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can't find option for full screen after update
Does this negate my post about the difference in how you initiate a call/meeting?
If you think I need to delete my post, let me know. I just figured it was helpful since it's not apparent that there are 2 different in-roads.
No, I don't think you need to delete your post. As you say it does explain about how you can initiate various chats/meetings, etc. Though, you might want to clarify it such that it is clear you are not describing how to Enter Full Screen.
However, the topic of this thread is not being able to get a Full Screen and Microsoft confuses everybody by what they are calling a Full Screen. In your explanation, the operative word you used in relation to Full Screens seemed to be 'window'. People on this topic seem to want a Full Screen that fills up the entire Monitor and not a Maximized 'Window'. Furthermore, there was yet another way sort of enter a meeting. You could enter in a Pop out 'New Experience' window or go with the still existing mode. In the 'New Experience' mode Teams 'Enter Full Screen' mode merely gave you a Maximized 'Window' and what people wanted was what I'm calling a True Full Screen. When the 'New Experience' option was recently introduced it didn't have the 'Enter Full Screen' mode option and was later added by Microsoft as if in response to the complaint users were making but this 'Enter Full Screen' mode wasn't what the Users seemingly wanted. Apparently at least the one User who tried my suggestion of turning off the 'New Experience' option saw the results was exactly what he wanted which also was exactly what I wanted, too. Apparently the Users weren't aware they could get the True Full Screen by turning off this option. So, with the information you provided Users might have continued to believe that the 'True Full Screen' option was not still available. So the reason for my Replying to you on this was to make sure you realized that the 'True Full Screen' mode was still available and how to get to it so others wouldn't be steered away from it if they wanted the 'True Full Screen', too.
I was aware of the other options you would lose but for me I don't need them for the most part, but agree with you that Microsoft should add 'True Full Screen' to the 'New Experience' option. I believe it is deceptive of Microsoft to have the 'Enter Full Screen' option in 'New experience' option because it really isn't 'Full Screen' only a Maximized Window.
In any event, for those who wanted a 'True Full Screen', I provided the method on how to have access to it.
Good summary. I can confirm the option to go full screen ("True full screen") does exist like you say, but only if users deliberately enter the settings and disable the new experience.
This is of course a terrible solution, because we love some of the new features inside the "new experience" (separate windows for chats, the together mode, all of the new performance enhancements, etc).
But, true full screen is far more important, so we have to disable the new meeting experience and wait until true full screen makes its way into the new meeting experience as well.
It is a shame, really, that Microsoft can't simply add back full screen mode into the new meeting experience. How hard can it really be? I'm a software engineer myself and it leaves me a bit baffled. But perhaps there are additional technical considerations, managerial approvals, framework consistency challenges, etc that make it non-trivial. (Benefit of the doubt). But please work on it, Microsoft. We want to have it both ways: new meeting experience AND true full-screen for 1:1 scaling-free screen sharing.
