How do I remove firefly.ai from joining my Teams calls?

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How do I remove firefly.ai from joining my Teams calls?

Ani Caloustian 0

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Answer 1

Hi Ani,

Fireflies.ai may be joining your Teams calls because its Notetaker is connected to your Microsoft calendar and configured to automatically join scheduled meetings.

To stop it from joining future calls:

Sign in to your Fireflies.ai account.
Open Settings and locate the meeting auto-join or auto-recording settings.
Turn off the option that allows Fireflies to automatically join calendar meetings.
Review any recording rules that may still instruct Fireflies to join.

For a specific scheduled meeting, you can also remove ******@fireflies.ai from the meeting invitation or disable Fireflies for that meeting under Upcoming Meetings in the Fireflies dashboard.

If Fireflies is already in an active Teams meeting, open People, select the three dots next to Fireflies.ai Notetaker, and choose Remove from meeting. You may need to be the organizer, co-organizer, or presenter to remove it.

Kindly note that simply uninstalling the Fireflies app from Teams may not stop it if the service is still connected to your Microsoft calendar.

I hope this information is helpful. Should you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please feel free to share them in the comments below. I will be happy to help.

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Answer 2

Disable Auto-record meetings/Auto-join calendar meetings in the Fireflies web app, because removing a Teams app alone does not disable Fireflies’ calendar-based meeting joins.^1^

Stop Fireflies from joining future calls

Sign in to the Fireflies web app using the account connected to your Microsoft calendar.
Open Settings.
Open Recording & Privacy or Meeting Settings.
Turn off Auto-record meetings or Auto-join calendar meetings.
Review any meeting/recording rules and disable rules that still instruct Fireflies to join.
If Fireflies should join only selected meetings, configure it for explicitly chosen meetings rather than all calendar events.^2^

Remove it from a call already in progress

In the Teams meeting:

Select People.
Find Fireflies.ai Notetaker.
Select More options (…) → Remove from meeting.

Microsoft documents participant removal through the same People → More options → Remove from meeting control.^3^ Fireflies also documents removing its notetaker from an active meeting.^4^

Prevent it from entering through the lobby

For meetings you organize:

Go to Teams → Calendar and select the meeting.
Select View event → Options.
Under Meeting access, change Who can bypass the lobby? from Everyone to an appropriate restricted option, such as People in my org.
Select Apply.
If Fireflies appears in Waiting in the lobby, select the X beside it rather than admitting it.

Teams may identify external meeting bots in the lobby and display additional warnings before admission.^3^

Organization-wide block

If Fireflies appears as an installed Teams app and it must be blocked for the whole organization, a Teams Administrator can:

Open Teams admin center.
Go to Teams apps → Manage apps.
Search for Fireflies.
Select the app and choose Block, or open its details and change its status to Blocked.^5^

This administrative control applies only if Fireflies is present as a manageable Teams app. If it joins through a connected calendar instead, disable the Fireflies-side auto-join setting first.

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