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Daniel Persson
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Jun 30, 2021
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Teams app window keeps jumping back to main Window

I'm using three monitors, on one monitor I usually have the Teams app window. That monitor is not my main display. I can move the Teams app windows to any of my three monitors and it stays there but as soon as I switch focus to the Teams app windows it pops back to my main display. Very annoying. Anyone experienced this behavior?

  • And it seems to be fixed for me as of today! Maybe it's this Teams update from yesterday?

     

    You have Microsoft Teams Version 1.4.00.17563 (64-bit). It was last updated on 7/1/2021.

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  • JamesT2420's avatar
    JamesT2420
    Copper Contributor

    Daniel Persson 

     

    I have the same issue. Version 23335.232.2637.4844 @Windows 11
    Teams constantly gets moved to the main window. In my case it even gets moved out of bounds on the main monitor! E.g the top is outside the screen so it's impossible to move the window since the bar, and minimize/maximize buttons are outside the screen.

     

    It happens everytime the displays goes to sleep, and also sometimes just randomly. 

     

    Why can't Teams just remember its last location, just like every single other app seems to remember?

     

    • Gold-Star-User's avatar
      Gold-Star-User
      Copper Contributor

      It's almost 2025 and this is still an issue.

       

      windows 11: Version    10.0.22631 Build 22631

      Microsoft Teams version 24295.605.3225.8804. You've got the latest version. It was last checked on 19/12/2024.

  • BLPax8's avatar
    BLPax8
    Copper Contributor
    Here we are in the middle of 2023 - wishing there was an answer.

    I share Monitor 2 and the main program drops into pop-out mode and jumps over to that screen, so I have to drag it back over where it was on Monitor 1. Confusing. Annoying. Unresolved.
    • huopaa's avatar
      huopaa
      Copper Contributor

      Also having the same issue since a long time.. I haven't seen such a downside for productivity from any chat app since a decade or so. I hope this gets fixed asap. I use Ubuntu and desktop Teams. Browser teams naturally does not have this bug as the window is handled by the browser, but desktop teams is necessary for some features to work properly.

  • FedUser2001's avatar
    FedUser2001
    Copper Contributor
    A year and a half later and still no resolution. So frustrating to have to reposition the Teams window every time I start up my PC. All of my other apps can do this, why is it so hard for Teams?
  • logicbus's avatar
    logicbus
    Copper Contributor
    This exact issue is happening to me.

    I'm on macOS Monterey 12.4 (but this was happening before 12.4, too). I'm on an Intel MacBook Pro. I use the MBP's screen plus two external monitors. One of the the monitors is set as the primary monitor (I think).

    I like to keep Teams on the MBP's screen, but every time I click on it, the Teams window jumps to the primary monitor.

    I have a dock that uses DisplayLink software. I thought DisplayLink was the problem until I found this thread. Maybe it's a combination of DisplayLink and Teams?
    • depictCitadel's avatar
      depictCitadel
      Copper Contributor
      No dock here. Just direct connection to motherboard's IGP driven graphics outputs. Hopefully replying into this thread will notify if someone finds a solution. For now, I have to work around by only sharing the secondary screen during calls, in case Teams wants to jump onto the primary.
  • mawi's avatar
    mawi
    Copper Contributor
    Related: Teams consistently does this - moves meeting window to primary display - every time I start sharing a display. So annoying. I move the Teams meetings window so many times, each day.

    A sad impact/consequence of this:
    When I share display, MS Teams forces me to show the meeting window to all participants.
    This is something I want to avoid.
  • WarrenAlpert's avatar
    WarrenAlpert
    Copper Contributor

    And it seems to be fixed for me as of today! Maybe it's this Teams update from yesterday?

     

    You have Microsoft Teams Version 1.4.00.17563 (64-bit). It was last updated on 7/1/2021.
  • gkostal's avatar
    gkostal
    Copper Contributor

    I am experiencing the exact same behavior on my system.

    I experimented a bit -- as long as there are a few pixels from the Teams window located on my main monitor, switching focus away and then back to Teams does not move the window. As soon as 100% of the Teams window is no longer on my main monitor, switching focus and then back to Teams moves the window to my main monitor, always in the same location (left edge, towards the top).

    This behavior started recently for me. My Teams app says that I'm running 1.4.00.17513 installed on 6/25/21. The timing sounds right -- I believe this behavior started with the latest build of the Teams client.

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