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Teams is KILLING my Mac Every Day
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
Same here. Machine becomes unusable in a teams call of any size. Interestingly the call will start of fine. But then after a few seconds to a few minutes other peoples video starts flickering and everything becomes sluggish then unusable. I swear this wasn't a problem 6+ months ago though.
- Interestingly I switched to default theme and switched off GPU acceleration and now it's usable. It's still bad but it is actually usable. But I have no way of knowing if what I changed made any difference and I have no desire to test it as it's finally usable.
I’ve read this entire thread and I’m not sure if I should be happy knowing my company is not the only one facing this crazy issue or if I should cry as it looks like there’s no solution apart maybe from spending $$$ in M1 based MacBooks (not even working well for everyone as far as I can read).
We’ve been working almost 100% remote since March 2020 and Teams is the corporate meeting solution for the +7000 employees. Even if I’m facing the same as what has been described here on my MacBook Pro since day one we switched from slack to Teams, I would like to add that colleagues using only Windows 10 laptops are also affected by some slowness, lag, search issues even if it’s with lower impact.
I’m also using a Dell laptop with Windows 10 just for important meetings where I’m presenting to large audience but having two devices on the desk and not being able to copy paste some codes or share a terminal windows while in a call simply because your main device is the Mac and you attend the meeting on the Windows is annoying and frustrating.
Not even mentioning the search feature that finds your search string in old messages but doesn’t allow to go to this particular message and you have to scroll, sometimes a year of discussion because the only information you got from the search is the date and time the searched string was found.
Not mentioning the spell checker (I switch between french and english all day long) that unlike other applications, only underlines the mistakes without any proposition to quickly correct it.
Some days, while sharing screen or simply attending meetings while I need to quickly react in chat section and the lag leads me to miss it, I could barely throw my computer out the window !Micha1680 I have to agree I have a iMac (intel) bought in April 2020. Its been shutting down randomly ever since and I now believe that teams may be part of the problem. Apple reinstalled software on it, then installed new logic and the issue still happens. It happens if I run teams in a browser (Safari, Chrome, Edge - suggested by MS when I submitted a help request!) or in the app. Initially the fan was sounding very loud an although that doesn't happen now, I still believe its a hogger. Today my Mac made a truly awful sound for about 30 seconds and froze, and then shutdown. I work remotely and teams is our means of communication. The only way I can use it is to use the app on my iPad and mirror it to my Mac (so that the share screens are readable. I think this is pretty deplorable (and arrogant) of MS
sbriggs This describes my situation too. After a minute or so the video starts juddering, the video panel starts flickering, everything bogs down, typing in the chat window becomes delayed. Today the audio was affected too with voices obscured by a repetitive noise ("buzzing" at 3 or 4 times per second). I left it and the problems mostly went away after 5 minutes but it does keep happening. I also didn't see this happening before December (though Teams has always absolutely hammered my CPU and battery life).
- I'm going to try running an Azure Virtual Desktop, with teams in it, to see if that helps. Happily I am the CTO at work, so I can spend this money and tell the MSP set it up without having to beg too many people for permission. I'll report if it works or not.
