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Mac Teams Client - Main Teams window stops displaying after a few days
Nick Milner Alt-Tab is not a standard predefined shortcut on macOS (at least, I can't use it/find it). You can command-tab to the Teams app and then do Control-Down Arrow to view all its windows and select one. However, I have tried that in the past, and there simply is not window to select (in those cases where the Teams app decided to lose contact with the world).
I didn't say ALT-Tab, I said Command-Tab, and the suggestion was to Command-Tab to the Teams app and (while continuing to hold Command-Tab) press the up arrow to select a window. You might see "No available windows" but that just means none available on that display. Press up arrow again and you should highlight either a lost window on another display or an empty frame around nothing - selecting that usually brings Teams back to life. That's been my experience anyway. YMMV.
Nick Milner Thanks for the hint. I'll try it next time. I wasn't aware of the cursor-keys-during-cmd-tab functionality. It may save me the hassle of restarting Teams, although I don't consider it a solution.
The 'Frame round empty space' seems to me to be a pretty key thing here. It seems to always be there when cmd-tab-cursoring to Teams - clearly there's something the Teams app is doing to bring that into existence - I don't see it when cmd-tab-cursoring around other apps. Is this where it's getting stuck?
- Could be. It looks like Teams is doing something weird that macOS doesn't expect and this is a side-effect. I was hoping that this would go away with the native Apple Silicon client.
- Well, then maybe you can edit that response, because it literally says, and I quote, "instead of simply command-tabbing to the Teams icon and letting go of the keys, alt-tab to the icon". I can only read "alt-tab" there as your suggested alternative.
