I didn’t use Together mode every day, but when I did, it changed the feel of a meeting.
On long internal calls where people start drifting, switching it on made it feel like we were actually in the same room. It definitely made meetings feel more human.
And for a few use cases, it actually worked better than the gallery.
So when I saw the update this week, that Together mode is being retired starting June 2026, I paused for a bit!
It’s not unexpected. It always felt like a “nice feature, limited usage” situation, and maintaining custom scenes and seat mapping probably didn’t justify the investment compared to improving gallery view.
But still, it’s one of those features people will miss only after it’s gone. There’s no setting to keep it and no fallback.
→ Custom scenes and seat assignments go with it. And, gallery view becomes the default (and only) multi-participant layout.
Personally, I’ll miss it, not because it was essential, but because it made virtual meetings feel a little less like a grid of tiles.