Notetaker
How to stop Fireflies joining your meetings
Fireflies sends a notetaker people call Fred. It comes in from a Fireflies user's calendar, or because somebody once added its address to a calendar invite.
How it got into your call
- A Fireflies user has auto-join on, so it joins the meetings on their calendar.
- Or fred@fireflies.ai is a guest on the calendar event. Then it is an invited guest: it comes every week, whatever anybody's settings say, until the address is taken off the event.
If it is yours: stop it joining
- In Fireflies go to Settings → Meeting Settings → Auto-join calendar meetings.
- Choose Only when I invite fred@fireflies.ai. From then on it joins only the meetings you add it to yourself.
- Open any repeating calendar event it keeps joining, take fred@fireflies.ai off the guest list, and save the change for every event in the series.
Get it out of a call that is running
- Anybody can type /ff leave in the meeting chat, and it goes.
- The host can remove it from the list of people: More → Remove in Zoom, the three dots → Remove from the call in Google Meet, the three dots → Remove from meeting in Teams.
- The person who sent it can press the Stop icon on the live meeting banner of their Fireflies dashboard.
What it keeps
Speed matters with this one. Fireflies says that if it is removed inside the first three minutes, no transcript and no notes are made at all. After that, the transcript sits in the sender's account.
In Fireflies.ai's own words
guide.fireflies.ai/articles/7098191513-how-to-remove-fireflies-from-a-meeting-or-stop-it-from-joining
guide.fireflies.ai/articles/7098191513-how-to-remove-fireflies-from-a-meeting-or-stop-it-from-joining
Read on 9 November 2026 from Fireflies.ai's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.
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