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
    2024-01-26T00:17:14+00:00

    Tossing my hat in the ring too. I am sick of these popups about new features. STOP already!!

    Anyone remember "Clippy", that crappy help cartoon that MS included in every help dialog back in the day? This is another form of the same. If I need help I'll ask for it or navigate to the help dialog myself, I don't need someone looking out for my(their) wellbeing!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-27T17:07:01+00:00

    I totally agree. Microsoft can keep their irritating disruptive ads to themselves. I know of a good place that they can put them that would require surgery. Feature announcements? No. Just irritating ads like you get bombarded with constantly no matter where you look any more.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-02T13:15:06+00:00

    This really sucks and needs to go. I have no issue with being notified about new features with the very first start of the program after an update, and the option to disable such notifications, but the way it is now (such notifications showing up each and every time, now since several weeks) is just inacceptable.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-02T23:00:48+00:00

    Agreed!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-02-06T21:47:49+00:00

    I turned them off.

    Three dots next to my profile picture, locate the slider labeled "New Teams" and click it. Back on old teams, problem solved!

    Seriously though, there is a "Why don't you want new Teams?" questionnaire when you do this. I selected "Other" and explained my frustrations with it to Microsoft.

    Maybe if enough people can and will do this, they might get the idea that it was stupid to force the popups.

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