How to Stop Google Sheets from Sending Edit Emails

A shared spreadsheet is emailing you about every edit. Those emails come from a notification rule set on your own account for that spreadsheet, and only you can change it.

Open the notification settings

Open the spreadsheet in a browser and choose Tools, Notification settings, Edit notifications. On some accounts the item is still called Notification rules. The phone apps do not have this menu, so use a computer.

Change or remove the edit rule

The rule causing the emails is Any changes are made paired with Email - right away. Pick Email - daily digest to receive one summary a day instead, or remove the rule entirely (the trash icon next to it, or Don't send where that option is shown). Click Save.

Turn off comment emails separately

Emails about comments and mentions follow a different setting. Choose Tools, Notification settings, Comments and pick None, or Only yours to keep emails for threads you started or were tagged in. Confirm the dialog.

Repeat for other spreadsheets

Notification rules are stored per spreadsheet, not per account. If several sheets are emailing you, open each one and repeat the steps. There is no single switch in Google Sheets that silences all of them.

Filter whatever is left in Gmail

If a sheet you cannot open is still sending mail, search Gmail for the spreadsheet name in the subject line, click the sliders icon, click Create filter, choose Skip the Inbox or Delete it, and click Create filter.

If the emails say someone shared a file with you. Those are sharing notifications, not edit notifications, and cannot be switched off per sheet. The person sharing controls them by unticking Notify people before sending.

About the daily digest. Rules are per user per spreadsheet, so each collaborator sets their own and nothing you change here affects what anyone else receives. The digest is the quiet middle ground: you still learn that a sheet changed, in one email at the end of the day.