Microsoft Teams Is Dropping Its Unique Together Meeting Mode
Microsoft Teams will discontinue its Together mode feature, which aimed to create a more communal video call experience. Launched in July 2020, Together mode allowed users to appear in a shared virtual setting. The removal is part of Microsoft's effort to enhance user experience and focus on foundational video improvements.
- ▪Together mode will be removed from Microsoft Teams by June 30, 2026.
- ▪The feature was designed to make video calls feel more community-like by placing users in a virtual scene together.
- ▪Microsoft aims to simplify the user experience and improve backend performance with this change.
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Microsoft Teams will soon remove Together mode, a feature designed to make your video calls feel more community-like. Together mode first launched in July 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many companies were switching to remote work for the first time. Microsoft introduced the tool to let employees sit in a virtual scene together rather than viewing a grid of standard webcams. The cutouts of each person were then placed in a setting, such as a theater or a coffee shop, to make it look like you’re at a real location, to help break up the mundanity of conferencing tools.You needed at least four people to activate Together mode, although it briefly tested one-on-one calls, and it could support up to 49 people at a time.
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