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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.
Yep, I agree with domstrongbow and that's how I found this convo. My new Teams taskbar pin just says New instead of having the status bar light that can change. This is so key to my knowing my status on Teams to others, when I deep dive into paper work. It seems illogical that anyone would care for the word New to be there as it serves no function. Can the status bar lights please be brought back? I shudder to think sometimes how software upgrades are done where obvious functionalities like this are deprecated.
YAY, it's back! Found this page because I saw the same missing functionality - but my "NEW" Teams said there was an update...and now the badge is back in the taskbar! Phew!
Version:
You have Microsoft Teams version 23285.3607.2525.937.
You've got the latest version. It was last updated on 11/16/2023.
The client version is 49/23101227712.
Version:
You have Microsoft Teams version 23285.3607.2525.937.
You've got the latest version. It was last updated on 11/16/2023.
The client version is 49/23101227712.
- MattLeavitt, you may get the badge in the taskbar, but that means leaving Teams open. It's not in the system tray where it has always been, and been useful.
- I had updated too, and only task bar is show icon with circle status. Icon in System Tray is not showing status.
Many messages missed here too because system tray is only showing "new" text in the icon! I checked with same version and made a test phone call.
Activity bell in the Teams App shows a red 1 in the upper corner but tray icon still shows nothing ("T new" like before)You have Microsoft Teams version 23285.3607.2525.937. You've got the latest version. It was last updated on 17.11.2023. The client version is 49/23101227712.
