Allow us to turn of flashing taskbar notifications
Flashing taskbar notifications are a bit annoying, and it would be nice to have the option to turn off that flashing (while keeping popup notifications enabled).
Vergil Weatherford
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242 comments
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Kyle Taylor
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Extremely distracting for a "work" collaboration tool. No work tool would do this.
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Ricki Pro
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PLEASE, TURN OFF FLASHING ICON, AT LEAST WHEN IN "DO NOT DISTURB". OR let us change the setting ourselves.
Thank you :-)
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Mark Wiemer
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The closest I've been able to get is simply muting all chats. Of course, this has its own downsides (no more orange badge on the Chat icon, no more pictures of chats). It works for me.
I will say the color is a bit less distracting on Windows 11, but it still has all the same issues (appears even when taskbar is hidden, doesn't go away until relevant chat is opened).
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Jouni Lammi
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To everyone that is distracted by this, please submit feedback about this by using the "Give feedback" in Teams (https://twitter.com/MicrosoftTeams/status/1443206746919653376 ). Maybe the feedback flood will make them finally implement this no-brainer of a feature.
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Lauren Yurman
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Agree with all the comments here, please allow the ability to stop the flashing. Super distracting
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Jouni Lammi
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This is killing my productivity. Please make this configurable, the orange blink is horribly distracting.
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Anonymous
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This NEEDS to be configurable.
Let people choose what color the highlight is. Blue would be a lot less distracting than orange.
And let people choose whether the taskbar icon changes color at all. It could simply have a little dot added in the corner, say, to indicate that the app wants attention.
And let people decide whether the taskbar icon flashes at all, or just gets highlighted or a colored dot added to indicate that the app wants attention. -
DaHoma
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Please, it is so easy to fix this, it is so disturbing
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Marius
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It's the most distracting thing in my work day.
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Daniel Mutch
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Please fix - can't get work done!
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Anonymous
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Yes we should be able to turn off the blinking taskbar, it's very distracting.
Please also disable flashing when users share / stop sharing their screen. If we're in the video meeting, we know that the screen has been shared.
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Anonymous
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flahsing on the taskbar is extremely disturbing, and it is offensive that it's not possible to disable it.
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Anonymous
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Please fix this!
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DH
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Please, please, please let me turn off the blinking part of notifications. Can't we reserve that for urgent comments?
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Witt
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My attention is taken ******* by this simple, unconfigurable feature everytime someone sends me a message. There's got to be a happy medium so I can stay on top of information, but not be pulled away from deep work everytime a co-worker chats me.
A non-flashing taskbar would accomplish that for me. -
Kyle
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Please allow us to configure the flashing. Having the option to turn it off would be nice. Havin the option to make it blink just once would be even better.
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Worker
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Option tot turn of blinking, yes please
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Seth
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Please!
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Anonymous
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Please Microsoft, even Discord allows you to do this.
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Ben Ferguson
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Could we pretty please make this a priority? There are already tons of ways to see you have a new message in Teams without your desktop exploding.
For anyone who needs to focus at their job, this is a massive productivity killer.