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Watcher removal from multiple issues

darshan_s1
Contributor
July 17, 2025

Hi Guys,

My query is of we can remove a user as watcher from multiple issues at one go.

When I set up a company managed project for a requirement and imported issues from CSV, I was added as a watcher on all issues.

Want to know if there's a way to remove myself as watcher from all those work items.

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Wojciech Miecznikowski
Contributor
July 18, 2025

Hello dashan_s1,

Two things:
- It happened because you have "watch your work items" in your profile settings marked as enabled, you can disable that in profile settings, in Cloud: <site name>.atlassian.net/jira/settings/personal/general
- To fix this problem afterwards, you should use bulk change:
1) Firstly you should find issues which you are watching in Issue Searching module, for Cloud link would be:
https://<site name>.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=watcher%20%3D%20currentUser%28%29
2) Click on three dots (right top corner) and click on "Bulk change work items"

3) Choose all issues and next

4) "Stop Watching Issues" and confirm all changes and choices.
Worth to note:
- you have to have global permission to use Bulk Change
- you have to have permission to unwatch in every issue from the list.


I hope it will help.

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Yogesh Mude
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July 18, 2025

@darshan_s1  Yes you can do that using the bulk update.

Find all the work items that you are watching by writing a JQL and do the Bulk update where you can select the Stop Watching Issues operation.

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Carlos Garcia Navarro
Community Champion
July 18, 2025

Hi @darshan_s1 ,

You could run the JQL: watcher = currentUser()

Then, select 'bulk change work items' from the menu

Screenshot 2025-07-18 at 12.57.08 AM.png

Choose the issues

Screenshot 2025-07-18 at 12.57.48 AM.png

And then choose operation 'stop watching issues'

Screenshot 2025-07-18 at 12.55.49 AM.png

And confirm:

Screenshot 2025-07-18 at 1.00.20 AM.pngScreenshot 2025-07-18 at 1.00.30 AM.png

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Stephen_Lugton
Community Champion
July 18, 2025

Hi @darshan_s1 

All the other answers given will help with what you want, the only thing to remember is that if you select all issues for the bulk change you will not only stop watching the work items you don't want to watch but also stop watching any that you do want to watch, so you may want to go through and make sure that any you want to keep watching are deselected for the bulk change.

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