Notetaker · Microsoft Teams
Remove Read AI from a Microsoft Teams meeting
On Microsoft Teams, the organiser, a co-organiser or a presenter can remove Read AI 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
- The host: People panel, find Read, the three dots, Remove from meeting. Read still makes a report of what it heard up to then.
- Anyone else: click the opt-out link if Read posted one, or type read stop (report kept) or opt out (everything deleted) in the chat.
If you are not the host
- Removing Read through Teams keeps a report; opt out is the only way that leaves nothing behind.
What you will see on Microsoft Teams
- In Teams, Read is listed under People like a guest; only the host gets Remove from meeting for it.
- Read posts a message in the meeting chat when it joins, usually with the two commands and sometimes an opt-out link — scroll the chat up to find it if you joined late.
On Microsoft Teams in particular
In Teams, removing Read from the people list is not the same as opting out: Read says a report is still made of everything up to that moment.
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 Read AI's own settings — how to stop Read AI joining.
In Read AI's own words
support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-meeting
support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-meeting
support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-meeting
support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-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 Read AI's and Microsoft Teams's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.
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