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Sharing system audio in Teams from a Mac
- Aug 25, 2020
Hi KHSherwood
Microsoft are working on Share System Audio for Mac per this uservoice
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/32616083-share-video-and-audio-during-meetings
Share video and audio during meetings is released on Windows. Mac support is now planned for CY20Q3.
Not currently there yet but coming soonUPDATED 30/06/2021: Share System Audio is now available and has been released
Share system audio during meetings – Welcome to UserVoice!
Hope this answers your question
Best, Chris
It's staggering the number of promises from Microsoft in this thread for over a year to fix this feature and that we are still waiting for a solution, despite several missed promised deadlines. It's now 2Q2022. WHERE'S THE BEEF? Through no choice of my own, I am obligated to use this miserable business conferencing application to teach English to my students. Due to ambient noise being picked up by my system mic, I have to toggle my bluetooth headphones on and off every time I need to play an audio because I can't share system audio. It may not sound so inconvenient, but it gobbles up precious teaching time, not to mention the extremely long delay waiting for breakout rooms to open. My problem with Microsoft over the years is that it is absolutely apparent, as a former UX designer, that Microsoft doesn't care very much about their user problems. If so, this issue would have been fixed a year ago for teachers like me STUCK teaching online using this horrible application.
So how about this...if you're not going to do anything to fix the problem, stop lying to your users so we can turn to our institutions for a REAL TEACHING APPLICATION, unlike this miserable excuse of an app, designed, like all Microsoft products, to fix every imaginable problem, except the user's actual problems. That is the basic concept of UX and it's obvious Microsoft has missed it completely.
This is why I switched to Mac and will never return to PC. So are you going to fix this or not? It's getting extremely tiresome working with one hand tied behind my back.
kplandes - looks like the 5/5 update my Mac just got has the share sound toggle when you go to share something!
- kplandesJul 21, 2021Copper Contributor
Yes, I received the same update, and it is buggy. It works sometimes, doesn't work others. I have even been forced to close and restart Teams, and even to restart my entire system during class/evaluations. Today it stopped working again. Nothing's changed on my system since my original post. The truth is Microsoft has never released quality software for Mac, a negligence that continues after all these years.