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Teams Notification Integration with Mac OS Notifications--is is missing?
Hello All, Teams banners are not showing up in Apple Notifications:
On Catalina: 10:15:5,
MS Teams (from MS Office 365), Version 1.3.00.18164
I am getting banners, for the requisite 5 seconds, but when I go to pull down the Mac OS Notifications list, it is not listed there.
When I go to "System Preferences"-->"Notifications", I don't see "Teams" listed. Should I?
I feel it should be integrated with the Mac notification so that the Teams' notifications can be viewed after the 5 second banner disappears, and also in the order received with other notifications. If I miss that 5 second display (maybe I had an alternate desktop obscuring the banner), it's essentially lost to me.
Thanks for you time/help.
Mundeli
JustaUser Hi there - this is currently on the Roadmap to be rolled out this month: Feature ID: 66743
Attached is a pic of what the Teams notifications settings looked like in an early preview of MacOS native notifications in Teams. Once that rolls out you will be good to go 🙂
JustaUser Hi there - this is currently on the Roadmap to be rolled out this month: Feature ID: 66743
Attached is a pic of what the Teams notifications settings looked like in an early preview of MacOS native notifications in Teams. Once that rolls out you will be good to go 🙂
Sweet!
Even better design than I envisioned.
Now, if you're just better at estimating time to delivery than I am....
thanks so for the update.JustaUser No problem. I am glad I could help - I am really looking forward to the feature too- super helpful!
Ethan Stern You mentioned some months ago that this feature is on the Roadmap to be rolled out soon? Do you also know what happened in the meantime and if this is still planned to be rolled out in the near future? I still do not see the option which you provided by your early preview screenshot.
jengelhardt Hi there, sorry for the delay- I was on vacation 🙂 The roadmap was updated and it looks like this will roll out by the end of December
Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams
Users can now chose to deliver Microsoft Teams notifications via macOS native notifications.
Hello,After all this time, what's the status with those native macOS notifications?
Still working on it?Don't you have enough macOS software engineers? 😉
Luca Severini
Hi,
Has this been rolled out yet? I am still not seeing this option under Team's Notifications settings.
Thanks
I am having the same problem. Constantly missing notifications on teams because they are still not native and I do not have an option to choose native either. This is horrible.
- Would love to see this implemented!! Non-native Teams notifications are pretty hacky. Please count this as a vote to develop this for release.
For anyone interested it looks like an anticipated February release of this feature is just around the corner: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?SilentAuth=1&rtc=1&filters=&searchterms=66743
I am a "me too" on this. I often have 1 or 2 notifications sitting in the corner of my primary display waiting for me to do something before I acknowledge. Microsoft Teams notifications show up in the same corner of the same screen, BEHIND native mac OS notifications, so I cannot see the Teams notifications.
At a minimum, Teams should allow me to configure notifications to a different location. Ideally Teams would use the native mac OS notification system.
- It is interesting that the roadmap still states a February release for this feature and we are now into March, when the original projection for release was Oct. 2020. Microsoft never fails to disappoint in so many ways.
- Now that they changed release time to March. Just hoping they don't keep pushing the release time. I really thought that they have a release planned in Oct 2020. But seems like the release time is a joke.
- ...
I'm sorta staggered that this hasn't been implemented, and that nobody is communicating outwards. This should be the definition of MUSTFIX?
Does anybody at MS actually use Teams on Mac? - I have noticed that Microsoft Teams is available in the System Preferences / Notifications list, when I don't remember it even being there before. Is that just my own delusion? I'm using the public preview.
- It's not available in the preferences on the Macbook with the M1.
I'm really looking forward to this -- right now Teams notifications often pop up behind the MacOS notifications, and I'm left sorting through multiple MacOS notifications before I can even see or respond to the Teams one. Also super annoying when I'm on a non-Teams meeting and Teams ignores the system do not disturb state. I currently just shut the Teams app if I don't want to be disturbed.
- This is a problem in so many ways, starting with Teams notifications not following the look and feel of Mac, which while not critical is still annoying. But the biggest problem for me is that Teams does not show its notifications over fullscreen apps. Not everyone loves the Mac's fullscreen mode but I do and use it extensively. And I missed countless calls and messages because of it. I am forced to go to the Teams app every couple of minutes to check if I missed anything. It annoys me more and more with every passing day to the point where I'm starting to really hate Teams. It is by far the worst piece of Mac software I've ever seen. We're not talking about some big and complex improvements here that will only be useful in edge cases. It is notifications, the most basic thing of any messaging app. As basic as it gets. and Microsoft fails at it so miserably. The longer it drags on, the harder I try to avoid any Microsoft products and tell all my friends to do so as well.
To have such basic feature still "in development" one year later speaks volume about how much Microsoft cares about good software for Apple platform.
Perhaps is not so incorrect to think there is some other reason for this unjustifiable delay... 😉
A famous politician once said "It's wrong to think badly of someone, but you're often right"...- Mostly I think this is due to when you have a screen in fullscreen mode Teams automatically switches to "Do not disturb" i.e stopping all notifications. A remediation might be to change the settings of who can bypass your "Do not disturb" mode. But then, if you are presenting anything in a teams meeting a chat/call from that person will get through.
- This would be a very simple issue to address. Microsoft would simply need to remove the DND feature from the Teams application, because once notifications use MacOS notification system a user would enable DND on the MacOS in Control Centre to avoid interruptions when giving presentations etc.
