Teams creates a General channel for each new Team. Hiding the channel was previously not possible.
Added to the roadmap in January, Teams can now hide the General channel. The option should be available by the end of March.
There is a special case when a team only includes the General channel. In such cases, Teams will hide the entire Team. Teams informs with a short message.
A hidden General channel can be shown again as usual by right-clicking on the hidden channel or in the Team management.
Tobias Asböck
Tobias is a Senior System Engineer with around ten years of professional experience with Microsoft 365 products such as SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams Collaboration, Entra ID, Information Protection, Universal Print, and Microsoft 365 Licensing. He also has 15+ years of experience planning, administering, and operating SharePoint Server environments. Tobias is a PowerShell Scripter with certifications for Microsoft 365 products. In his spare time, Tobias is busy with updates in the Microsoft 365 world or on the road with his road bike and other sports activities.