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
    2024-09-05T12:31:41+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."

    Another trash Microsoft product. Have switched all personal PCs to apple unfortunately still stuck with MS garbage at work. Chalk up another failure for MS.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T02:44:10+00:00

    Had similar issue this morning.

    However, tried clearing the Teams caches.

    Auto-hide is back.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T01:46:01+00:00

    Okay I really don't know what's going on now. When I posed reply that it got fixed (auto hide with teams windows smallest with 85% zoom)I was really pleased. But from today, it's not auto hiding any more......

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-09-04T15:11:31+00:00

    So my chat panel became 'unstuck' and is auto-hiding again. I did nothing that I know of to resolve it... the stick just happened and now it's unstuck. Odd, but I'll take it!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-09-02T07:36:39+00:00

    Omg thank you! This answer needs more daylight! Whilst I agree with everyone else that the large font size is a little jarring, it's a million times better than having the chat bar stuck.

    Hope Microsoft can fix this soon!! 😠

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