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MS TEAMS ON MOBILE BROWSER
- Oct 30, 2020
Good news, it's actually possible to access MS Teams via mobile browser. You just need to set your mobile browser to "request desktop site" when the "browser not supported" window shows up. Then you can access Teams as usual.
cluick Yes it does! At least on the Android devices. I have no idea about iOS.
But, as said before, to make it work, you should never show to the microsoft web-site the fact that you are using your mobile. So you need:
1) clear all the cookies and cache from microsoft web-sites in your browser
2) go to google.com
3) switch to Desktop mode
4) google or type microsoft teams web page on the very same tab, which is already in the desktop mode.
If you do it correctly, it will work.
Moreover, I even managed to have a pinned icon on a desktop. But for this you will need a dedicated browser. Here is the instruction:
1) install Firefox Beta or Firefox Nightly (normal Firefox will not work, because about:config is not available)
2) if the app was installed before, clear its cache and data
3) go to about:config (just launch the app, open a new tab and type " about:config " instead of the web-adress)
4) search for " general.useragent.override " and change it to " Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0 " (to make it pretend that you are using Firefox on a Windows PC)
5) search for " layout.css.devPixelsPerPx ". Here you need to select a ratio between real pixels on your phone screen and the "imaginary" pixels that are sent by the browser to the web-site. The value should be positive, I propose to start with 1 by simply removing the "-" sign. Then, find what is the best for your hardware to have a usable interface. For me, the ideal result was obtained with the coefficient of 1.4. The easiest way is to open the Teams in one tab and about:config in the other. Then, modify the value -> switch the tab -> refresh -> check -> switch the tab -> modify the value
6) once everything is OK, go to Teams tab, go to "three points" (parameters) and select something like "Pin to the welcome screen" (I do not know the exact name because my UI is in French)
You're done! You have a perfectly working Teams app on your screen.
One last notice: if you need to join a call, first wait for the app welcome screen to finish its charging completely (it might take up to 1 minute or even more, depending on your connection speed; all the interface elements should appear), then go to the call. If you do not wait long enough, you will not be able to activate your microphone.
Otherwise, almost all the functionalities are perfectly well working, including: audio conference call using Speaker or Bluetooth headset, video calls with the possibility to switch between front and rear cameras, dynamic change of the screen orientation... The only thing which is not working is a screen sharing.
Hope it was helpful!
- jr_jr_jrAug 09, 2023Copper ContributorBart-VDB, This was my experience as well. On Android 13, I tried BMXer-V's steps on current Chrome (115.0.5790.166) and got hung at cluick's screen for several minutes and then an error message ("We're sorry—we've run into an issue.") However, I then tried BMXer-V's s steps on Iceraven 2.7.0, a fork of Firefox 115.2.0, and it worked. I have not tried video calling but the desktop Teams site seems to be working.