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How to silence the activity feed?
How do I silence the activity feed in Teams? It provides nothing of value, but I can't find a way to get it stop notifying me of pointless things, like someone giving a thumbs up to a post somewhere. It's doubly useless because the activity feed keeps pretending there's something I should know about even if I've obviously already seen whatever it wants to tell me about. So if someone puts a reaction on a message in a chat with me, I have to open the activity feed to get the stupid thing to stop pretending there's some activity about which I need to know. Since it's clearly broken, I need a way to get it to leave me alone. But I can't find a way to get just the activity feed to be quiet.
- WesG760Copper Contributor
Yes. Can we please simply just remove the whole Activity Feed feature? I get notifications on my Chat feed or Teams feed, redundant to the Activity feed and I have to view in both places to clear the notifications. This is ridiculously inefficient.
I've deleted the Activity feed icon from the left nav and even THAT doesn't stop the REDUNDANT notifications. You just have to drill in to clear them. This is an extremely poorly thought out feature.
- DoufReCopper Contributor
Exactly the same issue as OP has: even when any mention of "Activity" is disabled in Notifications settings, it still gets notifications. No way to disable/remove the "Activity" feature completely.
There's no point on having a notification mark in both "Calls" and "Activity" tabs when there is just a single event to be notified about - a missed call.
- JaMmY105Copper Contributor
Agreed, the activity feed in Microsoft Teams is useless and redundant and a waste of productive time if you're managing notifications across Microsoft products. You can turn each off I think, but the default behavior is a bit frustrating.
- Craig_AgainBrass ContributorI only want to silence the activity feed, not all channels. The activity feed is the useless one. I haven't found any notification settings that specify they affect the activity feed only.
- It's in there, turn the "likes" and whatever off.
- UnHappyWindowsUserCopper ContributorThis doesn't help, you still have redundant notifications. The activity feed app is more the useless, it's broken. Before post a reply you should understand the question and make sure your replay addresses the issue.
- xploraiswakcoCopper Contributor
The Activity feed is much worse than described here, if we select something in the Activity feed, we are presented with the item as if we had moved to where the item is, but we don't actually move, leaving us suddenly feeling lost, because we are not where we thought we would be.
The Activity feed is NOT a feature, if anything it's a massive bug disguised as a feature, a feature would be allowing us to completely turn off the Activity feed.