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Reeeemix! Why you should change your team ringtone right now

Livia Gamper
17.10.2022
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The standard ringtone of Microsoft Teams always scares me and pulls me out of my home office idyll. But it's available as a groovy remix. I would have liked to have known that earlier.

Deep in thought I type my text. Keystroke by keystroke. Nothing pulls me out of my concentration. From my tunnel. No starving cat. No washing machine announcing the end of its wash cycle. Nor the tomato sauce that has been simmering peacefully on the cooker for a few hours. Nothing at all. Except for... three sounds. The sounds of horror. Sounds that herald doom and disaster. It's:

The Microsoft Teams ringtone.

The rave remix solves all my problems

Happily, that has now changed. For about a month now, there's been a techno remix of the boring but scary Microsoft ringtone. Here you go.

Now, if my boss or anyone else suddenly calls, the first thing I do is have a mini-home office rave and let it ring some more. My ITCA has improved considerably since then. And the subsequent phone calls are not so bad anymore. I can sleep peacefully again.

Installation in one minute

You want to dance to the remix and celebrate little raves in your home office too? Then you are only three clicks away: Go to "Settings" in Microsoft Teams and there to the "Calls" menu. Under "Ringtones" you can select the remix in the drop-down field. Done.

If you want to dance for a particularly long time, you can increase the ringing time before the call is diverted. I now dance for half a minute before I answer the call. By the way, it is unfortunately not possible to upload your own ringtones to Teams - so we have to make do with the sounds from Microsoft.

Inspired by TikTok

If even the remix isn't enough, you can find more ringtones in the Teams settings - and I feel like ten years ago when we were still sending ringtones to each other and accidentally signing up for some overpriced, semi-scruffy Jamba subscription.

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Testing devices and gadgets is my thing. Some experiments lead to interesting insights, others to demolished phones. I’m hooked on series and can’t imagine life without Netflix. In summer, you’ll find me soaking up the sun by the lake or at a music festival.


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