Microsoft Teams Status - Desktop and Mobile

Anonymous
2020-08-12T10:34:18+00:00

I have recently received Microsoft Teams access as part of my Office pack.

I noticed that with the mobile app logged in, the status is constantly showing "Available" even when i am not active.

This means anyone looking for me would believe that i am available.

Is there no way to set it to show as away or at least a separate status that states "mobile" when we are not active on the desktop App of teams?

It is highly annoying to have to amend the status manually.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-02-19T02:02:22+00:00

    I don’t understand. My teams app status changes to away if I haven’t touched my phone in 5 minutes even when other apps are active and the teams app hasn’t been shut down. Also, even though it says I can change my status duration on my desktop app, it still changes to away if I don’t touch my computer in 10 minutes even though I said not to change my status til end of day.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-20T11:03:09+00:00

    What about the new offline status? if I had set it to offline in both the app and on Windows will it stay offline or do I have to reset that every day too? Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-02-22T15:46:51+00:00

    I am experiencing the same issue. If my teams app is in the background and my iphone is locked, its changing my Desktop app to Away. Very annoying to say the least.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-24T23:35:58+00:00

    why is there not for example a check box that one can set. It’s mobile Teams Status to offline if the office hours are over.

    Here are more then 170 people and sure a lot more who hasn’t read this yet but have the same issue.

    Sure one can change it manually ...

    But you could also say yes we see the problem we will change this.

    And this is not new.

    There was such suggestion already more then 2 years ago: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33313933-turn-teams-in-auto-sleep-at-night

    Sure there are people, which use this function because they work on standby ...

    But for ordinary people who has a 9 to 5 job, and I guess that are the majority of the people who use teams, would be happy about this possibility to implement an auto turn off outside the working hours

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-02-26T13:58:42+00:00

    I second Christian's comment:

    "Sure one can change it manually...

    But you could also say yes we see the problem we will change this."

    People always seem to think I am available even when I am away from my computer or if it after work hours. I want to have access to Teams on my phone all day, but I want my phone to NOT show "available" if I am away from my computer except in specific situations where I could set the status to available. To manually change my phone to "away" every time I walk away from my computer sounds like something I should not have to do.

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