Hiding Teams Control Task Bar (at Bottom of Teams Screen) During a Meeting (So Screenshot of Shared Screen is Clean)

Anonymous
2019-08-13T20:02:08+00:00

Anyone know if there's a way to hide the default Teams meeting control task bar at the bottom of the screen so I can take screenshots of what is being shared/displayed on the without that in the way? Thanks.

Also, Teams isn't a "Category" option when I'm posting this. Nor is it listed in the "Office Topic" while "Skype" still is. Might want to update that since Teams has been released. As such, I'm having to post in "Unknown/Other".

Moved from Unknown/other  / Windows 10  / Unknown/other

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Anonymous
2019-08-14T00:02:23+00:00

Hi BenBo_2020,

Thanks for post your question in our forum, I have moved your thread to the correct category “Office 365 for admins  / Microsoft Teams  / Office 365 for business”, if you have any other questions when using Teams in the future, welcome to post a new thread in our forum.

Based on your description, you want to hiding the Teams control task bar (like below picture). I just tested this on my side, the task bar will auto hiding after you move your mouse outside of the sharing screen for a while. Could you please test this on your side to see if this works for you?

Hope above information helps. Please feel free to share the result with us or let me know if you need further suggestions, I'll happy to continue to help you.

Best regards,

Jennifer

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-20T15:22:46+00:00

    This is the fix for that.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-preview-of-new-meeting-features-04533e91-3203-4530-a1c0-8f77c0731699?ns=msftteams&version=16&ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

    Get a preview of new meeting features

    Microsoft Teams

    Interested in trying out new meetings and calls features before they roll out as the default? Read on to learn how and to see a list of what you'll get to preview.

    Turn on the new meeting experience

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-20T15:51:13+00:00

    It does remove the toolbar temporarily, but then once you click on the screen to take a screenshot the toolbar comes back especially when using multiple monitors. This is an issue for me when using teams. As my company uses MS Teams as its primary platform currently.  If someone within MS is working to fix this I would be glad to hear. To me, it is the biggest miss and issue on the MS teams platform from a user perspective.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-25T13:44:56+00:00

    Please fix it by allowing it to be minimized with the alt key, like in Zoom.  Thank you!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-25T16:23:36+00:00

    It would be helpful for auto-hide to kick in regardless of whether you've clicked on unimportant buttons (for example, acknowledging that the session is being recorded.) I wasted 15 minutes trying to find a solution and getting access to this board only to eventually idly click that button and have the bar go away.

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