How do I make Teams chats auto hide and open only when I hover over them?

Anonymous
2024-08-27T10:19:58+00:00

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:

  • Resize Teams window from both sides
  • Move Teams window from left to right and then resize
  • Unpin/Pin Chats icon
  • Modify settings.json file with different settings...no luck

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
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scroll down to the reset area and choose reset the app

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this is apparently a glitch that happens sometimes

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Anonymous
2024-09-06T12:47:59+00:00

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

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T00:43:03+00:00

    Just when you think it can't get any worse, the search bar disappears if you set zoom at 115% just so you can get auto-hide back. Wow.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-30T15:12:12+00:00

    Just to add to the list of those people that had this working prior to the last update and now it no longer hides the Chat Contacts and takes up too much screen. Now you basically have to take up valuable screen real estate just to quickly view teams.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-08-30T14:53:03+00:00

    I found one submitted that I was able to upvote.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-30T09:59:42+00:00

    Have same problem with same version of teams as you mentioned. Before last update it was working fine. Now i cannot auto hide the chat list members any more.

    Why do programmers change features which are not urgent for the app? - Maybe some code reassessment?

    I changed the zoom up to 140%. Now the auto hide works again. Wow!

    Regards El Greco

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