How to Mute Notifications during Meetings

Background

This knowledge base article provides steps to mute notifications which can be disruptive and distracting during meetings on Teams.

Before You Begin

• Ensure you have an Office 365 account.
• Ensure you have installed and are logged into Microsoft Teams on your computer. See our article How to Install Microsoft Office if you don't have Teams. 

Steps to Follow

• Mute Notifications during a Meeting

  1. While in a call or a meeting, click on More (...) button. Then select Settings and click on Mute notifications.
     
     
  2. To turn it back on, follow the same steps as above but this time, choose Allow notifications.
     
     
     

• Mute Notifications from Settings

  1. Click on the More (...) button located at the top-right corner of the screen and then select Settings.
     
     
  2. Select Notifications.
     
     
  3. Scroll down to Meetings and Calls and click on the Edit button.
     
     
  4. Slide to the right the toggle bar (turn on) next to Mute notifications during meetings and calls.
     
     PLEASE NOTE: Below options can be modified separately and will not be affected by the action in the previous step.