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Mac Teams Client - Main Teams window stops displaying after a few days
I have this same issue. It's been consistent across many versions of the Mac Teams client, and across many versions of macOS. The Teams window disappears a couple of times a week, and the only fix is to quit and restart Teams.
It's a PITA, and I can't believe this is still an issue after three years or so of using Teams. Crazy.
You don't have to wait a few days. Just launch Teams then close the window from the Window menu.
Now the only way to get a window back is to quit teams.
I don't know if Microsoft monitors this forum but if they do the the steps to reproduce the defect are as I just described.
I too am shocked that their QA has not caught and logged this very clear bug.
Not being able to create a new main window from the Window menu is a separate issue. We're talking about the main window disappearing on its own... not a consequence of having accidentally (or intentionally) closing it.
The main window occasionally just disappears. That should never happen, regardless of whether or not there's a way to easily instantiate a new main window.
I have the same issue (and have had it for years with previous versions on different computers). Is there no fix for this? This alone is a reason to prefer slack (or pretty much any other messaging app)!.
Just for the records. Actually this issue disappeared a while ago.
Currently running:
Mac OS X 11.6.1
Teams: Version 1.4.00.29478
LOUPR625 Manually closing the window quits the Teams app. It does not replicate the issue.
QA probably does not catch it through its normal process as you need to leave the application running for a while, and even then it's intermittent.
- It replicates on my machine under macOS 11.6 (20G165) and it reproduced under the previous MacOS as well. If you close the chat window in the app, how do you get a new window?
