Meetings Extension apps not available for guest, anonymous users using Teams free version (Personal)

Shoaib Asgar 20

We are working on a Meeting extensions app that opens in SidePanel and can be shared to Stage View.
In our use case there will be guest or anonymous users in a meeting, but we tested out and it looks like these type of apps are not supported for users using Teams free version (Personal).
Found few related docs as well its not very clear from them but it does seems like so:

JimmyYang-MSFT 50,446 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-04-14T06:48:51.18+00:00

Hi @Shoaib Asgar Teams tag is mainly focused on the general issue of Microsoft Teams troubleshooting. Since your question is not in our support scope, I will remove teams tag from your thread. Thanks for your understanding and patience!
Nivedipa-MSFT 2,896 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-04-17T06:15:09.9933333+00:00

@Shoaib Asgar -Guest user type participants can share the app to stage and also see and interact with the app being shared on stage. Anonymous user can't see, share, or interact with the app that is being shared on the stage.
Ref Doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/apps-in-teams-meetings/build-apps-for-teams-meeting-stage?tabs=desktop#get-app-content-stage-sharing-capabilities-api:~:text=In%2Dtenant%2C%20guest%2C%20and%20external%20user%20type%20participants%20can%20share%20the%20app%20to%20stage%20and%20also%20see%20and%20interact%20with%20the%20app%20being%20shared%20on%20stage.%20Anonymous%20user%20can%27t%20see%2C%20share%2C%20or%20interact%20with%20the%20app%20that%20is%20being%20shared%20on%20the%20stage.
Shoaib Asgar 20 Reputation points

2023-04-17T19:06:01.7833333+00:00

hey @Nivedipa-MSFT , Thanks for replying!

I tried sharing a meeting extension app (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/app/db7832f4-7ead-41d4-ae33-a58096cf0c6d?source=app-details-dialog) in a teams meeting. In that meeting, there was a guest user using Teams free version (personal), Apps section was not there for him (check below screenshot).
Also, when I shared the app, it was giving following error to him:
He tried clearing cache, reinstalling but nothing worked.
So we assumed maybe Apps are not sharable to a guest or anonymous users using Free Teams app version.
Nivedipa-MSFT 2,896 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-04-20T10:36:25.5766667+00:00

@Shoaib Asgar - We have tested this and at our end guest user able to see the shared app.
Please find below screenshot

Could you please test this once and let us know if you are facing same issue again?
Shoaib Asgar 20 Reputation points

2023-04-20T13:19:43.56+00:00

hey @Nivedipa-MSFT , I'm using https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/teams-for-home in Windows11, and yes I'm still facing the same issue.

Can you please share the App (or link if its a published App) you are using here in the screenshot? We can test using that only and let you know if it works for us or not
Nivedipa-MSFT 2,896 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-04-25T09:46:24.8566667+00:00

@Shoaib Asgar - We have tested with our own custom app not published app. Could you please test below sample and check if its working for you?
Nivedipa-MSFT 2,896 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-05-04T08:54:51.27+00:00

@Shoaib Asgar - Could you please confirm if above sample worked for you or not?

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