Outlook Badge Alert Corrupt How To Get Started

You have multiple email accounts, each for different purposes and with varying levels of importance, so it only makes sense to customize the way your phone alerts you to each accounts incoming emails.

Whether youre looking to set a different notification sound for your work and personal accounts, or if you only want to see the most important messages on your lock screen, Outlook allows you to mix and match the settings per email address, putting the notification controls directly in your hands.

Outlook Badge Alert Corrupt How To Get Started

Well show you how to get started so your email system can be best optimized for your personal needs.

First, tap the hamburger icon in the top-right corner of the display, then tap the settings gear in the bottom-left corner.

If youre running an older version of Outlook on Android, simply tap the settings gear in the top-right corner of the main page.

From here, Outlook breaks up the settings for all of your accounts.

Whatever you change in one account stays with that account alone no matter how many accounts you have attached to Outlook, you only affect one at a time.

On Android, you will need to tap Notifications to see these options.

Images by Dallas Thomas Gadget Hacks Focused and Other Inboxes or All mail will send you a notification for each email you receive to that specific account, while Focused Inbox Only will send notifications only for emails filtered into your Focused Inbox.

The Focused Inbox attempts to only let emails in that seem important andor personal, so, naturally, this option will help keep your notifications limited to emails that are worth your time.

You can choose from these three options for any of the email accounts you have added to Outlook.

Want to be notified of all emails to one account, but not for any to another Easy.

The control is completely up to you, for whichever settings work best for the accounts you have in Outlook.

To get started, tap Sounds for New Mail (iOS) or New mail sound (Android) under any account youd like to change.

OS. (2) Android. Images by Jake PetersonGadget Hacks, Dallas ThomasGadget Hacks Now, you can choose whichever sound you like from the options presented, and your selection will only apply to the account youve selected.

That way, you will hear different alerts depending on which inbox receives the email.

OS. (2) Android. Images by Jake PetersonGadget Hacks, Dallas ThomasGadget Hacks The two platforms differ greatly in terms of tone selection.

Outlook on Android uses your devices stock alerts with the exception of three Outlook-specific sounds while, on iOS, you get a unique suite of nine options.

Once you settle on an alert, go back to either change the alert of another account or to exit Outlooks settings entirely.

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