Getting to know Microsoft Teams Free

Along the bottom of your mobile screen, Microsoft Teams Free is organized into tabs. The following is a breakdown of what features you'll find within each tab.

Chat

Communities

Under Do more in Teams at the bottom of the screen, you can:

• Schedule - Select to schedule personal and community events. Learn more about how to view and schedule events in Calendar.
• Meet ⁠-⁠ Select to create a meeting, share a meeting invite, copy a meeting link, and explore meeting options. Learn more about how to create a meeting with Meet.
• Start chat – You can start a new one-on-one chat and group chats. To add recipients, you can search by name, phone number, or e-mail.  Learn how to send and receive messages.

Calendar

Activity

Settings

You can review and manage your settings in Microsoft Teams Free. Learn more about Settings.

1. Select your profile picture. There you can access your profile settings, adjust your status message, and more.

2. Choose Settings .

3. Under Settings , you'll find:

   

   Appearance- Choose your Teams theme.

   Notifications - Choose how Teams will notify you about your activity and meetings.

   Data and storage - Update your storage, clear app data, reduce data usage, and search settings.

   

   Profile - Add or edit your profile image and update your name.

   Messaging - Choose if you want to receive read receipts, edit pinned chats, and other related messaging settings.

   Calling - Set your noise suppression settings.

   People - Sync your device contacts and manage blocked contacts.

   Teams Insider - Find out how to sign up for the Teams Insider where you can check out the latest features coming to Microsoft Teams Free.

   

   Help & Feedback - View our support questions, suggest a feature, and send feedback.

   What’s new - This will direct you to What’s new in Microsoft Teams Free.

   About - Learn about the latest version and license information, terms of use, and community standards.

   Privacy - Manage how people can search for you, how your profile will appear to other users, and export your data.

   Sign out ⁠-⁠ Where you can sign out of Teams.

   Delete account - Where you can delete your Teams account.

Along the left side of the screen, Microsoft Teams Free is organized into tabs. The following is a quick highlight of each tab. 

Chat

Select the Chat tab to view and access your group and one-to-one chats. Learn how to send and receive messages.

• Filter - Search by name or choose from options that include Unread, Chat, Meetings, or Muted.
• Meet now - Add a meeting title, then create a copy of the link to share.
• New chat - To start a new chat, add participants, and share your first message.
• Files and Photos- In your chat window, you can select the Files and Photos tabs for easy searchability.
• Start a group chat - Add more people to your conversation.
• Video call - Choose to start a video call.
• Audio call - Choose to start a audio only call.
• Screen sharing ⁠-⁠ To share your screen with participants in your chat.

Under More chat options , you'll find:

• Open chat in a new window - Use if you want to have a separate chat window.
• Mark as unread ⁠-⁠ To keep a message unread if you want to read it later.
• Pin ⁠-⁠ Save a message at the top of your chat.
• Block - Block a contact. This is only available in one-on-one chats.
• Mute ⁠-⁠ To mute your message notifications.
• Delete ⁠-⁠ To delete your chat.

If you're in a group chat, you might also see:

• Get link to chat ⁠-⁠ Used to share your chat. Available in group chats only.
• Leave ⁠-⁠ When you want to leave a group chat.

Meet

The Meet tab is where you can create, schedule, share, and join meetings all in one place. Learn more about how to view and schedule meetings in Meet.

• Create a meeting link - Add a meeting title, then create a copy of the link to share.
• Schedule a meeting ⁠-⁠ Set up a meeting where you can add details, such as the title, date and time, invite participants, and add meeting notes.
• Join with a meeting ID - Use a meeting ID and passcode to join.
• Meeting links- Copy the link to your community to share.

People

The People tab is where you can access your contacts to start a chat or call. Learn more about the how to manage your contacts.

• All contacts- Select your contact to open their profile card. You also Chat, Call, Block, and Delete. If your contact isn’t in Teams Free, select Invite to copy and share an invite link.
• Copy- Select to share a contact e-mail or phone number.
• Active now- View which contacts are currently online.
• Settings- Sync your contacts or manage blocked users.

Communities

Select the Communities tab to view a list of your communities or create a new one to stay in touch through meetings and updates. Learn more about how you can get the most out of Communities.

• Create a community - Choose a template and other customizable options to start your community. Learn how to add a community or channel.
• Add channel - Channels are a great way to add specific topics to encourage discussion.
• Add community banner ⁠-⁠ Edit or upload a banner for your community.
• Events - Schedule events and view upcoming events.
• Invite members - For community owners only where they can invite new members to your community.
• Share join link - Owners and members can copy the link to your community to your clipboard so you can easily share it with anyone.
• Manage community ⁠-⁠ For community owners only where they can manage members, member requests, blocked members, and additional settings.

Calendar

Select the Calendar tab to display your calendar and all your meetings. Learn more about meetings in Teams.

• Join with an ID - Use a meeting ID and passcode to join.
• Meet now - Add a meeting title, then create a copy of the link to share.
• New meeting - Set up a meeting where you can add details, such as the title, date and time, invite participants, and add meeting notes.

Activity

The Activity tab is where you get the latest notifications for your chats and communities. Learn more about your Activity feed.

• Filter - Search by name or choose from options that include Unread, Chat, Meetings, or Mutes.
• Search - Find communities, chats, messages, and more. Learn how to use search.
• Settings - An easy way to set up your settings in Teams. Learn more about Settings.

Profile and Settings

1. Select More . There you can access your profile settings, adjust your status message, and more.

2. Choose Settings .

3. Under Settings , you'll find:

   1. General - System settings, such as suggested replies in chat, resizing options, and spell check. You can also select your language and regional formats, set up language translations, and more. 
   2. Appearance ⁠-⁠ Choose your Teams theme, emoji skin tone, and chat density.
   3. Notifications and activity - Choose notification and activity settings, like sounds. 
   4. Accounts and orgs - View all your connected accounts in the Teams app.
   5. Privacy - Manage how people can find you, how your profile will appear to other users, view your optional connected experiences, and set your read receipts settings.
   6. Accessibility - Turn on sign language mode. Learn more about accessibility tools in Teams Free. 
   7. Devices - Audio and video settings that include choosing your speaker and microphone, as well as adjusting your mic sensitivity, camera controls, video brightness, and soft focus.
   8. People - You can sync contacts and block users.
   9. Files and links - Choose which browser you want links to open in.
   10. Plans and upgrades - View what benefits you get from Microsoft Teams Free and what Premium offers can offer you.
   11. Teams Insider - Find out how to sign up for the Teams Insider where you can check out the latest features coming to Microsoft Teams Free