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shilocase
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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's avatar
    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

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HeatherA000
Copper Contributor
Mar 29, 2022
Me too. I have an M1 MacBook Pro and I have been running Teams in Edge browser and in Shift app and its had no problem coping with that. Video is better whereas before I was having multiple issues and it kept shutting my iMac down. Having said that, while waiting for my shiny new MacBook Pro, i was using an old (8 years old) iMac running on Catalina and although video not so good (age of machine) it ran teams on Edge no problem and didn't shut down once. Haven't been game to try the Teams app yet but since I have it open twice and Mac hasn't a problem, maybe the app will be fine too.
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JosefT
Copper Contributor
Mar 29, 2022

+1 on this issue as well. Sad to hear that even M1-processors has a hard time coping with teams. I run a Macbook Pro 2017 with 16 GB Ram and Intel Dual Core i5 and when running teams everything else is slow and the fan is running loudly.

Working in the web-develolpment business it is embarrasing to make a demo of a new site for the customer and everything runs extremely slow while screen-sharing. It makes our product seem slow...

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    mindvex
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 30, 2022

    I'm having the same issue - as soon as there is a video conference going on Teams is getting so slow and unresponsive you barely can't make any actions. Video is flickering like nuts as well. Clicking on icons (e.g. mute/unmute) did take about 15 seconds to actually respond. It's just unusable. Also the fans are going crazy. After videocalls ended it's fine again after some time.

     

    I have the feeling it's better without external monitors.

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      AlanGibb
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 30, 2022

      mindvex 

      Same problem as everyone else.  My small company went over to Teams in late 2020.  My early 2020 MacBook Air i5 chip grinds to a halt.  We routinely use other web conferencing apps with no performance issues.  (even the obscure ones like Chime, BlueJeans) I didn't even know that my Mac had a fan until I started using Teams.  Issues are only during online Meetings.

      I'm searching the Web for some setting to help fix the issue but you really need a supercomputer to run Teams.  I feel that the code must be very inefficient to consume so much of the CPU resources. (around 100% during meetings)

      • CoffeeTheCup2's avatar
        CoffeeTheCup2
        Copper Contributor
        Mar 31, 2022
        Try web teams or the edge app. That worked for me. But it is annoying that we cannot use the native app

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