M365 Changelog: (Updated) Suggested Replies in Group Chats on Teams Desktop

MC400565 – Updated December 7, 2022: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Suggested Replies are now available in group chats on Teams Desktop, allowing you to select a quick response when you are mentioned in a group chat or when you are having a 1:1 conversation within a group chat.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95618

When this will happen:

• Standard: Early September 2022
• GCC: Early September 2022
• GCC-High: Mid-January 2023 (previously early October 2022)
• DoD: Late February 2023 (previously early November 2022)

How this will affect your organization:

Once available, users will be able to quickly reply to a given message by tapping on a suggested reply from within a group chat.

What you need to do to prepare:

This feature ships default on; review Manage messaging policies in Teams.

If you wish to disable this feature in your tenant, please disable the Suggested Replies setting that is found in Messaging Policies.

Users also have a setting within the app so they can disable the feature.Help and support