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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...
Interesting, I mean if your using Teams a lot it would make sense since that's how mine would be and maybe the background is reporting wrong? It does use a bit a CPU constantly it seems. If battery is of high concern might look into using web client? I know the Team is constantly working on battery and performance in the clients so I expect it to consistently improve over the coming months.
ChrisWebbTech , the thing is that I am only using Teams sporadically, and other than that, I just keep the app running - in case someone pings me a message, etc. (this will change in time, as my organisation gradually migrates from SFB to Teams).
I have an UPDATE too: went to Teams app's settings and unchecked "Open application in background". This has had an immediate positive effect, and Teams app is now much lower in the battery hoggers' ranking - dropping from 40%-ish to just 1%.
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- Yeah but do you still get notifications in this case?
Good question 🙂 After 'closing' the Teams app, it appears inactive on the taskbar, though remains in the Windows 'hidden icons' tray, showing 'Available' status.
