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Block Teams meeting chat notifications for meetings you don't attend
One of my end users scheduled an MS Teams meeting, but did not attend it. She kept getting notifications about chats occurring in the meeting. I told her how she could leave a meeting or mute it. Is there a way to always mute a meeting if you don't attend it?
- AFAIK, no! But you can connect to meeting and then go to the meeting chat in the chat tab , right click and inactivate notifications for it
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I'm still affected by this feature on a daily basis, many times a day. It's bothering to get notified by Teams about new chats for meetings I've explicitly rejected. I'm forced to leave and hide each of those new chats!!!
All suggestions that entail muting an individual chat are useless, because that's exactly what I want to avoid in the first place.Could the problem be due to the fact that I'm not personally invited, but just a member of an invited group? The famous setting "Mute until I join or send a message" is useless too, maybe for the same reason.
I could be wrong but I think they assume I "implicitly joined" any meeting where I'm a mere member of an invited group, even if I explicitly rejected the meeting. I think it's kind of an optimisation devs did, otherwise they would be forced to keep and use a list of actual participants for each meeting, not just group names and some individuals.
Here's an update from a different forum thread:
We are happy to announce this feature is released. By default meeting chats will be muted until send a message in the chat, or join the online meeting. To change these defaults, go to your profile picture at the top right of the app, select Settings > Notifications. From there, scroll to the meetings section and open the menu next to Meeting chat notifications.
- Same issue occurring here. Meetings I accepted but did not join have chats popping up constantly. Settings-> Notifications-> Meeting Chats set to: Mute until I join or send a message. Installed version is "1.3.00.13565 (64-bit). It was last updated on 6/5/20." Really need to find a way to stop the banners from happening...
I'm surprised this bug hasn't been addressed. I'm sure there are more than one who are extremely annoyed by this.
I'm often invited to Teams meetings, which I don't attend or even accept. Yet, the chat notificaitons show up on my desktop and mobile devices until I physically stop them.
- This is still happening in 1.3.00.15561. It's really annoying
- They changed these meetings were you basically auto join if you accept the invite. But as you and your users are experiencing that can be annoying because of chat. Microsoft has a fix coming in the pipeline for this so you can set it to not alert you until you join the meeting. So that will be nice.
ChrisWebbTech That'll be nice. We'll keep an eye out for that update notification. Thanks for the heads up.
Is there an update on this one as one of my colleagues mentioned that they had accepted a meeting and not joined, but kept on getting the chat notifications in the meeting. They have their setting in Teams set to mute until I join, but this was not happening.
- AFAIK, no! But you can connect to meeting and then go to the meeting chat in the chat tab , right click and inactivate notifications for it
adam deltinger thanks for this tip but I am not seeing where on the meeting chat I would be able to disable the chat notifications. It's driving me bonkers because I get the sound on both my laptop and cell!
thanks
- You can mute chats like this: (see following link)
https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-mute-someone-in-microsoft-teams/amp/
Adam
adam deltinger Thanks for the quick confirmation. I'll let my end user know.
