How to Remove tl;dv from Google Meet, Zoom and Teams

tl;dv joins a meeting because someone invited to it uses tl;dv with auto-record on for their calendar, and that may not be you. As host, deny its request to join or remove it from the participant list. If it is yours, turn off “Auto-record calendar events” on tl;dv’s Preferences page. Uninstalling the app does not stop it.

tl;dv records Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls by sending a bot that joins as a participant. The bot does not find meetings by itself: a tl;dv user’s calendar sends it. tl;dv connects that calendar at sign-up, a Google calendar when you sign in with Google and an Outlook calendar when you sign in with Microsoft, and its onboarding then asks you to confirm auto-recording. Its help center recommends keeping auto-record on for all meetings.

With auto-record set to all meetings, the bot goes to that user’s Meet, Zoom and Teams meetings, internal and external, and tl;dv says it will “ask to join the meeting even if you’re not there”. It turns up at the scheduled start time, waits up to 10 minutes to be let in, and gives up if nobody else joins within 10 minutes. It skips all-day events and webinars and records for at most 3 hours.

An account can also start with someone else’s recording. A tl;dv user’s settings can email the meeting notes and a link to the recording to every invitee after each meeting. Opening a recording that is shared only with named people means signing in, and signing in with Google or Microsoft is the moment tl;dv asks for your calendar. If you then confirm auto-recording in the onboarding, your own bot starts turning up.

The bot’s name usually tells you. tl;dv names it after its owner’s first name: in tl;dv’s own example, a user called Grace Jones gets a bot that appears as “Grace’s AI Notetaker”. Users on the Pro, Business and Enterprise plans can change the name and picture, so a bot with a company name can be tl;dv too. And only one tl;dv bot joins a meeting. When several invitees have auto-record on, tl;dv sends the organizer’s bot if the organizer is one of them, otherwise the bot of the user on the highest plan, and every one of them becomes a co-owner of the recording. The name on the bot is not the full list of people who will hold a copy.

• Before it gets in: tl;dv’s bot asks to join, so deny the request. Since March 2026, Meet sorts join requests into two lists, and for the list of requests that need a closer look the default action is to deny entry. tl;dv says its bot can land there, highlighted in red and labelled a potential security risk, sometimes with only a Deny button showing. One click keeps it out, and a bot that is not admitted within 10 minutes records nothing.
• If it is already in: click Show everyone, then More actions next to the bot, “Remove from the call”, and Block so it cannot rejoin this meeting. With Host management on, only hosts and co-hosts can remove people; with it off, anyone from the organizer’s domain can.
• For next time: in Host controls, or in Video call options on the Calendar event, set meeting access to Trusted or Restricted, never Open. A bot that is not on the invite then has to ask, and unchecking “Anyone with the meeting link can ask to join” declines it automatically. tl;dv’s own troubleshooting tells users whose bot cannot get in to switch the meeting to Open, which shows what keeps it out.

Two details for tl;dv users. With the tl;dv Chrome extension installed, an “Admit and Record” button in the extension lets the bot in, and a tl;dv button in the Meet controls invites it, so avoid both in meetings you do not want recorded. And if the notetaker in your call is Google’s own Gemini “Take notes for me”, with no bot in the participant list, our Google Meet guide covers that switch.

• Remove it now: as host or co-host, open Participants, click More next to the bot and choose Remove. A removed participant cannot rejoin unless you allow it, and Host tools > “Lock meeting” stops anyone new from joining.
• Keep it out next time: turn on the waiting room (Settings > Meeting > Security > Waiting Room, or Host tools > “Enable waiting room” during a call) and do not admit the bot. tl;dv says its bot waits 10 minutes in a waiting room, and if it is not let in, the meeting is not recorded.
• Require sign-in: tl;dv’s troubleshooting tells users whose bot is blocked to switch off “Only authenticated users can join” in their Personal Meeting ID settings, or “Require authentication to join” on the web. Read the other way round, a Zoom meeting that requires authentication keeps the bot out. Zoom’s setting is under Settings > Meeting > Security; guests who are not signed in to Zoom are prompted to sign in, so use it where that is acceptable.
• If the bot is yours: on Zoom, tl;dv is invited by calendar auto-record or by “Start recording” in the tl;dv desktop app while a Zoom meeting is open. Turn the first off and quit or uninstall the second (both below). If you also connected Zoom Phone to tl;dv, a private beta, open Integrations in tl;dv, select Zoom Phone and click Disconnect, then remove the app on Zoom’s side: in the Zoom App Marketplace, click My Library, click the More icon in the app’s Actions column, choose Remove and confirm.

• Remove it now: organizers, co-organizers and presenters open People, hover over the bot, select More options and “Remove from meeting”. Attendees cannot remove anyone.
• At the door: tl;dv says its bot asks to join a Teams meeting; whether it waits in the lobby depends on your lobby setting. When it waits, open People and, under “Waiting in the lobby”, select the X next to its name to deny it.
• For next time: in the meeting’s options, under Meeting access, keep “Who can bypass the lobby?” on “People in my org” or stricter. Teams’ default bot policy also holds detected bots in the lobby until someone admits them, whatever the lobby setting, and Microsoft adds that some bots may not be detected.

Account-wide blocks for every notetaker bot, not just tl;dv, such as Zoom’s app restrictions, Teams’ external bot policy and Google Workspace app access, are in our guide to blocking AI notetakers.

If the bot carries your name, this takes a minute and deletes nothing. On the web:

1. Sign in at tldv.io, click your name at the bottom left, then Settings, then Preferences. The direct link is tldv.io/app/settings/personal-settings/preferences.
2. In the Automations section, find “Auto-record calendar events”.
3. Turn it off. tl;dv’s Auto-record article (8 May 2026) lists three choices, “All meetings”, “Selected meetings” and “No meetings”, and “No meetings” is the one that turns auto-recording off. Its Preferences article (12 November 2026) lists “All meetings”, “Internal meetings” and “External meetings”. If your page matches neither, the setting to switch off is still the one called “Auto-record calendar events”.
4. To keep tl;dv for some meetings, narrow it instead. “Selected meetings” takes conditions on the meeting type (internal or external, not offered to gmail.com or outlook.com addresses), your attendance (“I join”, which works with Google Meet only), words in the title, and invitees’ email addresses or domains.
5. To skip one meeting, deny the bot when it asks to join, or turn that meeting off on the calendar view page in tl;dv.

In the middle of a call, the person who brought the bot can end it: tl;dv’s stop recording button asks them to confirm “stop and save”, after which the bot leaves and the recording up to that moment is kept.

If auto-record comes back on, or you cannot change it, look at your team. On paid plans, Team Admins and Billing Group Admins set auto-record rules for the whole team under Your Team > Admin Controls > Recording Settings, and tl;dv says team defaults override the personal settings of members who are not admins. Only an admin can change the rule, so ask them to exclude the meetings you care about.

The desktop app sits in the menu bar on a Mac and in the system tray on Windows. It invites the bot to Zoom and Teams meetings when you click “Start recording”, it can record with no bot from your computer’s audio, and it can prompt you to record when it detects a call. Uninstalling it removes those, but tl;dv is clear that it does not stop auto-record: a calendar that still has auto-record on keeps sending the bot.

1. Right-click the tl;dv icon in the menu bar and quit the app. tl;dv’s instructions start here, and Apple gives the same advice for any app: quit it before you delete it.
2. Open Finder, click Applications in the sidebar and drag tl;dv to the Trash. Apple’s equivalent: select the app and choose File > Move to Trash.
3. If macOS asks for a user name and password, enter those of an administrator account on the Mac.
4. Choose Finder > Empty Trash to delete the app for good.

If the Mac says tl;dv is in use, it is still running: quit it from the menu bar again, or restart the Mac and retry. tl;dv documents no separate uninstaller for the Mac: quitting the app and dragging it to the Trash is its whole procedure.

1. Right-click the tl;dv icon in the system tray and quit the app.
2. Open Control Panel and go to Programs > Programs and Features.
3. Right-click tl;dv, select Uninstall/Change and follow the directions on the screen.

Those are tl;dv’s steps. Microsoft documents a second route that ends in the same place: Start > Settings > Apps > Installed apps, then More next to the app and Uninstall. If you only want the app to stop offering to record, keep it and turn off Settings > Desktop App > Live meeting notifications. tl;dv’s phone apps for iOS and Android record in-person meetings only and send no bot.

The extension adds the tl;dv button to Google Meet and shows in Chrome’s extensions menu as “tl;dv (Record, Transcribe & ChatGPT for Google Meet)”. tl;dv says it also runs in Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and other browsers that take Chrome extensions.

1. Right-click the tl;dv icon to the right of the address bar and choose “Remove from Chrome”.
2. If the icon is not there, open More > Extensions > Manage extensions, select Remove on the tl;dv extension and confirm with Remove.
3. tl;dv’s own route gives the same result: open the extension’s Chrome Web Store page and click “Remove from Chrome”.

On a work computer, your IT team may have installed the extension for everyone: tl;dv explains to admins how to do that through Chrome policies in the Google Admin console, and Google says users cannot remove an extension that was force-installed that way. If Chrome will not let you remove it, ask IT. And as with the desktop app, removing the extension does not stop a calendar that has auto-record on.

tl;dv’s help center describes no Disconnect button for the calendar. The link is made when you sign in with Google or Microsoft, and tl;dv’s own fix for a broken link is to remove tl;dv on Google’s side and sign in again, which brings the permission prompt back. So the order matters: turn auto-record off or delete the tl;dv account first, then take away the access:

1. Open myaccount.google.com/linkedapps, your Google Account’s linked apps page. tl;dv’s article links the same page as myaccount.google.com/connections.
2. Choose “Access to your Google Account”, then select tl;dv’s entry.
3. Click “See details”, then “Remove access”, and “Confirm”.

If you sign in to tl;dv with Google, the page also lists it under “Sign in with Google”; end that link only once you no longer need to sign in, for example after deleting the account. Google notes that removing access does not delete data the app already holds.

• Work or school Microsoft account: open the My Apps portal at myapplications.microsoft.com. If tl;dv is listed, hover over its tile, select “...” and “Manage your application”, then “Revoke Permissions” next to what you granted yourself. Permissions your administrator granted for you cannot be revoked there; ask IT.
• Personal Microsoft account (Outlook.com): answers on Microsoft’s Q&A site point to account.microsoft.com/privacy/app-access, which lists the apps with access to your account. Open tl;dv’s entry there and remove its permissions.
• Work or school Google account: an admin can block tl;dv for the whole organization in the Admin console, under Security > Access and data control > API controls > Manage App Access, then Change access and Blocked. That covers your own organization’s users only; a guest from another company can still bring their own bot.

You cannot change another person’s tl;dv settings, and tl;dv documents no chat command that makes its bot leave, unlike Otter’s “stop otter”. What you can do depends on when you act:

The consent page only exists if the tl;dv user turned on Consent Collection, which swaps the meeting link in the calendar invite for a consent link; the organizer is never asked. If you decline after the bot has joined, tl;dv says it leaves within a few seconds. No consent page and no host rights? Ask the host to remove the bot, and say in the chat that you do not agree to be recorded.

Then stop the next one. Removing the bot clears today’s meeting only, so ask the person named on it to leave your meetings out: a “Doesn’t contain” condition on a word in the meeting title is one way tl;dv documents for skipping meetings. If that fails, tl;dv’s privacy policy names a data protection officer for erasure requests under Article 17 of the GDPR; the contact details are on tldv.io/privacy.

tl;dv’s desktop app can record from the computer’s audio with no bot in the call, and its phone apps record in-person meetings. Nothing joins, so there is nothing to deny or remove, and tl;dv warns its users that recording notifications may not appear in this mode and that telling participants is their responsibility. If you suspect it, ask.

If your company pays for tl;dv, the rules live in tl;dv. Team Admins and Billing Group Admins open Your Team > Admin Controls > Recording Settings and set the Auto Record meetings rules, which can skip meetings by participant or by title, for example anything called “one-on-one”. The rules apply to every member except the admins themselves. To take a person off the plan, open the Members page, click the three dots next to their name and choose “Remove from team plan”; tl;dv notes this downgrades the account and does not delete it. One limit: everyone who signs up with your email domain lands in the same tl;dv Organization, which has no admin controls and cannot be deleted.

If your company does not use tl;dv, you cannot reach anyone’s tl;dv account. Block it for your own users, then control the meetings you host:

• Google Workspace: block the app under API controls (above), which stops your users connecting their calendars. For meetings your organization creates, Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet > Meet safety settings has a Domain setting that decides who can join. tl;dv tells admins its bot needs “All users (including users not signed in with a Google account)” there, so a stricter choice keeps it out, along with human guests who have no Google account.
• Chrome: if the tl;dv extension was pushed through Chrome policies, take it out of the policy.
• Zoom: in the Admin Center, turn on “Only authenticated users can join meetings” under Settings > Meeting > Security for the account, or in a group’s meeting settings. It is the account-wide form of the option tl;dv names as blocking its bot. Keep the Waiting Room on by default too.
• Microsoft Teams: keep “Manage external bots and their access to meetings” on its default, “When detected, require approval before joining”, and the lobby default on “People in my org”. tl;dv’s help center does not describe how its bot identifies itself to Teams, so test with a real meeting before you rely on a policy.
• Microsoft Entra: your users sign in to tl;dv with their Microsoft accounts. If tl;dv is listed in the Microsoft Entra admin center under Entra ID > Enterprise apps > All applications, IT can select it, open Properties and set “Enabled for users to sign-in?” to No, which blocks your own users from signing in to it.

One limit to know: no meeting setting stops someone recording on their own computer, and tl;dv’s own desktop app does just that. If a meeting must not be recorded, say so at the start.

Deleting is permanent, so save what you need first. A recording downloads as an MP4 from its page; on the Free plan, tl;dv only unlocks the download in the 4 weeks before a recording’s scheduled deletion. Then cancel any paid plan. tl;dv’s two articles name the page differently, Settings > Plan & Billing in one and Account & Billing in the other, but both continue the same way: click “Manage subscription”, which opens Stripe, and cancel the plan there. Then delete the account:

1. Sign in and go to tldv.io/app/settings/personal-settings/profile, your profile settings page.
2. Click “delete account”.
3. Remove tl;dv’s access in your Google or Microsoft account, and uninstall the desktop app and the Chrome extension (all above).

tl;dv says that deleting the account deletes all data and that no logs are kept. It does not say what happens to recordings that other tl;dv users co-own, so ask them to delete theirs if it matters. If you would rather stop using tl;dv without deleting anything: on the Free plan, recordings are kept for 3 months and then deleted in batches on the 1st of a month, with an email 4 weeks before; on paid plans they stay for as long as you subscribe. A single recording goes with the three dots on its thumbnail and Delete, with no backup.

tl;dv has its own answer: its desktop app for Mac and Windows records with no bot, audio only. Reline works the same way at the capture step. The desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux (beta) records your microphone and the sound your computer plays, so nothing joins the call and there is nothing for a host to remove. In the browser, Reline hears the other side only while you share a tab or your screen with audio. Transcription (60+ languages), AI notes and storage run in the cloud.

1. Before the call, click “Quick note” in the header or on Home: a note opens and recording starts at once.
2. Join your Meet, Zoom or Teams call as usual. The transcript fills in as people talk, split into Me and Others. Type the points you care about: Reline treats typed lines as the most important points when it writes the notes.
3. When the call ends, click the stop square in the bottom pill, then “Generate notes”.

The Free plan includes 10 hours of transcription and up to 1 hour of recording per note; Professional is $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly. tl;dv lists Pro at €29 a seat per month, or €18 billed annually. To be fair to tl;dv: its bot records video, its desktop app drops the bot without switching tools, and it has phone apps for in-person meetings. Reline records audio only and has no mobile apps. Neither tool removes a bot someone else sends; only the steps above do that. And with no bot on screen, nobody can see that you are recording, so telling people is your job.

Still comparing? Our list of tl;dv alternatives covers more tools, and the side-by-side page compares Reline and tl;dv in detail:

All pages read on 13 November 2026. Titles are given in English, as published; the dates for tl;dv’s articles are the last-modified dates in its help-center sitemap.

• tl;dv Help Center (intercom.help/tldv), last modified in brackets: “How to stop tl;dv” (3 April 2025), “Understanding and setting your preferences” (12 November 2026), “Auto-record” (8 May 2026), “Recording meetings with Google Meet” (24 April 2026), “Recording meetings with Zoom” and “Recording meetings with Microsoft Teams” (24 November 2025), “tl;dv didn’t join my meeting” (3 April 2025), “Why do we use a bot?” (8 May 2026)
• tl;dv Help Center: “Record on any platform (Desktop App)” and “Recording without a bot” (5 November 2026), “Chrome Extension” (14 April 2026), “Mobile App” (14 September 2026), “How to install tl;dv for your company” (3 April 2025), “tl;dv Integration with Zoom Phone (beta)” (3 April 2025)
• tl;dv Help Center: “Updating your profile” (3 April 2025), “Customizing Your Bot’s Name and Picture” (23 September 2025), “How does tl;dv decide whose bot joins the meeting?” (28 January 2026), “Calendar integration and why it matters” (24 November 2025), “Consent Collection” (24 September 2026), “Who recorded and who owns a recording” (5 August 2025)
• tl;dv Help Center: “Team Auto-Recording” (8 May 2026), “Managing your team in tl;dv” (23 September 2025), “Understanding permission levels” (29 October 2026), “Organization vs Team - What’s the difference” (5 August 2025)
• tl;dv Help Center: “How can I stop recording?”, “How can I delete my recordings?”, “How long do you keep my recordings?” and “How to share meeting recordings” (3 April 2025), “What are the limits of the Free plan?” (24 November 2025), “How to manage recordings in your tl;dv library” (12 October 2026), “How to cancel my subscription” (5 November 2026); tl;dv pricing page (tldv.io/app/pricing), desktop app page (tldv.io/desktop-app) and privacy policy (tldv.io/privacy)
• Google Meet Help, “Add or remove people from a Google Meet meeting or call”: support.google.com/meet/answer/9303164; Google Workspace Learning Center, “Tips to set up business meetings” (meeting access types): support.google.com/a/users/answer/12172260; Google Workspace Updates, “Safeguarded guest admit flow in Google Meet” (24 March 2026)
• Google Account Help, “Manage links between your Google Account & apps from other developers” and “Share some access to your Google Account data with apps from other developers”: support.google.com/accounts/answer/13533235 and 14012355; Chrome Web Store Help, “Install and manage extensions”: support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/2664769; Chrome Enterprise and Education Help, “Automatically install apps and extensions”: support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6306504; Google Workspace Admin Help, “Manage Meet settings (for admins)” and “Control which apps access Google Workspace data”
• Zoom Support: “Managing participants in a meeting”, “Using waiting room during a meeting”, “Enabling and customizing the waiting room”, “Changing security settings in a Zoom meeting”, “Requiring authentication to join a meeting or webinar”, “Allowing only authenticated users in meetings”, “Adding and removing Marketplace Apps for personal use”
• Microsoft Support, “Using the lobby in Microsoft Teams meetings”, “Roles in Microsoft Teams meetings”, “Edit or revoke application permissions in the My Apps portal” and “Uninstall or remove apps and programs in Windows”; Microsoft Learn, “Manage external bots and their access to meetings hosted in your organization” and “Disable user sign-in for an application”; Microsoft Q&A, answers on apps connected to a personal Microsoft account (16 July 2025 and 18 September 2026)
• Apple Support, “Delete or uninstall apps on Mac” (published 8 June 2026): support.apple.com/102610