In Microsoft Teams Free, you have direct and easy access to everything in your OneDrive. Your OneDrive files remain private until you share them. You can change file permissions or stop sharing directly in OneDrive.
Note
Note This feature is currently available on Microsoft Teams Free for iOS and Android only.
Access your OneDrive files
- Open Microsoft Teams Free.
- Tap your profile picture, then select Files.
- Tap OneDrive to find a list of your files.
Share a file
- Open Microsoft Teams Free.
- Tap your profile picture, then select Files.
- Tap OneDrive.
- Browse to the directory for the file you want to share.
- Tap More
next to the file you want to share. - Tap Share
. - Tap the chat you where you want to share the file. OneDrive will generate a link to the file.
- Tap the Send button
to share the link to the chat.
Get a link to a file
- Open Microsoft Teams Free.
- Tap your profile picture, then select Files.
- Tap OneDrive.
- Browse to the directory for the file for which you want to get a link.
- Tap More
next to the file you want to share.
- Tap Copy Link
. - OneDrive will generate a link, which is automatically copied to your device’s clipboard to share however you want.
File Storage in Microsoft Teams Free
When you share files or files are shared with you in chat, those files will automatically be added to your OneDrive.
Find shared files
- Open Microsoft Teams Free.
- Tap your profile picture, then select Files.
- Tap OneDrive.
- Tap the Microsoft Teams Chat Files folder.
- Select the file you wish to view.
When to report a concern in for images and videos stored in OneDrive
If there is a OneDrive link to an image or video, reporting a concern may not work within Teams. This can happen when the file or image wasn’t first opened in OneDrive. To report this file or image, open the image or video in OneDrive that is in the Shared section of OneDrive, and report a concern directly in OneDrive. Learn more about how to report a concern in OneDrive.
