Record a Microsoft Teams meeting on your Mac as an attendee

When the record button is not yours — and it usually is not.

Three gates between you and the button

Teams recording is designed for the organiser's side of the table. The button obeys role — organisers and co-organisers from the same organisation; licence — the right Microsoft 365 plan; and policy — an admin can switch recording off for everyone. Join someone else's meeting as a guest and all three gates are closed. And when a recording does happen, it lives in the organiser's OneDrive under their retention rules: it can expire on a schedule, and an external attendee's access can vanish with it.

The copy that is yours

The meeting still reaches your Mac in full: your voice through the microphone, the room as audio Teams plays. Record those two together and you have your own copy — no role, no licence, no policy, no bot in the roster. RecordCuedoes the part QuickTime cannot: it captures the other side through the macOS screen-capture interface, the one route the system exposes for another app's audio, with no virtual driver involved.

The three steps

1. Install RecordCue and leave it in the menu bar. Both Teams apps — classic and new — are known out of the box, and Teams in a browser tab counts too.
2. Join the meeting. When Teams opens the microphone, the cue appears: Microsoft Teams meeting — at exactly the moment you would otherwise forget.
3. Press Audio only, or a screen mode if the shared deck matters. One ordinary file, both sides mixed as it records; headphones change nothing.

When the meeting ends, RecordCue asks whether to stop. The file is in ~/Movies/RecordCue/Microsoft Teams/, and can be transcribed on the device, each passage marked as you, them, or both. Nothing is uploaded; there is no account; nothing appears in the participant list.

Announce it

Teams shows a banner for its own recordings and nothing for yours, so the announcing is on you. In many places you must tell the other people; in some you need their agreement — and in a work meeting, a company policy may have its own opinion. The FAQ has the longer answer.

RecordCue is free on the Mac App Store (macOS 13+, Apple silicon) — ten minutes per recording after a 14-day unlimited trial, one purchase removes the limit. Related: recording Zoom and recording Google Meet.