Teams degraded to unusable after recent update, force-stop workaround failing
User previously relied on force-stopping Teams to recover functionality, but a recent update has broken that workaround. Chats no longer load latest messages, statuses are empty, and sending messages and logging in both fail even after reinstall and device restart.
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