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can't find option for full screen after update
You may be confusing Focus with Full Screen and you may be confusing the Full Screen option with Full Screen. Microsoft Teams Full Screen option is not Full Screen as the Control Buttons still appear at the top of the screen which means it is not truly Full Screen. I just checked my Full Screen option and what I say about Full Screen is still the case. So I doubt you are seeing a real Full Screen.
I believe the Full Screen option you see on the menu was what Microsoft Teams was saying was going to be the Full Screen everybody has been asking for but it is not REAL FULL SCREEN. Microsoft is still trying to foist what it wants to on the Users when it is not what the Users want. We want a Real Full Screen presentation. The Control Buttons can still be there but hidden until you for instance move the mouse. But what Microsoft is doing now is not Full Screen.
I'm not confusing anything, but I'll grant you that they should offer an easy way to hide controls. However, MS's current version of full screen beats just having focus every day of the week. Being able to hide those controls would be awesome, but just having a focus options sucks. That's all there is in a direct chat. I am not sure why the option (however implemented) would not be available for both group chats and direct chat. Just using focus does not get the images large enough for me not to have a splitting headache when we are done. The step up to the current implementation of full screen is much better, except that it is not available through both chat modes.
Having said all of that, I won't argue that MS should not also implement your suggestion. However, even if they do it won't help in a direct chat scenario if they do not make it available there.
Turn off New Experience Option in settings. Quit and restart Microsoft Teams and then you will get the True Full Screen Option. The Controls will probably at first show but if you do not use your mouse the controls will disappear until you use your mouse. You will still probably see your User Image showing in the Lower Right corner of the screen when on a Video Chat but I believe they may have improved that so that the Dark Grey Bar as I call it and some others call it the Ribbon doesn't show though I could be wrong.
I believe Focus was implemented mostly for Group Chat so you could 'Focus' on the participants instead of the Controls showing. So in Direct Chat as you call it which I interpret to mean only two participants instead of more, you didn't need Focus.
The option to turn off the new experience is not available for me.
I am not worried in the least about focus one way or the other. I just want a full screen option available when I am doing a one on one chat and the screen is shared, just as it is when I am in a group chat.
Funny. There did not use to be such an option as it is recently newly added. You should have the option available to you. You need to go to the Profile button (upper right hand side in the Title Bar of window). Click on that then find Settings. A popup menu will show and you will see the Option there. It should probably be currently checked. If it is uncheck it and then Quit Microsoft Teams and then Launch Microsoft Teams from the the Windows Start Button on the Task Bar. Then to test if you get what you want, click on Meet Now, then Join and you should get a new meeting with the Control Bar showing (If not just move the mouse). Click on the 3 dots (...) and you should see the Full Screen Option. Click on that and you should then be in a True Full Screen presentation.