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
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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!
97 comments
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Mohan Hanumantha
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This is really a must have. It pains to keep tying the same number several times a day and after while it is no longer an annoyance, just plain contempt. Please add a cookie somewhere to remember the last number, until you figure out a grand solution.
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R
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Just to put things in perspective, my calculator from the late 1980's could remember the last number I typed in. Hoping that Teams is up to the challenge!
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Anonymous
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Please allow Teams to remember the phone numbers recently used, to make it easier for us to sell Teams Meetings as a WebEx replacement.
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David Hillerman
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This will definitely be a beneficial feature that I used in SfB before migrating to Teams.
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Tiz
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I would like this, too. It is a feature of Skype for Business and not sure why Teams doesn't have this.
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Joe Lunder
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Agreed with previous comments. A big use of this is for conference rooms where typing the inbound number over and over and over is getting annoying.
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spencer
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it's also important to note that this doesnt do a thing for helping with saving things like conference room phone numbers. this isnt partially done at all. its a bad workaround that doesnt work for the main issue.
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R
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Agree with Anya. Either keep the last 10 numbers in memory, or even better let me intentionally store and describe 10 numbers.
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Anya
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Dear Alex, thank you for the update! What I and from what I can tell another 413 users would like to see if that once you enter a phone # as a "call me back" number, it stays there even after Teams session is closed, and computer is rebooted. So, a user doesn't have to keep entering phone numbers; they stay there once they get entered the first time. Just like in Webex and Skype, you know?
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Don Young
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This would be amazing!
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Muthu
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Yes please. It's such a monotonous work I do every time i try to join a meeting via Teams to enter my phone number along with Country code.
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Matt Mannikka
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Ideally, an admin would be able to provide a list of conference room telephone numbers with a name/description (e.g., Chicago Medium Conf Room) as well as users being able to customize a name (mobile, home) with their most used phone numbers.
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Philip M.
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Hard to believe this isn't higher on the list. Should be a basic function of meetings.
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B Hoff
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This was the very first problem I encountered with Teams months ago. I've now memorized my phone numbers, but it's annoying that I have to enter this every time. I've encouraged others to continue with Skype over this.
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Anonymous
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All modern Web conferencing tools support this. Even let user create and maintain a phone book of call back numbers. Even SFB could do this on a limited scale.
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Anonymous
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This would be very helpful for mobile users, much safer operation while driving, thus protecting other humans
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Scott Helgesen
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Please add this. For those of us working remotely, we use our phones primarily, not the terrible microphone on our laptops.
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Anonymous
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it makes live easier, especially when you are traveling
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Alan Riggs
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+All my votes
Outrageous that this isnt already a basic capability of the system
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Mike A
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Can't believe this still hasn't been completed by Microsoft. Get with the rest of of the web conferencing universe already.