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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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Please bring back the auto hide feature, no clue why it was deiced to remove it in the 1st place
Disabled and Disappointed
I just encountered this same issue this morning. I am legally blind so need the Teams window I am currently using to fill the whole screen. Now all of a sudden the chats that were hidden take up half of the screen so the chat I am working in is too small to read. Epic FAIL with no warning. Now to hide the chats, I had to zoom in to 190% so now the screen sharing feature I use 60% of my workday is out of proportion. Whoever okayed this change did not take into consideration accessibility for visually impaired users.
I hope this is quickly addressed!!!!!!
I've found that how far you have to zoom in to make that chat panel auto hide THE WAY IT SHOULD depends on how large your Teams window itself is sized on your screen. If I drag the corner out to make the Teams window larger, I have to zoom in farther to get the chat panel to auto hide. Don't get me wrong, the chat panel has its purpose, but I DON'T NEED IT PLUGGING UP HALF MY TEAMS WINDOW AT ALL FRIGGIN' TIMES!! By no means is this a permanent solution or one that isn't annoying in its own right, but I really need to not have the actual chats that I'm trying to read reduced the point that I have to scroll anytime somebody says something longer than "good morning".
To whoever made this decision for the whole friggin' planet about whether or not we are allowed to have auto hide on our chat panel, please fix this very soon. You have effectively made a decision that was not yours to make. Stop being like that. I understand that pretty much all software is continually becoming less and less customizable and that this makes the programmers' jobs easier, but this was working appropriately for me yesterday and now it's not, and that's not okay.
Please bring back the auto-hide feature or the option to hide the chat panel.
This does not work for me.