At work they have transitioned from an email service to Teams. So I’m using it weather I want to or not. I like teams for collaborative work on documents, we don’t have to each edit our own copies and then try to merge all the copies together somehow, we can all work on the original document together.
The chat function is fine except you cannot delete chats, you can only hide and mute them. So every chat group I have ever been in is still there just muted and hidden. There is no way to clear chats or teams. Whatever has been written will stay there forever unless everyone in the chat/team/channel deletes each and every post or comment they made. The same goes for activity. I have thousands of notifications in the activity tab that cannot be deleted.
It makes the app feel very cluttered all the time. WhatsApp is way better in my opinion for chatting but of course the company wants better privacy than WhatsApp so now all our communication must go through Teams.
Another problem I have encountered is using the calendar in teams, it doesn’t link up with outlook calendars very well, sometimes at all. So when we need to schedule a team call, I have to exit teams, check outlook calendars and then go back to teams.
Anyway, there are some good things about teams but it could be so much better if they made some functionality improvements. I don’t have much hope that much will change however, making the user experience better isn’t a cornerstone of Microsoft.
So when you have multiple groups sharing schedules in the same team, it can really get hectic if people aren’t careful enough to turn on their filter. When you start to see that you have 819 scheduling conflicts, you know someone is updating schedules and rather than sharing it with affected members only, they share with the entire team and they copy their schedules and they don’t have their filter turned on. Other than that as far as collaborative work meetings chats sharing files, teams is an excellent way to achieve group input simultaneously. It is an excellent program
Teams will only be stable for a week and then they will update and break something. Microsoft is determined to make the worst telecommunications system software in the business world. I am forced to use this for work and often conference calls fail. Call don’t go through it shows airpod connection but gives no sound. On pc in cloud it won’t utilize sound devices that work in Zoom. I would suggest never using teams for any mission critical uses. Please fix this trash software I’m forced to use then leave it alone until you can create a stable update.
Everything about the teams spaces across all apps is an abomination. Specific to iOS, the notifications don't listen to settings. I have notifications set to mirror on my watch, Teams just rings my phone no matter what. When I don't answer a call, I eventually get that missed call notification on my watch though. No amount of complaining or low rating is going to make any difference, because it is likely your business drank the MS Kool-aid, and everyone is going to be forced to use this horrible platform anyway. So good luck with that.
Overall, nothing beats Teams for ‘real’ collaboration.
There are competitors that do separate things a bit ‘better’, but nothing that does everything that Teams provides all at once …
Teams is decent for personal communication and is even better for professional collaboration - in other words, Teams scales well with need.
Cross-Platform continuity in software features is the best it has ever been, but has always been very reliable.
It is just worth it. Period. A very valuable tool.
Specific to iOS, the notifications don't listen to settings. I have notifications set to mirror on my watch, Teams just rings my phone no matter what. When I don't answer a call, I eventually get that missed call notification on my watch though.
No amount of complaining or low rating is going to make any difference, because it is likely your business drank the MS Kool-aid, and everyone is going to be forced to use this horrible platform anyway. So good luck with that.
Teams is great on the computer. The iOS phone app is good too. I especially like the handoff between the two during a conference call. Also, if you have an iPad, you can actually read slides others are presenting.
The problem: The teams calendar on the PC is not on the phone app. If you have exchange implemented correctly, i believe you can see teams events on your main calendar app. That’s not working for me and i would want to kee them selersre anyway.
The app was working flawlessly for years, it the past week I have not been able to use the app for work due to consistent freezing and delays. Now, it is also making my phone overheat. I’ve contacted Apple, reset my phone to factory, and have reinstalled the app multiple times. I submitted an email to the developer for support as request but no response. I’m not sure on what else to do. I need this to be fixed, I am also on iOS 15.5
The fact that this feature wasn’t included in the very first iteration of teams blows my mind. I can’t imagine why anyone would design a calendar without the most basic features that come standard in any decent calendar software.
Additionally, the app logs me out during critical communications.
Keeps asking me to update every time I open the app even after I said no. Very coercive tactics by the designers
Update: the new version now forces emojis on the meeting screen, waving, clapping and laughing to distract you from the screen share. Totally unprofessional and I really hope they remove it!
Calls using WiFi sound terrible. Sounds worse than a land line. Push notifications rarely happen. I don't get notifications on all my devices. Other than those things, the app functions much better with every update.