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
    2022-01-24T16:42:30+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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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-18T15:05:16+00:00

    @ Microsoft, any plans to fix the bug as this is a very important feature used by people on a daily basis.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-18T15:48:53+00:00

    Exactly. i see the checkbox too. i really really really don't want to see the gallery, and it does look like there's a check. no one is answering the question on how to turn it off.

    I agree that it does not seem logical to be able to check it and not be able to uncheck it. Have you seen that there is a solution yet? Thanks.

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  5. Mr. Trust_A 4,820 Reputation points
    2022-01-07T17:52:55+00:00

    Hi GRGreene & everyone,

    Welcome to Microsoft Community forums!

    As a suggestion, I kindly invite you to submit your feedback to the developers via the sites below. This Microsoft community forums are just peer-to-peer support. Most forum users here don’t work for Microsoft. Let your voice be heard by submitting feedbacks & observation to the teams developers directly:

    Send feedback or suggest a feature (microsoft.com)

    Give feedback in Teams (microsoft.com)

    Microsoft Teams · Community

    Hope this helps.

    Regards,

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