How to stop Otter joining your meetings

How it got into your call

• Somebody in the meeting connected their calendar to Otter, and Otter switched auto-join on when they did.
• It joins every meeting on that calendar that has a video link, whether or not that person is the host.

If it is yours: stop it joining

1. On the Otter home page open the Meetings tab, then AI Notetaker settings, and choose Meetings I manually select.
2. Or go to account settings → Integrations → Meetings → the Default auto-join settings dropdown, and choose the same thing.
3. Then look through your upcoming events and check the Notetaker switch is off on each one: an event you once switched on by hand stays on.

Get it out of a call that is running

1. Type stop otter in the meeting chat. Otter says anybody in the meeting can, even without an Otter account, and every Otter Notetaker in the call leaves at once.
2. Or remove it like any other person: open the list of people, find the entry with Otter in its name, and choose Remove.
3. If its owner shares the meeting notes in the chat, the link there also has a Stop Notetaker button.

What it keeps

Removing it stops the recording from that moment. What it already heard is saved as a conversation in the account of the person who sent it, and only they can delete it.

In Otter.ai's own words

Read on 10 November 2026 from Otter.ai's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.

The longer guide to Otter, with every step and what an admin can do →

A meeting with nothing to remove

On Meetful the notes are written by the meeting itself, from each person's own microphone, so no extra guest joins. Anybody can leave themselves out of the notes and stay in the call.

Other notetakers

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