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Video blanks when switch focus to chat or meeting
Hello, for the last week I have noticed on my Mac that when using the Web based version of teams (teams.microsoft.com) and are in a meeting that if you shift focus to respond to an external meeting chat or to view your calendar schedule that the video now blanks. This never occurred prior to this week. The blanking now results in attendees asking have you dropped off because they can no longer view your attendance. To get the video back you need to focus on the minimised video and enlarge it and this brings the person video back. To ensure its not a individual Mac related issue i've have tried this on 4 different Macs including intel and M1 and all demonstrate the same behaviour. Is there some way to force a return to the old behaviour where the video is not turned black when focus is shifted?
There is a similar issue open on feedback
Teams meeting causes monitors to go black · Community (microsoft.com)
I would vote up on this, or raise a new issue on feedback if this isn't specifically what you are experiencing. Once done I would open a support ticket referencing the feedback item along with screenshots and OS versions
I could suggest a few things such as updating the Teams client and ensuring all the devices are on the latest version, and clearing the cache of all the devices - and you may want to run through this, but seeing that it occurred suddenly, and its happening in both the web and desktop client experience and to multiple users would suggest its a bug, or something is occurring on Microsoft's end. They will be able to run through all with you, but gathering the above data can shorten the interaction with support.
Thanks for raising, and hope Microsoft resolve it. Once you open a ticket drop the ticket number here and I will raise to Microsoft engineering this end. No guarantees of a response but I can get it in front of them.
Best, Chris
There is a similar issue open on feedback
Teams meeting causes monitors to go black · Community (microsoft.com)
I would vote up on this, or raise a new issue on feedback if this isn't specifically what you are experiencing. Once done I would open a support ticket referencing the feedback item along with screenshots and OS versions
I could suggest a few things such as updating the Teams client and ensuring all the devices are on the latest version, and clearing the cache of all the devices - and you may want to run through this, but seeing that it occurred suddenly, and its happening in both the web and desktop client experience and to multiple users would suggest its a bug, or something is occurring on Microsoft's end. They will be able to run through all with you, but gathering the above data can shorten the interaction with support.
Thanks for raising, and hope Microsoft resolve it. Once you open a ticket drop the ticket number here and I will raise to Microsoft engineering this end. No guarantees of a response but I can get it in front of them.
Best, Chris
ChrisHoardMVP unfortunately this is not the same issue or problem. With regards to version information this is the web based version from Teams.microsoft.com and as a result there is no version displayed within the settings. I'd assume that since it is the online version it is whatever version that Microsoft have published.
To be clear. The video is only blanked if the focused is removed from the current meeting. It is returned by refocusing upon the current meeting. It is only the video of the person that has changed focus that is sent black and not the entire display. Hence, during a meeting you can no longer check your calendar within teams, or respond to other chat sessions without the meeting loosing your video. Perhaps some one thought it was good practice to disable your video when you were not 100% dedicated to just the current meeting and inhibited the view while participants were multi-tasking.
I should have mentioned this occurs with safari, edge and chrome as browsers.
The web version does not appears to have any option of providing feedback.
I guess it is a corporate ticket to microsoft thats required.
- I just tested this on a windows machine and the same response is seen. It is not a Mac related issue. This is definitely a feature of the Teams web application now. I'll go through the process of a corp ticket.
