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Mac Teams Client - Main Teams window stops displaying after a few days
I have been running Teams client on my Mac for over a year now, through various updates and versions both of the Teams client and of MacOS. I'm currently on MacOS 10.14.6 and Microsoft Teams Version ...
It's clear that the Teams client doesn't play nicely. A good solution to this is to use a lesser-known feature of macOS which is, instead of simply command-tabbing to the Teams icon and letting go of the keys, alt-tab to the icon and then press the cursor up arrow. This shows all the windows of the chosen application and you can use cursor left/right to select the "lost" window.
This cursor/arrow suggestion does not work, it simply states "No windows available", the window is literally gone. If you cmd-tab to Teams and then click the Window menu item, all options are greyed out. I've noticed over the past two and a half years that we've been forced to use Teams instead of Slack that quite often when you attempt to cmd-tab to the applications, the window does not gain focus so I have to use four-finger swipe to get to the hosting desktop. Then, the second stage of this is the root of this thread, there is no actual window to give focus to and cmd-q, re-launch is your only recourse. Most, if not all MS apps don't obey or use the native macOS capabilities such as the window manager. I have hope that MS is evolving however, when they introduced macOS-native notifications in Teams last year my jaw dropped figuring a certain firery land down under (not Oz) had frozen over. Apple appears to be trying to move to more of an iOS-style walled garden and MS will have to get onboard eventually. Either that or Apple will roll over in an attempt to grab more of the business user market share, we know that Pages and Numbers aren't taking over anytime soon.