diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/components/UnusedBadge.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/components/UnusedBadge.tsx
index 73c11402c99..8d459985ee4 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/components/UnusedBadge.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/components/UnusedBadge.tsx
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ export const UnusedContactPointBadge = () => (
     aria-label="unused"
     color="orange"
     icon="exclamation-triangle"
-    tooltip="This contact point is not used in any notification policy and it will not receive any alerts"
+    // is not used in any policy, but it can receive notifications from an auto auto generated policy. Non admin users can't see auto generated policies.
+    tooltip="This contact point is not used in any notification policy"
   />
 );
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/utils.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/utils.ts
index 479bde2b494..a07e3cc03dc 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/utils.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/utils.ts
@@ -168,8 +168,7 @@ export function isAutoGeneratedPolicy(route: Route) {
 
 export function getUsedContactPoints(route: Route): string[] {
   const childrenContactPoints = route.routes?.flatMap((route) => getUsedContactPoints(route)) ?? [];
-  // we don't want to count the autogenerated policy for receiver level, for checking if a contact point is used
-  if (route.receiver && !isAutoGeneratedPolicy(route)) {
+  if (route.receiver) {
     return [route.receiver, ...childrenContactPoints];
   }