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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
MicrosoftHi there shilocase - this is Sam Cosby from Microsoft Teams PM Engineering. I specifically look after performance for the desktop client E2E through feedback. I understand your frustration here, especially if you're having this issue during some of your important meetings. I can assure you that there's significant work going on from our side to review any and all performance related issues from both Mac/Windows/Web areas to ensure improvement. To dig further in your comment, I'll separate out your issues to help you further;
1. Powerful Mac device having issues with Teams: From what it sounds like in your verbatim below, this looks to be more/less affiliated with meetings in Teams. There are some significant improvements going into the current generation of the client, especially on the meetings side. Can you validate this is where you're seeing most of your performance issues on Teams for Mac? Are you seeing performance issues when outside of a meeting? I'd love to hear some additional examples you're seeing to ensure we have the right folks looking into this.
2. "Teams uses memory because of Chromium" - we're actually getting away from this in our next generation client, because we know there are some shortcomings due to this. The timeline is still aways away, but we're all in on this.
I promise we're listening - and we won't delete your message. We want to ensure that what we're delivering is top-grade, so hearing this makes us want to dig in further to give you the best experience possible. Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Best,
Sam
Issue has not been resolved completely. I am on an Intel Mac - with Teams open, the CPU fan keeps spinning, system starts exhibiting latency (even when I am not on a Teams call & not screen sharing). System performance improves the moment I close Teams. Is Microsoft still working on improving Teams performance for Intel Mac users?
- Sam CosbyYes, there are many performance improvements in the pipeline for Intel Mac users as well that will also help, particularly in the meetings space.
Sam Cosby teams performance on the m1 is by nature, significantly improved via apple translation. Teams on a 2 year old top end mac laptop with discreet video abysmal, 3 actual minutes to open and lag changing even a conversation.
I am pushing to get our company to teams from zoom, in-line with it a full migration to Microsoft from Google, salesforce, and several other tools yet our executive team, all using macs, look at this and think I’m a lunatic. It’s poor enough that business is being lost at this point.
If your team added custom backgrounds (maybe a couple other things) to the web client at least I could show them the edge app; we can't have meetings without branding. The web app is significantly faster on OS X - so why not prioritise at least mvp feature parity into the web version?
My guess is the answer falls into the category of, the entire next app is basically a repackaged web page and that's what we're doing. Is that correct?
- I have the Macbook Air (M1, 2020)
My entire internet connection shuts down after a few minutes into the Teams meeting.
I'm using Wifi connection.
I tried everything I found on the internet, the issue still remains. - thanks for the heads up @samcosby. We hope that Microsoft prioritize this, as many Mac users (like me) are still relying on Teams for work. That's really hurting us all!
