Add quiet hours to notifications
I like having notifications on my mobile device, but would like the option to silence notifications for after hours and weekends. Potentially, selectively per channel/team.
Andrew
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Great news, this feature request has been completed and now available to the public!
Thank you for all your feedback and suggestions. :) Enjoy the feature!
-Warren
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Nathan Berger
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This feature has been added to Teams on Windows 10.
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Niels M.
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this is soooooo super important!!! Especially the option to set this for each device individually. I don't want to receive notifications on my smartphone when I leave office 😉
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Matt Korich
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Really cheering for this one,. Inheriting a "DND", "OOO", or "focus time" from calendar would be fantastic!
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Charles Feval
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At least taking the focus assist setting of Win10 would be great.
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Patrick Buller
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"This feature request is now in the testing stages!"
Can you give more details about what exactly you are implementing?
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Anonymous
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"A reminder that for mobile please note that notification restrictions are handled by the mobile OS. You can disable notification via the mobile OS settings. And setting your mobile phone to do not disturb (turning on quiet hours) will force all apps, including Microsoft Teams, to no longer notify you during its duration."
That's a disappointing cop out - Slack does it, and it's instantly valid on all devices.
When I go into a meeting and silence alarms in Slack on one device, it instantly syncs to my phone.
Try harder.
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Travis
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Mobile notifications aren't exclusively handled by the mobile OS. Blocking notifications at the system level is clunky, and is the "nuclear option," reserved for the small minority of apps which do not provide adequate notification handling on their own.
(Related note: Interestingly, [and unsurprisingly], after your updated reply dismissing fixing this on the mobile apps, all of the commenters suggest that proper mobile notification handling is more important than desktop. Perhaps the development effort should be focused there instead. I agree--notifications are much more of a bother when one is "off-the-clock.")
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Patrick Buller
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I hope that notification restrictions are CURRENTLY handled by mobile OS, but not permanently. It is important to be able to disable notifications, at least partly, similar to Slack.
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Jonathan K
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I want the ability to go on PTO for a week, stay signed into the app on my phone but silence all notifications for the week - except for direct messages where someone IMs me directly. Putting my phone into quiet hours doesn't accomplish that b/c I want to get notified of text messages from friends. I just don't want to keep getting notifications about work related stuff on the general chat channels when I'm not working.
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Sean W
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Agree with all the other comments. The main use case for this is not receiving work-related push notifications on mobile when not working.
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Anonymous
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We can't get push notifications to work on our iPhones. As a result most of the team have gone back to using iMessage groups which I would like to avoid. Am I missing something. How can we get the notifications to work. We have checked and rechecked that they are turned on.
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John Geffers commented
For mobile. I don't want to turn off all apps from notifying me. I just want to turn off teams so when I take a day off from work or it's outside of my working hours I'm not getting notifications that I don't want to receive.
This is one of the many features that makes slack a better application for communicating in a work place environment.
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Anonymous
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Do not disturb isn't really a good solution. I would like to receive notifications for Teams when I'm working, but not on the weekends or after work. DND is for all applications. I don't want to turn notifications off for everything else during that time frame. I work at a global company with round the clock chat. I was signing out of the app all the time, but it's a pain with two factor authentication. I've just disabled notifications for the app entirely, since I'm much more annoyed being interrupted after hours than I'm annoyed not getting notifications during work.
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Chris Webb
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Do Not Disturb does the same thing and works now since the presence updates, not really much of an issue IMO.
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Jason
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Your concept is fundamentally flawed. This should be server side - if I'm off work, I'm off work. It's the equivalent of logging out, but this way I don't need to remember to log out and log back in later on each device. My PC will likely be off when I'm gone, but my phone won't be, which means I need to manually change something every time: notifications setting, DND (which would be for the whole phone so not practical), logout, etc. We want the system to show us as off work, and block incoming messages across everything. Ability to schedule it and to override it (both extend working hours and cut them short) is a necessity. Minimize human interaction and let the system be smart about this.
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UB
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This was one of the main features our team cited when they said "Teams won't work for us" and went with S***k instead. It was a bummer for me.
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Jen Ritchie
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This is really important for teams that work different time zones/times of day. People should be able to define 'working hours' as an option, to avoid interruptions of their personal time.
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Jason
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Huge difference between silencing a phone using the OS DND, and indicating to your company you're off for the evening/weekend by setting Teams to quiet. Especially when you work with users in multiple time zones. Your proposed solution is wholly inadequate. Right now, the only solution is to sign out on mobile, but that requires a full sign in again next time.
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Nate
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Sometimes we just want to snooze notifications for this app and not all others. OS-level notification blocking is not a replacement for having this basic feature within the app. You should be able to snooze certain Teams or chats without shutting yourself out from the rest of the app or all apps for that matter
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Steven Collier
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Pretty sure you can achieve that using Android Notifications, applying priorities and downtime settings. iOS is less flexible. If Teams had it's own mechnism for when to send mobile notifications, while the operating systems also have a mechanism, wouldn;t it get terribly confusing for user, when you arent getting the notiifications you want, two places to check.