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7,396 votes
Thanks for all of your feedback. The team has been hard at work on improving notifications, and has added more options for Teams & Channels. You can find detailed information on configuring and managing notifications in Teams here: https://support.office.com/article/manage-notifications-in-teams-1cc31834-5fe5-412b-8edb-43fecc78413d
This UserVoice item has evolved to cover many other suggestions over time. We are setting this item to completed, but please feel free to upvote/comment on the items below, as well as create additional ones that may be missing.
1) Integrate with Windows 10 Notifications Center – https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/16950997
2) Integrate with MacOS notifications – https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/16941685
3) Visual notifications are easily missed – https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/18161440
4) Improve audio notifications – https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/18931243
5) Follow channels by default – https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/18626221
6) Turn off preview in notification toasts – https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/32624690
Thanks,
Alex & the Teams team -
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.
5,816 votesWe are happy to share Teams now supports native notifications on Mac OS 10.15 and above. To learn more about changing your notification style in Teams, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/office/change-your-notifications-style-in-teams-0da93820-93d0-4da3-86b6-fc28d19908e3
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Integrate with Windows 10 notification center
Use Windows 10 notification center for notifications
4,171 votesWe are excited to share we have started the roll out of Windows 10 Native Notifications for Teams! The roll out will be completed over the next few weeks, and we will share an update as soon as one is available.
To learn more about how to switch Windows notification styles in Teams, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/office/change-your-notifications-style-in-teams-0da93820-93d0-4da3-86b6-fc28d19908e3.
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Increase duration for desktop notifications
The channel/team on which the notification has been made should stay more/better/longer visible so that you won't miss one.
3,014 votesWith the rollout of support for native Windows 10 OS native notifications, you are able to increase banner duration from 5 seconds all the way to 5 minutes. To learn more, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/office/change-your-notifications-style-in-teams-0da93820-93d0-4da3-86b6-fc28d19908e3 and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/make-windows-easier-to-hear-9c18cfdc-63be-2d47-0f4f-5b00facfd2e1.
Native Mac notifications are in the process of rolling out, and once you have that build, you can also do the same for Mac notifications. (see https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17679433-persistent-notification)
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Turn off message preview in notification toast
Currently, when I receive a message, a preview of this message is displayed in the notification toast. As we will be using Teams at work, it would be great for privacy if I had the option to turn off these previews, so the notification toast will just say "New Message from XY"
2,086 votesTo provide you with even more privacy, Teams now lets you turn off message previews in your desktop notifications. Message previews are on by default. To turn them off, go to your profile picture, select Settings > Notifications > Show message preview. From here, switch the toggle to off.
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Notifications for all messages in a channel
There is no clear way how to enable all notifications in channels. I have channel where I am interested in all messages.
1,957 votesI hope this brightens your Friday — your feature request is here! Our hardworking engineers have been working on this for weeks and we’re happy to report it released yesterday.
To set notifications for all messages in a channel, just click the little ellipses next to the channel name and choose “Follow this channel.”
If this made your Friday, please tweet to us! You can send the tweet to me (@skprufo) or just include the #MicrosoftTeams hashtag, and I’ll make sure it gets to our dev team.
THANK YOU for making Teams better and better with your awesome feedback. You guys are the best.
Sincerely,
Suphatra
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Ability to Mute a Conversation Thread
Please allow the ability for individual users to mute replies to a thread they have participated in. Allow this to be a toggle located under the three dot menu or an additional hover button.
1,654 votesMuting of conversation threads is available to the public. Just like muting a chat, turning off notifications to a channel conversation will stop you from receiving updates for that specific conversation.
To turn off notifications for specific conversations
- Go to the beginning of a conversation in a channel
- Go to the top right corner of the original message in the conversation thread and select More options … > Turn off notifications.
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Automatic DND when presenting
Automatically set status to Do Not Disturb/DND when presenting or sharing screen like on Skype. It's very inconvenient when banners for personal chat notifications come up during meetings, sometimes the content is not to be shared with others. If not that then allow for the option to not show actual text in the banner notifications.
1,166 votesStatus is automatically set to Presenting in Teams when screen sharing is started during a Teams meeting.
For other suggestions mentioned in the comments, please follow the following UserVoice items:
- Mute notifications when on a video or audio call: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40228330
- Respect focus assist: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16950997Thanks.
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Mute a channel - (Mute Chat is complete)
I'd love to keep groups/channels in my list, but mute a channel so I don't get those. I get notified whenever some tags a channel eg @General, it's super distracting!
Also would like the possibility to mute a group chat, so no sound or mobile notification should be received for a user that chooses to mute some group chat.
1,122 votesMuting both a channel and a chat are now available to the public.
When you mute a channel, you will continue to get notifications for the following:
- @Team mentions in that channel
- Replies and reactions to conversations which you have taken part in that channel
- @Channel mention of other channels in that muted channelWhat you will stop receiving notifications for are:
- All new posts in that channel
- Replies to those posts in that channel
- @Channel mentions of that channelTo mute a particular channel,
- Go to the channel overflow menu (triple dot) and choose “Channel notifications”
- Select “Off” for all the menu options you see in that “Channel notifications” dialog boxThanks!
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Flashing Icon in task bar for unread messages
Teams icon pinned in taskbar doesn't blink orange anymore when I receive new messages. I cannot find an option to turn this. Was this removed?
1,034 votesThank you for your continued feedback, the Teams icon will flash/blink orange when a new message arrives.
We are also getting feedback to turn off flashing, and the feature team is evaluating this request. Please follow, vote and leave your comment here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18871387-allow-us-to-turn-of-flashing-taskbar-notifications.
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Persistent notification on Mac
I'm using Mac and one annoying thing is that I'm not getting notified of new messages in team channels (whether I'm mentioned or not) because I missed the banner in the top right of the screen, either from being away from my desk or focusing on my second screen. The red icon is added to the actual application icon in the dock menu when I get a direct chat but there should be something here to indicate that team chats have new messages
887 votesWe are happy to share Teams now supports native notifications on Mac OS 10.15 and above. Users can now switch to Mac notifications styles in Teams and set alert type to Alerts by going to the Apple menu at the top left of your Mac device, select System Preferences>Notifications>Alert Style = alerts.
To learn more about changing your notification style in Teams, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/office/change-your-notifications-style-in-teams-0da93820-93d0-4da3-86b6-fc28d19908e3.
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Notification for connectors
I am not getting any notification when a connector post to a channel. For example a JIRA post to a channel, I would like to get notified by this.
This is checked on Windows 10 Mobile app.
565 votesIts here! Thanks for all your patience on this feature as we worked out the kinks and got it out the door. Connector notifications are now live and there is no additional configuration you need to do to enable them. If you follow a channel, you should already be seeing notifications trigger for messages posted by connectors to those channels. If not, go ahead and follow a channel with a connector in it to see it in action. Please let us know if you run into an issues and we hope this helps your teams work more efficiently!
INSTRUCTIONS:
To get notifications for your connectors, just click on any channel that you want to follow and select the ellipses next to the channel name. Then choose “Follow channel”.Please make sure you have your notifications setting set to actually GIVE you notifications! To do that, click on your avatar…
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Respect Focus Assist
Teams should respect Windows Focus Assist settings. I'm not even sure how apps are allowed to override Windows settings like this.
I put Windows Focus Assist into Alarms Only mode so I could record screen captures and I Teams kept popping up notifications over my application. I had to completely exit Teams so I could finish my task.555 votesWe are excited to share Teams now honors Windows 10 Focus Assist with native Windows notification support. To enable, please switch notification style preference to Windows to bring OS notification features such as Quiet Hours, Focus Assist, Action Center and more into Teams.
To learn more, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/office/change-your-notifications-style-in-teams-0da93820-93d0-4da3-86b6-fc28d19908e3.
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Visual notification in systray of unread message (for both Mac and PC)
When there is an unread message, it would be very helpful if the systray icon could have a visual indicator that something is unread.
529 votesWe have added a white bell to the red dot in the systray icon as a visual indicator when you have unread messages. We hope you find this useful!
~ Alex & the Teams team
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dismiss mobile notifications when marking them read on desktop app and vica-verca
Notifications on the mobile should disappear once read on another device.
494 votesThank you all for your feedback! This feature request has now been completed. :)
Enjoy!
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Multiple Notifications Bugs
Hello,
We have been testing Microsoft Teams for almost a week now, while we love the product; however, it is proving to be counter productive when it stops sending notifications, we are using alternative means to notify each other to check messages on MS Teams.
What we noticed for example is that if discussions continue in a thread for over a day, no new notifications whatsoever are being triggered. In some occasions, even though we have an ongoing discussion, notifications stop, but only work if you tag the other person, but again, this is not a new thread, so it…
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Desktop notifications for Windows
Need to have notifications in the action centre on Windows 10 also preferably make the desktop client a UWP app (I understand it is not currently) for full integration of notifications and (hopefully) Cortana
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Teams does not respect "Do Not Disturb" on MacOS.
When I set my Mac to "DO NOT DISTURB" Teams still pops up notifications. This is really annoying when I'm sharing my screen in a meeting.
248 votesWe are thrilled to share that Teams now supports Mac OS notifications on Mac OS 10.15 and above. With release of this feature, Teams honors OS notification features such as Do No Disturb, Notification center triaging and more. To learn more about changing your notification style in Teams, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/office/change-your-notifications-style-in-teams-0da93820-93d0-4da3-86b6-fc28d19908e3
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Allow email notifications for more notification types
More options on notifications. Would be better if all notifications had an email option. Could easily be done via a check box next to how you would like to be notified. This applies to everything; team notifications, personal mentions, chats, etc. A lot in my organization have complained about missing things because there is not an option of email for most notifications.
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Enable Notification for group chats
Currently we get notifications only for one-to-one chats and not for group chats. Pls enable notifications for group chats also..
164 votes
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