Hide Inactive Channels in Microsoft Teams
When you’re a member of multiple channels, Teams can quickly become cluttered. To help you stay organized, you can hide channels you haven’t used in a while. You can also let us hide them for you automatically. Either way, they won't show up on your channel list, making it easier to find what you need. If you change your mind, visit or unhide those channels at any time.
Manage the channel list yourself by turning off automatic hiding. Then, hide inactive channels as needed in Microsoft Teams settings.
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As soon as you're able to manually hide channels, you'll also be able to set your automated hiding preferences in settings. Then, based on your settings, we'll start hiding channels automatically in a few weeks.
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You must have more than 25 shown channels for us to automatically hide inactive ones.
Turn off automatic hiding
To disable automatic hiding:
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Select Settings and more
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Turn off the Hide inactive channels switch.
Hide inactive channels as needed
To manually hide channels:
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Select Settings and more
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Under the Hide inactive channels switch, select Hide now to clean up your channel.
We’ll then show you any channels you haven’t been active in for a while. You can choose which channels to hide or leave on your channel list.
Note: You can manually hide channels once every 24 hours.
Review automatically hidden channels
Once a channel is hidden, we’ll let you know. You can accept the changes by selecting Got it.
To decide which channels stay hidden and which should show, select View changes. Then, select the channels you’d like hidden.
Finally, select Hide selected to confirm which channels you want to hide.
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We'll hide channels that you haven't read or posted in, or have been personally mentioned in over the last 120 days. This time period is subject to change.
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If every channel on a team has been hidden, the team will be hidden as well.
Unhide channels
You can also unhide channels you’ve hidden but would now like to see.
To move a hidden channel to your list of visible channels:
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Select See all channels > Hidden
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Hover over the channel name to select Show
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