Live gesture animations

Anonymous
2023-07-27T17:57:56+00:00

today in a meeting on teams, someone accidentally put their thumb up and on my screen, an animated thumbs-up popped up. it was in a blue chat bubble and the thumbs-up was white so it wasn't like the normal thumbs-up. also during that meeting, the person moved and an animation of fireworks popped up behind them. They could not see these animations but everyone else in the meeting could. They took the meeting on their iPhone. Could anyone point me in the direction to get more info about these animations?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-08T04:04:24+00:00

    thank you so much

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-08T19:57:40+00:00

    Two fingers/peace sign seems to make balloons appear. Not sure why...

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-16T12:55:43+00:00

    In a Teams call, swipe from top right corner - and select Effects, from here you can disable reactions.

    See https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-reaction-effects-facetime/ for screenshots (Works the same for FaceTime and Teams - settings for the 2 apps are however independent)

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-08T10:33:59+00:00

    The balloons appear when you do quotation marks with either one hand or two.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-12-13T12:08:21+00:00

    To enable live reactions in Microsoft Teams, you can do the following:

    In a meeting:
    Click the Meeting controls button.
    Click the React button.
    Select the Allow reactions check box.

    The issue I have with this answer is that this is not always user controlled - this was turned on by default at app level without my knowledge and happened on random calls. i know I didn't enable it myself as there is no way on earth I would ever want this. I also know that the IT administrator didn't enable it because that is also me.

    Fortunately it happened in an internal meeting so I didn't look like an idiot in front of clients. On the other hand maybe it did, and the clients were too polite/horrified to say it.

    For anyone else who finds themselves in this situation go to settings > appearance and accessibility > animation and click 'turn off animations'.

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