Windows 10: Stop taskbar from not autohiding when receiving notifications

When my taskbar is set to auto-hide, I expect it to stay hidden. If someone sends me a message on MS teams, I don't want to see the notification for more than a few seconds. Currently the taskbar stays visible until I've clicked on teams. I don't want this. I want to recieve a notification, but be able to continue using my computer without my screen being blocked by the taskbar.Answers to similar questions have been along the lines of 'this is by design'. Why can't I configure this myself?

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Stop taskbar from not autohiding when receiving notifications

Hi Mikael,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

When the ‘Auto-hide’ feature for the Windows taskbar is enabled, the taskbar will stay hidden until an application needs your attention. For regular apps like ‘Skype’, the application’s taskbar icon starts flashing when there is
a notification. You can simply click on the glowing taskbar icon to let the application know that you have seen the notification and the task bar will ‘Auto-hide’ once again. It is the same for the background system applications in the system tray, however,
in Windows 10 these system notifications go away on their own and you can view them later in ‘Action Centre’.

This feature of Windows 10 is by design. Which means that this can be solved either by letting the application know that you have seen its notification by clicking on it and viewing it once or by configuring it to stop notifying.

I would suggest you to check the ‘Notifications and actions’ settings in the ‘Settings’ application. Please follow the steps below.

1. Press the ‘Windows’ key and ‘I’ key together, this will open the ‘Settings’ application.
   
2. Click on ‘System’ and select ‘Notification & actions’ from the options on the left.
   
3. Scroll down to find ‘Get notifications from apps and other senders’, you can toggle it ‘Off’ to stop receiving notifications or you could scroll down to toggle ‘Off’ the notifications from the individual applications.
   
4. Some applications will have settings within the application itself to prevent the notification. I suggest you check with that as well.
   

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chrome + taskbar autohide problem

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Can you please change notifications and autohide taskbar behavior?

This behaviour is killing the entire reason for taskbar auto-hide. When trying to work on something in a group with maximum screen area and ability to efficiently switch between multiple applications in a Teams conversation, the Teams notifications brings
the taskbar onto the screen constantly and there is then no point in trying to autohide. I understand that this is by design in Windows 10 (Redirecting)
however is is a step backward as other OS including previous versions of Windows do not suffer from this design limitation.