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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.

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Sergi Isasi shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
in testing  ·  AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

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

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  • Caleb commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @GastonM Thanks for explaining it in a very helpful step by step. I have been needing this for awhile. You are invaluable for that increased productivity.

  • Ryan Lutgen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @GastonM - I am not seeing the option for a developer preview under Profile Pic > About... sad day.

  • Jason Tenpenny commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @GastonM OMG you're a genius! I was using the workaround of having Teams open in a minimized browser window and letting notifications come through that way. But this is sooooo much nicer. It still uses the Teams notification for phone calls, but I can live with that for now.

    As a side note, I had to restart Teams after switching notification styles before it asked me to allow notifications from Teams. So if anyone else doesn't get prompted to enable notifications immediately, just restart the app.

  • Andreas Olsson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @GastonM thanks! Didn't see that one... I've activated it now and will try it. Actually, we are trying out Slack instead of Teams, but maybe this will make Teams more usefull.

  • GastonM commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Great news! After years of waiting and searching for workarounds, I finally managed to get native notifications on Microsoft Teams!

    Follow the following steps:
    - Switch to Developer preview: Profile picture => About => Developer preview (if not disabled by your company admin).
    - Wait for Teams to restart.
    - Install the latest version: Profile picture => Check for updates => Refresh.
    - Wait for Teams to restart, and verify it is running version 1.3.00.28778 (or higher).
    - Click seven times on the Teams icon in the Dock until a Development menu appears in the menu bar on the top left.
    - In the Development menu, set the following values to true within the Hooks menu: enableMacNativeNotification, enableNativeNotification.
    - Switch back to the normal version of Teams: Profile picture => About => uncheck Developer preview.
    - Wait for Teams to restart.
    - Quit (CMD + Q) and restart Microsoft Teams again manually
    - Go to Profile picture => Settings => Notifications and choose Mac under Notification style.
    - A prompt should appear to allow notifications for Microsoft Teams, click Allow.

    Enjoy!

  • Ingomar Otter commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The Teams client is pretty terrible technically heres your chance to make it a bit less terrible.

    But what do we get? Together mode. You can|t make this **** up. :-(

  • Bernhard Streit commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    "As with Windows notifications, we are also doing work to give users the choice between Teams notifications & Mac notifications"

    Seriously, why would anyone want that? They only have disadvantages and are badly designed. They are obscured by MacOS Notifications which makes them unusable.

    I think you should focus your effort to drop them completely and only use the MacOs ones...

  • Steve Feinstein commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    They also get obscured by Mac notifications, so until you integrate with the native ones, can you at least give control to move them to another corner of the screen so they they are actually useful and not obscured by the other important and correctly implemented notifications?

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