Customize your meeting view in Microsoft Teams

Teams meetings have been redesigned to bring shared content front and center and highlight active speakers. When you join a Teams meeting, Teams smartly anticipates what you’ll want to see and resizes participant thumbnails and content based on the scenario.

When someone shares content like a presentation, Teams optimizes the layout to make that content as large as possible while also showing more video participants.

In Together Mode, Teams increases the size of the video so you can see people’s faces while also viewing shared content.

These meeting views will be shown by default, but here are some things you can customize in your meeting.

To pin your own video:

Hover over your video feed.
Select More options next to your name.
Select Pin for me . This will pin your video for your own view, others won't see you pinned.
To unpin yourself, hover over your video feed and select More options > Unpin for me .

To pin someone else's video:

Hover over their video feed.
Select More options next to their name.
Select Pin for me .
To unpin someone, hover over their video feed and select More options > Unpin for me .

Spotlight someone's video feed to highlight it for everyone in the meeting. Organizers and presenters can spotlight anyone's video feed, including their own.

To spotlight a video feed:

Hover over the video feed and select More options .
Select Spotlight for everyone .
To remove a video feed from the spotlight, hover over it and select More options > Stop spotlighting .

People can also exit the spotlight themselves by selecting Exit spotlight Exit spotlight video in their meeting controls.

For more details, see Spotlight someone's video in a Teams meeting.

Change the orientation of meeting participants to the top of your screen  to maintain better eye contact with others while content is being shared.

When you’re in the meeting, go to your meeting controls and select View Gallery view icon > More options > Show gallery at top.

Large gallery view is available when at least ten people have their cameras turned on. When more than 49 participants join a Teams meetings, see them all in a gallery with pages.

To enter large gallery view, select View Gallery view icon > Large gallery Large gallery view icon . In large gallery view, navigation controls < > will appear at the bottom of the gallery when there are more than 49 participants. Use these navigation controls to view or engage with more video participants.

To change how many participants you can see at once, select View Gallery view icon in your meeting controls and choose Gallery teams gallery icon . Then, hover over Select max gallery size and choose how many people you want to see.

When you're in a meeting with gallery view and someone shares content, by default the content appears in the center of your meeting view and videos move to side or top.

Select a participant's videos in gallery view to swap the content being shared with a gallery. This action brings participants' videos to the center of the meeting view and moves content like a shared desktop or PowerPoint presentation to the side or top of the meeting view.

To bring shared content back to the center of your meeting view, select the content to swap it back in.