Forum Discussion
using teams on my phone and pc at the same time
VR_user Hello all! I know it doesn't answer your immediate needs but it would be great if as many of you could vote on this Uservoice item as possible: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/42528358-ms-team-log-on-by-both-mobile-phone-and-pc-noteboo
mercxi agreed on this need. But I don't even want to use a mobile app. There is no point to an app that serves no other purpose than to make a phone call. Maybe for if you are on the road and have no other way to see the screen share... sure, but that is highly edge case for most of us.
Both Functions should work...
1) Call Me
Connect to meeting on computer.
Select 'Call Me'
Enter mobile phone #
Meeting app calls my phone, I answer, I am connected to meeting on computer and linked with phone call, i.e. I show up in participants as 1 person (named).
2) I Will Call In
Connect to meeting on computer.
Select 'I Will Call In'
App provides dialog with:
- Phone number to call (it doesn't even need to be an 800 number, we all use cell phones these days and anyone doing this for business surely has infinite minutes)
- Meeting ID (to enter when prompted. to join -that- meeting)
- Participant ID (optional, links call to computer connection, so ppl in meeting know who is caller123)
I call in, provide the meeting ID, and then participant ID and I am connected to meeting on computer and phone call linked and I show as 1 person in participants list (named).
TheKoz There is no point to an app that serves no other purpose than to make a phone call
My use case: I work from home since one year (covid, can you hear me? can we get rid of you please?)
To me, being able to use phone for a call means that, e.g. I can go to the kitchen and drink a glass of water during the call (nice, you cannot while at office!) and after a minute come back to my desktop and see the desktop shared by my collegue in the PC big screen, not the phone tiny one.
I can do this for a meeting (and I always attend meetings in this way, audio on phone, shared desktop on both phone and PC), but cannot for a call.
I can live without it, but it it would be a nice feature to have, possibly not too hard for MS, since it's already implemented for meetings
- I feel that pairing a phone with your desktop mid-discussion (or camera for that matter) should be a painless task. As was mentioned above, most conferencing software allows for this. MS Teams doesn't seem to understand impromptu meetings that start on a phone or desktop phone and spread to screen or video sharing.
Major missing feature for teleconferencing software in this day and age.Here is my common scenario:
1. I call a person using my cell phone because I dont have great internet speeds and get better results using a phone.
2. During the call, we decide to do a screen share. They are on the call using telephony on teams.
3. On my desktop, I go and select screen share...click... the call gets dropped.
Prior to using Teams, we used Webex and Zoom. This works flawlessly on those systems. Never had an issue there. This happens to us often. So what do we have to do...
"Hey, Teams is stupid and will drop the call. Lets hang up, schedule a meet now meeting and start this back up."
Train of thought disruption score: -2
Annoyance score: -2
Time lost due to poor implementation score: -3
Frustration score: -99
Congratulations, you have maxed out my patience as a user and get the Feature Design Razzi aware and Rotten Tomatoes.
This affects several members of our team daily.
- I just wanted to add to this discussion that the same issue exists with Teams Devices.
I.e. PC integration work seamlessly where meetings are concerned, but it all falls apart (in terms of integration) where Audio Calls and ScreenSharing, i.e. the device is basically useless.
c'mon Microsoft, fix this please!- I am using a Yealink phone that we bought thinking "surely this will pair correctly and do the screen sharing and such as seamlessly as it 'just worked' on the other platforms we have used.
EEEEEEnnnnt.... (that is the sound of a buzzer going off to indicate the wrong answer).
Nope. Its a great phone and such, but it doesn't bind with what is going on with my desktop any better than using a cell phone. Same account but it runs as if it has no idea I am using teams on my desktop too.
- I will add that if I want to use a "call in number", meaning that I make a phone call on my phone or call my phone, I need to have call conferencing on my plan for each user. Additional charges per user per month. So while yes I am using an app to make a phone call, I would not need to have additional charges to do so. I also don't think Teams Chat allows the use of the conference plan.
