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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
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.
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)
StevenC365No, my work computer is not a Mac. And no programs from my work on are on my phone. They are completely separate. I don't have Teams on my phone, but somehow Teams has power over my phone. I've been searching for how to block anything from Teams on my phone but can't find any settings that are allowing Teams to control my phone and have yet to find where they breached my privacy on my personal phone.
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"!