Managing your notifications in Teams
Teams is great for keeping communication on topic and collaborating with your team members. By design you are given access to Teams and channels that might be important to read but might not be crucial in your day to day or you don't need to be notified of every post. The other case is that you do want to be notified of every post in that channel so you can stay on top of the messages that are posted there.
Below are instructions to either turn on or off notifications on channels. If you decide to turn off notifications on a channel please note that if you are ever tagged in a post you will still receive a notification (tagging in Teams is covered in another article).
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Turning on notifications for all posts:
- On the desktop app you would open Teams and navigate to the channel in the Team
- Next, click the three dots to the left of the channel:
- Then select the notifications level "All Activity"
- You will now receive a notification for each post made in that channel.
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Turning off notifications for all posts
- Similar to how you can turn on notification in all posts, you can turn them off (with the exception of you or the channel being tagged).
- Follow the step above to get to the channel notification settings and instead of clicking "All activity" click off:
- Now you will not receive a notification for each post made.
While we recommend you keep on notifications for all pertinent channels we understand managing the noise Teams can create is important to keeping everyone on topic and engaged when you receive a notification from Teams.
I also suggest checking out the articles on how to access and filer your notifications in Teams, this will help you get to the posts that you need.