove a member from your VIP list, click Remove.
  1. Tap your profile picture.
  2. Tap VIP.
  3. Search for and select the person that you’d like to add. To remove a member from your VIP list, click the   remove icon.


Customise notification sounds for VIPs

Once you’ve added people as VIPs, you can customise your preferences so that notifications from VIPs have a sound that is distinct from other notifications.

Desktop

Mobile

  1. Click your profile picture in the sidebar.
    Static image of a cursor clicking on the profile picture menu in the Slack app
  2. Select Preferences from the menu.
  3. Scroll down to Sound & appearance.
  4. Select an option from the drop-down menu under Notification sound (VIP messages only).
  1. Tap your profile picture.
  2. Tap Notifications.
  3. 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

  1. Click your profile picture in the sidebar.
    Static image of a cursor clicking on the profile picture menu in the Slack app
  2. Select Preferences from the menu.
  3. Click VIP.
  4. Tick or untick Always allow notifications from VIPs.
  1. Tap your profile picture.
  2. Tap Notifications.
  3. 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.

Desktop

Mobile

  1. Click  Activity in the sidebar.
    Image of the Slack desktop app, with a cursor pointed at the Activity icon.
  2. Click the VIP tab at the top of the activity feed.
  1. Tap the   Activity icon.
  2. Tap the VIP tab at the top of the activity feed.
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