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Applies to: Microsoft Teams.

There are several ways to reach and manage notifications. To go one step further to customise your notification settings, choose your profile picture at the top, right corner of Teams, then press  Settings >  Notifications. Within here, you can refine the type of notifications you acquire and the location in which such notifications appear. 

In Activity on the left side of Teams, pick More options  on a notification. Within the menu, you can flag up a notification as read or unread. You can even activate or deactivate notifications for a certain channel, if preferred.

Stop e-mail notifications Select on your profile picture in the top right of the app, then press    Settings >  Notifications. Now you can format your desired variety of notifications for every kind of activity on Teams. Conversely, simply ensure all activity types are set in the opposite ways if you’d prefer to receive no e-mails.	Use the drop-down menus to stop email notifications.
Keep notifications in the app Choose Only show in feed. This means every notification will be delivered to your activity feed, which you can locate at the top left corner of Teams. The app will still present notifications on your desktop taskbar without any displayed pop-up.
Get notified in app and on desktop Click Banner and feed and you’ll get notifications as both a desktop notification and as an alert in your activity feed. On Windows, notification banners will emerge in the bottom right of your screen. On macOS, they appear in the top right.
Turn off notifications for specific conversations Find the beginning of a conversation in a channel, then visit the top right corner of the message and press More options   > Turn off notifications. Similar to muting a chat, switching off notifications to a channel conversation will prevent you from obtaining updates for that certain conversation. You’ll still obtain notifications if someone directly mentions you.	Turn off notifications to mute a channel conversation.
Choose your channel notifications Find a channel that displays in your teams list and choose More options > Channel notifications. Within here, you can decide what activity you receive notifications for, and where they appear. Automatically, channel mentions are dormant and each new post will merely display in Activity.

Refer to The six things to know about notifications to learn more.

Notification tips and tricks

How to get all notifications for all activity

Instantly, you’ll solely get notifications for teams and channels that you have left visible in your teams list. To ensure you have all your relevant channels, follow the directions at Show or hide teams and channels.

After you’ve acquired all your channels in your desired location, you’ll begin getting notifications in Activity. If you’d even prefer to receive these notifications on your desktop, click Settings > Notifications > and pick Edit under Shown channels and press Banner and feed. 

And how to turn down the noise

Some easy ways to sharpen your focus on the activity that’s crucial to you:

• Switch off desktop notifications for activity you don’t need to respond to right away. Pick either Feed only or Off.
• Hide a channel to toggle off activity and desktop notifications. Hidden channels will emerge in your list if a message is marked important or once someone @mentions you or the channel.
• Format your presence to Do not disturb to secure some quiet time. This won’t alter your notification settings, but it will mute notifications until you modify your presence back.