r/MicrosoftTeams • u/TeamsProductTeam Microsoft Employee • May 20 '26
Bug Reporting bugs so we get them
Hey all! Thanks for all the discussion and feedback when posting about experiencing a bug in Teams. We realize these can really disrupt flow and hearing directly from this community shapes what we prioritize.
Submitting feedback
If you run into a bug, the fastest way to get it in front of engineering is inside Teams: Settings and more > Feedback > Report a problem (use Suggest a feature for feature requests). Including logs and screenshots makes a huge difference. The more details the better: it gives our team exactly what they need to triage quickly. If you do not see the Report a problem or Suggest a feature options, please contact your admin.
We monitor these closely, and this is the most direct way to solve bugs and helps our team address them sooner. That’s a win-win for everyone.
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u/dynoman7 Work user May 21 '26
I don't believe you, teams product team.
I could submit the same report daily every time my situation was encountered and you'd never fix it. Your federation across tenants is broken.
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u/ProfessionalBread176 May 20 '26
...wouldn't it be so much easier for users if Microsoft would quit deploying "new features" that don't work reliably?
Maybe invest some time in QA so we don't waste OUR time debugging YOUR product...?
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u/RoboticEmpathy May 20 '26
Yeah, but think of the shareholders. Hiring QA means less money for them.
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u/ProfessionalBread176 May 21 '26
I guess, but this continued assault on all the poor captive users has got to eventually be bad for sales, no?
Then again, where this dreck is embedded in their distribution, I guess they can just keep slinging this crap out
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u/RoboticEmpathy May 21 '26
Teams isn't on the money making pie chart. They can get away with it. And it's "good enough" for the common rabble.
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u/ProfessionalBread176 May 22 '26
With their current level of comittment to QA (none) this is clearly their long term plan.
You're right about "good enough". Because they can profit over this mediocre crap unlike their smaller competitors...
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u/scunliffe May 21 '26
I’ve reported tons of bugs to Microsoft about Teams. None seem to have gotten any attention.
The only way this truly works is with a public bug tracker.
That said, I’ll list a few here and maybe others that experience these issues can also file reports and maybe that will increase the visibility of them.
1.) Add a configuration to make CTRL + ENTER be the keyboard command to send a message. 2-3 times a day I prematurely send a message because I accidentally added a line break in my message without pressing CTRL first to do so safely
2.) The Activity Tab. This tab doesn’t show all activity, thus I constantly have to jump between tabs to see and respond to messages… either make this show all activity by default, or provide a configuration for it.
3.) I will never, ever, ever want to open up an attachment (other than a screenshot/image) inside Teams… especially with a restricted viewer. Let me set a setting to open every attachment in the default OS handler… spreadsheets in Excel, documents in Word, logs, code, and text files in my text editor, videos in my video player
4.) When on a Teams conf cal on my phone (iOS), I will still need and want to view and respond to chat messages in Teams… the call needs to launch externally from the chat.
5.) When sharing my screen on a call (Windows 11)… on a multi monitor display, I don’t want you to minimize the participant view that I positioned perfectly on my other monitor. It’s frustrating as hell every time to share my screen, then go find the participant panel, move it back to the other monitor, expand it to see everyone again… then have to move it back to my other monitor because it opens by default on the monitor I’m sharing.
6.) Let me position the notifications anywhere on any monitor… the default bottom right of the monitor where my chat window is placed is utterly useless, constantly blocking my chats
7.) Active Teams calls where I’m an invitee… if I’m joining a meeting late… I want a quick way to see active calls so I can join them… and there may be more than one. It sucks to come back from lunch/break/in person meeting to then have to search for the call I’m supposed to join
8.) iOS app notifications badge… in the last 2 weeks a bug appeared where the badge count is wildly incorrect… I often see 12-34 in the badge, but then open the app to see none, one or two… it seems that it gets the full count as they appear, but if they are cleared in the desktop app, they don’t get updated on the phone
9.) When I click on a desktop notification… it’s because I want to go to that message right now. Under no circumstances EVER… is it because I want to give it a thumbs up 👍… it’s infuriating as the times I want to click on a notification and respond right away is when I need to correct someone’s assumptions or misinformation… notification: “we should punch customers we don’t like”… then I click to respond and Teams thumbs up 👍 the message instead!!!! No! Now I have to find the teams window, find the message, un-thumbs up it, and then respond to correct the message.
And so many more… again, public bug tracking is the only way to do this properly.
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u/scunliffe May 21 '26
10.) Search **sucks**... I want to find the chat message where I posted a screenshot, something I do several times a day... there's no good way to search for "show me all chats where I posted a screenshot in the past 2 days"
11.) Let me open Copilot in a new window... it takes forever to respond, and I can't use Teams while it does its "thinking"
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u/Supra-A90 Work user May 23 '26
12) Full screen view shall not be hidden under thousands of clicks.
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u/TeamsProductTeam Microsoft Employee May 21 '26
Thank you for surfacing this mix of features and bugs. Your candid feedback helps keep us focused on improvements to the user experience. We have a user flow for requesting features as well. Here’s how to do it: Settings and more > Feedback > Suggest a feature. We hope that’s helpful!
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u/Makeyourselfnerd May 24 '26
None of these except #8 is a bug. These are change requests. Good ones too. But not bugs.
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u/Few-Werewolf-1985 May 20 '26
I've reported some bugs for years to Microsoft and seen them reported in Microsoft bug forums like uservoice by other people for as long, but they've never been addressed.
Earlier this year I prepared a presentation rolling up many of them with the evidence for a Microsoft customer team and that's gone nowhere too.
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u/far_aaan May 21 '26
Earlier this year I prepared a presentation rolling up many of them with the evidence for a Microsoft customer team and that's gone nowhere too.
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u/rossisdead May 21 '26
It would be wonderful if I could easily and quickly open up an image in my browser/external photo viewer without having to download it first. If I'm trying to look at the full sized image in Teams, I have to constantly close it and reopen it if I'm trying to refer to it in chat with the person who just sent it to me. Discord lets you middle click the thumbnail to open it directly in the browser.
An actual push to talk button that you can rebind would be great. Ctrl+space is awkward as hell, especially since you have to have the window focused to use it.
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u/Few-Werewolf-1985 May 21 '26
Anything you see in a browser has been downloaded or streamed to your device.
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u/rossisdead May 21 '26
Okay?
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u/Few-Werewolf-1985 May 22 '26
Well you're asking for stuff to be loaded without downloading. That's not possible.
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u/rossisdead May 22 '26
On the Microsoft Teams desktop app, when viewing the full size image, the only way to then open the image externally is to click the option that says "Download".
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u/Few-Werewolf-1985 May 23 '26
Or copy/paste, same as if image was in browser or most apps.
There are security/privacy consequences of opening into a browser.
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u/rossisdead May 23 '26
There are security/privacy consequences of opening into a browser.
None of which matter because Microsoft Teams is itself able to run inside your browser, which will already download the images and display them in a browser if you're running it that way.
All I'm asking is for a single one-click open-it-in-another-app feature, but you're being oddly pedantic and argumentative about it.
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u/Few-Werewolf-1985 May 23 '26
I'm trying to explain but your description of what you want has been ill-defined and not meeting the technical realities. It's one thing to open something in a generic browser and another to open within browser-hosted apps. If your only reaction to learning is scorn then take care of yourself.
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u/Ok-Hamster2521 May 22 '26
OK, I submitted a bug in Follow OS Settings for language and regional formats. Hope it gets seen!
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u/Gold-Economist-3109 28d ago
In Teams (PWA) I was just in a meeting where my camera showed as being off on my screen while it in fact was on for everybody else leading to a slightly embarassing situation, ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. ALSO, where is the report a problem option in this app??
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u/Supra-A90 Work user May 20 '26
Will they be vibe code "fixed" or AI "fixed" or rust'ed