Meeting Call Me Back Number
After entering a meeting, if you would like Teams to call you back you need to enter a phone number in the Call Me Back box. (See attached file.) It would be great if this box would remember the last number called and there was a user setting to save a default number. This would save you from having to enter in the number every single time.
Al Durham
shared this idea
We are happy to inform you that you are able to join meetings by choosing “Call me” from the join dropdown on iOS & Android. To use this feature, you need to provide a phone number where you can receive a phone call. If the call is accepted, your meeting audio will switch to the cellular connection. Your personal and work phone numbers, if added to your account, will be available for selection automatically.
The team is working to release this feature for Desktop. I don’t have dates to share at this time, but will keep you posted.
Thanks!
144 comments
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bota
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Please add this feature. It would allow us to connect to TEAMS calls so much faster! I used this feature in Skype.
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Scott
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As a work-around, I use the AutoHotKey application to type it in each time for me. Annoying still that Teams doesn't remember it, but better than doing it manually.
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Drew Tomlinson
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It's June 2020. What is the status??? It can't be that difficult...
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Anonymous
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agree. it's ridiculous that i have to enter my mobile# every time i join a meeting. let's get this one done!
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Bill Ford
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My entire company (250,000+ employees) is moving to Teams from Skype and you're about to get tens of thousands of people who will complain that they cannot set their phone number as default for Call Me function, which is commonly used.
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dawn thornsberry
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This should have been there at launch. You should have met every feature of skype.
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Randy Savell
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Hopefully this is coming soon. With everyone work from home this is needed more now then it was before. This seems like a obvious omission in Teams every other service such WebEx, Zoom, Google meets and Skype for Business all remember your last phone number and / or use your AD phone numbers so you don't need to reenter it every time.
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Mark
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6 months to add to the desktop app?
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Jasmine
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when will be available for desktop app?
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Girish Chandnani
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Please add asap! It is such a waste of time to c-c-p this number.
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ryan stepp
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Yes - please add! We just switched to Teams and this would be very convenient.
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Lance
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Yes we definitely need this. A must have product enhancement.
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Neil
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Ditto to the common threads below. Just adding my vote for this important feature.
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Nell
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Yes, please make a feature where it auto populates. This is the case for skype so I cant imagine that it would be that hard.
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Laura I
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If this feature is only available if you subscribe to calling plans via Teams, I would not consider this as even being partially done. I realize that this is 'third world problem', however, the fact that other vendors, e.g. Skype, Webex, have this feature, it's inconceivable to me that a Microsoft product does not.
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Anonymous
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Thanks, Alex, but it's quite a pain to have to type in the phone number every time. Please create a setting for the default phone number and the ability to make that designated phone number be the default audio join option for all meetings. Some of us have poor desktop audio and for meetings that screens are shared, it would be great to automatically join via phone.
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JR
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Please don't underestimate our laziness... typing in 10 digits is hard for us.
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Anonymous
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Trying to transition company from skype to teams and this is one of the main complaints. How has this not been added to the desktop version?
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Michael Krumbein
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It would help if the last number showed automatically. This was our number one problem in getting used to teams.
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Anonymous
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Unable to find the call back option in mobile app, I have updated the latest version released on April 16th.