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Hi all,
The way I work is that I have Teams open on the half of my 3rd small screen (laptop).
Today I realized that recent chats pane just stay open which means that actual chat is now 1/4 of the screen.... (small slice)
Previously I had to hover over chats icon and then select which chat I want to answer.
This feature works when I zoom in A LOT (ctrl +) but it's impossible to work this way.
I tried following things:
Details:
Microsoft Teams version: 24193.1805.3040.8975
Teams Client version: 49/24080212008
Everything works fine under version: 49/24071128825
Can somebody assist please? :)
TO SAVE YOUR TIME - USE THIS FIX
Go to apps and features found the app > clicked advanced options
scroll down to the reset area and choose reset the app
this is apparently a glitch that happens sometimes
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This happened to one of my coworkers this morning to fix it he:
went to apps and features found the app > clicked advanced options
scroll down to the reset area and choose reset the app
this is apparently a glitch that happens sometimes
Has anyone actually submitted a ticket for this? I'd like to upvote it, if so! If not, I'll submit one and reply here. It's ridiculous that they took away the feature for the chats to hide (at the very least when working in split-screen mode with teams on one side and something else on the other)!!!!!!
Same problem - so annoying! I don't understand why the change was made - has anyone explained that. I keep Teams on my vertical monitor, so this new view has the chat list taking up half of my real estate. so not helpful.
I VOTE TO CHANGE IT BACK TO HOW IT WAS!!!
just developed the same problem today. it was fine yesterday and the existing chats would auto hide if I snapped the MS Teams to half my screen. Today I have to zoom to 125% to get the chat list to hide. Auto hide chat list should be an option regardless of zoom percent!! I hate having all existing chats listed and not being able to hide it. Microsoft can do better!!!!
Has anyone actually submitted a ticket for this? I'd like to upvote it, if so! If not, I'll submit one and reply here. It's ridiculous that they took away the feature for the chats to hide (at the very least when working in split-screen mode with teams on one side and something else on the other)!!!!!!
TEMPORARY FIX:
So I kept seeing people saying they enlarged it to 125% zoom but it was not working for me. I have my teams on a larger monitor so I maximized my teams window and I had to zoom in all the way to around 325% until the side chat bar hid. I then minimized the teams window back to my normal size and started zooming out until the chat bar opened up again and zoomed back in until it closed to see which percentage would work for my size screen and my teams window size. I wanted the text as small as I could get it so the only way I was able to do that was resizing the teams chat window to the smallest it could go and was able to have it zoomed down to 115%. Not ideal but better than having the side bar open or having it be 125% zoomed