Microsoft Teams Rolling Out Personal Chat Groups 2b2s1o Video Calls, Location Sharing, and More in Mobile Preview

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By Roydon Cerejo | Updated: 23 June 2020 13:09 IST

Microsoft Teams Rolling Out Personal Chat Groups, Video Calls, Location Sharing, and More in Mobile Preview

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Teams lets you add personal s to keep in touch with family and fri
You’ll be able to share your location, personal credentials, etc
The update is currently available only through the mobile apps

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Microsoft is expanding the features of Teams to include personal communication with friends and family. Traditionally used by offices and work places Teams will now let you add your personal and let you communicate via text or video chats, group calls, share your location and even store and share your home WI-Fi , information, and so on with the people you want. These new features are currently being rolled out in the coming weeks as a preview for the mobile version of Teams on Android and iOS. Microsoft says that it plans on expanding these features to the desktop and web versions of Teams later this year.

Looking at some of the new features, it appears that Microsoft Teams for work purposes, then you can simply go to settings and add your personal . Some of the new features available in mobile preview includes group chatting and video calling. You'll also be able to share GIFs, photos, video, documents and even your location, either to an individual or the entire group. Keep in mind that for all this to work you'll need to get your other friends and family to sign up for a Teams too.

When sharing items in a group, you'll be able to sort things like lists, documents, and calendars through the ‘Dashboard' tab. If you are an Office 365 , then having a personal Teams is not a bad idea since it integrates with Word, Excel and PowerPoint. There's also a new feature called ‘Safe,' which seems interesting as it lets you store personal information such as Wi-Fi s, government IDs, information, etc. You can then choose to share any of this with other in your family, which is secured by a two-factor authentication and end-to encryption.

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