Preview messages in Microsoft Teams
Sometimes you want to know what a message is about before reading it. In Microsoft Teams, you can preview chat messages and notifications before opening them.
Preview messages in chat
Note: Some of the message preview features below are part of the public preview program and might undergo further changes before being released publicly. To get access to this and other upcoming features, switch to Teams public preview.
To keep your list of chats simple, you won’t automatically see message previews.
However, you can turn them on if you prefer.
To turn them on,
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From Settings and more
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Select Chats and channels.
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Turn on Show message previews for chats and team names for channels.
Note: If you're using multiple accounts, you'll need to choose the same message previews settings for all of your accounts.
Show time stamps
There’s also the option to Show time stamps. This displays either the day that the message was sent, or the time if the message was sent today.
Time stamps are separate from message previews. You can choose to show them, but not show a preview of the message. However, you can't show message previews without also showing time stamps.
Note: If you are using a screen reader, you'll need to turn on message preview to hear the preview.
Preview messages in notifications
You can also show message and content previews in your notifications.
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From Settings and more
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Select Notifications and activity.
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Under Display, select Show message and content previews in notifications.
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