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Microsoft Teams Notification Sounds - Can't turn off???
I work at a rather large organization and we just switched to using Microsoft Teams. So far it has been great but what is driving me nuts is the Notification for new messages. I can't find it anywhere to turn this annoying sound off. When you have several coworkers all messaging you, I can't even wear headphones anymore it's gotten so bad.
And you can't even turn it off? My options are, "Call, Mention, and Chat" , "All", "Off"
How is these not separated? I would like it to be able to ring for calls but I don't need a BEEP every time someone messages me since I already get a banner and a flashing name.
Please let me know if I am missing a setting somewhere.
EricaMG this too was driving me nuts, I went into notifications and changed 'chat messages' from 'banner' to off.
This resolved my issue, I don't need to see every time there is a chat message, but if I'm mentioned or called it still alerts me.
I would prefer to keep the banner notification and simply eliminate the sound.
- Katrin WeixelIron Contributor
DVipe Same- we would love these to be further separated so we can hear new calls/meetings coming through but no "ding" for every chat and @mention. Would be so nice to find an option for this!
- AdamC360Brass Contributor
Katrin Weixel I concur. Especially with the new home working initiatives, the incessant beeping forced me to switch notification sounds off, but I then missed a couple of calls and was late for a meeting.
We need full granularity of notification sounds please MS.
- EricaMGCopper Contributor
- RobMSPCopper Contributor
EricaMG this too was driving me nuts, I went into notifications and changed 'chat messages' from 'banner' to off.
This resolved my issue, I don't need to see every time there is a chat message, but if I'm mentioned or called it still alerts me.
I would prefer to keep the banner notification and simply eliminate the sound.
- KVB1850RMnCopper Contributor
I do agree. Microsoft Team developers ThereseSolimeno please make it possible: No sound, except when being called.
- DVipeIron Contributor
I think this could be a very easy fix on the Microsoft side.
Instead of having a drop list of only a fixed set of options, just give us the option of check boxes to select which notifications we want On/Off. It's that simple!
It seems rather silly to have the options of ALL notifications or NO notifications be your only options.
I want to be able to hear the call notification, which is the ringer.. but not hear a notification for every message that comes through.This is especially annoying when you are in a meeting or doing something else and Teams will deafen the call I am on to play me a message notification. It doesn't make sense.
- AnthonyBigotCopper Contributor
I can't agree more to this ;
Please simply add a check box selector for notification sounds
- LeaLeaCopper ContributorIf (like me) you want to be able to hear your calls coming through but cannot be doing with the millions of 'Pings' for notifications throughout the day (and you have not figured this out already) make sure your "Play sound for incoming calls and notifications" is on and "Notification style" is switched to windows, you can then turn off the notification sounds for windows in the windows settings, the calls still come through teams and you can hear them but any chat notifications, mentions etc. come through the windows notifications and make no sounds, kind of a round about way, would be easier if Teams had separate sound settings for calls and notifications but this will have to do for now.
Hopefully this will help someone else.- fabfabBrass ContributorThanks!! So to clarify, after switching in the Action Center - Notifications, find the "Teams settings" I turned off "Play a sound when a notification arrives" and it still rings for phone calls! That's great. I was also able to turn off Banners there.
- fabfabBrass ContributorOf course, IM's are now also muted... So you have to train yourself to look for the notification dot. Banners are not a solution because I don't look at my screen a lot of the time, I just come back to it every half hour or so. This is why you can't let developers design the UI behavior, because they never take their eyes off their screens... Microsoft will apparently never learn this.
- BartonFiskeCopper ContributorFor unknown reasons, the Action Center - Notifications panel on my desktop does not show Microsoft Teams in the pick list? Is there another way to modify these settings?
- DragonQuarterCopper ContributorThey need to fix this. It's absurd that even in silent mode on an iPhone, the notification sounds for Teams STILL come through.
- fabfabBrass Contributor
I just found this post. The problem remains unresolved, it seems. I only just stumbled onto this because I turned off "Sound for Notifications: in my settings and for weeks now have been wondering why phone calls aren't ringing.
Please, Microsoft, you seem to literally make changes and tweaks to Teams every other day, can you please prioritize this?? Thanks
- JenworkCopper Contributor
Its still an issue in 2021. The noise is driving me nuts. I don't need to hear a chime every time someone reacts to something. I still want a chime if I'm mentioned or a new chat but every single time anyone likes/reacts is driving me nuts.
- YemencommsCopper Contributor
Really, at a time when videoconferencing is becoming so critical, I can't understand why MS have not made some of these simple fixes. The sound of notifications is maddening. And I have tried turning *everything* off (affecting in theory even incoming calls) and the notifications STILL KEEP BEEPING.
- w1zk1dCopper Contributor
What sound does this play? Is it the default ding.wav file? If that is the case we can replace this sound file with a wav file that makes no sound. Microsoft - can you please tell us what default sound file is being used?
Is there a registry setting to change what sound it uses? Personally, I have the NO SOUNDS Theme loaded on my sound control panel as I don't like sounds for every little action. I only like to have sounds for specific apps that I need. So if it uses ding.wav, I am ok replacing that with a soundless wav file.- ps1008Brass Contributor
I do want Teams to "ding" me to get my attention when I receive messages during the rest of the day, and I don't want to have to turn on/off the dign'ing before and after meetings by editing a .wav file. Also, the pop-ups themselves are very distracting.
Microsoft, please do not close this with a half-assed solution or work-a-round!
- tomtom2290Copper Contributor+1. I don't like missing calls, but it's better than constant dinging. Separating would be most helpful