Teams from MS
Teams has been causing connectivity issues between my work iPhone and my vehicle. If I take a Teams call or meeting on my iPhone, I have no audio for anything via Bluetooth in my vehicle. This time is the worst. Usually I can restart my phone, and occasionally I have to forget the device on my phone and forget the phone in my vehicle and start from scratch. This time I was warming my vehicle up outside of my hotel room while I was inside and received a Teams call. The call connection was “spotty” on his end, but on my end I could hear no problems. Afterward I could do nothing to restore my Bluetooth connection to my vehicle for audio. I restarted my iPhone several times and deleted my phone from my vehicle and deleted my vehicle from my iPhone several times each, cycled my iPhone power on and off several times, cycled my vehicle radio on and off several times, and even cycled my vehicle on and off and opened the driver’s door several times, all with no improvement. This problem is exclusively connected to using Teams on my iPhone. This latest update seems to have made an already problematic issue even worse.
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So. Many. Updates.
I would leave more stars if it weren’t for the fact that almost DAILY I have to manually go into the App Store to check for updates to ensure it works properly, there have been too many occasions where I go to transfer a call and nothing happens or there’s a glitch and it doesn’t do what I need it to, and what do you know? I go to check and see if it needs an update, and it does. On top of that, I see no where how to transfer a call directly to vm if I know the person is not there or I’ve consulted first and they don’t want to take the call. If someone could please let me know how that’s done, that would be greatly appreciated. It would also be super great if there as notion in the app to designate whether you want to transfer to chat or a call. I loathe that it automatically assumes I want to contact whomever I’m transferring a call to via chat; my office is full of people who are less than stellar at answering chats and I just need to transfer a call without having to click the phone icon first when I’m already on the phone.
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It’s alright, just missing one thing..
I use “Microsoft Teams” for school, my assignments are set on there and I get announcements from my school every so often. One thing that’s bugging me is that when you get an assignment set, you can’t click the person who set it and message them about it. You have to search up their last name
in the system, this could be very confusing. You could be messaging a classmate on accident. Obviously, you’re
not really familiar with the first names of teachers/staff at a school. If your teacher had the last name “Smith”, for example, and there was a pupil in a different year group and you didn’t know them. Whose last name is also “Smith”, you could message them on accident. Please add the feature that you can see who made the assignment and contact them easily. Thanks.
in the system, this could be very confusing. You could be messaging a classmate on accident. Obviously, you’re
not really familiar with the first names of teachers/staff at a school. If your teacher had the last name “Smith”, for example, and there was a pupil in a different year group and you didn’t know them. Whose last name is also “Smith”, you could message them on accident. Please add the feature that you can see who made the assignment and contact them easily. Thanks.
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Meeting Flow
One of the best features for me is being able to jump between devices during a meeting. I might begin a meeting at home, get called into the office, change to my phone while I commute and even change between headsets and car bluetooth, back to my laptop and over to a conference room, its gotten easier for me to not have to task change in the middle of a meeting!
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Buggy
New teams - now with even more bugs! Half the features don't work, desktop settings like disabling animations aren't available on mobile, plug-ins (what microsoft stupidly decided to call "apps") can't be removed once installed, autocorrect doesn't work more often than not, notifications are inconsistent, bluetooth device compatibility is lacking, and the app uses an absolutely insane amount of memory and cpu. All of this to say that this is just another 'high quality' product from microsoft. Two different chat clients in 3 years and they still don't have feature parity with messenger, slack, discord or zoom. It must be embarrassing working for microsoft - how can anyone on their teams be proud of the software they publish? Apps used to go through qa testing before being released but not this one - they'll constantly force broken updates to your device in the middle of the day and then refuse to roll it back or fix the problems. Submitting feedback from within the app doesn't do anything, no idea if it sends or not because the window just closes. Buttons are frequently unresponsive. The original teams was bad enough but this new one is a joke
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Great app but it needs to stop “optimizing”
I mostly use Teams on my work laptop and overall I love it. However the app is my go-to when something urgent comes up out of hours or when I’m away from my desk. Way too often I will get a notification that requires my immediate response and when I open the app it sits on an “we’re optimizing things for you” screen. This isn’t just after an update, it’s constantly. I don’t want an optimized experience, in that situation I need speed!!
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Awful software forced on us
Absolutely cannot stand this app. It is by far the worst work communication app I have ever had the displeasure of using. It has a million bugs and quirks which make work harder and less efficient. Why do I have to press send AFTER something has uploaded, why doesn’t it sent automatically when I upload it? Things end up not being sent for hours because I do something else for the eternity it takes to upload an image and then forget to ever press send. It’s actually laughable that Microsoft have made this utter pile of garbage. If you have ever used slack you will know what good software is and what it’s like to use it and how it can actually help workflows and efficiency. Teams does nothing but hinder at every turn, it’s excruciatingly buggy, every new update is a car crash, the notifications never work the way they should on any device you have the software on. The list of terrible things goes on and on and on but we’d be here all day and I already waste half my day trying to make teams work the way it should. If you have ANY other option please I beg you to use it instead, I do not have that privilege as I am forced to use this junk for work, and I am angry at Microsoft every day for thinking this software is even remotely up to standard. The developers should be ashamed of themselves.
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A lot of potential but….
I work across multiple organisations as a consultant and Teams has become an absolute pain. It has great potential and a couple of great features but I find that if I forget to sign out of one client’s site that I can’t then access another client’s site… but then other times I can. Usually I’ve got to hunt around to find which site I’m signed in to (which I can’t see where it displays that), sign out, return to the next site and go through all of the security features again. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. About 50% of the time I have to send the files to the client via email or request the same back via email so it slows work down.
… and the web app doesn’t work with Safari browsers!
… and the web app doesn’t work with Safari browsers!
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Terrible port to iOS
I use Teams almost every day on my work PC. This iOS version is awful! I joined a meeting and found there’s no “focus on speaker” setting, so I was stuck in a gallery and couldn’t see the person talking. I accidentally made the video vanish and couldn’t restore the video view. It became an audio only meeting for me, with no ability to get the video back. Joining the meeting from a web-style link was impossible and errored out three times. Only a direct link from the original invite worked. That required me to find a different email. I was late to the meeting as a result. Even then, it required me to allow Teams to connect to other devices on my network—which I then turned off immediately. There’s no need for it to connect to anything but my router! Since it’s logged in to my work account, many features aren’t available if I have a meeting with people outside my organization. ARE YOU SERIOUS?! What’s the point, then, of using Teams—and all the fees that go with it—if features are blocked? I don’t know if Microsoft is intentionally diminishing the capabilities for iOS or if they’re just not competent at programming for Apple devices, but this was frustrating to use and I don’t recommend it.
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Great but not real time
Does what it needs to, facilitates phone use just fine, including taking calls, etc.
Lost a star as the push notifications aren’t always in sync with what you’re doing on a computer - you have to open the app to get the true notification count to update. Yes I have background app refresh on, I’m not a noob.
Lost a star as the push notifications aren’t always in sync with what you’re doing on a computer - you have to open the app to get the true notification count to update. Yes I have background app refresh on, I’m not a noob.
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