Disable automatic hiding of inactive Teams channels

Last week Teams channels were still available, today various channels are hidden.
Since July, Teams has started to automatically hide inactive Teams channels in Teams for Windows, Mac and Teams on the web. The global rollout is planned for September.

Employees are informed about hidden channels in Teams with a message. They can use the message to unhide the channels that were hidden at that time.

Teams will hide channels that have been inactive and notify the user with the message, “We’re hiding some inactive channels for you.” The user can select View changes to see the details.

Information über das automatische Ausblenden von Teams Kanäle
Information about the automatic hiding of Teams channels

You can then show hidden channels again via the new channel page.

Neue Kanalseite in Teams
New channel page in Teams

Alternatively, anyone can disable the process in the Teams client. A new section for hiding inactive channels has been added to the Teams client settings. The option is active by default.

Ausblenden von inaktiven Teams Kanäle deaktivieren
Disable hiding of inactive Teams channels
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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. If you have additional questions, please contact me via LinkedIn or [email protected].

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