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can't find option for full screen after update
Focus mode is much lesser comparing to full screen share.
- I would really like the full screen option to come back. The focus option is not as good and it also keep toggling off
Definitely not Full Screen and the user community should not settle for this. I had notice about a week ago that one of my complaints about the Dark Grey Bar where your user image is displayed now is gone. Just the User Image shows which I find acceptable as this is how Skype did it in the past when I was using Skype extensively.
Microsoft could just do what it was doing on the non popout screen which is just have your controls display when you move the cursor with your mouse. Problem solved but does Microsoft think to do this. NO, Microsoft just keeps giving us changes which don't satisfy the request for Full Screen.
Also these changes to Full Screen and what I noticed with the Dark Grey Bar at the bottom of the screen gong away occurred without any evidence a new update had been done. Namely the same version date has shown all along in Teams. This confirms my suspicion that this has been happening for some time as I would see changes occurring unexpectedly.
Wrong. It's fundamentally a different feature. It does not go full screen. It does not even make the window larger. It just minimizes some of the bars, but the actual content maxes out at 70% of the display, and only if the user then clicks maximize on the window.
It is clunky, arcane, and does not make the shared content even close to full screen (70% is not "close" -- try it before sweeping requests under the rug or implicating that a vastly, vastly inferior and unrelated feature is anywhere like proper full-screen support).
Every other client has this. To display screens 1:1 in an organization without scrunching or scaling artifacts, at the size intended for the monitor, full screen is required.Agreed. Focus is new way to zoom the shared window but it does not give the screen ration of 1:1 and also the resolution is not clear enought.
@MicrosoftTeams need to look for this issue.
StevenC365I didn't do the exact math, but focus mode has about 35% less screen. I like the idea of new separated windows or tabs, YouTube has always an option to full screen in any window just saying...
People are rightfully complaining about loss of Full Screen Mode. But they are stating this mode existed in the prior version of Teams.
This is not entirely true and this mode still exists. To do this as others have stated in settings uncheck 'Turn on new meeting experience'. However, even under this mode (the prior version), you still do not get Full Screen Mode. At the bottom of the Full Screen you will see a Dark Gray Bar with your User Picture in it and maybe the User Pictures of others you are meeting with. This eats up the same or maybe greater bit of Real Estate on the screen too. Skype does or did do this better in that it would just place the User Picture in a small portion of the Full Screen mode or when not on Full Screen mode, I believe I have seen it place it out of the Skype Window but still visible. Even with User Picture in Full Screen Mode of Skype is preferable to the Dark Grey Bar at the bottom of Teams Full Screen Mode feature. Teams will do this when you are Sharing your screen so Microsoft should already have this feature and easily be able to implement it into the non-Shared Screen mode of Teams.
- Not true, there was an option to do this ONCE. It has now GONE.
Please fix this as is can not read to reduced font text.
StevenC365 Um ... no. "focus" is not anything like full screen, as it keeps visible controls up at the top of the screen, eating a fair amount of real estate. Full screen is full screen, and it is not available any more.
focus mode and nothing are almost the same...
StevenC365 NO. It is not the same as you can't have the FULL SCREEN, it just hides people's video. Full Screen put the SHARED SCREEN in FULL SCREEN with no bars at all, like when you are watching the video. This feature is a MUST, doesn't make sense to have removed it.
Zoom feature is being reported as 'not satisfactory' by majority of our user community and users are starting to use other collaboration apps when they are required to do Screen sharing. We could like to see this feature reinstated ASAP .
Focus is not a good substitute for full screen, now im finding it hard on my fairly small laptop screen to see what the people sharing, are sharing. Full screen is the best way, it almost doubles the visible area vs focus.... Why remove it ????StevenC365
Microsoft did mention this in the Message Centre Post about the new Meeting Experience
Know limitations: Meeting notes will launch to the main Teams client Support for full screen content viewing will be coming in the future Support for Invision Freehand Whiteboard will be coming in the futureSo it will be coming in the future.
Like with many things the decision to ship without it will have been agonized over, say it would take another 3 months to build Full Screen into the new experience, would you rather not have pop out meetings for 3 months while waiting? You can always turn off the new experience for the next 2 months and stay with the existing Full Screen option.
If you want to tell them why it's important that this is sooner rather than later I would recommend doing so through UserVoice https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/
"Focus" is *NOT* the same thing, effectively or otherwise, as FullScreen mode. When someone is sharing their laptop screen, and we all have the same laptops, "Focus" has to distort and crumple the pixels to get it to fit in the smaller area due to the sacrificed and useless horizontal bar throwing away screen real-estate. Small text is illegible. Sure you can zoom in and then slide your view of the screen around like on a Ouija board -- that's productive. Not.
I disabled "New Meeting Experience" but something keeps turning it back on. How do I kill "New Meeting Experience" for good (or at least until Teams supports *real* full screen)?
Thanks,
David
