{"id":489767,"date":"2026-05-17T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/489767\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:34:10","slug":"microsoft-is-retiring-teams-together-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/489767\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is retiring Teams\u2019 Together Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft launched Teams\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/8\/21317526\/microsoft-teams-together-mode-dynamic-view-new-features\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Together Mode<\/a> during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if they were really sitting at home without pants on. But times have changed, and it\u2019s now <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/microsoft365insiderblog\/goodbye-together-mode-hello-simplified-meeting-layouts-in-microsoft-teams\/4519312?ocid=usoc_TWITTER_M365_spl100010437321190\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being retired<\/a> in favor of a more simplified Teams experience. The feature used AI to cut your head and shoulds out, and place you in a virtual space with others in the meeting. It could definitely feel gimmicky \u2014 especially when you\u2019d tap co-workers on the shoulder, or give virtual high fives \u2014 but it did limit visual distractions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The changes are being rolled out gradually, but as they are, the Together Mode toggle will disappear from the view menu. And Together-specific features, such as scenes and seat assignments, will go along with it. Part of the reasoning, according to Microsoft, is to reduce fragmentation across various platforms. But it also cites a streamlined interface with fewer options, less clicking, and less confusion. It also says this will allow the company to focus on improving video quality, stability, and performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft launched Teams\u2019 Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,305,5,753,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-489767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-microsoft","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116592303682499671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}