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Copper Contributor

Oct 07, 2019

Teams app draining laptop battery in the background

New laptops, fresh Windows 10 Pro and Office apps install. I noticed Teams app was at the top of the list of apps "affecting laptop's battery life" - with contribution as high as 40% when the app...

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EduardoMaciel

Copper Contributor

Apr 17, 2020

Piotr_JJ I noticed that on my new MacBook Pro, if I have Teams open (not necessarily using it, just open and running) battery will die in 4 hours. If Teams is closed, battery lasts 6 to 7 hours.

I have even made a spreadsheet to track it to make sure it was not my impression. After 10 days of normal work, the conclusion is simple:

Teams reallyyyyyy drains battery.

Hope they do something about it.

Lecia53

Copper Contributor

Apr 24, 2020

Has anyone figured anything out with Teams? I literally bought a new MacAir thinking that it was my computer being old (4 years) - and TEams STILL starts my fan 5 minutes into a meeting! I will need to ask my client to use a different medium if MicroSoft doesn't figure this out. I've disabled GPU, and I'm using web version. Any other ideas?EduardoMaciel