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Multiple Accounts in the Teams Desktop App
The iOS app for Teams allows me to be logged onto multiple accounts simultaneously, but not the desktop App.
Do we know when this will be coming?
Thanks,
Craig
Hi,
The latest public information is that Microsoft is testing this internally and with some customers. It is listed as "working on it" in the uservoice request. A comment also says that they are planning to release it "this fall", but that I doubt.
pemishas you and many others, I am waiting for this feature for a long time already. In a user's perspective, this is just not comprehensible. And, from a technical point of view I would believe that it is some kind of medium complexity. Additionally, we all know that iOS and Android implementations have that feature (since ever or so...).
Altogether, I believe that Microsoft simply sets other priorities. However, this is really frustrating.
Well said and couldn't agree more. This is by far the biggest pain with Teams, especially when competitors have been able to add this feature (from the start) and even Teams has it on their mobile platforms as you mentioned. Microsoft, please make this a priority, fortunately your marketing department was ingenious in bundling this with Office 365 making it difficult to switch to competitors. The ironic part is this is only an issue if you use Microsoft Windows, you seem to have resolved it for all operating systems but your own.
Thank you for clarification, I guess since it worked on Android I assumed Chromebooks worked with it as well but I don't use Mac or Chromebooks so that appears to be an inaccurate assumption. Linux doesn't count as I'm guessing that is rarely used as primary OS for Teams users. pemish
henrywood - believe it or not, there are crazy people like us out there that run Teams on their Linux desktops, and the problem persists there too 🙂
To that point, though - a lot of us are running Teams because it is merely an included feature with our M365 licensure. The other guys really have honed in on their niche and made world class apps for IM, team discussion, video chat, screen sharing, etc. Teams, on the other hand, is good at just being okay at everything it does, but it's not super great at any particular thing.
The inability to easily switch user accounts is baffling.
