By Jess Weatherbed
Publication Date: 2026-04-21 09:14:00
If you’ve ever had the embarrassing displeasure of interrupting a Microsoft Teams meeting by accidentally hitting the “raise hand” feature then I have some good news for you. Microsoft is redesigning its online meeting software, which will move the raise hand button from the main toolbar and allow users to personalize the controls displayed there.
The update was announced on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, and is expected to roll out sometime in June this year. The changes will group the Raise Hand feature under the Reactions button “to reduce mis-clicks,” according to Microsoft, which is handy because the two functions are easy to conflate at a glance. That should prevent Teams users from disrupting calls with hand-raising when they actually wanted to send emoji reactions, or simply by missing the intended button.
New customizations will also enable users to pin, unpin, and reorder controls on the meeting toolbar, and the “Leave” button will be “clearly separated on the…