Notetaker · Microsoft Teams
Remove Fireflies from a Microsoft Teams meeting
On Microsoft Teams, the organiser, a co-organiser or a presenter can remove Fireflies from the participant list, and everyone else has another way. Here is each, and how to keep it out of the next meeting.
Remove it from a Microsoft Teams call now
- In Teams: open the participant list, click … next to Fireflies, and select Remove from meeting.
- Or type /ff leave in the meeting chat.
If you are not the host
- The Fireflies user can set rules that keep it out of certain meetings for good — by keyword in the title, by a person’s email address, or by a whole domain — and those rules beat its auto-join setting.
What you will see on Microsoft Teams
- On Teams the notetaker often waits in the lobby first. Teams may label it as a bot there, and the pop-up announcing a new arrival leaves out the quick Admit button for anything it recognises as one.
- Once admitted, it is listed under People. Organisers and presenters see Remove from meeting beside it; attendees can use the chat command instead.
- A meeting in a Teams channel has a chat everyone in the channel can read — type the command there, during the meeting.
On Microsoft Teams in particular
If a Teams meeting is set so that only the organiser and presenters can remove people, an attendee’s way out is the chat command.
Keep it out of the next Microsoft Teams meeting
Keep the lobby on, so outside guests wait to be admitted. Teams now recognises many bots in the lobby: registered ones are labelled, unverified ones are listed separately as suspected threats, and the pop-up when somebody arrives has no Admit button for a bot.
To stop it being sent at all, its owner changes Fireflies's own settings — how to stop Fireflies joining.
In Fireflies.ai's own words
guide.fireflies.ai/articles/7098191513-how-to-remove-fireflies-from-a-meeting
guide.fireflies.ai/articles/7098191513-how-to-remove-fireflies-from-a-meeting
guide.fireflies.ai/articles/7098191513-how-to-remove-fireflies-from-a-meeting
What Microsoft Teams says about the host's controls
support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-the-lobby-in-microsoft-teams-meetings-eaf70322-d771-4043-b595-b40794bac057
support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-the-lobby-in-microsoft-teams-meetings-eaf70322-d771-4043-b595-b40794bac057
support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-the-lobby-in-microsoft-teams-meetings-eaf70322-d771-4043-b595-b40794bac057
support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-the-lobby-in-microsoft-teams-meetings-eaf70322-d771-4043-b595-b40794bac057
Read on 10 November 2026 from Fireflies.ai's and Microsoft Teams's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.
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