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As of yesterday, the display of my teams will no longer collapse the left side panel. I've tried settings, restarting the app, and restarting the computer. It used to open after selecting one of the options next to it, like chat or teams and then it would automatically close after I selected what I wanted from those options. How do I get it to collapse again?
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I'm here to add that this bug really hurts those of us who use 1080 screens. I need multiple programs open and teams used to fit nicely to the side but now
I see the text all squished like
this and it's really annoying
and hard to read when you
have more than two
sentences. I refuse to think
this was an intentional feature.
100% This ↓↓↓
Reseting, Reinstalling, Signing out, etc are all temporary workarounds that work for a day or two and then it goes back to being locked/stucked and will no longer auto-collapse.
This seems to be either a "feature", which is completely stupid or a bug that MS needs to fix ASAP. Either case, it's stupid and needs to be fixed.
That's NOT a fix. And CERTAINLY NOT an answer.
Same issue: Mac M1 - Microsoft Teams version 24215.1002.3039.5089.
MS should stop making changes to its UI control that users still want.
If you want to fix it for other users who want to keep their panel open, be more mindful of the other side of the users who don't want the change and at least provide the option to manually open/close the sidebar. I'm a software developer and this is such a basic thinking process when you make changes to your products considering what issues the changes may cause to the users.
MS is such a huge company and I don't understand why you guys make this kind of issue all the time when applying changes to apps no matter if it is Teams or any other of your products, especially Teams and Outlook when both apps are daily used for numerous universities and organisations for work and education. Be ashamed of your reputation and the size of the organisation.
When there is any alternative out, I will definitely move to the product. I'm so sick of MS making this kind of beginner issue all the time.
One of my smart users realized that if she set her zoom in Teams to 115%, the left pane collapses when you drag the drag any side border to narrow the width of the Teams app enough, and when expanded the left pane reappears.