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harsh9
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Jul 30, 2020
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Missing Full Screen from Microsoft Teams

After a recent update, the "full-screen" option is missing from "Teams". Microsoft has included a "Focus" option which is not same as "full-screen".   Pernille-Eskebo - "Focus" is not same as "full...
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    lowbar
    Sep 09, 2020

    harsh9 

     

    Try unchecking the option to "Turn on new meeting experience" in Settings->General->Application

     

     

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Seab375
Copper Contributor
Sep 20, 2020

lowbar great answer but I wish Microsoft didn't make these two features mutually exclusive.  IE having separate meeting windows from the main Teams system should not preclude you from having said meetings full screen...

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lowbar
Brass Contributor
Sep 21, 2020

Seab375 Fully agree. 

 

While I know MS couldn't wait forever to roll out Teams as the Skype for Business replacement, it was definitely MVP (minimum-viable... i.e. half baked) when it rolled out.  I have been impressed with the pace of updates, but some updates (like this one) are taking a frustratingly long time.  You can enter "focus mode" and "zoom out" the UI to get a full-screen-like experience, but it's a poor substitute.  

 

Pop-out chat (imo) should have been part of the initial release, but it wasn't... and the currently handling of pop-out chat is extremely poor compared to Skype.  I miss dozens of chats every day because I'm still in the mindset of looking for the flashing taskbar icon with a person's name on it.  Instead, I get one Teams window with a person's name on it that isn't even the person who has pinged me.  So instead I have to "pull" notifications (by going to my feed and checking every 15 minutes) instead of getting "push" notifications (flashing icons on the taskbar).  HUGE step backwards.  

 

They have a long way to go, and hopefully the updates will keep coming at a quick pace.  

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