If your conversations and chats in Microsoft Teams are regularly interrupted by annoying pings and notifications, a new update could take some of your frustration away.
The video conferencing platform has revealed that it is working on a tweak that will allow users to manage calendar notifications directly within Teams.
Users can now handle calendar notifications in their activity feed, meaning there's no longer a bit of scrambling between apps and services to silence that annoying pop-up or alert.
Microsoft Teams notifications
In his entry On the official Microsoft 365 roadmap, the company notes that users will now receive notifications for meeting invitations, updates, and cancellations, as well as forwarding if the user is the meeting organizer.
It adds that these notifications will appear as unread in the Activity Feed panel and will display the details when a user clicks on them, providing a much clearer picture of what exactly needs to be paid attention to.
The update is currently listed as “in development” but has an expected rollout start date of February 2024, meaning users won't have long to wait. After release, it will be available to Microsoft Teams users on Mac and Windows in web and desktop versions.
The change is the latest upgrade to Microsoft Teams, as the company aims to ensure its service remains equally useful and intuitive for users everywhere.
Recently, Microsoft also announced that it is working to give users the ability to forward an incoming call to voicemail without having to accept or decline it, meaning you can easily focus on the call or work project at hand , instead of being distracted by Microsoft. Team meetings or phone calls disrupting your day.
And when it comes to alerts, Microsoft Teams also unveiled a feature earlier this year that allows users to send meeting notifications to a specific person during a call, so you can respond or respond in a private way. The new tool for targeted notifications during meetings uses a bot to ensure that your message remains (relatively) secret and only delivered to the expected recipient.
