Microsoft Teams offers different ways to access, receive, and manage notifications. These settings include how, when, and where your notifications appear, custom settings for channels and chat, appearance and sounds, turning off specific messages, and so on.
Important:
Microsoft Windows can block notifications before they appear in Teams. Follow the instructions in Change notification and action settings in Windows 10 to make sure that your system settings allow apps (including Teams) to send notifications to you.
If you're using macOS version 10.15 and above, follow the instructions at Use notifications on your Mac.
To manage your notifications, select Settings and more in the top right of Teams, then select Settings > Notifications.
Manage notification sounds
Customize individual notifications
Customize channel notifications
Customize all other notifications
Only get notifications in the app
Get notified in the app and on desktop
Turn off notifications for specific conversations
Change channel notifications while in the Teams list
To turn off or turn on notification sounds, toggle on Play sound for incoming calls and notifications.
Go to Activity on the left side of Teams, hover over the notification that you want to change, and then select More options . From here, mark a notification as read or unread, and on channel notifications you can adjust what kind of activity you get notified about for that specific channel.
To be notified about all your shown channels, select All activity
To be notified only when you are @mentioned or when you receive replies to your messages in channels, select Mentions & replies
For the most control over your channel notifications, select Custom
Choose the Edit button next to the category to customize how you receive notifications for that category. Categories include Chat, Meetings, People, and Other.
Select Edit next to Chat, then choose Only show in feed for a specific category. All notifications for that type of activity will be sent to Activity , which you can find at the top left corner of Teams.
Note: The app will still flash on desktop taskbar when notifications arrive, but no pop-up will show on your desktop.
Select Banner and feed to receive notifications as both a desktop notification and as an alert in Activity .
Choose whether or not a message preview shows on desktop by turning the toggle on for Show message preview.
Note: In Windows, notification banners will show in the bottom right of your screen. In macOS, they show in the top right.
In a channel conversation, go to the top right corner of the original message and select More options > Turn off notifications.
As with muting a chat, turning off notifications to a channel conversation will stop updates for that specific conversation.
Note: You'll still receive notifications if someone directly @mentions you.
Hover on a channel in your teams list and select More options > Channel notifications .
Choose from All activity, Off, or Custom—just as you would in settings. When you select Custom, a new window will open that has more options.
Note: By default, channel @mentions are turned off and all new posts will only show in Activity .
To learn more, check out The six things to know about notifications.