If teams is minimized it shows me as away after 5/10 minutes
Teams shows me as away when the desktop app is minimized. I am still working but my team thinks I am away. Very annoying!
Tom
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Eric Byers
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While I would consider this a bug, there is an underlying issue that also should be addressed. That is our inability to make the Teams program smaller. It only scales down so much - and then it stops. We only have so much real estate on our screens folks - that's why many of us minimize it as it is a SPACE HOG. I see suggestions for using a third party app - that does not work folks. If you minimize, you immediately go "away".
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Anonymous
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Please fix this make it a setting to toggle
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Star
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It's interesting that there are so many threads documenting this issue, but only Terry's link categorized it as a bug, rather than a suggestion:
1. (largest vote count, even larger than the one Terry posted) https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/19544905-incorrect-status-in-teams
2. https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/39634738-status-goes-away-when-teams-is-minimised
3. (this thread) https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/908686-bug-reports/suggestions/40575991-if-teams-is-minimized-it-shows-me-as-away-after-5
4. https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40350586-team-shows-away-when-we-work-on-other-pages
5. (closed but comments say still occurring) https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18629083-don-t-switch-to-away-just-because-i-m-using-a-d
6. https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40630765-status-getting-changed-from-available-to-away-auto
7. (Terry's link) https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/908686-bug-reports/suggestions/41278342-teams-now-setting-my-status-to-away-after-10-min -
Terry
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There's a larger thread handling away status, maybe the threads can be combined to create a bigger on: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/908686-bug-reports/suggestions/41278342-teams-now-setting-my-status-to-away-after-10-min
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Anonymous
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The only solution I found for this was downloading a 3rd party program that moves your mouse in micro-movements every minute so the screen never falls asleep. It worked for me.
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Lucy
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Same - unless I am working within the teams pages it shows that I am away, when clearly I am not. meaning that colleagues will not contact me as they are presuming I am not there, making this platform unusable for one of its main features (chat)
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CR
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Also agree with changing the way the Status are set. If not going back into Teams, the status may show away for a while, even though we may be working.
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Anonymous
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I agree that having the ability to set a duration before status changes to Away would be very helpful.
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Adam
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In addition to this bug, please let us set a duration before status changes to Away, as we could with Skype for Business.
