In a Teams meeting, is it possible to turn the Gallery view OFF?

Anonymous
2021-06-04T16:12:06+00:00

In a Teams meeting, is it possible to turn the Gallery view OFF (in the same way that the Participant list can be displayed/hidden)?

Gallery view is great for a multi-party conversation. But when I'm viewing a presentation and the presenter is doing a screen share, I find little value in watching other attendees drink their coffee, scratch their nose, and generally engage in monkey-grooming behavior as if they were looking in a mirror and not a camera.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-16T16:23:03+00:00

    Select Focus from the ... menu as that will highlight the current screen share. In addition with the Full Screen option and you should be able to follow screen shares a lot better.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-10T15:21:40+00:00

    I want to disable / turn off / hide the Gallery.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-09-02T13:17:03+00:00

    Agree with this. As far as UI design goes, if there is a checked menu item that is enabled, in this case Gallery, you should be able to uncheck it. I appreciate that Focus will work for what I need though it is non-persistent and also not intuitive since there is already a Gallery menu item.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-06T16:09:09+00:00

    Having the same issue, and seems to be only recent. Before toggling on/off focus and full screen would get me to a decent view but now only the meeting members names disappear, yet the gallery bar remains. Frustrating.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-07T02:31:40+00:00

    Yes, this seems like an unwanted gift for 2022!

    Makes the already bad UI even worse.

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