Integrate with MacOS notifications
Notifications built into the OS (which all apps I've seen use other than Outlook and now Teams) are more functional and allow for more user control. Most importantly, they honor Do Not Disturb settings, which is critical.
Sergi Isasi
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We are getting closer, and are still working thru some bugs, but hope to release this as part of a Public Preview pack in early 2021! (Windows 10 released with the December 2020 pack this week)
You can learn more about the new Microsoft Teams Public Preview program here: https://aka.ms/TeamsPublicPreview, and Teams administrators can find documentation to manage which users will see the Public Preview option here: https://aka.ms/TeamsPublicPreviewAdmin
803 comments
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Luc
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We're 3 users in my team that would need this feature !!! We need to let know team members that there's new stuff without having to send them an email :)
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Anonymous
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The app notifications should use the OS notification framework (both in OSX and in Windows 10), not create it's own notifications.
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TE
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Push-Notifications on Mac OS don‘t behave as they should. They can‘t be muted by the „do Not disturb“ function.
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Edgar Ivaskevicius
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Due to the lack of integration with macOS native notifications I cannot use the "Do not disturb" feature which is extremely critical when presenting. I have to exit Teams instead and then I keep forgetting to start it after the meeting so I end up not running it half of the time.
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Jim
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Agreed. And make notifications still work if the Teams app isn't running. I don't want to have an extra icon on my dock. A menubar item would work.
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Anonymous
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You need to use OSX notifications or at least fix your notifications to stay up until read if wanted. This is very frustrating
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Anonymous
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Not getting Notifications from Teams is holding back adoption. Even though we follow channels, no notifications. People not willing to give up Skype for Business and Slack combo without notifications.
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Anonymous
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This is important! Mostly because I cannot dismiss the custom notification with a swipe which I can do with native notifications.
Native API isn't perfect, but it's better than building a custom solutions that doesn't match how the rest of my native apps behave.
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Justin Lee
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I will add that the Teams notifications look nice but they are very large on macOS and cannot be swiped out of the way like native macOS notifications.
Often the notifications on macOS get in the way of things like the Teams controls when the app is maximized or controls in other applications you need to click on.
You can solve this by:
1) Making the notifications smaller
2) Using native macOS notifications
3) or move notifications to the bottom right corner like you have on the Windows app which doesn't get in the way.Thanks!
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Marcelo
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Plus to this one. Also, the notification UI is ugly.
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Steve Yuroff
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Could a future version please use OS X's native Notification Center for notifications, vs MS own special dialogs? The inconsistency and placement right over Notification Center alerts is unwanted.
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Anonymous
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Use System notifications for macOS desktop app.
This comes with multiple advantages:
- Not shown if Do Not Disturb mode is on
- Built-in reply functionality
- Easy to dismiss with a swipe
- Consistent with entire OS -
CE
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This isn't just about looking right. I put on "do not disturb" whenever I have a meeting and I need to share my screen. This disables all notifications.
That doesn't work for Teams and can potentially expose something very embarrassing while screensharing. Like someone making a comment about another person not thinking it might show up on a webconference.
Do not disturb is an important feature. Don't break it please.
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Balázs Gerlei
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I really don't understand why Teams use a different notification system than the system one on macOS. It is really inconvinient, please integrate with the system notifications instead!
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Darren
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I agree, for me this is a strong reason not to use teams.
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Peter Caruso
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This is super important. Without a reliable notification system, I can't rely on teams for information when multitasking. I don't see why you would use your own notification system over the built in feature which has proven to be 1000 times better
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Dominik commented
I cross-linked to the much more popular quiet hours topic
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16940644-add-quiet-hours-to-notifications -
Mouni commented
This should move to the 'MAC' node. I assume that teams going integrate these to OSX and they are probably (hopefully) watching that node.
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Clifton
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We have already come to grips with the fact that this app will never been fully native, but please at least use native push notifications. :) Do your best to be a good macOS citizen.
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Alexander Ruhland
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This would be a huge improvement to Teams. During work i frequently use the Do not Disturb setting for Notifications on Mac. E.g. to not get disturbed by notifications during presentations or screensharing.
Teams doesn't integrate with the MacOS notification system, therefore one has to remember to turn off teams notifications explicitly. That extra step wouldn't be necessary if the OS notification system was used.