Description We are happy to share Teams now supports MacOS native notifications. Users can choose their preferred means of notifications delivery, either via the Teams built-in or the macOS native OS. With native notifications support Teams inherits OS notifications settings and supports quiet hours, action center triaging and more native features. Flighting status Available to all Preview users with Teams client version 1.4.00.12663 and above OS requirement MacOS 10.15 or later How to enable Teams client settings > Notifications > Notification style Change your notifications style in Teams - Office Support (microsoft.com) Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes. Mac OS 10.15 and later Known issues None If you experience any issues please let us know Help > Give Feedback Known limitations This feature is not supported on macOS 10.14 or lower What you need to do to prepare When this feature is shipped the default setting is Teams built-in. So, the user would not experience any change in their toast notifications when the feature becomes available. Only when the users change their notification style setting would they be able to experience the macOS native notifications functionality. This is a user level setting available per user. This setting is respected across all macOS desktop clients (supported versions) the user is logged into Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Summary of public preview features For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know directly from Teams client via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team, Tushar Pathak Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams

Why did y'all only do chat notifications? Incoming phone calls still use the Teams notifications, which means that if I have any Mac notifications on my screen, the phone number of the caller is not visible. Same with meeting start notifications. Those still appear underneath native notifications.

Jason Tenpenny I'm with you. I don't honestly understand how something so simple can be so difficult to implement. I have notifications/reminders that stay on screen almost constantly and answering a call is such a pain because it shows up behind the native notifications. So close Microsoft...but so so far away...

Chat notifications is a good start, but this should really be expanded to all notifications for a uniform experience. Incoming calls or meeting notifications which are hidden below native Mac notifications is a real issue. In the short term, is it possible to move the native Teams notification window location elsewhere (top left?) so that it does not clash with the MacOS native notification placement?

Close but no cigar. Incoming call notifications is where this feature will make the difference

"We are happy to share Teams now supports MacOS native notifications"But it doesn't. It's just chat notifications, not calls. What?"Known limitations"... that it's not for calls/video which is... the entire point of the feature? Sigh.

Kaushal-Mehta

Microsoft

May 27, 2021

Now in public preview: Mac Native Notifications Support

Description

We are happy to share Teams now supports MacOS native notifications. Users can choose their preferred means of notifications delivery, either via the Teams built-in or the macOS native OS.

With native notifications support Teams inherits OS notifications settings and supports quiet hours, action center triaging and more native features.

Flighting status

Available to all Preview users with Teams client version 1.4.00.12663 and above

OS requirement

MacOS 10.15 or later

How to enable

Teams client settings > Notifications > Notification style

Change your notifications style in Teams - Office Support (microsoft.com)

Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below.

Supported clients and platforms

Windows 10

macOS

iOS

Android

Linux

Chrome

Firefox

Safari

Edge

Internet Explorer

Yes.

Mac OS 10.15 and later

Known issues

None

If you experience any issues please let us know

Help > Give Feedback

Known limitations

This feature is not supported on macOS 10.14 or lower

What you need to do to prepare

When this feature is shipped the default setting is Teams built-in. So, the user would not experience any change in their toast notifications when the feature becomes available. Only when the users change their notification style setting would they be able to experience the macOS native notifications functionality.
This is a user level setting available per user.
This setting is respected across all macOS desktop clients (supported versions) the user is logged into

Enable your Teams client for the public preview