Ability to add watchers during issue creation

NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for voting and commenting on this issue. Your feedback is key to helping us understand how you use JIRA so we can continue improving your experience. We have reviewed this issue over the last few days; however, there are not currently any plans to implement this suggestion.

Please make sure to check out:

• a free third party plugin JIRA Watcher Field for JIRA Server customers.
• a free Atlassian Labs plugin JIRA Autowatch for JIRA Cloud customers.

Another alternative is to use "@mentions" in the description of an issue to notify end users about the issue being created, and the recipients can then decide if they want to watch the issue.

Please remember that jira.atlassian.com is one of many inputs for the JIRA roadmap. You can learn more about our process here.

I understand that our decision may be disappointing. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Regards,
Dave Meyer
dmeyer@atlassian.com
Product Manager, JIRA Platform