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How to stop Sembly joining your meetings

Sembly joins the meetings on a connected calendar. One switch a meeting keeps it out, and it tells the chat when it stops recording.

Read on 9 November 2026

How it got into your call

If it is yours: stop it joining

  1. For one meeting: in Sembly, find the meeting and switch Attend off. This works only before the call starts.
  2. For every meeting: open Sembly's calendar settings, click the three dots beside the connected calendar and choose Disconnect.

Get it out of a call that is running

  1. Its owner finds the meeting marked Live in Sembly and clicks Stop. Sembly leaves.
  2. The host removes Sembly from the list of people. Sembly's own page says to untick the box that reports it for abuse first, so the meeting app does not flag it.

What it keeps

Sembly's pages do not say whether the part already recorded is kept. They do say Sembly announces the end of the recording in the meeting chat.

In Sembly AI's own words

The switch for one meeting
Sembly AI“Attend”help.sembly.ai/en/articles/61-how-to-stop-sembly-from-joining-my-meetings
Cutting it off from the calendar
Sembly AI“Disconnect”help.sembly.ai/en/articles/61-how-to-stop-sembly-from-joining-my-meetings
What it says when it stops
Sembly AI“Sembly will announce the end of the recording in the meeting chat”help.sembly.ai/en/articles/57-how-to-remove-sembly-from-a-call

Read on 9 November 2026 from Sembly AI's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.

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