Microsoft removes Together mode from Teams meetings in June
Microsoft will retire Together mode from Teams meetings on June 30, 2026. The feature let participants appear in a shared virtual scene during calls. Users will move to the standard Gallery view as the default layout. The toggle option disappears from the View menu across desktop and mobile. Custom scenes that users created for Together mode will also stop working after the same date.
Before this change, meeting hosts and participants had to decide between several layout options every time a call started, adding one more micro-decision to an already overloaded meeting experience. Together mode was rarely used outside of large all-hands sessions, yet its presence in the menu created ongoing visual noise and occasional confusion when someone accidentally enabled it. Now the layout choice is gone. Teams will open meetings in Gallery view by default, which reduces the number of clicks and settings to manage. For teams already struggling with meeting fatigue, this removes one small source of friction rather than adding another feature to learn.
Analysis
Stop treating meeting layouts as something you configure on the fly. Set Gallery view as your default, enable live captions automatically, and lock the layout in your recurring meetings so every call starts in the same predictable state without anyone hunting through menus.
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