- How To Disable Outlook Email Notification Popup
- Disable Notification On Outlook Server
- Disable Notification On Outlook
Outlook’s Desktop Alerts, enabled by default, notify you when you receive a new email message. While these alerts can keep you up-to-date with what’s going on in your inbox, they can be pretty distracting.
How To Disable Outlook Email Notification Popup
Open the Outlook Options menu (File-Options). Click the ‘Mail’ tab. Adjust your notification settings under the ‘Message arrival’ section. You may disable all notifications, or pick and choose from the available settings. ‘Desktop Alert Settings’ allows you to adjust the timing and transparency of the pop-up alert. Go to Start Settings System Notifications & actions. Toggle on Outlook notifications, then turn on Show notification banners. Access new email notifications from the Notifications icon on the taskbar. Set notification duration time: Go to Settings Ease of Access.
If you are sharing your desktop, giving a presentation, or recording a video, the desktop notifications may interrupt your process.
It only takes a few steps to disable these alerts in Outlook 2013 or 2016:
- Go to the File tab.
- Select Options.
- Select Mail.
- In the Message arrival section, un-check Display a Desktop Alert.
Microsoft Outlook email delivery notifications can be set to provide audio and visual prompts every time an email is delivered. How helpful this feature is may depend on how you tend to work. For me, getting constant bings and pop-ups every time an email arrives is nothing but a distraction. The notifications themselves interrupt my work, and once I know an email has arrived I’m prone to go check it, which takes me out of my work flow and makes it very difficult to concentrate.
I’d rather be able to work uninterrupted and check my email every hour or so, giving me the chance to build up some momentum as I work rather than multitasking all the time. It’s quite simple to customize or turn off Outlook’s notification features which are set to be on by default. Here’s how:
Disable Email Notifications in Outlook 2007
- Open the Outlook Options menu (Tools-Options).
- The Preferences tab should be active by default. Under the E-mail section, click ‘E-mail Options’
- Under the Message Handling section, click ‘Advanced E-mail Options’
- Adjust your notification settings under the ‘When new items arrive in my Inbox’ section. You may disable all notifications, or pick and choose from the available settings. ‘Desktop Alert Settings’ allows you to adjust the timing and transparency of the pop-up alert.
- Click ‘OK’ when complete.
Disable Email Notifications in Outlook 2010
Disable Notification On Outlook Server
- Open the Outlook Options menu (File-Options).
- Click the ‘Mail’ tab.
- Adjust your notification settings under the ‘Message arrival’ section. You may disable all notifications, or pick and choose from the available settings. ‘Desktop Alert Settings’ allows you to adjust the timing and transparency of the pop-up alert.
- Click ‘OK’ when complete.
Disable Email Notifications in Outlook 2011 for Mac
- Open the Outlook Preferences menu (Outlook-Preferences)
- Click ‘Notifications and sounds’
- Adjust your notification settings under the ‘Message arrival’ and ‘Sounds’ sections. You may disable all notifications, or pick and choose from the available settings including notification sounds for events other than message arrival such as calendar reminders.
Disable Notification On Outlook
In non-Mac versions of Outlook, calendar alert preferences are set separately from message alerts. I prefer to keep Calendar alerts active. Just as shutting off message alerts is meant to keep me focused on the task at hand, calendar alerts are essential for reminding me when I need to break to do something else.