To add a person to a private chat in Teams, follow these steps:
- Check the membership of the conversation: Make sure the person you are looking to add is a member of the Teams chat conversation.
- Check if the person has been blocked: If the person you are trying to add has been blocked by any member in the conversation, you won’t be able to add them.
- Check your app version: If you and the person you are trying to add are using different versions of Teams, you may not be able to add them to the document.
- Check if they are an external user: If the person you are trying to add is an external user or from another organization, they might not be able to join the conversation.
- Check the group settings: The Office 365 admin or the Teams admin might have disabled private chat self-add feature.