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rwrusselljr
Sep 04, 2020Copper Contributor
Stop Teams from Running on Android
How can we stop Teams from running on an Android phone. It doesn't need to be running on my laptop and on my phone and it makes the phone run slow (same as the laptop) and uses the battery. Sin...
ThereseSolimeno
Sep 08, 2020Former Employee
Hi rwrusselljr What happens if you just sign out of the app on your phone?
- rwrusselljrSep 08, 2020Copper Contributor
ThereseSolimeno Thanks for the idea, but that was already tried. When you sign out of Teams, MS signs you out of all MS apps on your phone such as One Drive, Outlook, etc.
- ThereseSolimenoSep 08, 2020Former Employee
Yikes rwrusselljr Besides waiting for suggestions from the community, have you considered making this feature request at our https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/? Others with the same issue can vote on it and you'll be kept informed of any progress by the engineering team.
- gingerbread234Feb 01, 2022Copper ContributorI am also very much interested in turning off the app, but it seems like you are saying there is no way to turn it off completely? It looks like someone went through great lengths to add background android running services to constantly turn on the app if killed. It feels more like the app was designed on purpose to always run without the possibility to turn off. Since when did turning off/killing an app became an optional feature?