Teams: Disable New Feature Popups?

Anonymous
2023-12-08T17:31:10+00:00

How do I disable ALL popups that announce new features in Teams. You know, the ones with the cheap clipart drawings and redundant announcements. It is infuriating when I am trying to send a message to a colleague and interrupted by a random popup telling me to try a new feature that I'm already aware of and is absolutely useless to me. It hijacks my typing and it's got to go.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-04-12T07:42:16+00:00

    Someone had the same suggestion and posted on the suggestions page, here:

    https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/bc95ae57-2474-ee11-a81c-0022484e5453

    It can be voted on, and we appear to be in the minority (more popular ones have 44k votes) .

    There are appear to be several similar suggestions on the feedback portal. Usual story of everyone raising their own ticket and not checking if someone has already done the same and upvoting that.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-11T14:18:34+00:00

    I totally agree with the complaints. If I want to find features for a product then I will look it up myself. These pop-ups are annoying and in my way. I flat out refuse to interact in anyway including selecting the 'Got It' or 'X' button. Since my time is being wasted anyway, I completely log out and back in to make the pop-up go away. This needs to be removed or give us an option to disable.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-10T11:30:07+00:00

    Someone had the same suggestion and posted on the suggestions page, here:

    https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/bc95ae57-2474-ee11-a81c-0022484e5453

    It can be voted on, and we appear to be in the minority (more popular ones have 44k votes) .

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-10T08:27:35+00:00

    It appears Microsoft are happy to keep designing products with the intention of wasting peoples time (again). Not very efficient and defo sounds like a future lawsuit in the making.
    If the pop ups were even remotely useful, or disappeared automatically after a time, it's unlikely there'd be complaints. Unfortunately, I have found them to remain until they're cleared away and being completely irrelevant my business user Teams needs they've become very annoying (reminds me of the neighbours whining dog outside in the cold - the problem isn't the dog! - and there's not much I can do about it other than to raise a complaint). A simple disable button in the settings would be so easy to implement.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-05T01:47:04+00:00

    I think it's apparent that nobody in the Teams development uh.. team.. is actually reading any of this, or at least not any of the product owners. This community page only exists so that we can vent our frustrations and then be quietly dimissed.

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