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Missing Full Screen from Microsoft Teams
Try unchecking the option to "Turn on new meeting experience" in Settings->General->Application
- This workaround is not working anymore.
lowbar This no longer works. Microsoft made sure to remove this essential, critical, game-defining feature completely now. (Interestingly, there's a new insultingly-misnamed option "Full Screen" in another update that simply lies about its functionality. It does not indeed make the content full-screen, and the content is not pixel-to-pixel, resulting in substantial wasted space, blur, etc). Zooming in is also not an option; content cannot be shared on a projector or unattended. It also requires frantically moving the mouse all over to get all parts of the screen, see the scroll bars and full charts, etc.
- Disabling the new meeting experience was a good solution but since the latest update that option has been removed and there's still/again no full screen option.
SoftPer I just started using MS Teams at my new work place and this mode of full screen is agonizing! Why do we have to lose screen resolution? Don't the developers who develop this product use it to share and review each other's work? I really hope Microsoft can bring back the **REAL** full screen mode.
Does anyone know if something like this is in backlog and we can upvote?
lowbar great answer but I wish Microsoft didn't make these two features mutually exclusive. IE having separate meeting windows from the main Teams system should not preclude you from having said meetings full screen...
Seab375 Fully agree.
While I know MS couldn't wait forever to roll out Teams as the Skype for Business replacement, it was definitely MVP (minimum-viable... i.e. half baked) when it rolled out. I have been impressed with the pace of updates, but some updates (like this one) are taking a frustratingly long time. You can enter "focus mode" and "zoom out" the UI to get a full-screen-like experience, but it's a poor substitute.
Pop-out chat (imo) should have been part of the initial release, but it wasn't... and the currently handling of pop-out chat is extremely poor compared to Skype. I miss dozens of chats every day because I'm still in the mindset of looking for the flashing taskbar icon with a person's name on it. Instead, I get one Teams window with a person's name on it that isn't even the person who has pinged me. So instead I have to "pull" notifications (by going to my feed and checking every 15 minutes) instead of getting "push" notifications (flashing icons on the taskbar). HUGE step backwards.
They have a long way to go, and hopefully the updates will keep coming at a quick pace.
