Allow users to disable webcam by default
Every meeting I join, Teams turns on my webcam and suggests I join with it enabled. This is not the way that anyone I work with wants it to work, and a departure from Skype behaviour as well. Making the setting sticky would be great.
Nick R.
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Peter K. Campbell
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It is ridiculous that there isn't an option to have webcam disabled by default in the settings, as with every other widespread app of this type. Please add this option.
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Anonymous
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Pls have it OFF by default. Thanks Microsoft!
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Jean Donaldson
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The camera has to be disabled by default as well as the mic. This is a no-brainer!
I will never understand why Microsoft can't manage to completely test their products before they are determined to be a finished product. It's asinine.
The majority of these "ideas" posted here are things that should have been implemented before the application was deployed.
This has the potential to be a great product. Right now, it's missing so many things that should have been included to begin with, that it's really not worth it. If this is like many of their other products, all these requests/ideas will fall on deaf ears and it will never be modified to make it a truly useable product for everyone.
Get your act together Microsoft and get these things fixed for your customers!
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Kian Salem commented
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Mark Whitt
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I'm not sure what happened. When our company first started using teams last year, I was able to default the camera to off. Since then an update apparently came in and this selection is no longer available and the camera now defaults to ON. It causes serious bandwidth problems for our network when people from three different continents join the call. I'm also not a fan of the privacy invasion. Adding my voice for Microsoft to correct this nonsensical 'problem' that they have created.
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Ed Eaglehouse
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Just adds one more reason to hate Teams.
I get complaints from my colleagues every other day about my camera being on. Sometimes Teams "remembers" I disabled the camera when joining a previous meeting, but it's not reliable.
The smart thing to do is have a default preference in Settings. An alternative would be to at least have a "No camera" selection for the camera device.
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Kenny Munro
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How difficult is it to add an option in the configuration to default to On, Off or Last State? Mine seems to implement Last State by default but I would personally prefer it to always default to Off unless I specifically switch it on for that call
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Anonymous
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This is clearly a privacy issue for many users and should not be taken lightly.
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R Krishna
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Woah, people have been requesting privacy for two years now.
Control default mic/camera preferences, how hard can it be?
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Tim Montgomery
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When is this issue of using an alternative webcam going to be included in the settings for Microsoft Teams? All other similar video-comms tools have it (zoom, Skype, etc) so it must surely be an easy add-in for the techno team at MS?!
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Anonymous
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Currently webcams only display at bottom of screen when a presenter is sharing their screen. This can cause eye strain of having to constantly look down, and makes it feel like the person is looking down instead of toward others in a meeting. It would be ideal if - like zoom - the user could select where on their screen they want other meeting participants' webcams to display - left, right, top or bottom.
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Anonymous
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Does Microsoft have in their roadmap / planning to add the option on a mobile phone to switch from the integrated phone camera to an external camera as it would be useful with the dex integration from Samsung as mentioned by another user in this forum?
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Jeff
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With the camera and the mute buttons right next to each other, it's too easy to accidentally trigger the camera when trying to unmute. Please move the buttons farther apart, and consider a confirmation prompt before starting the camera.
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Anonymous
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Trying to connect a Fuji mirrorless camera. It works in Google Meet, but won't show up in Teams. Wish I could use it. It makes me look handsome, as opposed to my built-in camera which makes me look like a corpse. I'm on a Mac, using desktop version.
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[Deleted User]
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When you open teams there is a little switch on the bottom right which says "switch camera" :)
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Anonymous
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Also my voice - please disable camera and microphone by default AND make this a configurable preference!
It is unbelievable that such an obvious requirement, asked by any sane user is ignored! -
Steve
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The default setting for the camera (on/off) and the microphone (on/muted) should be a user preference. Please adopt this change...
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Anonymous
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Microsoft, I'm sure you have the metrics that 99% of all meeting participants have their camera off. Every single one of those people had to wait for the tool to initialize and start showing the camera feed, toggle the camera off, and only then join the meeting. This is clearly not the way people want to use this product. Allow us to set it so that the camera defaults to off. Please.
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Greg
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I was able to fix this by plugging the USB camera directly into the laptop. Problem was that it was plugged into the Kensington docking station. MS Teams was showing camera to user, but black screen to attendees. Settings showed Composite Device, instead of the Microsoft Lifecam. After connecting USB directly into the laptop the settings showed Microsoft Lifecam and it worked! :)
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fabrizio
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The camera has to be disabled by default as well as the mic.