Why does Otter.ai keep joining my meetings?
Usually because someone connected Otter to a calendar. Otter's auto-join setting sends its Notetaker bot into every scheduled call on that calendar, even meetings the host doesn't attend. To stop it, disconnect the calendar integration and disable auto-join in Otter's settings — or switch to a bot-free tool so nothing joins at all.
Usually because someone connected Otter to a calendar. Otter's auto-join setting sends its Notetaker bot into every scheduled call on that calendar, even meetings the host doesn't attend. To stop it, disconnect the calendar integration and disable auto-join in Otter's settings — or switch to a bot-free tool so nothing joins at all.
The details
- The bot appears because a participant enabled Otter's calendar auto-join, which dispatches an "Otter.ai Notetaker" into meetings on that calendar automatically.
- To fully disconnect: in Otter, revoke the Google/Microsoft calendar connection and turn off auto-join for the Notetaker; each person who connected their own calendar has to do this individually.
- Meeting hosts can't always block another attendee's Otter bot from the host controls, which is why this question keeps coming up in the Zoom and Microsoft communities.
- Reline is bot-free by design: it captures your microphone and the meeting's system audio locally on your device, so there's nothing to disconnect and no participant to remove.
Last updated July 2026
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