how to hide the chat panel in teams?

Anonymous
2024-08-15T22:27:25+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-26T13:19:18+00:00

    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."

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-26T19:21:17+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-08-26T20:23:54+00:00

    Mine doesn't go any smaller than it is in the screenshot I posted

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-27T02:42:29+00:00

    The auto-hide was a feature or option. Now it simply stopped working. Microsoft... fix this back the way it was!!!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-27T14:30:38+00:00

    WOW, shame on MS Development Team / QA that actually thought this was a good idea. Looks like our company just pushed the update to all laptops and now I have the same issue. I work on a single laptop/monitor only. MS please do the right thing and let the customer dictate how they would like their windows layout, not how you want it layout.

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