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New Teams: No notification badges in system tray
SOLVED BY THE FOLLOWING: NEW TEAMS IS NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME. When I activate New Teams, I give up having a notification badge in my system tray. I do get notification badges in the taskbar...
- Steven Collier - I'm not trying to be argumentative here, and don't get me wrong, I love Microsoft and I love Teams, but Windows' built-in notification system is used (almost universally) by (almost all) other apps, including Teams Personal. As I know you know, it's been a thing since before Windows 11. Saying that people aren't used to managing windows notifications doesn't really hold water, because it's a universal and well-documented thing on Windows.
In the Windows notifications scheme, I could control how the banner appeared, how it behaved, and how it sounded. You can't do that in the current setup.
But most importantly of all - under the new setup, notifications do not persist! If I walk away from my computer, and someone sends me a chat, the banner will pop up, sit for 5 seconds, and fade away, leaving NO trace whatsoever. In the Windows notification scheme, my little "alarm bell" icon would light up, and I could open the notification flyout to see my notifications. Now, you can't do that. Because Teams doesn't tie into Windows anymore, Teams notifications don't persist or even exist in the flyout. So if I step away, it could be quite a while before I see the notification.
This is why I consider this a negative. I'd love to see the data that leads to the assertion of "universally unpopular" because when I "Bing" around for "Teams Notifications" the only complaints I see are complaints about this current version, and how people don't like it. It is my opinion that Microsoft went too far in the wrong direction, and I echo the sentiment of others who state that this makes New Teams "not ready for prime time" yet.
GlenB The first versions of the new Teams client did use Windows notifications, and it was universally unpopular with test users, people really aren't used to/want to manage their windows notifications so ended up missing things.
If you use the browser version of Teams it will then have to use browser/windows notifications if you want to try it out.
Huh. I'm confused. What do you call a notification? I'm just looking for the little red dot on the system tray/taskbar icon that tells me I need to look at Teams to see the new message.
- ASF - The only way you can get that now is to turn notifications on in New Teams settings... AND be sure to leave your Teams Window open or minimized all the time. The circle will show up on the main part of the taskbar if you have a Teams Window open or minimized.
However, if you accidentally close the window, even if Teams is set to run in the background, you will not see any circles, which is exactly what I'm complaining about as well.- OK. So, Teams took away a popular and useful feature. Maybe we should all just go back to Zoom.
GlenB I registered just to agree with you on this. I don't want Windows notifications, which are clogged with junk anyway - I want the dot on the taskbar icon to tell me if there's something I need to attend to.
- Same here. I hate the full notifications, but want to see the icon change in the system tray if I have a new chat message. I always minimize and close tabs if they continue to run in the background so that I don't have a million windows open.
