Microsoft Outlook - Activate Desktop Notifications
- Rhiannon Bennett
Outlook Application
When you turn notifications on you will receive an alert when you receive a new email message, a meeting request, or a task request.
Depending on the alert this notification will show different information:
Type of Alert | Information Shown |
|---|---|
Email Message | Displays the name of the sender, the subject, and the first two lines of the message. A Desktop Alert doesn’t display the contents of an encrypted or digitally signed message. To view the message, you must open it. |
Meeting Request | Displays the sender, subject, date, time, and location of the meeting. |
Task Request | Displays the sender, subject, and start date of the assigned task. |
To turn alerts on or off:
Select File > Options > Mail
Under Message arrival, select or clear the Display a Desktop Alert check box and then select OK.
New Outlook or Outlook for the Web
If you're using Outlook in a web browser as your primary mail app, you may want to be notified of meeting reminders or incoming email messages.
To enable desktop notifications:
Go to the app or Outlook.com and click Settings (the gear icon) on the top right corner of the screen.
Go to General > Notifications and enable Send me desktop notifications.
In Desktop notifications, you can choose either or both For Messages and For Events.
You can also choose Messages in Inbox option, to get notifications for all emails and Messages from favorite people option, for getting notifications only for selected folks.
You should see below pop-up if the permissions are not already enabled for this website on this browser before. Choose Allow and you should start receiving the notifications.
Post enabling there will be a success notification under the system tray as shown below.
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