How to not pop out the meeting window as a separate window?

Anonymous
2020-09-18T05:49:02+00:00

I'm not sureif it was an update or something. But all of a sudden everytime I join a meeting, it pops out to a separate window. I really hate this since I usually minimize the window within teams to do other tasks. How can I make sure that it doesn't get split into 2 windows? I really can't focus with this, how do I make it go back to normal?

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Anonymous
2020-09-18T05:54:04+00:00

Hello SrikarMaddula,

My name is Veejay, an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you and I'll be glad to help you.

If you don't want to pop out the meeting in a separate window, you should disable "Turn on new meeting experience"

To do that:

Click on your Profile Picture > Settings > Under General Tab, Go to Application Section > Uncheck/Disable "Turn on new meeting experience". > Close Window.

After that, Restart Teams by right clicking on the Teams icon at the task bar > Quit.

Then start Teams app again.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concern.

Thank you

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-03-18T19:22:03+00:00

    This setting disappeared for me today, meetings are popping out automatically and I don't have a way to turn off a checkbox that no longer exists!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-18T15:16:50+00:00

    Looks like it Microsoft will not be allowing you to have only 1 window:

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/new-meeting-and-calling-experience-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/1537581

    From the bottom:

    "What if I don’t turn the new experience on?

    We’d love for you to try it out. We’re making it available in this way partly because in the near future, we’ll turn the experience on by default. Eventually, the setting to turn it on and off will go away. At that time, the experience of meetings in separate windows, with the meeting controls at the top, will become the norm. So we want you to have ample time to get familiar with it."

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-18T03:42:55+00:00

    The setting is removed and now we can't change it back to becoming one window.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-17T07:03:16+00:00

    totally agree. Microsoft really needs to improve on their UX design in their apps.

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