Manage Teams Notifications

Do you feel overwhelmed by Teams notifications? Here are some settings you can modify to help you manage your notifications more effectively and stay on top of your workday:

  • General notifications

Manage how you want notifications to be displayed. For example, you can choose the screen position where Teams displays your notifications.

  • Sound notifications

Choose how you want your notifications to sound, including assigning different sounds to different types of notifications.

  • Chats and channels notifications

Customize your notifications to your personal work style. For example, channel messages ca be shown in a banner notification or be notified in your Teams activity tab.

  • Meetings notifications

Manage how notifications are shown for meetings that are about to start, and chat notifications during meetings.

  • Calendar notifications

Manage how notifications are shown for new meeting invites on your calendar, updates, cancellations, and when meetings you’ve organized have been forwarded to others.

For detailed instructions on how to manage your notifications in Teams, please review this article from Microsoft.

If you need assistance regarding this topic, please contact the UWM Help Desk.