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
    2022-01-18T15:51:59+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-23T18:31:50+00:00

    So far, there is no fix as of yet. I opened a ticket with Microsoft Support, and here is the response that I received, directly from Microsoft:

    "This is a common issue that our developers still need to develop. For now, let's wait for their update."

    Best of luck to all.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-24T16:39:31+00:00

    Amen! This is something that Microsoft should fix without an enhancement request since they messed it up...I need full-screen sharing WITHOUT ANY GALLERY NOISE.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-24T16:42:30+00:00

    YES - Agree that this is the new issue. Previously you could select Focus on Content and all avatars/video of participants would be hidden making presentation full screen. Now, all participants are gone except for my OWN avatar which remains - taking up the same amount of gallery space and not allowing presentation to be full screen. This bug needs to be fixed.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-31T16:04:56+00:00

    Looks like this is actually fixed in my Teams this morning! Now if we could just get real Full Screen sharing, everything would be great.

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