Customize your chat view in Microsoft Teams Free. Filtering your chats can keep your conversations organized, easy to find, and up to date.
Choose how your chat view
There are several different ways to filter your chats to help focus on what needs your attention.
Under Chat, your conversations are organized into:
Favorites- Conversations marked as Favorite
Chats- Conversations sorted by most recent activity, or by filters
Favorites view
To view a chat in the Favorites view, you first need to mark it as Favorite.
In the Chat tab, tap and hold your chat and tap Favorite.
Choose your chat filter
If you want a different view of your conversations, you can filter your chats.
In Microsoft Teams Free, go to Chat.
In the corner of the screen, tap More options.
Tap Filter chat messages.
Choose a filter:
Unread – shows only unread messages
Meeting chats – shows chats from meetings only
Unmuted – shows chats where notifications are turned on
In the Chat tab, you can also tap More options on the chat you'd like to mute, hide, or mark as unread. Want to remove a filter? Select it again to update your view. Learn more about chat options.
To remove a chat filter
In Chats, you can see what filters you have selected.
Tap X next to the filter you want to remove.
Search in Chat
Use Search to find messages by person name or keywords. This helps you quickly return to important conversations.
Learn more about how you can do in chat: Hide, mute, pin, and view chat details.