What you’re seeing
- New chats and channel mentions appear in Teams, but no pop-up banner ever shows.
- Incoming calls don't ring audibly, so people only discover them as missed calls.
- The Teams icon shows an unread badge, yet the user never saw or heard an alert.
- Alerts arrive on the Teams phone app but not on the computer.
Common causes
Every environment is different, but these are the causes our engineers find most often:
- Windows Focus Assist or Do Not Disturb is suppressing app notifications, sometimes on an automatic schedule.
- Teams has been denied permission to show notifications in the Windows notification settings.
- The user's Teams status is set to Do Not Disturb, including automatically during meetings or screen sharing.
- Teams notification preferences are set to show alerts only in the Activity feed rather than as banners.
- Ringtones and alert sounds are sent to a headset or monitor speaker that nobody is listening to.
- The app's registration with the Windows notification system broke during an update or reinstall.
Why it matters
Silent notifications mean customer calls ring out, urgent questions from colleagues sit for hours and front-desk or support staff miss requests they're expected to answer immediately. Because messages still arrive, nobody realizes anything is wrong until someone complains about a slow response. For teams that use Teams for phone calls or call queues, missed rings translate directly into lost sales and frustrated clients.
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Frequently asked questions
Is this just one person, or could others be affected?
It can be either. A personal setting affects one user, while an update or policy change can silence notifications across the office. The engineer checks which applies.
Did the user change something by accident?
Sometimes, but not always. Windows and Teams can enable quiet modes automatically, and updates can reset notification permissions without anyone touching them.