I get this all the time and it is really annoying. The only suggestion I have is to try the web version. It's slightly better in Chromium browsers. I tend to keep Edge around just for this reason.
It's not without its problems, but focus stealing isn't one of them.
I'd suggest ye all join in on the Teams Insider program, and speak the accessibility things, so maybe they up-prioritize it more.
Join in at this link: https://insider.teams.com/
I asked ChatGPT about this and it suggested minimizing teams before switching apps - think that is Cmd+M. I presume going to desktop is effectively minimizing all apps?
Sounds like it's definitely worth a try. Memory permitting I will do that next time I have a meeting. Thanks for the tip.
Oh, everybody probably already knows this. But if you're int a call, you can hit like cmd-1 for example, and get to the chats table. Then you can have a chat with somebody else while you're talking or do whatever. So that's another way to get focus out of the call part.
OK, in the end I just uninstalled Teams from my Mac altogether, I didn't like how much blote it put on my system and now I just use the browser version, which does not have this issue.
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I get this all the time and it is really annoying. The only suggestion I have is to try the web version. It's slightly better in Chromium browsers. I tend to keep Edge around just for this reason.
It's not without its problems, but focus stealing isn't one of them.
Join the Teams Insider program
Hi.
This have been a long time problem here.
I'd suggest ye all join in on the Teams Insider program, and speak the accessibility things, so maybe they up-prioritize it more.
Join in at this link: https://insider.teams.com/
Go to the desktop.
I'm pretty sure this usually works for me. VO-shift-d.
Re: desktop
I asked ChatGPT about this and it suggested minimizing teams before switching apps - think that is Cmd+M. I presume going to desktop is effectively minimizing all apps?
Sounds like it's definitely worth a try. Memory permitting I will do that next time I have a meeting. Thanks for the tip.
Re: Focus.
Oh, everybody probably already knows this. But if you're int a call, you can hit like cmd-1 for example, and get to the chats table. Then you can have a chat with somebody else while you're talking or do whatever. So that's another way to get focus out of the call part.
An update
OK, in the end I just uninstalled Teams from my Mac altogether, I didn't like how much blote it put on my system and now I just use the browser version, which does not have this issue.