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how do you remove the share screen bar on teams calls?
The taskbar auto hides when you move the mouse outside of the sharing screen for a while. There’s a catch though: the second you move the mouse, the taskbar reappears.
On top of that, when using third party screenshot apps, you need to move your mouse back onto the window of choice before clicking to capture the screenshot. When doing this, the taskbar reappears.
Finally, Auto-hide doesn’t work adequately on multiple occasions. Users move their mouse down to the video feed or even completely outside the window, keep it still for several seconds, but the control bar sometimes remains on screen and blocks view.
Smith_J and everyone else.
There is a feature in the product that solves this - the user can hide the bottom pane from view by click the ellipses (...) and then "Focus" which focuses on the shared content (assuming there is some). In case some people who look this thread up wonder about the videos/people at the bottom.
They moved the bar in the latest builds as well from a design perspective. Which brings it into the top header (so it doesn't float anymore) which also resolves this issue of the overlay effect of the mute/share screen bar.
Today it's still in an opt in model where users or IT would enable the new experience for Teams for users. Some orgs may want to do change management when moving to the new interface so they are trying to give options for roll out but it is live world wide today.
RichardHarbridge wrote:Today it's still in an opt in model where users or IT would enable the new experience for Teams for users. Some orgs may want to do change management when moving to the new interface so they are trying to give options for roll out but it is live world wide today.
Why was this shipped as an opt-in for organisations? This ensures that that only 0.001% of the MS Teams users will be able to benefit from this improvement. Almost a year later we're still struggling with this UX monstrosity.
This should have been a simple user setting, in the same way that a user can turn off incoming video, go focus, fullscreen, ...
