TFS Follow Not Emailing - tfs

My searches have returned so many non-related results, I apologize. My issue is simple, in TFS when I click "Follow" on an item, I would expect to be emailed when the item is changed, that's what the documentation seems to say. It's not happening. I do receive a notification when an item is assigned to me so email configuration is not the issue.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you

Please navigate to 'Project Settings' > 'Notifications' > '+ New subscription', and set up a custom notification subscription for 'Work' > 'A work item is changed'. Then to see if you can receive the notification email when the work item is changed.
[UPDATE]
Please click the gear icon to check if the selected option is 'Subscribed'.
For more details, you can see "Follow work".

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I've been trying to figure this out for a week now and haven't had any success. I have a project in Jira with a Kanban board that we use for issues/support tickets. We have a custom field (called secondary assignee) which basically lets us add an additional assignee responsible for the ticket.
I am trying to figure out how to set Jira to send an email notification to the secondary assignee when the requester or someone else replies to the issue and the issue is updated. Our settings are as follows:
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This should ensure that the notification goes out to the secondary assignee when an issue is updated.
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I couldn't find any settings in my account, Can this be disabled?
I read in jira that it should be the case by default
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I do not see any way to do this either.
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Last week, I sent a message via JIRA's "Share" link on one issue to a requester with nearly 100 issues. I haven't received a response and want to follow up, but I don't remember which issue it was. Are "Share" messages logged in JIRA, and is it possible for me to search them? It would be nice to not have to go back through each individual list and search for it.
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