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The worst thing about Teams is that for no reason they’ve decided to roll their own notifications framework on macOS that doesn’t respect Do Not Disturb settings. That’s the absolute minimum a notifications system should do: stop appearing when told to.

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Same on Windows. Doesn't use Windows 10 notification system. This means sometimes I get a proper Windows notification and at the same time a message and instead of the two notifications to be stacked they are overplayed on top of each other.

There isn't anything that gets me so flustered throughout the day than this.

I would turn these banners off, but as far as I can tell, there is no way to get badges to show up on the icon (only other cue to remind me people want to talk to me) without these banners.

I really wish there was a 3rd party client that was all native that I could use. Teams is definitely the worst part of my software stack.

On MacOS there is. I've remove teams from my mac so can't verify the exact setup, but in the notification settings (in teams) you can disable the banners but not the notifications altogether. I think the badge in the dock icon will be the number of new items in the activity panel.

But yeah, notification management is basically a pain in Teams. Not sure if it's still the case, but even on Windows 10 it would use its own notification window instead of the system one...

And is considered a full fledged “window”, a decision bringing a whole host of annoyances if you have multi screens and/or do window management.

i truly hate when a colleague at mentions the entire department in a channel. my only choice is to leave the channel or continually be annoyed by the notifications. in general, i also am disliking the context switching from these type tools.

Recently switched to Teams and Outlook. When sharing my screen, I instinctively dismiss notifications. It took me a week to realize that the single button on Outlook notifications (MacOS) is not “dismiss” but “delete”!

Spark, the email client, has this same problem on iOS. When I go for a run I DND my iPhone but Spark keeps sending notifications. I ended up deleting it and settling for gmail on the phone, but in actuality, I resist doing any email on my phone because the gmail app is so terrible. Maybe it’s a “win”.

Odd, that generally isn't possible in iOS. Perhaps you're running into some strange iOS bug or behavior quirk?

And sometimes the notification window is just a white box until you click on it.

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