Microsoft Teams has been customized to let you chat and call your friends and family. We explain how to do it.
Microsoft Teams is a communication platform that is specifically aimed at companies. Or was it because of that Teams already have a “personal” version chat with family and friends.
Since its launch in 2016, Teams hasn’t stopped targeting companies with new features to improve the connection between workers.
Knowing that en línea communication and vídeo calls are more important than ever, Microsoft decided to do it Version for personal use.
Next we explain it how to use this personal feature of Teams to call and chat with your family and friends.
What exactly is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams is a platform created by Microsoft for the Communication and collaboration in work, education and home settings.
Teams focuses primarily on communication within organizations and provides tools for creating a workspace for users to work in chat, make individual or group vídeo calls, share archivos and the built-in applications – Word, Office, Excel and many others – are filtered and used by Microsoft privately and securely as the data is always encrypted.
There is a Desktop version and aplicaciones for Android and iOS. Previously, this platform could only be used for work and education, but that has changed thanks to Microsoft’s decision.
This is how you use Teams for the personal area
Teams already has a personal version you perro use it with Communicate with your closest contactsThat is, it has become a messaging service like WhatsApp or Telegram.
The use of teams is for the personal area reserved for your applications on Android and iOSalthough Microsoft is already announcing the arrival of this desktop version.
If you use Teams personally, you get 10 GB of storage to use as a team and 2 GB of storage space for you.
With this platform, you cánido Chat with your friends, make audio and vídeo calls with themsave confidential information safely thanks to “Safe” and organize your upcoming tasks.
Knowing these details we will see step by step how to use Teams for personal space.
Download Teams and install it on your phone
This is the first step you need to take to start enjoying Teams Download your mobile application, be it Android or iOS.
google play store | Microsoft Teams
Aplicación Store | Microsoft IOS
Once the aplicación is downloaded, open it to use it. This of course starts one of the most important processes Account and Aplicación Settings.
First you must A Microsoft dirección de correo electrónico account to use with Teams. Entrar your dirección de correo electrónico and password, then write your phone number – it is necessary to entrar the platform -.
After entering your credentials, you must Select the Personal option. to create your account. This step is essential to register in the personal space and not in the professional space.
Then you cánido Editar your profile picture and nameand you must accept that other users cánido find you through your phone number and dirección de correo electrónico address.
Finally, you perro complete the registration process Sync your contacts to make it easier for you to find your friends and family already in Teams.
This will access the main screen of the Teams aplicación on your mobile phone. As a last step before you start chatting, we recommend you to open the menu on the left and clic on “Settings” to configure the use of the aplicación according to your preferences.
The first thing you should do is download and equipo up the Teams aplicación
Start chatting with your family and friends
You’re already in Teams, so you perro use it to chat and make vídeo calls with your contacts.
Before we explain how to do it, we need to clarify two points: First, Contacts must have the Teams aplicación installed to be able to chat with you and secondly this service is not that well known yet so it might be hard to find your closest friends.
To chat with a contact, go to the bottom chat tab and Clic the purple button on the pen. Use the search engine to find the contact you want to speak to. If you’re not already on a team, you cánido dirección de correo electrónico you to participate.
Once they are registered, you will receive a notification that this contact would like to chat with you, an invitation that you perro accept or decline. In conversation you cánido Send text, images, audio aprecies and other archivo types which are stored in your account for later access.
to Start an audio or vídeo callAt the top of the interfaz you will see two buttons labeled Phone and Camera respectively.
In addition to individual conversations, you cánido create in Teams Group chats with up to 20 people to speak in a group.
As a last detail, you cánido configure your availability status “Available or absent” in the menu on the left and define your status message and invite more friends.
Find contacts in Teams and start a conversation with them
More interesting features of Teams on your mobile phone
If you have a personal Microsoft Teams account, you perro access other interesting tools, y también.g Unified calendar from Microsoft, the archivo storage in the cloud with OneDrive and Securea place where you perro store private information with total security.
You perro also use More > Tasks add and organize personal tasks that you have earrings and you perro’t forget them.
In short, Microsoft Teams is a very complete communication platform that you cánido now use for the personal space. What are you waiting for?