Super frustrated with recent update
I use Teams on my phone to take work meetings without needing to sign into a Microsoft account. It used to work great. Since a recent update though, joining a meeting without signing in is a terrible process. When I click the Join link in my email, it no longer puts me directly into the meeting; it makes me enter the Meeting ID and Passcode manually. To do that, I need to copy the ID from my email, switch apps, and paste it into Teams, then switch back to email, copy the passcode… and AUGH when I switch back to Teams, it has backed out automatically to the Sign In screen, which means my Meeting ID is gone. I literally had to copy the Meeting ID and Passcode into a notes app, put them together as one string of text, copy that text, paste it into the Teams Meeting ID field, then select and cut the Passcode part on its own so that I could paste in both pieces of data that I needed without leaving the Teams app (and losing my progress). Microsoft WHY did you make joining a meeting without signing in so difficult and bad?? I promise you that no matter how annoying you make it, I am not going to sign in on my phone, even though that’s clearly what you want and what you’re prioritizing. Please fix this, thank you.
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Working with teams
It is a pleasure for me to have a share. Because I am remote, when I join I feel like part of the family. I learn more about what I should do and how to use the tools we have each time. But it also helps me to appreciate the massive time you all spend translating articles, scripts and recording as well. I also have learned from recent meetings that the GB has shown love and thoughtfulness to the Motu public in approving the translation of public magazines. What a blessing!
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Solid daily work driver
People may complain about teams but we ask a LOT of it and it handles most things elegantly. There are tons of features we don’t use but its mainstay functionality is rock solid and I would recommend it to any business organization. Time and again I’ve pointed out in meetings that having someone with teams in the conference room to act as a conference phone is far superior to most conference phones given the superior noise cancellation features of Teams. It handles meetings, integrates with Office 360 and OneDrive, and blasts through chats with such ease that emails become a lesser form of communicating. I am personally not as much of a fan of the “Teams” section as I am of the “Chat” section given how they more organically work, it’s easier to just watch the one. Similarly there are a boatload of other integrations that are theoretically neat but could go away without being missed. All told though, I am a fan of Teams.
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Enhancement
It’s a great app! That being said, I would like to introduce some enhancements to make it even better.
1. Allow to have a chat and a hosted file open at the same time. For example, currently, when I work in an Excel file in Teams window (w/o opening it in the native application), I cannot view chats. It’s either or and i need to swap between them (or I have to close the file to view a chat and then re-open the file again). I have multiple computer monitors in my setup, but that does not help.
Also, sometimes the sync for a file opened in its native application (mostly Excel) fails. This is why I prefer to work in Teams as I always work with others and we need to see each others changes in real time. I had many problems with this, subject to Microsoft support tickets. The problem continues for me and others in my company. The sync is not fully reliable.
2. Make the camera background options part of the Settings menu. Most of the time, I cannot find this setup.
3. Add group call reactions similar to Zoom to let participants of conference calls vote and use the check mark emoji to signal completed tasks (very handy for training calls).
4. I can no longer answer Teams calls on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I have the latest iOS version, but I am not even getting calls any more. Before this happened, I was getting calls but the connection was not made when I picked up. It used to work flawlessly in the past and I used to rely on it heavily.
1. Allow to have a chat and a hosted file open at the same time. For example, currently, when I work in an Excel file in Teams window (w/o opening it in the native application), I cannot view chats. It’s either or and i need to swap between them (or I have to close the file to view a chat and then re-open the file again). I have multiple computer monitors in my setup, but that does not help.
Also, sometimes the sync for a file opened in its native application (mostly Excel) fails. This is why I prefer to work in Teams as I always work with others and we need to see each others changes in real time. I had many problems with this, subject to Microsoft support tickets. The problem continues for me and others in my company. The sync is not fully reliable.
2. Make the camera background options part of the Settings menu. Most of the time, I cannot find this setup.
3. Add group call reactions similar to Zoom to let participants of conference calls vote and use the check mark emoji to signal completed tasks (very handy for training calls).
4. I can no longer answer Teams calls on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I have the latest iOS version, but I am not even getting calls any more. Before this happened, I was getting calls but the connection was not made when I picked up. It used to work flawlessly in the past and I used to rely on it heavily.
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Teams is good but
Our company uses Teams a lot and it is pretty much user friendly. When sharing document in meetings the view is reduced and difficult to see… if there was a way to enlarge the view for this it would help (sharing a desktop view) regardless of the view from the person sharing. I had a meeting and if their was a notice or label still available for quick connect when your late. Today, I had to search for which made me later.
Quick memo or to do reminder attachment to send to outlook or other calendar and possibly notification on phone.
I like Google set up where if I receive information I can immediately make an appointment with the information to set it as a reminder or appointment automatically for my calendar.
A quick note or memo grabber in teams to make. To do notes, set appointments, to list major information needed for later., so we do not have to search and add an emoji helps sort out who and what it is.
Make information shareable with a google calendar or email if it doesn’t cause security issues.
Quick memo or to do reminder attachment to send to outlook or other calendar and possibly notification on phone.
I like Google set up where if I receive information I can immediately make an appointment with the information to set it as a reminder or appointment automatically for my calendar.
A quick note or memo grabber in teams to make. To do notes, set appointments, to list major information needed for later., so we do not have to search and add an emoji helps sort out who and what it is.
Make information shareable with a google calendar or email if it doesn’t cause security issues.
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Very hard to use with mouse and no multi app window support
This app is pretty difficult to work with using an iPad with a mouse and keyboard. The iPad OS feature where the mouse icon snaps onto a button or text field remains completely broken in this app. When you try to mouse over the text entry field to respond to a message the mouse icon refused to snap into the text field leading to frustrating behavior where the mouse will snap to some other location. I haven’t seen this in any other application. In reality, the mouse does appear to “enter” the text field because if you place it just right. However the mouse icon remains at the edge of the text field. This also makes it impossible to place your mouse in a particular place in you message to edit. I had been waiting to see if this behavior is corrected but surprisingly this is still an issue. Does anyone at MS test this app with an iPad and mouse? I can’t see how this is missed because it is so central to the teams use case. Also, this app still does not support multiple instantiations, so there isn’t a way to see your meeting and at the same time respond to messages outside of the meeting. Three stars for everything else teams does fairly well.
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iPadOS 16.4 issues with TEAMS
ΤEAMS was working great until iPadOS 16.4. I have been using TEAMS with my AirPods for a while now and its been great. After updating my iPad to 16.4, now when i am in a meeting and i remove my AirPods from my ear, my meeting does not switch to the speaker and microphone of the iPad. In the meeting it shows that the speaker and microphone from the iPad is active but I can’t hear anything and others can’t hear me. The annoying part is that as soon as i try to turn the microphone on/off or even go back to reconnect the AirPods, my meeting just glitches and drops/disconnects. I tried to “forget my AirPods” and reconnect them and that didn’t help. I uninstalled TEAMS and then re-installed, that didn’t help either. The biggest issue is that if i am in a meeting and my AirPods run out of battery, it will try to connect to the speaker and microphone of the iPad, but once its in that state, it always glitch and drop the meeting no matter what i do. The only way i can now use my AirPods is to connect them prior to joining a meeting but if i am in a meeting and take them off or the battery dies, the meeting glitches and drops/disconnects. I have tested this for a couple of days and the issue is consistent and my TEAMS meeting will always abruptly drop/disconnect. Please help. Thank you.
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I love Teams!
Teams is a really great way to communicate with others! You can send images, emojis, GIFs and attachments, make group chat, have an audio or video call, chat with lots of people and use an app that’s actually organised. There are many tabs that have different features, and the app is super functional and easy to use. Only downside is that it takes up a lot of mobile data and storage on your phone, so I would advise using it on your laptop.
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Things work then things don’t
Running a team for a niche 400+ user area of a large health organisation has been a lot of a challenge. The functionality of the desktop app and sharepoint sites do not always translate to the mobile app. The current issue is that in Channel F we have quick links set up to go to a “folder” location in the General Channel. They work great in desktop app, browser, sharepoint app, etc. BUT not on the mobile Teams app. I open the sharepoint site for Channel F and click the link and it loads a blank page, nothing else.
I can click the … and ask it to open it in my browser which then runs me through 10 step process to login, TFA, etc. etc. on my browser before I can view the information.
It’s tiresome and wasteful.
Why won’t you fix all these bugs Microsoft?
OR make it so I can add a Tab to a folder from the General Channel in the Tabs for Channel F. That’s all I want. But apparently not possible.
Worse than the issues is the hours spent searching for a fix. Hours and hours and hours of my time wasted, but no one seems to give a hoot.
I can click the … and ask it to open it in my browser which then runs me through 10 step process to login, TFA, etc. etc. on my browser before I can view the information.
It’s tiresome and wasteful.
Why won’t you fix all these bugs Microsoft?
OR make it so I can add a Tab to a folder from the General Channel in the Tabs for Channel F. That’s all I want. But apparently not possible.
Worse than the issues is the hours spent searching for a fix. Hours and hours and hours of my time wasted, but no one seems to give a hoot.
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Bug when using stage manager + iPad Pro Magic Keyboard
I can’t believe this is the only place I can report this bug. Use case: iPad Pro in Stage Manager mode with Magic Keyboard. Bug: When hovering over the chat message bar (where you type your message), the cursor snaps to the bar that minimises all apps and takes you back to iPad Home Screen. It’s really frustrating as the snapping is immediate - i have to be really quick to click in the message bar for the snapping to not occur. I’ve minimised my app so many times because of this. It’s literally the most used part of teams on iPad so please fix this issue. I did a screen recording but there’s no way for me to report this in so hopefully this report makes sense.
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