Adding people to a Microsoft Teams chat by @ mentioning them

When you’re in a group chat in Microsoft Teams, you might find yourself wanting to bring a new person into the chat. While you can go to the upper-right corner, find the list of people in the chat, and add them from there, you can also add someone by just putting an @ symbol in the message area. Here’s how that works…

Leave a Microsoft Teams meeting on all your devices

Microsoft Teams meetings are great in that you can join on one device (like your Teams desktop client) and then switch over to using your iPhone to listen to the meeting if you have to walk away. However, if you join the meeting from a second device (instead of switching devices), it can be hard to completely leave the meeting on both devices. Teams now allows you to leave a meeting on all devices when you’re ready to exit the meeting. Here’s how that works…

Deleting your chats in Microsoft Teams

If you’ve used Microsoft Teams for any length of time, you know your list of chats can grow pretty long in a relatively short period of time. Trying to scroll through the list of chat to find one that you really want to look at can be a pain. Now, Microsoft Teams will let you delete chats in your chat list, and it only affects the chat on your own Teams client. Here’s how that works…

Delayed send on Microsoft Teams chat messages

This is a change that I’ve been waiting *months* for! You can now type a message in a Teams chat and choose to send it at a later date! This is great when you cover a number of time zones and you don’t want to have people responding to your messages during times when they might normally not be working. Here’s how it works…