how to hide the chat panel in teams?

I've been on New Teams for over a year now, and it has ALWAYS hid when I had my Teams window shrunken to the smallest it can be. As of the last update or two since maybe early August I was not able to get the chat toolbar to auto-hide. This was changed by an update from Microsoft, seriously! Back in August when it first happened, I found a thread on the Support pages here that mentioned zooming in with pressing ctrl and then zooming with the mouse scroll wheel. That worked, I scrolled in one or two times and it finally went away. Yesterday, I got another Teams update and now I can't even get it to work off with zooming in with the scroll wheel, the chat toolbar remains open all the time. I DO NOT WANT THE TEAMS WINDOW FULL SCREEN, PERIOD! I only have dual monitors, not 3, and I have the internet opened with Outlook, and Teams. I cannot have Outlook shrunken because of my calendar. I'm an IT guy, I need visibility on all 3 windows. Forcing the Chat toolbar of pinned chats opened makes it a real pain to see the chats from others in each pinned chat. This is not ok, look at the amount of people replying to this change, and again I will reiterate, THIS WAS NOT SOMETHING THE SOFTWARE DID PRIOR TO THE PAST TWO UPDATES! NOT AT ALL, THE CHAT TOOLBAR AUTO-HID, AND THIS IS A CHANGE YOU GUYS MADE!

I mirror what everyone else said, shame on MS team, and Bring this feature back.

Please bring back the auto hide feature or al least let me resize the chat window

thank you for this resolution! It's kind of silly how long the font is but it is definitely better than having the chat list visible.

Hello feeling lost,

Good day,

After some research, testing from my end, and consulting it has been concluded that there isn’t a built-in feature to auto-hide the chat panel based on zoom level. So it is not currently feasible to hide the chat panel based on the zoom level.

However, here are a few tips that might help you manage the chat panel more effectively:

1. Hide Individual Chats: You can hide specific chats to reduce clutter. Right-click on the chat you want to hide and select Hide^1^. This won’t auto-hide the entire panel, but it can help keep things tidy.
2. Use Full-Screen Mode: Press Ctrl + Shift + F to toggle full-screen mode. This can give you more space to work with, although it won’t hide the chat panel entirely.
3. Adjust Layout: Try resizing the Teams window manually. Sometimes, adjusting the window size can help manage the layout better.

We apologize if we are not able to meet your requirements; however, thank you for bringing this to our attention, we will surely raise you concerns to our Product Team and hopefully this can be included in the future updates. 

In the meantime, please feel free to post this in our Feedback community by visiting Microsoft Teams · Community as it is a community monitored by our Product team to help improve user experience with teams, via feedback given by our valuable customers. They often update Teams based on user feedback, and your suggestion might be implemented in future updates.

If this feature is very important, the is a way to request it. You can raise a support ticket to request for design change in a new team. Our support online team will escalate to the product team for your request. You need to be Admin to raise a request design change, so you need to contact your admin or IT department for help. You can refer to this article to check the way how to raise a ticket. Ways to contact support for business products - Admin help.

For other concerns, please do not hesitate to add you post in the Microsoft Community Team. 

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Sincerely   

Eben Ezer Tres | Microsoft Community Moderator