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Allow muting a person only for me
Good news, this actually exists. In an active Teams meeting, hover over that person's video tile or name in the participant list, click the three-dot menu, and select Mute for me (sometimes shown as Spotlight/Mute options depending on your Teams version). It mutes their audio on your end only, everyone else still hears them normally, and it's fully reversible mid-meeting with the same menu.
No settings change or admin action needed, it's a per-call, per-person toggle you control yourself. Should save you the headphone dance entirely.
same as paul_menhart , I cannot confirm this Ahmed_Masoud97 .
What version of teams are you running? You also talk about them sometimes been shown as Spolight/Mute. These are 2 different things, Spolight is more for video spotlighting. Mute is specifically audio. The current mute mutes everyone for me.
In an ideal world, as most users are now on laptops, they should use bluetooth beaconing to figure out who is in the same room, and you should be able to mute by "group". The beaconing works for teams rooms, why not between laptops.