You can control how often and where you get notifications from a channel, or from a specific post in a channel. Channel notifications affect all new activity. Post notifications affect a single conversation.

Change notifications for an entire channel

  1. Select More options  Format icon in Teams. next to the channel name, then select Channel notifications  Teams notification bell icon. 

  2. Select where, how often, and what notifications you want to get.

Your options include:

  • All new posts will notify you each time someone starts a new conversation in the channel.

  • Include replies will notify you when someone replies to a conversation.

  • Channel mentions will notify you whenever someone @mentions the channel.

You can also select how you receive your notifications. Banner notifications appear on your device. Feed notifications appear in Activity.

  • Banner and feed sends notifications to your device and Activity on the left side of Teams. ​​​​​​​

  • Only show in feed skips sending notifications to your device. Instead, it only shows the activity feed.

Tip: You'll also see certain channel @mention notifications in Quick views above your list of chat or channel conversations. Select Mentions   or Tag mentions  The Categorize icon. to view your specific mentions.  

Select Off to turn off channel notifications. When you’re finished with your changes, select Save to update them.

Note: Selecting Reset to default turns on notifications in your Activity feed and on your device.​​​​​​​

Change notifications for a single post 

Note: You’re automatically notified about conversations you’ve already participated in.

  1. From a post, select More options  Format icon in Teams..

  2. Select Turn on notifications  Teams notification bell iconto be notified of any updates.

  3. Select Turn off notifications  Teams chat mute icon​​​​​​​to mute conversation updates alerts.

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