How to Turn On or Off Mail app Notification Banner and Sound in Windows 10
The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on what’s important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.
The action center in Windows 10 collects and shows notifications and alerts from traditional Windows applications and system notifications, alongside those generated from modern apps. Notifications are then grouped in the Action Center by app and time. When the Action Center gets a new notification, it will briefly show a notification banner above the taskbar notification area to let you know.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the Mail app showing notifications in action center, notification banner, and playing sound for your account in Windows 10.
Here's How:
1 Open the Mail app.
2 Click/tap on the Settings (gear) icon at the bottom left, and click/tap on Notifications in Settings. (see screenshot below)
3 In the Notifications flyout, select a specific email account (ex: Outlook) you want to turn on or off notifications for, or check Apply to all accounts if you like. (see screenshot below)
4 Do step 5 (on) or step 6 (off) below for what you would like to do.
A) Turn on Show notifications in the action center. (see screenshot below)
B) Check (on) or uncheck (off) to Show a notification banner above taskbar notification area for what you want.
C) Check (on) or uncheck (off) to Play a sound for notifications for what you want.
You can change the New Mail Notification sound event for a custom Mail app notification sound.
D) Check (on) or uncheck (off) to Show notifications for folders pinned to Start for notifications for what you want.
E) In Settings, turn on to let the Mail and Calendar app run in the background. (see screenshot below)
F) In Settings, turn on notifications and for the Mail app, check and uncheck Play a sound when a notification arrives for what you want, and change any other Mail app notification settings you want. (see screenshots below)
G) Go to step 7 below.
A) Turn off Show notifications in the action center. (see screenshot below)
B) In Settings, turn off notifications for the Mail app. (see screenshot below)
C) Go to step 7 below.
7 When finished, you can close the Mail app if you like.
That's it,
Shawn
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