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I like to keep my teams small so previously, with 80% zoom and the teams window as small as possible, I realized that the chat panel would auto hide and it would show only when I hover my mouse over Chat.
However, recently chat panel would stay open so it is taking up quite a space in my small teams window. Does anyone know how to make this chat panel auto hide itself?
Only way to make it hide is if I make the zoom 115% which is ridiculously large for me...
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The auto-hide was a feature or option. Now it simply stopped working. Microsoft... fix this back the way it was!!!!!
Mine doesn't go any smaller than it is in the screenshot I posted
I am also having this issue. I found if you make the window as small as you can then the chat list goes back to auto hide. There's at least this temporary solution.
Yes, total fail on Microsoft's part. Program Manager needs to be assigned to remedial UX training. Chat list auto-hide needs to return with next update. Sooner if they realize what a huge fail it is. You guys have to do your complete testing cycles or, if it's considered a "new feature", whoever approved it should be demoted. Remember "The effective range of an excuse is zero meters."
I'm having the same issue. I've always had teams take up about 1/3 of one of my monitors. Now half of the teams window is taken up by the chat/contact list. It used to autohide and just open up when you hovered over it, this way was perfect, now my chat window is really slim.
This is what mine looks like. My teams window would have to take up more than half my monitor in order to get the actual chat the size that I used to have it. This is really annoying.