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Teams for Mac - Overview and prerequisites

  • Applies to: Microsoft Teams

The Teams for Mac client is designed with performance in mind, providing a fast, simple, and flexible experience. The Teams client installs and loads quickly, letting you launch the app and join meetings with ease, giving you more time to focus on the business tasks.

The Teams client ensures more efficient use of device resources. Whether you have users on multiple accounts or tenants, Teams helps eliminate the silos and bring them together in one place, giving them more extensibility and scale.

Prerequisites

Minimum Mac and Teams versions

For information on deploying the Teams client on Mac, see Teams client system requirements.

Turn on System Notification

After you install the client, if users don't choose to Allow Notifications with the initial macOS Alert about notifications settings, then users must turn on the Allow Notifications from system settings.

System notification for Monterey OS

  1. Open macOS System Preferences.
  2. Go to Notifications & Focus and, under Notifications, select Microsoft Teams.
  3. Switch the Allow notifications toggle to turn on notifications.

Teams for Mac notifications macOS Monterey.

System notification for macOS Ventura and Sonoma
  1. Open macOS System Preferences.
  2. Go to Notifications and, under App Notifications, select Microsoft Teams.
  3. Switch the Allow notifications toggle to turn on notifications.

Teams for Mac notifications macOS Ventura Sonoma.

Turn on Screen Sharing

Users can enable screen sharing for sharing content on calls and in meetings using the regular in-app flow when they first try to screen share. This action requires that they restart Teams. The user needs to drop from the meeting. Alternatively, users can turn on permissions for screen recording under system settings.

Screen sharing for Monterey OS

  1. Open macOS System Preferences.
  2. Go to Security & Privacy > Privacy tab > Screen Recording.
  3. Select the + sign to add Microsoft Teams to allow recording content of your screen.

Teams Mac security page.

Screen sharing for macOS Ventura and Sonoma
  1. Go to Privacy & Security > Screen Recording.
  2. Switch the toggle for Microsoft Teams to Allow recording of the content of your screen.

Teams Mac screen recording page.

How to uninstall the Teams client

You can uninstall the Teams client just like any other Mac app.

How to clear the cache

  1. Command + Space and enter Terminal.
  2. rm -rf ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.com.microsoft.teams
  3. rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.teams2