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Iron Contributor

Mar 14, 2022

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Hide bar at top of teams sharing

Hi all When I share my screen in meetings it involves using a browser i.e. I`m presenting things using google chrome. I get a bar asking me to change my screen size/settings etc on teams. It'...

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StevenC365
Mar 21, 2022
rayted22 I'm not aware of any way to disable it. It's generally needed is you end up giving control to other people.

davidrahl

Brass Contributor

Oct 09, 2023

I just updated to the "New Teams" app, and I am encountering the same issue. We run a morning meeting every day in which I am presenting multiple DevOps boards, and the screen sharing bar is incredibly intrusive because it always overlaps two of the tabs, even when collapsed. The "old" Teams app worked just fine without the Zoom-style top-of-window share bar. I have always found this bar style and position to be more of an irritant than an aid in Zoom, and it's frustrating that it has now been integrated into Teams and is interrupting the natural flow of our meeting. Can we get some sort of an option to reposition or even disable this "feature" completely?

sudhakar_makam

Copper Contributor

Nov 14, 2023

davidrahl

Facing same problem and yes its just frustrating!!! I am unable to hide the bar while sharing the Screen, unable to access the content/chrome browser tabs when this bar is shown. At least in the older verison i was able to unpin it to hide, but with newer version that doesnot work.

I am facing this issue with the new Teams version. Is there any way to go back to old version??

davidrahl
Brass Contributor
Nov 16, 2023
sudhakar_makam

There's a switch in the upper-left corner of the Teams app that toggles between Classic and New Teams:
- AltairCB
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 04, 2023
  I turned off this switch, that is, I opted for the classic version, and as a result the bar no longer appears.
  Thanks.
- KPage955
  Brass Contributor
  Nov 16, 2023
  Just to be clear, I believe the classic behavior is also horrible. You still have to deal with a bar covering your browser tabs when you float your mouse too far up. It does go away quicker, granted. The solutions are many, and simple: provide a button to close the bar, be able to move the bar, or be able to disable it. All three really would be the right call here.
KPage955
Brass Contributor
Nov 15, 2023
Just about every meeting is disrupted regularly by this issue. People use browsers, and they use browser tabs. Putting this in the top middle of the screen as a landmine to disrupt the flow of presentations if we drift too close to it is extremely frustrating. We should not have to rearrange our desktop or tab orientation in order to smoothly present.
- James95
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 15, 2023
  just here to scream into the ether with the rest of the world... fix this MS