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How to Use Power Automate Approvals Without Teams Notifications?

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Hi everyone,

I’m building a Power Automate approval workflow using Start and Wait for an Approval. Functionally, everything works — approvers receive both email and Teams notifications, and they can approve or reject with comments, which is required for our process.

The problem is that our users do not want Teams notifications. If I disable notifications in the approval action, it disables both email and Teams notifications, which won’t work because email notifications are still needed.

Since we rely on the built‑in approval comments, I’m compelled to use Start and Wait for an Approval, but I’m trying to find a way to keep email notifications while suppressing Teams notifications.

Has anyone found a workaround or alternative approach that allows:

  • Using the standard approval experience with comments

  • Keeping email notifications

  • Preventing Teams approval notifications from being sent

Any guidance or creative solutions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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    Fredrik_A Profile Picture
    3,644 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Hello,
     
    what you can do is swap out the step "Start and wait for an approval" with just an "Create approval" and directly after send an email with the link to the approval.
     
    Then after the email is sent you add the step "Wait for an approval".
     
    That way the user only gets notified via Email. 
     
    If my response solved your issue, please mark it as ✅ Accepted Answer and give it a like.

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