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TJ_Ryan
Copper Contributor
Mar 10, 2022

Stop Teams from pinning my message

Teams keep pinning my messages without me asking it to. Very irritating that I then have to unpin it. And embarrassing, because it's visible to everyone -- everyone in the chat can see that you pinned and then unpinned a message. Aaargh!

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  • Alli_Lee's avatar
    Alli_Lee
    Copper Contributor

    I think I have a solution!!!

    I've been dealing with this issue for a while now. I finally just went up to the pinned message and deleted my message. I haven't seen the pin come back as of yet (been 2 days so far). I know this post is old but thought someone could potentially benefit from it.

  • phenry1175's avatar
    phenry1175
    Copper Contributor
    Same problem. Every day, a message I sent to myself automagically gets "pinned" to the top. There's no way to unpin it.

    I am so tired of the morons at Microsoft adding new magical "features".

    For ever "feature" they add, they need to double their effort to allow a way to disable it.
    • tpedwards's avatar
      tpedwards
      Copper Contributor

      phenry1175 

      Oh my, this behavior is a new observation for me, but others have been dealing with this for over a year and a half. Holy cow Microsoft, get with it!

      The latest is that I am pinned and now I cannot unpin myself. I will try again after the next reboot.

  • Same for me. Every few days, a message that I sent a year ago gets pinned to the top of my team's group chat, and I have to unpin it. 😞
  • NevadaSilver's avatar
    NevadaSilver
    Copper Contributor
    Having the same issue. It's not because I accidently click pin when editing a message. The issue I have occurs randomly every couple of days after my computer has bene shutdown overnight. There's some kind of glitch that always pins the same message from November 2021 in the same chat conversation.
  • MurrayVarey's avatar
    MurrayVarey
    Copper Contributor
    Agreed. This happens to me at least once a day - I go to 'Edit' and, just as I click, the option changes to 'Pin'. It's so frustrating. Please fix this!
  • StoredotEXE's avatar
    StoredotEXE
    Copper Contributor
    +1
    I can pin my own messages. Teams has pinned ME to the top of my chat list 3 times now. I don't want it, I don't need it. How does something so useless get approved? Oh wait, Windows 8.
    • B_Davis_25's avatar
      B_Davis_25
      Copper Contributor
      This is happening to me too multiple times per day. All of the sudden a chat with myself is pinned to the top of my conversation list... very frustrating
      • StoredotEXE's avatar
        StoredotEXE
        Copper Contributor
        Crazy right? With the limited amount of space that exists for valid chat someone thought it would be a good idea to eat into the very top of it with something so phenomenally useless that I'm actually baffled. I am NEVER going to chat with myself.
  • Ryan Steele's avatar
    Ryan Steele
    Bronze Contributor
    Are you seeing the same issue I am? The first time I click on the "three dots" button on a chat message I have posted, the menu pops up, and then half a second later, the menu items get shifted to add a couple additional items. The result is that if I go to click on "Edit", I end up clicking on "Pin" instead.
    • dkadavarath's avatar
      dkadavarath
      Copper Contributor

      Ryan Steele It's annoying as hell. I see a lot of my colleagues do the same. Most of my chats have pinned and unpinned in between.

    • TJ_Ryan's avatar
      TJ_Ryan
      Copper Contributor
      That may be what is happening on my end, but maybe not. All I know is I'm typing my message, I hit send, I click anywhere on the Teams window, and suddenly my last message is pinned!
      • Ryan Steele's avatar
        Ryan Steele
        Bronze Contributor

        TJ_Ryan If you're not explicitly trying to edit a message you have just posted, then you must be encountering a different issue. Either way, best thing to do is to report it through Help > Give feedback.

    • jjthomas's avatar
      jjthomas
      Copper Contributor

      Ryan Steele This same issue has been plaguing me of late.  I go to the menu to select "Edit," and just as I select Edit, the menu expands.  Consequently, I end up selecting "Pin," and now I have to undo the pinned message.  

      It would be great of that menu in Teams was updated much more quickly than it is.  

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