How to completely remove Teams from Mac

Question

Im looking to completely remove Teams from a Mac, including any caches, preferences, application support files, etc. Does anyone have a list of all the files (visible/invisible) that need to be removed? Thanks

Answer 1

Welcome GCamaro68,

I'm an independent advisor and I'm here to help you. To uninstall Teams, quit Teams by right-clicking the Teams app in the dock, then holding down Option and clicking Force Quit. Open the Application Folder, select Microsoft Teams, and move it to the Trash.

Then:

1. Click Go > Go To Folder
2. Then navigate to following folder and delete them (if any)

~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.teams

~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.teams.shipit

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Application Cache/Cache

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/blob_storage

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Cache

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/databases

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/GPUCache

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/IndexedDB

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Local Storage

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/tmp

Regards.

Answer 2

Thank you  -- There's probably something else as when i try to re-install, and test the devices, it never asks me to allow camera/microphone to be used..

Welcome GCamaro68,

I'm an independent advisor and I'm here to help you. To uninstall Teams, quit Teams by right-clicking the Teams app in the dock, then holding down Option and clicking Force Quit. Open the Application Folder, select Microsoft Teams, and move it to the Trash.

Then:

1. Click Go > Go To Folder
2. Then navigate to following folder and delete them (if any)

~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.teams

~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.teams.shipit

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Application Cache/Cache

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/blob_storage

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Cache

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/databases

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/GPUCache

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/IndexedDB

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Local Storage

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/tmp

Regards.

Answer 3

Select the Apple Menu > System Preferences > Security and Privacy > click on Privacy. Here you can authorize Teams to use the camera and microphone. Check if it works.

Answer 4

Try creating another user on the Mac and install Microsoft Teams. See if it works.

Answer 5

Understood, I dont have the MS Teams helper in either tab, thats what Im actually trying to enable as the user denied the use of both when originally installed.