Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a communication and collaboration app for chat, meetings, calls, and file sharing across work, school, and group projects.
What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that helps people communicate and work together through chat, video meetings, voice calls, shared files, and team spaces. It is used by businesses, schools, and other organizations to keep conversations, meetings, and documents in one place. On Mac, the desktop app gives users a dedicated workspace for joining scheduled meetings, messaging coworkers or classmates, and working with channels and shared content without relying on a browser tab. Teams also supports screen sharing, meeting recording controls where available, calendar-based meeting access, and notifications for ongoing conversations. It fits best in workflows built around Microsoft 365, where users collaborate on documents, coordinate projects, and stay connected across desktop and mobile devices.
Key features
- Chat with individuals or groups in persistent conversations
- Join and host video meetings with screen sharing
- Make voice and video calls within your organization
- Share files and collaborate around team channels
- Access calendars and join scheduled meetings quickly
- Receive notifications for messages, mentions, and meeting activity
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Microsoft Teams is a well-known collaboration app from Microsoft and its network, microphone, camera, screen recording, notifications, and background activity are consistent with its purpose. Review permissions carefully before allowing camera, microphone, screen sharing, and accessibility-related prompts, especially on shared or managed Macs. The bundle ID com.microsoft.teams2 is associated with the newer Teams app on macOS, so background helpers and sign-in components tied to Teams can be normal when the app is installed. If you did not intend to use Teams, check whether it was installed with Microsoft 365 software or by your organization before removing related files.
Recommendation: Keep Microsoft Teams if you use it for work, school, or meetings, since removing it can interrupt chat access, scheduled meeting joins, and organization-managed communication. If you no longer use it, uninstall the app normally and then remove remaining support files only if you want to free up space and clear local sign-in data.
Common paths
/Applications/Microsoft Teams.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.teams2
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.teams2.plist
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.teams2~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.com.microsoft.teams
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