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can't find option for full screen after update
cjmarques It would be great to re-enable the full screen feature as I found it as one of the most important feature in the older versions of the application
While I agree Full Screen should be implemented. I have to correct you. Unless you are referring to somewhere I haven't found in the earlier version of Teams, Full Screen did not exist in the earlier version either.
Before going to this new Experience option, Full Screen was not Full Screen either in that your User's Video (yourself) which was shown on the bottom portion of the screen also when in Full Screen mode. Normally this is what you would expect even in Full Screen Mode but instead of just overlaying the Full Screen image as it did in Skype, there was a Dark Grey Bar at the bottom of the screen where the User's Video (yourself) was placed. So you had a Dark Grey Bar at the Bottom of the screen which reduced the size of the Video Image in Full Screen Mode. I could accept the User's Video Image overlaying the Full Screen Image but not eliminating that portion of the Full Screen with a Dark Grey Bar.
Incidentally, this older version of Full Screen still can be gotten by going into Settings and unselecting the New Experience option and you go back to the way it was before this New Experience. But Still not a true Full Screen.
Jim_B175 cjmarques Luiz_Cruz danutbelu Yoav Crombie and all: There is a Uservoice item where you can (and should) vote on this feature. The more votes something gets the higher the priority and with your vote you will receive updates. https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/41277121-why-did-teams-remove-the-full-screen-option-during
cc: StevenC365
ThereseSolimeno but there's no need to vote on this. Steven Collier already told us that a full-screen option will be added back before the "new experience" is finalized. I think what might help in the meantime is including in the description of the new experience in Teams: "removes the ability to view videos full-screen" so that when people opt in to try video calls showing in new windows that they aware of this feature being removed. There are already 3 people on my team alone at work who had this happen and were confused why the option to try videos popping out in a new window was related to losing the ability to go full-screen. In my opinion this is a bug, and shouldn't be a user voice vote. It should just be fixed by Microsoft regardless.
Either I'm missing something or no one is paying attention to my statement that Full Screen did not appear to be implemented in the version prior to adding the New Meeting Experience. I'm a relatively new Teams user but before the New Meeting Experience option, you still did not have a TRUE FULL SCREEN when selecting the Full Screen function. You still lost some screen space at the bottom for the Dark Grey Bar where the User's Video Image appears. The Dark Grey Bar was the full width of your Screen Space at the Bottom of the Screen. Teams was calling something FULL SCREEN when it really wasn't FULL SCREEN.
Jim_B175 people in this sequence is saying that they miss the previous Full Screen feature.
I can't imagine how you could be a Teams user that had not used that.
I have only been using Teams for a short period of time but before they went to the New Meeting Experience. But I could not locate a True Full Screen Option even during the period before the New Meeting Experience was implemented.
Please enlighten me where this Full Screen option is that doesn't have the Dark Grey Bar at the bottom of the so called Full Screen Mode. Before the New Meeting Experience option was implemented, I would select the Full Screen Option and still get the Dark Grey Bar at the bottom of the screen which means it isn't a true Full Screen because the Video Image isn't filling up the Full Screen. This function still exists if you deselect the New Meeting Experience option but it isn't a True Full Screen since the image still DID NOT FILL THE ENTIRE SCREEN.
