Users can now enable native OS notifications in Teams

Aug 2, 2021 14:16 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft Teams is a platform that’s continuously evolving, and one of the most notable additions to its feature arsenal is support for native notifications on macOS.

As you probably know already if you’ve been using Microsoft Teams in the last months, the desktop clients come with their very own notification systems to let you know when someone sends you a text or a colleague calls you.

But several months ago, Microsoft started working on adding native notification support for Microsoft Teams in both Windows and macOS, with the company’s operating system getting this feature only a few months ago.

In other words, Microsoft Teams now uses the famous toast notifications in Windows, and to be honest, everything looks really great in Windows 11.

And starting last week, Microsoft Teams also supports native notifications on macOS, as the company finally completed the work on this feature on Apple’s operating system.

Microsoft says users need to be running at least macOS 10.15 to get the native notifications in Teams.

The benefits of native notifications

There are many benefits that this update brings, and on Windows for example, notifications can now align with the other rules configured on the device and working under Focus Assist.

So for example, if you restrict notification access while running full-screen apps or between certain hours, Microsoft Teams will no longer interrupt your work and skip these rules, therefore aligning with the rest of modern apps using toast notifications.

If you want to enable native notifications in Microsoft Teams on macOS, just head over to Settings and then expand the Notifications section.

Head over to Appearance and sound and look for Notification style. By default, Microsoft Teams should be configured to use the Teams built-in option, so click the drop-down menu and switch to Mac to enable the new feature.