Updated March 3, 2025: Thank you for your engagement with the new chat and channels experience in Teams.

The GA rollout begins late March 2025 in a phased rollout and is expected to be completed by end of April 2025.

We're making the following product improvements from Public Preview and Targeted Release based on user feedback.

• Users who haven't onboarded yet to the new experience will have a simplified onboarding flow in Teams with fewer steps. Users who prefer to keep chat and channels separate can easily do so during the onboarding process or later, without IT assistance.
• When the new experience is available for a user, a Get started screen is displayed. Users will have the option to defer the new experience up to three times over the course of approximately three days. About a week after the new experience is available for a user, they will be presented with a final Get started screen and transition to the new experience.
• For users new to the experience on iOS, iPad, and Android, message previews will be on by default. For users new to the experience on Windows, Mac, and Web, message previews will be off by default.
• A quick navigation bar for teams and channels is available in Teams for Windows, Mac, and Web, at the bottom of the combined Chat view. Clicking on the bar will scroll the view to the teams and channels section for quick navigation. The bar displays in bold when there are unread messages in channels, or with indicators like "@" for unread @mentions in channels.

Note: These updates will roll out to users in Public Preview and Targeted Release ahead of GA.

To help prepare organizations for the new features, product guides for admins and users are already available on the adoption web page https://adoption.microsoft.com/microsoft-teams/new-chat-and-channels-experience. Adoption content has been updated to reflect the above product improvements here. We’ve been listening to user feedback on the pace of work and the challenges of keeping up with conversations, managing messages scattered across different locations, and triaging quickly. To address this, we’ve streamlined the chats, teams, and channels experience to make it easier for users to stay on top of what matters most.

For more details and screenshots, refer to Microsoft Teams announces out a new chat and channels experience | Microsoft 365 Blog

This message applies to Teams on Windows desktops, Mac desktops, the web, and iOS and Android devices.

This message excludes Education tenants. We will send a future post with an update on the plan for Education tenants.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 415249.