Now in public preview: Chat Bubbles

Description

Previously, Teams users needed to manually open a chat window to view the chat screen. Now thanks to this new feature called Chat Bubbles, chats sent during a Teams meeting will surface on the screens of meeting participants, making the chat more central to the conversation.

Flighting status

Available to everyone in preview

How to enable

With chat bubbles, meeting participants can follow chat on the main screen of a meeting.

 

 

This is default on but users have the option to hide chat bubbles during a meeting from the ellipsis menu (…) by clicking on Don’t show chat bubbles.

 

Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below.

 

 

Microsoft 365 workloads and dependencies

Product, workload, or area	Dependency (Yes/No)	If yes, version requirements and other dependencies
Exchange	No
Sharepoint, files	No
Skype for Business	No
Outlook add-in	No
Azure AD	No
OneDrive	No
Office	No

 

Supported clients and platforms

Windows 10	macOS	iOS	Android	Linux	Chrome	Firefox	Safari	Edge	Internet Explorer
X	X

 

 

Known issues

None

 

Known limitations

None

 

Enable your Teams client for the public preview 

 

1. First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs.  
2. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. 

 

 

Summary of public preview features

For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs.

 

 

Send us your feedback 

Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback.  

 

 

Thank you,

Preview Team, Jan Stebrl

Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams