Microsoft Teams update erases all chat history without warning
A user reports that every chat conversation in Microsoft Teams was completely wiped out the morning after a new update, with no messages recoverable despite trying multiple fixes. This is at least the third independent report in this dataset of a Teams update causing chat/contact data loss.
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