Unable to permanently stop watching a page

[Christopher Zeuch]

There are at least two Confluence pages that default to Watching no matter what I do.

If I untick the Watch Page option on the page itself and then refresh the page, it automatically changes back to Watching.

Even if I go into Settings -> Watches and click on Stop Watching from there, the page will default back to Watching once I refresh it.

I did not create the page or contribute in any way.

Does anyone know what would cause this and how to stop this from happening?

[Ollie Guan · Accepted solution]

Pls Close the Autowatch function

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-sends-email-notifications-despite-autowatch-is-turned-off-298976279.html

[Christopher Zeuch]

We do not have that plugin installed.

The Watch functionality is the default functionality that Confluence offers.

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

You have an Autowatch setting in plain Confluence: go to your profile > Settings > Email, You should have an Edit button, click on it and then you'll be able to untick "Autowatch":

[Christopher Zeuch]

Ah I see.

Turning Autowatch off does indeed fix my original issue.

Thank you @Ollie Guan and @Manon Soubies-Camy

[Klara Zikesova]

Having the same problem with one user now, even if I log in as her via one addon, I unwatch the pages and once refreshed all back in. She used to have access to that space but now no more and cannot unwatch it anyhow.

[Klara Zikesova]

so what worked as a workaround - give back the user read permissions, unwatch the pagest, remove permission again. It worked, but I find is as an error of Confluence...