Teams away setting automatically switching on when not away

Anonymous
2020-07-01T17:06:37+00:00

Hi there, 

My teams status is constantly switching to "away" while I am working on my computer. This is very frustrating as my co-workers need to know when I am actually away or available.

Is there a manual override for this? It would be excellent to be able to set it as available so that my team knows they can reach my even if I am working on paper, or in this case if it has switched itself to "away".

Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-22T18:37:25+00:00

    Unfortunately that's not a fix. That's a way to change your status for a period of time, overriding everything else. It's not the same as saying "how long before you set my status to away" preference.

    Actually it's a fix for me, now I can work on other others apps without out it switching to away every 5 mins.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-01-22T17:53:07+00:00

    Looks like they finally fixed the issue, go to profile where you select different statuses and scroll down and you should see Duration and select the time you want it to go to "Away".  Duration was no there a couple days ago..........

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-12T15:33:39+00:00

    Agree.... SO annoying and a big problem when at work.....

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-18T14:41:55+00:00

    Please get this fixed.  Shows away across all platforms - desktop, web, mobile and can't reset or set.  Deleting cache doesn't fix it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-15T19:06:18+00:00

    I really need this to function correctly.   I'm on my laptop all day and if Teams is not my active window it flips to AWAY which is frustrating. Can't it even stay Available or even Busy while it's not the active Window?    I'm running the latest builds of both Windows and Teams.

    Win10 Version 2004  19041.685

    Teams build 1.3.00.28779 (64-bit)

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