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

Hi,

I think we need a way to hide the control bar ON DEMAND. The "auto-hide" option is pretty useless, because every time I move the mouse, the control bar re-appears, whether my mouse is inside or outside the active MS Teams area.

As a host, I screen-share, thus I am always moving my mouse - therefore there is NO WAY to get rid of the control bar and it is ALWAYS PRESENT.

As well, the control bar is not placed in an unobtrusive area - but smack dab in an active area of the screen, covering a fairly substantial portion of the screen.  So I am CONSTANTLY having to ask people to scroll up or down to view their shared screen or people are constantly telling me they can't see what I'm sharing.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,

1. add a little "x" so I can remove the control bar at MY WILL
2. MOVE the control bar someplace far less intrusive - e.g., along one of the edges
3. Have a "minimized" version of the control bar, so it takes up LESS SPACE
4. Dramatically reduce the time until the control bar "auto-hides"
5. Do not make access to the control bar COMPLETELY DISAPPEAR - jiggling the mouse to make a vital control visible amounts to invisible - and is an accessibility problem - how does this work for visually or motor-impaired? Instead, there should be a little piece of the control bar (like an up/down arrow) ALWAYS VISIBLE, that can be clicked on or otherwise directly manipulated (jiggling a mouse is an "indirect" manipulation - mouse-jiggling has zero relationship with "make a vital control available" - imagine if multiple apps did this - we'd have a constant confetti of appearing /disappearing controls!!!)
6. Teams itself has a "minimized" version that includes the ability to move the minimized screen around, and so should the control bar itself (i.e., click on the control bar and move it somewhere else on the screen)

Having an element that blocks view of the screen violates a pretty fundamental UI design rule.

See Jakob Nielsen's Usability Heuristic - #3 User Control and Freedom

https://www.nngroup.com/videos/usability-heuristic-user-control-freedom/

I encounter this problem with EVERY SINGLE CALL and it eats up minutes of each call - trying to explain to people how to make their control bar appear / disappear or having people re-arrange content on their screen share so the content can be seen.

As much as 5 minutes in a 30-minute call, that is  > 15% of total time is spent on just this one topic - the maddening control bar.

 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

Please make the taskbar go away! I don't have time to wait for it to disappear by itself ESPECIALLY during meetings and seminars!

I often need to take screenshots of graphs etc, and the taskbar always obscures the legends and sources. By the time your taskbar disappears, the graph I am interested in goes away as well!

my control task bar is not visible

@jennifer: Thank you for your reply.

See the problem is not that we can hide it temporarily or not. Problem is why it re-appears the moment you take mouse out of the screen. 

If I want to take a screenshot for something, and I have a keyboard shortcut, the moment I try this automatically this bar appears and my screenshot get spoiled. I need to be very cautious while doing it and it is very annoying for a simple use case.

Could you please raise this as a defect and fix in another version?