Overview
Many problems encountered with Microsoft Teams that aren't resolved with a computer reboot, can be resolved by clearing the cache for the Teams application.
This can resolve the following issues:
- Your account showing as Appear Offline
- This may help for the issue where chat notifications are not appearing on the Chat icon in the Teams menu.
Solution
- If Teams is still running, right-click the Teams icon in the taskbar, and then select Quit.
- Open the Run dialog box by pressing the Windows logo key + R
- In the Run dialog box, copy/paste:
- new Teams app: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe
- classic Teams app: %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams
- Delete all files and folders in the directory.
- Restart Teams.
Reference to Microsoft's KBA here.