Microsoft is working on a bunch of useful upgrades for Teams

Microsoft Teams tackles chat chaos with auto-sorted muted and meeting threads, smarter filters, and cleaner UX changes rolling out in May 2026.

Microsoft Teams receives new features fairly regularly, and it loses a few from time to time too. However, the former category outweighs the latter by quite a long margin, as you may have noticed in our monthly roundup for the new capabilities added to Microsoft's popular online communication and collaboration platform in March 2026. The good news is that Redmond has also announced that it is working on more enhancements, some of which will be appreciated very much.

Organization of the Teams UX has always been a bit of a challenge for Microsoft, especially considering that the software combines so much content, ranging from regular chats to pinned chats, meeting chats, teams, and channels. The firm is now trying to remediate some complaints in this area by automatically categorizing muted chats and meeting chats in their own categories. The former section will be on by default, while the latter will be off by default, allowing customers to toggle the configuration according to their preferences. This should reduce clutter significantly and is scheduled for release for all Teams customers in May 2026.

In the same vein and in the same month, Microsoft is introducing a new filter that will allow you to access read items quickly from the unread chats section. The way this works right now is that chats and channels have a filter that allows you to see unread chats only, but it is a bit clunky and you need to perform a couple of extra clicks to get the default view back again. Microsoft is resolving this issue by showing an eye icon next to each section. When you click on it, you'll begin to see read items in the same section as well.

Microsoft has a couple of other capabilities in tow for May 2026 too. A user experience enhancement will see unmuted chats section showing a purple indicator, while mentions and followed threads will show a purple counter when they affect the Teams badge counter shown on the app bar. Finally, macOS presenters will be able to share a single application window, allowing other participants to annotate on top of it directly.

Of course, this is not an exhaustive list of Teams features that Microsoft is working on. The Redmond firm will likely update its public Microsoft 365 Roadmap as it continues adding new capabilities to work on.

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Posted Saturday 4 April 2026 at 5:56 am AEST (my time).

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