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Sep 04, 2020

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...

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gingerbread234

Copper Contributor

Apr 04, 2022

rwrusselljr

In the end I just uninstalled the app completely. I don't really need it on my phone. I use my laptop at work and access teams through that.

I did a bit of digging on my rooted phone and I saw several wake-up services that simply open the app every ~20 minutes if killed. I also noticed that the app force-opens whenever you share anything. This is because teams integrates a share menu in android which cannot be customized to remove certain apps. I believe it's called the TokenSharingService.

In conclusion, this is by design, so that you have it running always. By the looks of it, they REALLY put lots of effort into making this app impossible to kill.

I honestly don't think that Microsoft will change this so, goodbye forever Teams from my phone.