In addition to your status at work, there are times/days when it may not be appropriate to have your phone buzzing with notifications such as out of working hours. For this, Teams has a setting on mobile known as Quiet Hours and Quiet Days.  This can be set up under the Hamburger Menu (three horizontal lines, located in the top left corner of the app) on both iOS and Android.

Hamburger menu within the mobile version.

Figure 25 - Mobile Version


Notifications Killswitch

For situations where you need notifications to turn off altogether, the Notifications option in the menu can toggle everything off/your preferences on regarding activity (messages, files, calls etc) for your entire account.


Setting Where and When Notifications Appear

Further options can be found by selecting Settings in the same menu then select Notifications on the next screen.

Settings menu on the mobile version. Consists of the options for Dark Mode, Notifications and Data and storage.

Figure 26 - Mobile Version


For iOS/iPadOS users, at this stage the program may request you to turn on Notifications in the Settings app before any options can be changed. Android users will have notifications turned on by default unless permission was specifically not granted when downloading from Google Play.

 

 

From this screen you can determine when notifications can be sent to your mobile device. To determine specific hours or days that notifications will be turned off, select Quiet Hours on this screen.

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Figure 27 - Mobile Version


Setting Specific Quiet Hours

On the next screen, switch turn on the Daily Quiet Hours switch and use the Start and End boxes to select your hours. These will save automatically.

The quiet hours screen on the mobile version. Consists of a switch to enable/disable quiet hours and 2 settings to define the start and end times.

Figure 28 - Mobile Version


Setting Full Quiet Days

To set full days (midnight to midnight) that notifications will be turned off. Select the Quiet Days option. On the next screen, turn on the Quiet Days switch and tap on each day to toggle whether it will be included. A purple tick will appear to confirm the day has notifications disabled or vanish to have them turned back on. These options will save automatically.

The quiet days screen on the mobile version. Consists of a switch to enable/disable quiet hours and toggleable days of the week to enable each one.

Figure 29 - Mobile Version