How to Record a Teams Meeting on Mac With Audio (2026)

Short answer: Teams' Record button works the same on a Mac. In the meeting, select More actions > Record, then Confirm; everyone is notified and the recording goes to OneDrive. If the button is greyed out (guest, policy, no qualifying license) or you want the audio with a transcript, record on your Mac with Reline (reline.so). No bot joins.

The steps below are the same on a MacBook Air, a MacBook Pro, an iMac or a Mac mini, in the Teams app for Mac or in Teams on the web. Two things trip people up on a Mac: Teams' recording rules, which decide whether you can press Record at all, and the Mac's screen recorder, which on macOS 26 and earlier records no call audio.

1. Join the meeting in the Teams app for Mac or in Teams on the web.
2. In the meeting controls, select More actions > Record.
3. Choose the spoken language and what to record (Microsoft also offers audio only), then select Confirm.
4. Everyone in the meeting is notified that recording has started.
5. When you stop, a work or school recording is saved to the organizer's OneDrive (SharePoint for a channel meeting) and linked in the meeting chat.

Microsoft's guide has no separate Mac steps: the button behaves as it does on Windows. Whether you can use it depends on your account and on the organizer, not on your Mac.

Microsoft lists the reasons in its help article on recording problems, and the tooltip on the greyed-out button usually says which one applies:

• You joined as a guest, an anonymous user or from another organization: only people in the organizer's organization can start recording.
• Your organization's meeting or calling policy does not let you record, or a recent policy change has not reached you yet.
• The organizer limited recording to organizers and co-organizers, turned it off for everyone, or did not make you a presenter.
• The organizer turned Copilot off for the meeting, which also turns off recording and transcription.
• On a personal account, you have no Microsoft 365 Personal, Family or Premium subscription.

None of these change on a Mac. Ask the organizer to record and share the file, or to make you a presenter or co-organizer. If that is not possible, the next options record on your own Mac.

Reline records what your Mac plays (everyone else on the call) and your microphone (you), on your own Mac. Nothing joins the meeting, so it works whether you are the organizer, an attendee or a guest from another company, and whether or not Teams lets you press Record.

1. Install the Reline desktop app for Mac and sign in. The Free plan is enough to start.
2. Allow the microphone when macOS asks, then allow system audio: on macOS 14.2 and later this is an audio-only permission, in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Screen & System Audio Recording.
3. Join the meeting in the Teams app for Mac. When Teams starts using your microphone, Reline shows a small card so you can start recording; you can also start it from the Reline app.
4. Wear headphones if you can, so the other voices stay off your microphone and the Me and Other labels stay clean.
5. Stop when the meeting ends. You get the live transcript, an AI summary next to it and the kept audio.

• A live transcript in 60+ languages with automatic language detection.
• Me vs Other speaker labels: your microphone is Me, everything your Mac plays is Other. In the Teams app for Mac everyone else is Other; real names come only from the Reline Chrome extension, with Teams on the web open in a Chrome tab and Speaker Tags turned on.
• An AI summary next to the transcript, plus the kept audio with a play button on every transcript line.
• No video, and no recording on an iPhone or iPad: Reline has desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux (beta) and a web app, no mobile app.
• Capture is local and no bot joins, but transcription, AI and storage run in the cloud.

Not on a Mac? The same capture works in the Reline apps for Windows and Linux (beta), and Microsoft no longer supports a Teams desktop app on Linux.

When you press Record in Teams, everyone is notified, and Microsoft adds that depending on your region you may need everyone's permission before recording them. A recording made on your own Mac shows nothing in the meeting: no banner and no extra participant. So telling people is on you: say it at the start or put it in the invite. Some employers also forbid recording internal meetings.

• United States: federal law (18 U.S.C. 2511(2)(d)) allows recording when one party consents, but several states, such as California (Penal Code 632), require every party to agree to record a confidential communication.
• Germany: recording someone's non-public spoken words without permission can be a criminal offence (Section 201 of the Criminal Code), and data protection law (GDPR) can apply to recordings of identifiable people.
• Elsewhere: rules differ by country, and a Teams call often spans several. Check the rules where everyone on the call is. This is not legal advice.

Start on the Free plan to record your first Teams meetings. Professional is $15 per month ($140 per year) and Enterprise is $32 per month ($26 per month on annual).