( You're considered inactive after 3 minutes of inactivity.) One of the first things you'll want to do is choose whether to send notifications to your phone Always, or only When I'm not active on desktop. Go to Settings > Notifications > Show message preview.ĥ. You can also decide whether your desktop notifications show a preview of the message or not. Note: If using Teams on the web, some browsers will only show notifications in the browser tab where you’re running Teams. On Mac OS, these show up in the top right corner of your screen, then move to the Control Center. On Windows, these will show in the bottom right corner of your screen, then move to the Action Center. As you receive multiple messages, we’ll keep a count of them for you. This is where your group and one-on-one conversations happen.
This is where we’ll let you know what’s happening across your teams and channels.Ĭheck out the different kinds of activity you’ll get in Teams. You’ll find this in the top left corner of Teams. Learn how to choose the right settings to fit your preferences. If you change nothing about your Teams notifications, you'll receive both desktop notifications and activity feed alerts for direct messages (chat), and all new conversations and in the channels and teams that show in your teams list.Īll of these defaults can be changed. Note: Currently, only Android mobile devices are able to choose what type of sound plays for notifications.