New Gallery in Teams Meetings

Microsoft is introducing an improved default gallery view in Teams meetings and calls. 

This new gallery version will introduce:

•  A 16:9 aspect ratio for participant tiles that provides more visibility into users’ body language and hand gestures.
• An audio-video mixed gallery for a more inclusive representation.
• Your own tile appearing by the rest of the participants’.

Meeting rooms displayed larger than individual participants.
Note: In certain meeting sizes, Microsoft Teams Rooms video display in a larger size than other participants to give an equivalent weight to participants joining from a meeting room. Non-Teams rooms joining Teams meeting via Direct Guest Join will remain the same tile size.
 
Users can also adapt and customize the gallery to their needs or preferences. The customization options include:

Gallery size. Users can choose the maximum number of tiles that will be presented per page by selecting:

1. View
2. Change gallery size

Tile placement. Users who prefer to keep themselves separated from the rest of the participants can make this change by selecting:

1. View
2. More options
3. Remove me from gallery

Video prioritization. Users who want to display video participants more prominently than audio participants can make this change by selecting:

1. View
2. Prioritize video

Meeting room tile size. Users can resize the meeting room tile to the same size as the rest of the participants in the contextual menu of the room tile.

Victoria Burnett • 2023-Nov-09