Work with the Teams Mobile App

Quick reference

• 00:04 In the final lesson of this course,
• 00:07 we're going to take a quick whistlestop tour of the team's mobile app.
• 00:12 And I highly recommend that you download the mobile app so that you can
• 00:16 communicate, stay in touch, join meetings with your team, whilst you're on the go.
• 00:22 And I've had the mobile app on my phone for a number of years, and
• 00:26 I find it really useful.
• 00:27 It's pretty intuitive and not too dissimilar from the team's web or
• 00:31 desktop app that we've been taking a look at in this course.
• 00:34 So don't think you're going to find too many problems navigating around, but
• 00:39 just so you get an idea as to the look and feel and some of the functionality.
• 00:43 I'm going to do my best to record a screen recording of my phone, and
• 00:47 we'll take a little tour.
• 00:49 Now before we get to that stage, let's talk about how we download the mobile
• 00:54 app because you can do this effectively from your team's desktop.
• 00:58 So if we click on the three dots, notice we have a download the mobile app link.
• 01:04 So if we click on this, it's going to ask us to enter in our email address, and
• 01:10 teams is going to send us a link which we can open on our phone to download the app.
• 01:16 Alternatively, you can jump on to the apple store for iOS or
• 01:20 the play store for Android, search for Teams and download the app that way.
• 01:26 And I'm pretty sure that most of us know how to download apps
• 01:29 onto our phone these days.
• 01:31 So once you have that downloaded, open it up and
• 01:34 we're going to take a quick tour now.
• 01:37 So I'm logged into Teams on my mobile phone as Ben, and
• 01:40 you can see his little profile picture in the top left hand corner.
• 01:44 And by default, I've been taken to the activity feed.
• 01:48 So this is very similar to the activity feed that you have in Teams desktop.
• 01:53 We can see all of the activity on Ben's Teams.
• 01:57 You can see where I've mentioned him when he's been added to channels,
• 02:01 when people have sent likes or even at mentioned him.
• 02:04 And notice at the bottom, we currently have activity selected.
• 02:08 In the top right hand corner, we have a little filter area.
• 02:13 So we can filter for unread messages, we can filter for mentions, we can filter for
• 02:19 replies, reactions, missed calls, voicemails all of these good things.
• 02:24 So don't forget about that little button in the top corner.
• 02:28 Now that I'm filtering for mentions, I'm just seeing those, and
• 02:32 if I want to remove that search, I can simply close Mentions.
• 02:36 We have a search bar in the top, we can type for specific search terms.
• 02:41 One thing you can't do in the mobile app is it won't allow you to type in
• 02:46 that forward slash to see those quick commands, so just be aware of that.
• 02:51 So, let's move on to Chat.
• 02:53 You can see we've got three notifications showing in there.
• 02:57 So, this is where all private conversations or group conversations
• 03:02 take place, and you can see some of the previous ones in there.
• 03:06 If we want to start a new conversation with somebody, and
• 03:10 that might be one or more people.
• 03:13 We can click on the new conversation button at the top and
• 03:17 then simply enter in who we want to chat with.
• 03:20 So maybe he wants to chat with James, and Jen, and then we can type in a message.
• 03:26 Remember when you're using Teams on your phone,
• 03:30 you have access to way more emojis, stickers, gifs, and fun things.
• 03:35 So I'm going to add a little smiley just here, and let's send that through.
• 03:43 The next button is the Teams button.
• 03:45 So this is where we can come to see all of the teams that we're a member of.
• 03:51 And notice that for some of these teams, we have new messages showing,
• 03:54 we also have some exclamation points.
• 03:56 So that tells us channels that contain important messages.
• 04:01 And if I click on sales, I know that that important message is
• 04:05 that announcement because we marked it as high importance.
• 04:09 We can still do many of the things that we can do in the Teams desktop app.
• 04:13 We can click the three dots and we have access to do things like manage members,
• 04:18 manage tags, manage teams, so on and so forth.
• 04:21 And we can also create new teams from here as well by clicking
• 04:25 the + symbol at the top.
• 04:27 So we can create a new team, we can browse for teams,
• 04:31 or we can join a team with a code.
• 04:34 And if we click the cog icon at the top here, we can select which teams we
• 04:38 want to show in our teams list, so we don't necessarily have to have them all.
• 04:43 I'm actually going to show all of them, let's select social committee, and
• 04:48 then go back to our team's list.
• 04:50 We have access to add calendar just here, where we can see any upcoming meetings and
• 04:56 we can also join meetings from here as well.
• 04:59 So if I click on Join,
• 05:00 I get pretty much the same thing as if I was joining through the desktop app.
• 05:06 I can choose to add a background effects.
• 05:08 If I want to blur my background, I can do that.
• 05:11 I can control if I want my video and my microphone off or on.
• 05:16 And then I can simply choose join.
• 05:19 And effectively, I'm now in the meeting.
• 05:22 I can access things like the chat panel, I can see the participants.
• 05:32 And then if I click the three dots, I can do things like send reactions,
• 05:38 turn on live captions, or even start recording.
• 05:42 And if I want to do things like share my mobile screen, I can even do that from
• 05:46 here as well, because I have a share button at the top here.
• 05:49 So I can choose to share PowerPoint, share a photo, share my screen, or
• 05:54 even share a Whiteboard.
• 05:55 So the experience is pretty much replicated on the mobile app.
• 06:00 When you want to leave a meeting, we can simply hang up, and
• 06:04 it's going to take us back to the calendar.
• 06:07 I can access my call history from here, and make new calls.
• 06:11 And then finally if we click on the More button,
• 06:14 this is where we can come to add additional apps.
• 06:18 If we click on our profile photo,
• 06:20 this is where we can do things like change our status, set a status message,
• 06:25 and also access our settings and what's new in Teams.
• 06:29 So that is a very quick whistlestop tour of the Teams mobile app.
• 06:34 And I'm using Teams on an Apple iPhone, so this is the app for iOS.
• 06:39 So the Team's mobile app is a great way to
• 06:43 keep on top of your work when you're on the go.

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