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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 🙂
- Finally it is live!!!!!
We have native Teams notifications on Mac!!!!!What's the acronym, YMMV?
With
Big Sur (11.2.3) and
Teams (1.4.00.16567)
I have it-not yet. 😐
Teams is not available in Setting-->Notifications
Maybe it's a graduated push and I've yet to get the sheepskin. . . .
To be fair, mac notifications are working in public preview now. I was skeptical of the ever-pushing release date too. In a small act of desperation, I'd left the notification settings on full blast just in case I missed the update or something. Now I have to go in and turn them off because they're pinging too much.
That is good to hear, thanks for sharing.
It is just that I start tracking this on Nov. 2020 I think.
And back then it was with a release date for November 2020, and since then every month they change the release date to the next month.
The situation is kind of a joke.
I just hope it wont take them another 8 months for release.
I stand by my post above, they have a junior dev changing the release date every month.
I think his project was to make an automated process to do this automatically.In the roadmap page, last change happened on July 1st, with release date for July CY2021.
What a surprise ( <--- that was sarcasm)
khansh9Thanks for the update.
Paraphrasing a line from the movie "Buckaroo Bonzai":
"When'll we get it?"
"Real soon!"
The proof will be a Teams notification in the Mac the notification center.Until that point, it is still vaporware as far as users are concerned.
It is now only 8 months after we were told within months. So it was wise not to give a release date that might well be missed.
So it's now April, just in case anyone over at Microsoft can't read a calendar.
- Another fun feature of Teams not using native notifications:
* I get a phone call through teams, and it plays the notification tones
* I answer the call, then realize my music is playing in "Music" (was "iTunes")
* I hit the play/pause button (F8).
* The stupid Teams notification tones start playing again, in addition to the music!
* Now have to hit play/pause to make the tone stop, find the "Music" window, press pause.
It seems that Teams takes over as the last-played audio, which tells macOS that it must be what you want the play/pause button to control.
<sigh> Just another reason Microsoft needs to fix this.- I've missed two meetings this week because of how ludicrous this situation is.
Yay.
And to quote someone over at Uservoice "Do you think they spent developer time automating moving the date or is there a Jr. Dev who has to update the data manually?"- Release date changed to June 2021.
I really believe that they have a Jr. Dev doing this every month.
- Unfortunately, this is another example of the terrible attention Microsoft has to UX design. Their apps are notorious for being overly cumbersome and bloated, designed by software engineers who have zero concept of UX. If Microsoft is going to continue to be so awful at UX, maybe they should at least contract Apple to fix the problem. (Kidding, I know that won't happen for a myriad of proprietary reasons.)
My work-around is that I get notifications on my iPhone, so at least I know when to look at something in Teams.The_PNW_Hiker We have switched from Slack to Teams at the beginning of this month. Of course Teams has more functionality than Slack but I am flabbergasted by the poor attention to UX that has been given to the product. Enough said that the addition of users to your groups, which requires a process of adding one user at a time, is horrible. There are so many other examples.
Every month, they just change the Release to the current month. Disappointing to say the least. GIVE US OUR NATIVE NOTIFICATIONS ALREADY!!!!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?SilentAuth=1&rtc=1&filters=&searchterms=66743
- I'm waiting for this feature for a century already.
Can you just update where are we in the process? - 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.
- 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.
- Unfortunately, it's not that easy and DND settings do not change anything. I also asked my colleague and he didn't notice me going into DND when I switch to a full-screen app.
The problem is that a Teams notification is not a notification. It's actually a separate window and Teams cannot create windows over fullscreen apps.
By the way, if we're talking about DND, Teams ignoring Mac DND settings is another annoying issue and it will also be resolved if they ever implement those native notification, maybe in 50 years shrug.
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"...
