MC1006624 - Microsoft Teams: Access chats while sharing a screen

Service

Microsoft Teams

Last Updated

Mar 31, 2025

Published Feb 15, 2025

Tag

Updated message
Feature update
User impact

Platforms

Desktop
Mac

Summary

Microsoft Teams will soon add a control to the meeting presenter toolbar, allowing presenters to access the meeting chat while sharing a screen. The rollout for Windows and Mac desktops will start mid-May 2025 for Targeted Release and early June 2025 for General Availability. No admin action is required.

More information

Updated March 31, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: We will add a control to the meeting presenter toolbar so presenters can more easily access the meeting chat while sharing a window or a screen.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop and Teams for Mac desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 467445.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early June 2025 and expect to complete by early July 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

After this rollout, a compact view of the meeting chat (visible to presenter only) will open when the presenter selects the Chat icon on the presenter toolbar:

user controls

Closeup view of the chat icon:

user controls

This feature will be available by default.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Before rollout, we will update this post with new documentation.