Remove Otter from a Microsoft Teams meeting

Remove it from a Microsoft Teams call now

1. Type stop otter in the Teams meeting chat. It works for anyone in the meeting and removes every Otter Notetaker.
2. In Teams’ own controls, Otter says the organiser and presenters can remove it, depending on the meeting’s permissions.

If you are not the host

1. If you are only an attendee, Teams may not let you remove anyone — the chat command is your way.
2. The notetaker’s chat link, Stop Notetaker, removes only that one.

What you will see on Microsoft Teams

• In Teams, open People and look for the Otter notetaker among the guests. Organisers and presenters get a Remove from meeting option beside it; attendees do not.
• If the meeting has its lobby on, the notetaker had to be admitted by someone. Telling whoever manages the lobby that you do not want it in is often quicker than removing it later.

On Microsoft Teams in particular

Teams meetings often keep outside guests in the lobby. An Otter Notetaker waiting there has not heard anything yet; leaving it unadmitted keeps it out.

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 Otter's own settings — how to stop Otter joining.

In Otter.ai's own words

What Microsoft Teams says about the host's controls

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

Otter elsewhere

Otter on Zoom · Otter on Google Meet · Cancel Otter and delete what it has

A meeting with nothing to remove

Meetful writes the notes from each person's own microphone inside the meeting, so no bot joins and there is no participant to take out. Anybody can leave themselves out of the notes and stay in the call.