Teams changing my status to away if im not in (browser) tab

pH 81 Reputation points
2022-08-21T18:49:30.703+00:00

While working in browser my status is being changed to "away" and switches to "active" only when I switch Tab to one with Teams. So if I work in browser with browser version of Teams I am being shown as away despite normally working.

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  1. pH 81 Reputation points
    2022-08-26T10:05:41.343+00:00

    Does anyone else have the same problem in your organization?

    • I don't see other people being away as much as me, and nobody I asked have this issue

    Is it the Tab here?

    • no by Tab I mean tabs with sites in the browser. When I go from Teams app to lets say evernote or Azure to do some work I am going away in Teams, when I go back to Teams Tab I can see status changing from Away to Active

    Do you have any further question on this topic now?

    Its still happening and I dont feel any solutions was really provided

    2 people found this answer helpful.

  2. SokiGuo-MSFT 31,536 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
    2022-08-22T06:22:19.727+00:00

    Hi @pH

    Based on your mentioned description, we recommend you temporary disconnect Teams application from multiple device, Teams desktop client and Teams mobile device.

    Open Teams on web browser and try to identify such result from Teams web app client about Teams presence. If your status has changed to Away, please try to manually change status from Away to Online and see the result on Teams, after running some other application outside Teams.

    For more details about change your status in Teams, you could refer to this link's table.


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