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Brass Contributor

Sep 27, 2021

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Teams is KILLING my Mac Every Day

I have a hard time believing I'm the first person to post this after not finding anything in the forum. I wouldn't doubt if Microsoft is deleting them because they can't figure out how to fix this i...

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Sam Cosby
Jul 14, 2022
Hi everyone, we're pleased to announce Microsoft Teams for Apple Silicon, which on the M1/M2 ARM builds, will have significantly faster performance than what's seen during the Rosetta emulation today! Here's our official roadmap ID for this release; Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365. More on this can be found here; Announcing Microsoft Teams optimized for Apple silicon - Microsoft Tech Community.

Users should see a significant performance boost with this release. And for the Intel Macs out there, we're still thinking about you! We have some large performance fixes coming that will help improve overall performance for the Intel version as well.

Thanks,
Sam Cosby, Teams Engineering PM

UWI_student_868

Copper Contributor

Nov 12, 2021

Fully agreed! I searched high and low. We use this for our group meetings and sometimes classes but my laptop overheats. I can HEAR the fans spinning a mile a minute especially if it’s flat on my desk things start sticking and having issues loading. My battery barely lasts when I’m on teams and plugging in AFTER teams is on leaves my laptop either discharging or at a standstill with the plug sign instead of the lightening bolt for charging

Teams is a solid app in terms of capabilities but the number it does on processing is ridiculous. Microsoft needs to do better.

ItsJimmy76

Copper Contributor

Nov 15, 2021

UWI_student_868 Teams has been running fine on my Macbook Pro 2016 16GB RAM for the past 6 months or so until today.

Yesterday I installed the MacOS Monterey update (v12.0.1) and Teams is now an absolute debacle. Video flickering, lag on everything. For half the day today I thought it was my video card dying. All the symptoms others have described. I use Notes during meetings and I get a 5-10 second cursor lag while typing if I'm on a Teams call. Ending the call (click "Leave", get no response, wait 15 seconds) restores all my other apps to their normal speeds. I am working 100% remotely to multiple cities and it is almost impossible to use.