If you never open the Teams desktop client, it will not update automatically in background.
Teams checks for updates every few hours behind the scenes, downloads it, and then waits for the computer to be idle before silently installing the update.
Meanwhile, users can also manually download updates by clicking Check for updates on the Profile drop-down menu on the top right of the app.
For more information, please refer to this article.
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