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MS TEAMS ON MOBILE BROWSER
Good news, it's actually possible to access MS Teams via mobile browser. You just need to set your mobile browser to "request desktop site" when the "browser not supported" window shows up. Then you can access Teams as usual.
os123455 Sorry, but this doesn't work (anymore). If I activate the desktop mode, the loading screen will be displayed endlessly (see screenshot below).
cluick Yes it does! At least on the Android devices. I have no idea about iOS.
But, as said before, to make it work, you should never show to the microsoft web-site the fact that you are using your mobile. So you need:
1) clear all the cookies and cache from microsoft web-sites in your browser
2) go to google.com
3) switch to Desktop mode
4) google or type microsoft teams web page on the very same tab, which is already in the desktop mode.
If you do it correctly, it will work.
Moreover, I even managed to have a pinned icon on a desktop. But for this you will need a dedicated browser. Here is the instruction:
1) install Firefox Beta or Firefox Nightly (normal Firefox will not work, because about:config is not available)
2) if the app was installed before, clear its cache and data
3) go to about:config (just launch the app, open a new tab and type " about:config " instead of the web-adress)
4) search for " general.useragent.override " and change it to " Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0 " (to make it pretend that you are using Firefox on a Windows PC)
5) search for " layout.css.devPixelsPerPx ". Here you need to select a ratio between real pixels on your phone screen and the "imaginary" pixels that are sent by the browser to the web-site. The value should be positive, I propose to start with 1 by simply removing the "-" sign. Then, find what is the best for your hardware to have a usable interface. For me, the ideal result was obtained with the coefficient of 1.4. The easiest way is to open the Teams in one tab and about:config in the other. Then, modify the value -> switch the tab -> refresh -> check -> switch the tab -> modify the value
6) once everything is OK, go to Teams tab, go to "three points" (parameters) and select something like "Pin to the welcome screen" (I do not know the exact name because my UI is in French)
You're done! You have a perfectly working Teams app on your screen.
One last notice: if you need to join a call, first wait for the app welcome screen to finish its charging completely (it might take up to 1 minute or even more, depending on your connection speed; all the interface elements should appear), then go to the call. If you do not wait long enough, you will not be able to activate your microphone.
Otherwise, almost all the functionalities are perfectly well working, including: audio conference call using Speaker or Bluetooth headset, video calls with the possibility to switch between front and rear cameras, dynamic change of the screen orientation... The only thing which is not working is a screen sharing.
Hope it was helpful!
BMXer-V I followed the steps and it worked for a while. However now Im getting this error. No.mattwr if I enabled third-party cookies, resign, it just flashes teams then goes here.
Tried with Beta and Nightly, no luck.
To open the web app, change your browser settings to allow third-
party cookies or allow certain trusted domains.
Try again
if that doesn't work, try signing. out and back in.Thank you
- Downloading a previous version of FireFox apk, in my case 108, return things back to normal. Something changed on the latest version that made Teams work correctly.
- I have tried in Firefox search for " general.useragent.override " and change it to " Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) this steps is not comming
what to do
Please let me know
ThanksIndeed, Microsoft has recently changed something in the Teams web app. This resulted 2 things:
1) microphone and sound do not work anymore if Firefox pretends to be Chrome;
2) nevertheless, Firefox is now officially supported, so no need to pretend. The only thing, on the mobile device you still need to pretend you are a Windows PC. The good user agent is now
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0
I have also updated the original instruction.
- I've tried your first 4 steps, BMXer-V, but for me that does not work unfortunately. Maybe it's app-dependent whereas the Firefox android app indeed would work, but for me on Chrome it still gives an error though. I also tried the Incognito-mode just to see whether it would make a difference but the end result stays the same.
- Bart-VDB, This was my experience as well. On Android 13, I tried BMXer-V's steps on current Chrome (115.0.5790.166) and got hung at cluick's screen for several minutes and then an error message ("We're sorry—we've run into an issue.") However, I then tried BMXer-V's s steps on Iceraven 2.7.0, a fork of Firefox 115.2.0, and it worked. I have not tried video calling but the desktop Teams site seems to be working.
