Outlook (for macOS) Notifications Stopped Working

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Problem

Like most of us I spend my working day based around Outlook calendar meetings and entries, I’ve even got birthdays and anniversaries in there. So recently when the notification pop-ups stopped working, it was a potential problem. Occasionally I could hear the notification ‘sound’, but I had to open outlook and change to the notification window to see them. When you are as absent minded as me, that’s a recipe for disaster.

I don’t know if it was a macOS update or a Microsoft Office update that had broken it, (or if I’d done something stupid myself!).

Solution

I tried a few solutions but this is the only one that worked. Click the ‘Apple Icon’ (top left) > System Preferences > Notifications > Scroll down and select Outlook > On your keyboard press the ‘Delete/Backspace’ key, to remove Outlook > Close system preferences.

If Outlook is open close it > Open Outlook > At the notification prompt > Click ‘Allow’.

The problem ceased.

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Author: PeteLong

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8 Comments

  1. Worked fine on me!

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  2. Very clear and helpful, thank you!

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  3. Worked great. Only solution so far.
    And, it didn’t ask me to confirm when I restarted. It just started delivering notifications. (just in time. I have a meeting in 10 minutes 🙂

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    • Thank’s for the feedback – hope the meeting went well!

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  4. THANK YOU! THiis is the only site that mentioned these steps and it worked for me! I didn’t even have to remove Outlook. It just showed that I had the notifications off for it.

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  5. Thank you. Must have switched it off at some stage. Been scratching my head for weeks on this!

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  6. This solve did not work for me. Still not hearing any notification sounds or getting the badges.

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