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Facebook Marketplace notifications not working? How to fix them in 2026

By the Pouncify team · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Updated Oct 16, 2026

Facebook Marketplace notifications arriving late, skipping listings or stopping altogether? Work through the checks below: your phone first, then Facebook, then the search itself. The last section shows how to get every new listing while it is still for sale.

Check these first

1. Your phone allows Facebook to notify you. Notifications for the Facebook app are on in your phone's settings.
2. No Focus or Do Not Disturb is silencing it. A sleep, work or driving mode holds notifications back until it ends.
3. Marketplace notifications are on inside Facebook. Marketplace has its own switch for each notification type.
4. The Facebook app is up to date. Update it from the App Store or Google Play.

Fix it on iPhone

1. Open Settings → Notifications → Facebook and turn on Allow Notifications, with Lock Screen, Notification Center and Banners under Alerts.
2. Open Settings → Focus, choose each Focus you use and allow notifications from Facebook under Apps.
3. Turn off Low Power Mode in Settings → Battery while you wait for a deal: it turns off Background App Refresh.
4. Open Settings → General → Background App Refresh and switch it on for Facebook.
5. Still nothing? Delete and reinstall the Facebook app, sign in, and allow notifications when your iPhone asks.

Menu names can differ slightly between iOS versions.

Fix it on Android

1. Open Settings → Notifications → App notifications → Facebook and turn notifications on, including the Marketplace category if Facebook lists one.
2. Open Settings → Apps → App battery usage → Facebook and choose Unrestricted.
3. Open Settings → Modes → Do Not Disturb (just Do Not Disturb on older versions) and allow Facebook among the apps that may notify you.
4. Turn off Data Saver, or let Facebook use data without restriction.
5. Update Facebook from Google Play, or clear its cache in Settings → Apps → Facebook → Storage & cache.

Names are from Google Pixel phones; your phone's settings search finds each one.

Fix it inside Facebook

1. Open Settings & privacy → Settings → Notifications → Marketplace and switch on the notification types you want.

Check your search itself

1. The location is right, especially after you move or travel.
2. The keywords are not too narrow. Use the words a seller would write: “couch” as well as “sofa”, “bike” as well as “bicycle”.
3. The price range and filters still match what you are looking for.
4. Try it by hand. If new listings show up in Marketplace but no notification came, the search is fine and the notification is the problem.

Why can Facebook's alerts still arrive late?

Facebook decides when to send a Marketplace notification and does not promise one for every matching listing, and Low Power Mode or battery saving adds a delay of its own. For items that sell fast, add a watcher that checks the search itself.

New listings on your phone, within minutes — with Pouncify

Pouncify checks your search itself, on the schedule you choose, and sends every new matching listing to your phone within minutes of it going live, with the photo, the price and where it is.

• One search, every marketplace — Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist, plus OfferUp in the United States and Kijiji in Canada.
• Alerts where you want them — the free Pouncify app for iPhone and Android, or Telegram, email or Discord.
• Facebook login is optional — Pouncify watches Marketplace without one; signing in finds more, fresher listings.
• Private by design — no account with us; your logins, listings and location stay on your computer.

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