Rolling out Microsoft Teams RELEASE: August CY2026

You can finally turn off the chat list's quick views strip

Three new settings — always on, always off, or unread-only — for the mentions and followed-threads row above your chat list.

Before you act on this: these entries are drafted with AI assistance from Microsoft's own roadmap feed, in the interest of keeping this readable and current. AI can make mistakes — names, dates and what a feature actually does can be summarised wrong. Treat everything below as a starting point, not advice. Always check back to the source roadmap entry linked below, and do your own human-in-the-loop validation before you tell anyone else what to do about it.

What it is

A setting for the quick views strip Teams added above your chat and channel list, the row that surfaces mentions and followed threads.

What it does

You get three options for when it shows: always on, always off, or only when there's something unread. You can also collapse the section entirely.

Why I should care

If you found quick views a useful shortcut, nothing changes for you. If you found it cluttered and rarely relevant, you can now turn it down or off. It's a small change, worth knowing only because Teams doesn't always make its new interface elements optional.

What action I need to take

Once it reaches your tenant, open Teams chat settings and set quick views to whatever suits you. "Only when unread" is the sensible default if you haven't got a strong preference either way.

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