iPad Teams Overlays attendess on top of controls, obscurring them/making hard to find

I agee - Newest Teams on IPad is so broken - what have you done?

A recent Teams update has changed the screen configuration when you are in a meeting and someone else is sharing their screen.

How it used to work (in landscape mode):

1. The presentation takes up the top 7/8th of the screen
2. The white buttons to mute, etc are just below this with a black background
3. The participants are at the very bottom in a row (showing video if they have it turned on)
4. You can slide the participants right and left if there are more participants than space

How it now works:

1. The presentation takes up the top 7/8th of the screen (as before)
2. The white buttons to mute, etc are superimposed on top of the participants and are now often impossible to see. There is still black space above where the buttons used to be, so they could be there.
3. The participants are at the very bottom in a row (showing video if they have it turned on) (as before)
4. You can now NOT slide the participants right and left if there are more participants than space

Why is this an improvement? It is dreadful!

I'm also experiencing the same on my iPad Pro 13-inch(M4) running iPadOS version 18.3.

The attendees are overlaid on top of the controls.

It would be great if this is fixed ASAP since using teams is now a frustrating experience.

I have the exact same problem since the last update using Teams on an iPad Pro 10": when somebody is sharing content, the video thumbnails go to the bottom of the screen, and the controls overlay with the video thumbnails. Disappointing, this issue is rendering Teams close to unusable.

Realizing this is more of a community help forum not necessarily monitored by MS product management/engineers, I then submitted to the formal MS Feedback option for teams and referenced this post. The "feedback" method does not accept images/screenshots, etc but does accept URLs in it. So I provide the link here to outline.

I did not use it before so this is my first experience with it. Was too surprised the blank space was not used at all (wasted, IXD/UX teams usually catch this but things slip) and that the limited visibility (accessibility tests should have caught this) . I just give feedback to make it better. I work in software as well, sometimes things slip though the crack and sometimes repairing those cracks is not as important as other cracks you have to repair so take longer. I just do what I can to give details where I can so hopefully they can easily understand and prioritize it sooner vs. later.

Thanks for your additional details and addition to this, I am hopeful it will add a bit more priority to it.

Rotating it leaves the attendees down with the bar as well. I also uninstalled and re-installed it. As far as other divide I have my iPhone and the experience is a bit different on the iPhone (this is an iPad) as the iPhone gives a sliding tray from the bottom vs. on-screen persistent controls.

I assume the community is also a place MS looks and triages for any support/bugs? I can work around this so I don't really want to go through all the support follow-ups, etc. I feel like this is an iPad bug most likely, so I just offer this as a report and opportunity for MS Teams to validate iPad behavior for next version of a patch fix.

Also, to reproduce this, you will need 10-15 people on the meeting to get enough to cover the controls on the iPad teams version.

Thanks