This browser is no longer supported.
Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(128, 8%, 22%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EA%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
There used to be a toggle to switch off the new Teams so that the Contacts tab showed. With today's rollout it seems to be gone.
Additional chat-related features and issues within Microsoft Teams for business
Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.
I was bothered by this too and then I discovered Speed Dial. Click on "Calls" and on the right there is a Speed Dial pane that shows presence and if you hover over the person it brings up a menu that allows you to initiate a chat or call. It would have been really nice of Microsoft to sync Contacts with Speed Dial.
Dear GLV,
Thanks for posting in the Microsoft Community
Based on your post, I checked alongside us and found the same result as yours. Even checked with multiple test tenants and found the same result. It seems that, at this moment, Contact list feature isn't available in New Teams.
New Teams is still under development and it is suggest sending this feature to the Teams development team by go to Help > Suggest a feature. Feedback submitted in this way reaches the product team directly, and they can add future updates. On this point, cooperation and understanding will be greatly appreciated.
Further move back to classic Teams, please go to More Option (...) > Turn off New Teams.
Screenshot for Turn off New Teams and Suggest feature option.
Thank you for your previous time. Stay safe and healthy.
Best regards
Ankita Vaidya
Joining the group. New teams is trash without a the contact list. I don't need new emojis, I need to see who is online and available.
I see what you are saying about the Speed Dial choice, but my Enterprise version only allows 15 contacts to be pinned.
No doubt many of us require the ability to have 50 or more on our list, plus the option to create subgroups to make it easier to find frequently contacted people. Ugh! This is shameful how this was rolled out!
It has been 6 months since this post and New Teams is now going to be fully deployed with no option to continue using the Classic Teams yet nothing has been done to bring back one of the most crucial features the "Contacts" feature. Why is Microsoft ignoring this? I can't see my contacts, I can't see their status.
I can't imagine how I will even work now. I will have to keep a separate list of all the people that i communicate with on daily basis. I mean this is ridiculous. Now to message someone I have to go to search and type their name or email address. MICROSOFT WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU THINKING!!!!