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Hide bar at top of teams sharing
Hi all When I share my screen in meetings it involves using a browser i.e. I`m presenting things using google chrome. I get a bar asking me to change my screen size/settings etc on teams. It'...
rayted22 I'm not aware of any way to disable it. It's generally needed is you end up giving control to other people.
Hi Steven
Thank you for your reply
Is there no way to switch off the sharing bar? I mean the pushpin seems to keep the bar there (static) but doesn't hide it from what I tried. I really want to disable it completely or stop it coming up when presenting. Any other options please?
Thanks
Thank you for your reply
Is there no way to switch off the sharing bar? I mean the pushpin seems to keep the bar there (static) but doesn't hide it from what I tried. I really want to disable it completely or stop it coming up when presenting. Any other options please?
Thanks
rayted22 I'm not aware of any way to disable it. It's generally needed is you end up giving control to other people.
- There should at least be a way to minimize it. It is wild that users cant use browsers or access menus without fighting to get around it. Bad UX
Just sharing with everyone this, which I think would finally addresses this issue 🙂
M365 Changelog: Microsoft Teams: Draggable Presenter Toolbar when screensharing: https://petri.com/microsoft-changelog/m365-changelog-microsoft-teams-draggable-presenter-toolbar-when-screensharing/
Happy Friday!
- one of the most stupid design decision; please inform your team and not reply in a defensive manner. That button bar is really so frustrating! it should be movable or it shouldn't be there at all. Control can be given or is given automatically when requested, the bar is really useless. Thanks
StevenC365 this seems to be the wrong place to log this complaint. Do you know of a more effective channel to get this feedback to MS Teams developers/product managers?
Here are some topics at the Teams Feedback Portal that you can upvote or add comments to (provided you log in with a commercial tenant or personal account):
- Screen Sharing Meeting Controls Should Auto-hide or minimize · Community (microsoft.com)
- Control Bar in Teams blocking screen content while sharing screen · Community (microsoft.com)
- Hide the teams toolbar · Community (microsoft.com)
- Teams Meeting Floating Toolbar · Community (microsoft.com)
- Add a function to hide the presenter toolbar at the top. · Community (microsoft.com)
- Control Panel for Screen Sharing when in a Meeting · Community (microsoft.com)
- new feature for teams allow toolbar to be on top edge of teams window or on the right hand side of teams window · Community (microsoft.com)
- Sharing Toolbar is too "solid" · Community (microsoft.com)
- Auto Hide Toolbar When Sharing Screen · Community (microsoft.com)
- Make toolbar in call movable · Community (microsoft.com)
- Move the screen sharing toolbar · Community (microsoft.com)
- Teams new "Sharing information" hides top of screen - e.g. Edge tabs · Community (microsoft.com)
- Issues with "Screen Share" function · Community (microsoft.com)
- Allow us to move the sharing banner · Community (microsoft.com)
- MS Teams Sharing Screen Suggestions to optimize viewing other software and participants · Community (microsoft.com)
ryanrenne , There is a feedback portal for many MS products (including Teams) since they stopped using UserVoice a few years ago. Unfortunately, you can only log into the feedback portals with a MS personal or MS commercial account (eg. if you try to use a GCC account, you get an error; you can visit the site, but you can't log in to post or upvote suggestions unless you use a personal or commercial account).
StevenC365 @rayted22
How can this be a solution when it is not a solution... the bar still exists, it is in the way and there is no way to move it and if it is hidden it still blocks access to any tabs from your browser in the middle of the screen.
Valueless best response but thanks to TheLocalizer and mdennis91290 for the quick fix!
- Try reading up the thread for a solution, big guy.
We are paying for teams and I'm searching over. a month to find a solution for this and I don't know why no one at Microsoft cares about the customer experience and adding one simple feature to be able to move the sharing bar to right or left or somewhere else. This is sooooooooo annoying in sharing mode to access browser tabs, vscode file tabs, etc. Should we beg you to do this? I know that everyone at Microsoft tells if you don't take your mouth there, it will disappear, but still the remained little bar there is hiding and I can't access the tabs behind it. I have to minimize my browser, change the tab, and then full screen again. So annoying.
I'm now switched to use Google meet, Facetime, or anything else than Microsoft products as the control bar is at the bottom or somewhere else.
