How to Manage @Mentions Notifications in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a popular tool for chatting, video calls, and working with your team. Sometimes, the constant pop-ups for @mentions can become distracting.

Why do this? You might want to turn these off to focus on your work, or turn them on so you never miss an important message.

What happens when done? You will either see a small banner pop up in the corner of your screen when someone tags you, or you will stop seeing those interruptions entirely.

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Steps to Manage @mentions Notifications

Follow these steps to change your notification settings inside the Teams app.

1. Open the Start menu and find Microsoft Teams in your list of apps to launch it.

You can also launch the app from the Taskbar or Taskbar overflow.

2. If a small window appears, click the expansion button on the top menu bar to open the full Teams window.

3. Click the Settings and more (…) button located next to your profile picture. Select Settings from the menu.

4. On the left side of the screen, click Notifications and activity.
5. Look for the Chat section and find the @mentions tile.
6. Use the drop-down menu to choose between Show in Activity and banner or Show in Activity.

Note: These settings apply to your user profile and do not require administrative privileges to change.

Summary

By adjusting your @mentions settings in Microsoft Teams, you can choose exactly how you want to be alerted when someone tags you. This helps you stay productive by showing you only the notifications you want to see, when you want to see them.