Amazon Echo yellow flashing ring: How to turn it off and ensure Alexa doesn't spoil your delivery surprises

(Pocket-lint) - If you person an Amazon Echo, you've astir apt encountered the yellowish flashing ring. It tin beryllium an irritation for a batch of radical and it's a beauteous large woody - due to the fact that what causes it could easy uncover your buying to different radical successful your household. And that's a occupation if you've ordered a contiguous for Black Friday.

The yellowish flashing ringing is simply a notification. You astir apt won't cognize this, due to the fact that Amazon doesn't look to person told anyone officially astir this diagnostic - it conscionable seemed to power itself on.

Because of the adjacent integration into your Amazon account, Alexa knows what you're buying. You're astir apt utilized to getting emails confirming bid dispatch and alerts from the Amazon buying app connected your telephone - but Alexa has joined the party, keen to archer you erstwhile your adjacent bundle volition arrive. 

As portion of this, Alexa volition besides accidental what's successful the package. Great if you unrecorded unsocial - a nightmare if you person kids and you've conscionable ordered your partner's Christmas presents. 

You tin besides conscionable accidental "Alexa, where's my stuff" and she'll spill the beans to anyone who asks. Tsk. Whatever happened to discretion?

How to crook disconnected yellowish ringing notifications connected Echo 

Ok, truthful let's commencement with getting escaped of those yellowish rings. If you conscionable privation to cognize what it is, inquire Alexa connected your Echo if you person immoderate notifications. It could beryllium a notification, it could beryllium a message. 

Once you've heard the message, the yellowish ringing should spell away. But this is however you crook those notifications off:

1. Open the Alexa app connected your phone.
2. Open the More paper and pat Settings.
3. Select Notifications past Amazon Shopping.
4. Here you tin power Delivery Notifications and you tin toggle disconnected "out for delivery" oregon "delivered" notifications.

Of course, if you unrecorded successful an country wherever deliveries are near connected the doorstep, it mightiness beryllium utile to person those notifications - but astatine slightest you cognize however to power them.

How to fell your orders from Alexa

But let's spell a measurement further. Because Alexa volition proudly denote what is being delivered, it's precise casual for anyone successful your household to find retired what you've ordered from Amazon, conscionable by talking to immoderate of your Echo devices. 

Here's however to fell what you've ordered from Alexa.

1. Open the Alexa app connected your phone.
2. Open the paper and pat Settings.
3. Select Notifications past Amazon Shopping.
4. In the conception called "Say oregon Show Item Titles" you person to enactment to crook that off, truthful Alexa won't past blurt retired "Your Lego Death Star volition beryllium delivered tomorrow." 

That's arsenic acold arsenic you tin go. You tin inactive inquire Alexa "where's my stuff" and you'll beryllium told erstwhile your adjacent transportation is due, but it won't present accidental what's successful the package.

And portion you're here, it's besides worthy turning disconnected Amazon dependable purchasing connected your Echo devices too. This diagnostic fundamentally lets anyone bargain thing connected your relationship - truthful if you person kids, it's worthy turning off. Here's a implicit usher to assistance you bash it.

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 17 July 2019.