Unable to collapse the left side panel in teams anymore

Anonymous
2024-08-16T14:59:31+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-13T13:13:47+00:00

    The more I play with this, the more I think the UX team is run by a bunch of interns.

    I have a 3 column layout on an ultra wide monitor. I use to have a side bar that shows my Teams chats, and would appear when hovering over the Chat icon, and it would show a notification for each.

    Now at the same width, I have 3 columns, which makes the read column supper skinny. I can drag the handle and close the chat column, but now I have zero indication of which chat was replied to, unless I click the drag handle and expand the chat column. Then to close it, I now have to drag the handle back to left. And I have to change chats this way too, instead of just hovering over the chat icon!

    You just added more clicks to do a simple task, and took away the at a glance notification. All for a stupid 300x300 window size.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-13T12:48:48+00:00

    What the hell Microsoft? Leave the left side panel alone! It was fine before you gave it all this resize stuff. Some of us have ultra-wide monitors set up with side windows. Do you guys even QA anymore? Or just throw **** at a dartboard and hope it sticks? Frikken ridiculous....

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-05-12T02:54:50+00:00

    After repair, resetting twice, then uninstalling, reinstalling, restarting computer, then again repair and resetting it FINALLY started collapsing again. This isn't the first time the same issue happened to me either.

    Still not sure why the collapse option isn't under my appearance tab on the settings

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-14T15:19:32+00:00

    Apparently if you click on a chat that you want, it makes the sidebar shrink into the background. God forbid they just make a product that actually works without having to search for workarounds...

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-18T21:35:16+00:00

    I use the back arrows now on the top left <

    If you hover then you can see a list of recent chats.

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