Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant, sends Amazon shopping notifications through Amazon's range of Echo devices. These notifications include when you can expect a shipment to arrive as well as when a shipment has been delivered. Some may find these notifications useful. But there are likely times you don't want Alexa opening her big virtual mouth and ruining a surprise by announcing within earshot of your 5-year-old that the Nintendo Switch they're hoping Santa Claus is putting under the tree is actually being delivered by Dave from UPS.
Whether you're trying to keep a shopping surprise secret or you just don't want to be alerted (again) to the fact that your regular toilet roll shipment is due, here's how to manage the Amazon shopping notifications on your Amazon Echo device.
As Amazon Echo and Echo Show owners will know, you get alerted to Amazon shopping push notifications via an audible two-tone "bing-bong" sound. Echo smart speakers and Echo Dots will then emit a greenish-yellow, glowing ring of light around the top of the device.
Along with the audio alert, Echo Show devices will display a bell-shaped notification icon at the corner of the screen.
If you ask, "Alexa, what's my notification?" Echo smart speakers and Echo Dots will audibly describe the notification. Alexa will say something along the lines of, "You have one new notification. From Amazon shopping, a shipment for John will arrive today."
On an Echo Show, this information will also display as text on the screen.
However, sometimes Alexa announces what the shipment contains. For example, if you ask Alexa what your new notification is when you have a shipment with multiple items, she can say, "You have one new notification. From Amazon shopping, a shipment for John, including a Nintendo Switch, will arrive today."
And just like that, the holidays are ruined.
