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Logged into teams and using it on PC how to stop cell phone notifications
Hi,
If you go to Teams on your mobile/cell, find settings. Scroll down to Block Notifications. The turn on the Block Notifications - When active on desktop. See the video
UncleScotty Teams is an app on the PC, it can't make decisions about how that PC gets its internet connected. Windows could be configured to prefer one wifi over another I guess, but only if you tell it. More likely your wifi was down so your phone offered a connection and with nothing else available and as someone allowed Windows to remember the network some previous time the phone hotspot was used.
Thanks for your reply, StevenC365, but the wifi WAS working. The Teams call was INITIATED using the house's wifi. (And it was being used by other apps!)
Also, the phone involved is NEVER used as a hotspot.
Regardless, even if either of these conditions were true, a DISTINCT and explicit WARNING of such an expensive consequence as using the phone provider's Mobile Data option SHOULD have appeared on Teams' screen so that the operator KNEW of the pending expense and had the option to terminate the call or turn off the the phone.
Also, Teams AND Windows are both products of Microsoft, so whichever one causes the problem, it's THEIR fault.
UncleScotty Teams is a client app on top of Windows (or mac etc), it has no idea how the operating system is connecting to the internet, it has no choice in the matter. It also can not turn on a mobile phones hotspot capability, it can't guess the password used to access that hotspot, and it can't make Windows connect to that hotspot.
None of these are things that Teams can do.
1. We landed a man on the moon in 1969
2. If Teams "can't do any of these things"... it sure did a miraculous job of either LETTING or TELLING my laptop to tap into a nearby cellphone (which has never been used as a hotspot) and draining 2GB of data.
If neither Teams nor Windows can at least ADVISE if not prevent what happened, I suggest the geniuses in ONE of those two departments "get on it"!
StevenC365I think you underestimate what happens with Teams. I do not have Teams on my iphone, however, if I am on a call on my iphone with someone and they try to share screens through Teams on my work computer (not connected to my phone!) my phone call is put on HOLD. I do not have Teams on my phone and have completely different login, etc for my work computer. Im trying to find out how to get Microsoft and Teams off my Personal phone when I never allowed it!
kathheu is your work computer a mac, which has a feature called Continuity that can link calls between it and the users iPhone ?
Why's my Mac taking my iPhone calls? How to turn off Apple Continuity (pocket-lint.com)
