Texts are a helpful way for Xfinity to communicate with you. Xfinity sends texts about your services, including appointment reminders, billing updates, outages, and customer satisfaction surveys. You can also interact with Xfinity’s virtual assistant through text (some responses may be AI generated).
Xfinity also periodically sends information about new products and services through text. If you prefer not to communicate through text, Xfinity makes it easy to opt out of future messages. Review the information below for details on managing Xfinity texts.
Set up text messaging
Before you can get texts from Xfinity, you must register your phone number in your account. If you haven’t already added a phone number to your account, review Register your phone to get texts for more steps.
Xfinity texts
Xfinity uses the following phone numbers to send texts to our customers:
- 266-278: Information about Xfinity services, including appointment reminders, billing updates, and outages.
- Most interactions with Xfinity Assistant will also come from this phone number, or 1-800-934-6489 or 1-800-266-2278.
- 1-888-936-4968: Information about Xfinity Mobile services, including billing and usage reminders.
- 474-84: Information about using your Xfinity Mobile services internationally, including data and roaming rates and information about Global Travel Pass.
- 61-591 (English) and 41-371 (Spanish): Xfinity customer satisfaction surveys.
- 934-489: Information about new products and services Xfinity is offering if you have asked to get it.
- 75-773: Information about Xfinity prepaid internet service.
- 47-828: Xfinity Home text alerts.
- 73-448: X1 Sports texts alerts.
Comcast Business customers receive texts about their services from 26-244 and texts with customer satisfaction surveys from 76-493. Review Manage your Comcast Business alerts online for more details about managing preferences for Comcast Business communications.
Important: If you receive a text from a phone number you do not recognize stating it’s from Xfinity, or making a suspicious request, like asking for your payment information, make sure you take steps to protect yourself from fraud before responding!
Tip: Add these phone numbers to your phone's contact list so you know when Xfinity is texting you.
Opt out of Xfinity texts
Xfinity makes it easy to opt out of texts. To stop getting texts* you can:
- Reply STOP to any text from Xfinity.
- Unsubscribe at xfinity.com/donotcontact.
There are a few important things to remember about opting out:
- *There are some texts, including, but not limited to, those about emergencies, fraud or other violations of law, security issues, and harm caused to the network, that you cannot opt out of. Additionally:
- Xfinity Mobile customers cannot opt out of important alerts about using their services internationally.
- The only way to manage Xfinity Home alerts sent through text is through the Xfinity Home app.
- If you reply STOP to a text from Xfinity, you will be opted out of all automated calls and texts from Xfinity.
- If you are an Xfinity and Comcast Business customer, and you use the same phone number for both accounts, replying STOP to a text from Xfinity or Comcast Business will opt you out of all automated calls and texts from both Xfinity and Comcast Business.
- If you reply STOP to 73-448 (X1 Sports texts), you will continue to receive other Xfinity texts. To stop receiving all Xfinity texts, simply reply STOP to 266-278.
- You may continue to get texts for up to ten business days after opting out, while Xfinity processes your request.
Review Managing your communications from Xfinity to learn more.
Opt back into Xfinity text
Xfinity customers can opt back into calls and texts about their services, including appointment reminders, billing updates, and outages at any time by texting START to 266-278. If you use the same number for your Comcast Business account, replying START will also opt you back into texts related to Comcast Business services. To opt back into sales texts, Xfinity customers can visit the Manage Xfinity Communications Preferences page.
Review Managing your communications from Xfinity to learn more.
Additional information
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