Understanding Push Notifications for Microsoft Teams on iPhone

On your phone, go to Settings>Notifications>Teams>Allow Notifications and enable it. I also suggest that you set Notification delivery for "Immediate." Under Alerts, enable everything.

On your Mac, go to System Settings>Teams>Allow Notifications and enable. I would suggest selecting "Alerts" as your notification preference. Turn on everything in the first box below that.

Push notifications are alerts that show up on your phone whenever you get a new message or update in an app, even if you're not actively using it. Think iMessage, even if you’re not using your iPhone, you still get notifications when a text comes in.

To turn on push notifications for Microsoft Teams, you’ll need to open the app on your iPhone, go to settings, and make sure that notifications are allowed. Once you do that, you should start receiving updates for any messages or mentions in Teams.

Since you’re using a Mac and an iPhone, you’re set up for notifications across both devices, that is if you have Teams on your Mac.

One additional thing to note is, check that notifications are enabled for Teams if you utilize focus mode, if you do use that feature. For instance, I have a Work focus mode to allow work specific notifications (Outlook, Teams, etc.) to come in during a certain time period in the day. But I won’t include Teams in any of my other focus mode, like Sleep, Do not disturb, etc.

Here is the support doc for setting up notifications.

Ah, yes, I think you may only see that if you have "Scheduled Summary" enabled in Notifications>Scheduled Summary.

I have it on my devices, but rarely use it. We use it at times at the college where I work, but not consistently. You can contact someone just as easily via college email since it is Exchange and we get push notifications that way.

ChrisJ4203 wrote:

I have it on my devices, but rarely use it. We use it at times at the college where I work, but not consistently. You can contact someone just as easily via college email since it is Exchange and we get push notifications that way.

We have Google WorkSpace at my university. There is a chat function, but no one uses it. We all just email. If I never have to hear that sound of the Teams notification again, I'll be a happy person.

Idris,

I was looking at my settings on my iPhone and do not see Immediate for a setting in Notifications for Teams. I'm just trying to see if I have things set in a similar way.

Ah, yes I do have that turned off. Thanks.

ChrisJ4203 wrote:

Ah, yes I do have that turned off. Thanks.

And good catch! I don't have Teams on any of my devices any more due to some residual trauma from a toxic job....