Why Is Zoosk Sending Me Emails?

Zoosk emails you because of the notification choices on your account, and because of the login code it sends when you sign in with email. Both are in your control. You pick which email types you receive under Notification Settings, and you can stop all of them with one link further down the same page. Keep the ones that tell you about matches and messages, and cut the rest.

Zoosk lets you decide which email notifications you get. The list includes optional types such as Promotions and Announcements and UX Research.

Those optional types are the likeliest source of messages you never asked for, and they keep arriving until you turn them off. They are not a sign that something is wrong with your account.

You do not have to pick between everything and nothing. You can keep some email types and turn others off.

To do it:

1. Open My Profile. Then go to Account Settings and choose Notification Settings.
2. Select the email types you want.
3. Click Save My Preferences.

If you skip the last step, nothing changes. A common reason the emails carry on is that a man clears the boxes and closes the page without saving.

To stop every email, go to Settings, then Account Settings, then Notification Settings under the Main menu. Scroll below the Save My Preferences button and click Unsubscribe from all emails.

Zoosk notes that this change can take a few days to take effect. So an email arriving a day or two after you unsubscribe does not mean it failed. Give it a few days before you try again.

Push notifications are the alerts on your phone, and they have nothing to do with email. Changing your email settings does nothing to them.

You control them in your phone's own settings. On an iPhone or iPad, open Settings, then Notifications, then Zoosk. On Android, open Settings, then Apps, then Zoosk, then Notifications. If the buzzing is what bothers you, this is the place to fix it.

If you sign in with an email address, Zoosk sends a one-time login code to that address each time. That email arrives whatever your notification settings say. Unsubscribing from marketing does not remove it.

People who signed in with Facebook, Google or Apple do not get an email code at all. If a code arrives when you did not try to sign in, do not pass it to anyone. Type it only into a Zoosk sign-in screen you opened yourself.

Zoosk's push notifications can tell you about profile views, likes, messages and matches. You can turn them off in your phone's settings, but you do not have to turn them all off.

The useful ones are the alerts for a message or a match. They tell you a woman has done something and is waiting. The view alerts are noise. If you cut those and keep the others, your phone buzzes only when a woman has made a move.

Before you unsubscribe from everything, think about what the emails were doing for you.

If one of the email types tells you a woman has written to you, that email is worth keeping. A reply sitting unread for three days is a reply that is cooling. a dating coach's method for getting from an app to a real plan takes about four to seven messages, and every one has a purpose. It only works if you answer while she is still interested. The marketing and research emails are the ones to cut. The ones that bring you a woman's reply are the ones to read.

A calmer inbox helps with the other half too. A man who is buried in offers stops looking at the app with a clear head. Turn off what you do not need, and open Zoosk on purpose, at a time you pick, to see who is waiting.

Emails are the smallest part of leaving a dating app. If you are done with Zoosk, deleting the account is a separate step from unsubscribing. Unsubscribing silences the messages and leaves the account in place.

If you are only annoyed by the inbox, the settings above are all you need.