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can't find option for full screen after update
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 this is incorrect, I tested what you were saying and sorry I didn't reply to it. When unticking "use the new experience" in settings as mentioned in a previous comment here, you can see that true full screen does exist. The pixel ratio and screen space is precise. There is only a very thin toolbar which is overlaid on the bottom of the video, and it doesn't extend to the full width of the screen as you describe. To me it is acceptable. I also understand that it is overlaid because all users then know where to go to exit full-screen. The UX problem was already solved with that version. Now we have the "focus mode" which just side steps the feature all together by not providing a full-screen option. Was there really a problem with it before that needed solving? That is my question to Microsoft. I guess they don't have much data on it though because of the haphazard way they swap features around and remove them on a whim without looking to their own user voice forum which seems to be the way to take feedback from users.
I understand rocifier Whatever you want to call it - bug or feature request - Uservoice is the way for users to communicate to engineering what is important to them.
ThereseSolimeno in our case, our organization has blocked access to user voice on our corporate Office 365 accounts. That's why I have to sign in on this personal account to comment. So it wouldn't really be a fair vote since many people don't bother to create a personal account just to press a button on a vote that may or not be backlogged by Microsoft. I think Microsoft are shooting themselves in the foot by changing up features without properly getting feedback from users and then depending on enough people to come to user voice to complain about it. Out of principle for good software engineering practice I won't be voting. I still use Slack and Zoom because they are better alternatives.
