Manage Microsoft Teams Notifications

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Walkthrough guide to manage Microsoft Teams Notifications

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Manage notifications in Teams

Microsoft Teams offers different ways to access, receive, and manage notifications. These settings include how, when, and where your notifications appear, custom settings for channels and chat, appearance and sounds, turning off specific messages, and so on.

On a Windows 10 machine, to manage your notifications, select your profile in the top right of Teams, then select Settings button Settings 

This is an image of the settings menu.

 

From the drop down list, select Activity button Notifications

This is a picture of the notifications menu.

 

Manage email notifications

In Missed activity emails, choose how frequently you receive emails for a missed activity or turn them off entirely. Note: These emails don't contain notifications from private channels at this time.

This image shows the missed activity emails drop down.

Manage notification sounds

To turn off or turn on notification sounds, toggle Play sounds with notifications to on.

Manage notifications from Activity

Go to Activity  Activity button on the left side of Teams, hover over the notification that you want to change, and then select the eliipses (More options button)  .

From here, mark a notification as read or unread, and on channel notifications you can adjust what kind of activity you get notified about for that specific channel.

Chats and Channels notifications

Select the drop down next to desired notification type, then chooseShow in activity and banner to recevie an activity and pop-up banner on your screen. Do Show in Activity for only an activity notification and no banner.  All notifications for that type of activity will be sent to Activity  Activity button , which you can find at the top left corner of Teams.

Note: The app will still flash on desktop taskbar when notifications arrive, but no pop-up will show on your desktop.

Teams settings showing option panel for  at mentions notification, replies and like and reacitons

 

Turn off notifications for specific conversations and channels

In a channel conversation, go to the top right corner of the original message and select the ellipses (...)   then press "mute". 

As with muting a chat, turning off notifications to a channel conversation will stop updates for that specific conversation.

Note: You'll still receive notifications if someone directly @mentions you.

Chat options with mute highlighted

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