Manage your Teams Notifications

Teams notifies you about a lot by default. You can turn most of it off, and you will not miss anything important.

The Digital Experience team recommends turning off the four settings below. Reactions and activity summaries still appear in Teams - you just stop being interrupted by them.

Where the settings are

In Teams, select the ... menu at the top right and choose Settings.
Select Notifications and activity.

Missed activity emails. A summary email about Teams activity. if you are in Teams, you have already seen it.

Likes and reactions - a notification every time someone reacts to something you wrote. In an active channel this is most of your notifications and almost none of your information.

New invites, updates and cancellations sent to me and When people forward meetings I've organised both under calendar. Outlook already tells you about these, so you are being notified twice.

What will you still be notified about

Direct messages
@mentions of you by name
Calls
Anything in a channel you have chosen to follow

When reactions do notify you

Even with reactions on, you are only notified when someone reacts to something you wrote, or to a thread you are part of. You are not notified about reactions to other people's messages.

Quiet hours on your phone

To stop work notifications arriving in the evening or at weekends:

Open Teams on your phone and tap your profile picture.
Tap Notifications, then During quiet time.
Set your daily hours and your quiet days.

You are not expected to be reachable outside your working hours. Setting this is a reasonable thing to do, not something to feel awkward about.

Turning down a slightly noisy channel

Rather than turning notifications off everywhere, you can quieten one channel:

Hover over the channel name, select ... then Channel notifications, and choose what you want to hear about.