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
    2024-08-20T12:33:48+00:00

    There used to be a checkbox to to toggle hide chat list under general settings. I know because I checked it when setting up Teams. When I realized my chat list no longer auto-hid I literally went crazy trying to find the setting again. It's simply gone.

    I'm not sure why it was removed, but it's crazy that a basic feature that previously worked perfectly fine, was just removed!?. while zooming in could be considered a "solution" to the actual hide chat list, it defeats the purpose because now Teams is still taking unnecessary space, just with Larger text.

    I work in multiple different windows, and teams is literally just hogging space I do not have, since I cannot reduce the window size, because it wants to be large enough to have room for the chat list and chats.

    Sorry for my rant. but Is there a way we can get Microsoft to hit the undo button and give us back the hide chat list toggle option.

    Many Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-28T12:13:55+00:00

    I've found a temporary solution for this - by setting the zoom level to 115% in the 3 dot menu next to your profile icon, the auto-hiding feature returns

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  3. 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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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-26T13:04:32+00:00

    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.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-22T23:43:10+00:00

    Hello Eben,

    I work with teams window size as small as it allows me. Previously when I do that with 80% zoom, chat would auto hide itself so it was all good.

    One day, all of a sudden, chat wouldn't auto hide itself :(

    I am not a programmer so I do not know how complex it would be to create an option for me to toggle on/off the chat auto hide but honestly, I do feel that this is quite a basic feature as "Mildly Annoyed" also posted below.

    Anyhow, I hope the solution can be updated soon

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