Contacts as default rather than Recent
The new contact list is a great addition and I believe that for some it will be used more than the recent conversations tab. So I think an option to set it as default or having Teams remember which one was used last would be a good idea.
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Peter
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Now my company has switched us all to Microsoft Teams due to Skype for Business being shut down and this "feature" is a must and should have been fixed long before now. The contact list should be shown and recent chats shouldn't be under it. This is terrible for screen sharing and also just clutter.
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Mavo
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I find it baffling this isn't an option. Please for the love of all that's holy create an option for us to make contacts the default view
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Cathy
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I log in to Teams everyday and everyday I have to change from Recent to Contacts. Please make Contacts the default. Or at least make it a setting that we can change.
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Tove
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I would prefer to have contacts and chat on different tabs. I would also like to be able to pop up contacts list to a separate window.
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aamber_D
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This really comes down to confidentiality, we use teams primarily for video calling and screen sharing and I do not want my recent confidential chats to be on view when navigating through teams.
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MS
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Yet another feature not available in Teams that was in Skype and the usual total lack of response to comments (has been an issue since 2018!). Why cannot this simple change be included in an update? I want to see my contacts list by default. I would not be using Teams if my company hadn't forced it on us
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KL
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Skype for business was much better and had more flexibility. Teams is not user friendly, contacts need to stay open we need to be able to remove a conversation if no one has replied. Why is there both Teams and Contact groups? It appears that there are others who feel the same way.
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Mark M
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This is definitely a feature I would want to see. The lack of this feature is one of the reasons I still use SfB as my go to chat tool and will only fully embrace Teams when i am forced to by my Company. I was excited today when I discovered I could choose Contacts vs Recent Chats. I was disappointed to find that Teams Chat reverted back to Recent when i returned to Chat from a different part of teams.
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neal
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I reiterate that this behavior was much better in Skype for Business! Why take those options away?
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Isaac
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In addition to Contacts as default, would like to sort by contacts status with Available status at the top of the list and ability to switch back to sort by names alphabetically.
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Will
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I find that I use Teams far less often than I used to use Skype. Now the window just stays closed, and this is the main reason why - please allow us to set the Contact List as a default view. A list of recent conversations is rarely useful.
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Bill
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Please make this a feature.
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Gavin
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When I want to start a chat I want to see a list of contacts, not a list of my last conversations. Reviewing conversations is not my normal reason for opening chat.
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richard
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continues to be a problem. Microsoft step up and correct this omission. We want to see our contact list, not historical conversations from meetings long over.
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Anonymous
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Contact should be the default view like a normal voice/video chat, like it is it a major design fault
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Tom Y
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Ditto, would much prefer defaulting to Contacts than Recent
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Alfred Nonymous
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Folks who prefer to work from a Contacts view in Chat rather than the current default Chat view would benefit tremendously from this small option were it to be implemented it could also help ease transitions from other platforms such as Skype that offer such a default view
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Anonymous
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It would be nice to have the option to configure chat to show contacts by default in stead of history.
When you join a lot of vidco's, the history is overwhelmed with chats from those vidco's, while i'm in general just trying to get in contact with someone when opening the chat app. Only secondarily i'll try to find some historical chats, if this was not a personal chat.
Also, expansion/collapse of groups should be kept the way you left it last time you exited the screen (even after restarting teams).
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Anonymous
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I would also prefer to list my contacts by default... Can you please enable this setting... along with keeping groups collapsed if that is how there were before you moved away from the contact tab.
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Anonymous
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Our corporation would also like to see the option to default to this. Please allow contact or recent default view option