Microsoft Teams Updates & Release Notes

Watch past meeting highlights with video recap

Video recap is a new, engaging way to catch up on past meetings. Recorded meetings are clipped into short, narrated highlights that show key conversations, presented content, and more. To learn more, see

Video recap in Microsoft Teams.

Delete meeting recaps

Delete a meeting recording, summary, and notes in one place. On the recap page, select

More options >

Delete recap content. Shared files stay in their original locations. To learn more, see

Recap in Microsoft Teams.

Create workflows with slash commands

Reduce context switching by using slash commands in the compose box to create workflows. Change your Teams status, schedule a message, and more.

Clearer code sharing in Teams chat

Now, when you share code in Teams chat, Teams automatically formats it to display line numbers, making it easier to reference specific lines in conversation.

Special badging for relevant chat updates

New purple indicators in Teams chat show which conversations are active and need your attention. They appear for mentions, tags, and activity in followed threads.

Search filters in chat and channel search

When you search in a chat or channel, choose a filter to see results from specific dates and people, or with mentions and attachments. To learn more, see

Search for messages and more in Microsoft Teams.

Windows “Do not disturb” settings carry over to Teams

When you set your Windows device to “Do not disturb,” your Teams notifications will be silenced. Notifications will resume after “Do not disturb” is turned off on your device.

Stay protected against scammers on Teams calls

Teams now detects when callers might be impersonating your bank, IT admin, or other trusted brands, and warns you. Decline, leave, or report the call instantly.

Report suspicious calls

Select

Report call

in your call options to flag unwanted or malicious activity and help prevent it in the future.

Consult and merge PSTN calls through DTMF

Meeting organizers can now consult and merge PSTN callers into active Teams meetings, even when navigating a Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) menu is required. To learn more, see

Merge calls in Microsoft Teams.

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• Queues app on Teams mobile: This feature enables the "call queue management" feature on the go for you to stay connected and responsive. The Queues app on Mobile empowers on-the-go workers to manage customer engagements efficiently. Users can view queue status, opt in or out of queues, and access real-time metrics—all from their mobile device. With seamless integration, it ensures fast response, smooth call handling, and improved customer experience, anytime and anywhere.

• External Domains Anomalies Report: This feature, namely External Domains Anomalies Report helps admins proactively identify unusual or risky interactions with external organizations in Microsoft Teams. By analyzing communication trends and detecting sudden spikes, new domains, or abnormal engagement patterns, it provides early visibility into potential data-sharing or security risks. As external collaboration continues to grow, this report offers admins actionable insights to protect their tenants while maintaining productive cross-organization collaboration.

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AI Interpreter (Simultaneous) update: Quality upgrades + new language support (Traditional Chinese)

This feature enables AI Interpreter to deliver now more accurate real-time interpretation, with improved handling of people’s names and common industry terminology. This feature also enables AI Interpreter support your organization’s Custom Dictionary in the Microsoft 365 admin center, helping preferred terms and phrases translate more consistently across meetings. Traditional Chinese is now officially supported.

Streamlined Microsoft 365 Certified App Management in Teams Admin Center

This feature allows Microsoft 365 administrators to enable Microsoft 365-certified SaaS applications within their tenant through org-wide settings for third-party apps. Admins can choose to allow a subset of applications that have already been verified against industry security and compliance standards. This ensures organizations can confidently adopt apps while maintaining governance and reducing approval overhead.

Branded meeting reactions

This feature enables visual identity to shape how your organization shows up. Whether it's a client presentation, an internal milestone, or a seasonal event, the right visuals set the tone and reinforce your brand. With new branded reactions, organizations can now extend their visual identity directly into meetings. IT admins simply upload custom reaction icons reflecting brand elements or event themes, and these instantly become available for meeting participants. Every clap, thumbs-up, or celebration now aligns with your organization's look and feel—a simple way to create more cohesive, on-brand meeting experiences.

Simplified Teams app bar to create a cleaner and more focused experience

This feature has enabled us simplify the app bar to help you focus on what matters. Apps are easier to scan in a cleaner "View more apps" list, the overflow menu is less cluttered, and you can choose to show or hide the app bar to create more space for your work.

One-Time Email Passcodes for External Presenters in Teams Events

This feature enables One-Time Email Passcodes to provide an easy way for tenant administrators and event organizers to verify the anonymous, external presenters invited to their events. When active, the anonymous external presenters will see a prompt for the new One-Time Email Passcode before joining an event and will get a 'Verified' tag next to their name after joining. External presenters with personal or professional Microsoft accounts will be asked to sign into those accounts to verify instead of receiving the one-time email passcode. Tenant administrators will have the option to require verification for external, anonymous presenters from the Teams Admin Center or by using PowerShell commands. Based on what the admin has set for the tenant, the event organizer will have another set of options available to them that extends to all external presenters. The options include

• (a) Verify external presenters, only allowing invited accounts to join;
• (b) Verify external presenters, allowing uninvited users to join the lobby;
• (c) No verification. (This option will only be available if the tenant admin has also set the policy to no verification.) This distinction for event organizers gives them the ability to lock down an event to only the invited external presenters or be more flexible by allowing uninvited users with the link to join through the lobby.

Attendee Packs for Teams Events

This feature enables Attendee Packs to provide additional capacity options for Teams Events such as webinars and town halls. Organizers can scale event attendance beyond base limits while maintaining a consistent Teams Events experience. Availability and enforcement are managed through tenant licensing.

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• User reported security signals in Teams admin center: This update brings end‑user security reporting insights into Teams admin center. Admins can now view and download signals from messages the users report as a security concern or not as a security concern within TAC Protection reports, helping them identify trends and fine‑tune policies and responses.

• Teams Phone user multi-line: This feature, namely Teams Phone user multi‑line, gives callers more flexibility and control by allowing administrators to assign up to 10 phone numbers to a single user. With full support across Teams desktop, Teams mobile, and Teams devices, users can seamlessly make and receive calls from multiple numbers without switching accounts or hardware. This makes it easy to manage different roles, departments, or regional identities—all from one unified Teams experience. The result is a familiar, localized calling experience for users who work across diverse markets or with global customers.

• Admin setting for simpler meeting passcodes (numeric‑only): This feature is supportive in scenarios where typing alphanumeric passcodes is difficult. This feature helps tenant admins to enable a meeting policy setting that generates 8‑digit numeric-only passcodes for meetings organized by selected users/groups. Because numeric-only passcodes increase the risk of unauthorized access and don't align with Microsoft’s recommended security practices, enabling the setting displays a warning and requires explicit confirmation.

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Control the size of shared content in a meeting

During Teams meetings, drag the divider between shared content and the video gallery to adjust how much space each takes up.

Less is more

In the new simplified app bar in Teams, labels are now hidden by default, so you can focus on what matters. To learn more, see Change settings in Microsoft Teams.

Take notes during instant meetings

Meeting notes are now available for instant meetings that started via Meet now in the calendar. To learn more, see Take meeting notes in Microsoft Teams.

Quick views in Teams chat

Filter your Teams chats by@mentions, followed threads, and more by selecting Quick views at the top of your chat list. To customize, hover over a category and select More quick view options. To learn more, see Manage notifications in Microsoft Teams.

Accurate transcripts for meetings with sign language interpreters

Transcripts now attribute contributions to the original participant using sign language, not the interpreter.

Automatic spoken language detection

Teams will automatically detect each speaker's spoken language and update it in real time as the conversation evolves. Manual spoken language selection will no longer be available. To learn more, see Multilingual speech recognition in Microsoft Teams.

Delegate calls with M365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot can help you answer incoming Teams calls and schedule follow-up appointments, ensuring you stay focused without missing important connections. To learn more, see Use Copilot Call Delegation in Microsoft Teams.

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• Voice and face profile enrollment dashboard for admins: This feature provides admins the visibility and insight for voice and facial profile enrollments through a dashboard in the Teams Admin Center (TAC). Voice and face profiles are critical for supporting AI-enhanced meeting experiences for users across the organization. The dashboard provides metrics on enrollments over time.

• Audio Recap — Expanded language support: This features enables Audio Recap to support additional languages, including variations across English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, and Portuguese. This expansion enables more users worldwide to follow meeting summaries in the language that feels most natural to them—boosting comprehension, accessibility, and overall productivity.

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Organization chart enhancements

Our newly designed org chart in profile cards streamlines navigation through reporting relationships, recently viewed profiles, and more. Select

Navigate to org chart

in someone's profile card to get started.

Easily find unsent drafts

Select

Chat

Drafts

in Teams to quickly find messages you've composed but haven't sent yet.

Live meeting indicator for threaded channels

Live meeting indicators make it easy to see and jump right into active threaded channel meetings, keeping you in the loop.

Enhanced image viewing

Scroll through images shared in a chat without distractions. The new Lightbox experience highlights the image you're viewing. Select

Show message

in the header to go right to the message the image was shared in.

Customize the Enter key function in Teams chat

Choose what the Enter key does in a Teams chat by selecting

Settings and more

Settings

Chats and Channels

in Teams and choosing an option in

When writing a message, press Enter to

.

Keyboard shortcut to mark chat and channel messages as read

Press Shift + Enter on your keyboard to instantly mark all your chat and channel messages as read.

Take action in Teams from Mac Spotlight

Set your presence status, open your Teams calendar, compose a message, or open Teams to create a new meeting without leaving Spotlight.

Share files and Loop components with people outside your org

Now, Teams automatically manages permissions so you can collaborate in shared files and Loop components with people outside your org. To learn more, see

Collaborate on files in Microsoft Teams

.

More supported languages in audio recap

Audio recap for Teams meetings now generates summaries in Chinese, English (multiple variations), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. To learn more, see

Listen to audio recaps of your meetings

.

Annotate with others on single-shared windows during meetings

When you share a specific application window in a meeting, you and others can now directly annotate on that shared content without you sharing the entire desktop. To learn more, see

Use annotation while sharing your screen in Microsoft Teams

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Forward multiple messages at once

Forward up to five messages at a time from a Teams chat or channel. Hover over a message and select More options > Multiple messages and choose the messages you want to send. Select Next, add recipients, and select Forward.

View file search results in grid view

When you search for files in Teams, select Files > View all files and switch to Grid view for a more visual way to browse results.

Keep collaborations secure with Trust Indicators

Assess who you're working with by checking Trust Indicators, visual badges that appear next to external people in Teams. Labels are automatically assigned based on the person's relationship with your org.

Copilot experience in Teams meetings

Copilot in Teams can analyze chat history, meeting transcripts, and calendar content to generate smart recaps, rewrite messages, and surface relevant insights. To learn more, see Use Copilot in Microsoft Teams meetings.

Customizable meeting recap summaries

Generate custom meeting recaps that include the details most important to you, in your preferred tone and format. To learn more, see Customize recap summaries in Microsoft Teams.

Reference meeting visuals in recap summaries

Teams meeting recaps now include key on-screen moments, like screen shares, directly next to the relevant sections of the summary, so you can see exactly what was being discussed. To learn more, see Recap in Microsoft Teams.

Reshape your Teams meeting layout

Resize and reshape your right and top galleries during a Teams meeting to prioritize the content most important to you.

Network strength indicator in Teams meetings

If your connectivity drops in a meeting, you'll see a notification alerting you that your network connection is weak. You'll also receive suggestions for strengthening and restabilizing it, like turning your video off.

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• Organization Trust Score for apps and agents: Today, IT admins manually review trust data for Teams apps and agents in the Teams admin center to ensure they meet organizational security, privacy, and compliance standards. This feature introduces a scalable, automated evaluation process. Admins can define their organization’s trust requirements once, and the system will automatically assess each app and agent—generating a Trust Score and detailed evaluation report tailored to those requirements. This enables faster, more consistent decision-making by clearly identifying which apps and agents meet the organization’s standards and where further review is needed.

• Easily find unsent drafts: This features enables the use of the Drafts quick view to easily find, edit, and send draft messages.

• Simplified controls to manage external collaboration settings in Teams: This feature enables admins to use simple controls to manage external collaboration in teams. Admins have access to a new overview page in the Teams Admin Center under the external collaboration section. This page allows admins to review and modify their organization's external collaboration settings. To make changes, admins can use a guided flow and either select the open or controlled preset modes, or choose to customize the settings.

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Create custom environments and templates for immersive events in Microsoft Teams:

This release brings the next evolution in immersive collaboration in Teams. Designed for creators and event organizers, these new capabilities empower users to create, manage, and use immersive templates for immersive events in Teams and save those templates to collections to use in future events—directly within the Teams Meet app. Users can save customized immersive events as reusable templates to an immersive collection, and they can share them with others by adding co-owners and managers to collections.

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