Microsoft Teams is one of the most complete video conferencing platforms out there. This is for many reasons, but especially because it allows you to link your email account to your Teams account so you can share files with other people.
Because of the many things that can be done from Microsoft Teams, it must be kept as protected as possible. Next, we will show you how to sign out of Microsoft Teams from a mobile phone that has the app installed, how to sign out of Teams from the web browser, and also how to sign out of Teams remotely.
What is the procedure to sign out of an account in Teams using the mobile app?
Once you finish the video meeting in Microsoft Teams, you can sign out, because you won’t be using it anymore for a considerable amount of time. From cell phones, the process to log out of Microsoft Teams is simple, fast and practical. Follow all the instructions that we will give you below so you can see how to do it:
- Position yourself in the initial window of the Microsoft Teams app and look for an icon that has three horizontal lines.
- Press that icon to display the extra options.
- Look for the ‘Settings’ section and when you find it press it.
- Now, locate the option ‘Close session’, click on it and click ‘OK’ to close your session.
Thanks to this very simple method implemented by Microsoft, you can always close your session quickly. It should be noted that the process to log out of iOS devices is the same as mentioned above. Now, when you want to use Microsoft Teams again, you just have to sign in and that’s it.
How do I sign out of Microsoft Teams with the website?
Before you have seen in detail the process that must be executed to log out of Microsoft Teams from a cell phone with an Android or iOS system. So, the time has come for you to learn how to sign out of Microsoft Teams in case the device is a computer. Follow these steps to carry out the process:
- Enter the web browser from which you signed in to Microsoft Teams and sign in to your signed-in account.
- Go to the main window of the platform to look for the icon that has your Microsoft Teams profile picture.
- When you find that icon, click on it and look within your profile for an option called ‘Logout’.
- To end the start of your current session, click there on ‘Logout’ and confirm the action.
Every time you want to sign out of your Microsoft Teams account, repeat this same process. However, if one day you need to log out of Teams on a Mac system computer, you can use the aforementioned process that is the one for Windows and the results will be the same.
In case you didn’t know, Microsoft released a version of Microsoft Teams for the Windows 10 operating system some time ago. From the Teams program things can be done faster, that’s why if you don’t have it on your PC yet, it’s recommended download and install it.
How to log out of Teams remotely?
Sessions started in Microsoft Teams cannot be closed remotely, but it would be great if there was a way to do this. Since in this way the data of a Teams account can be protected in case it has been left open on another device by mistake.
So if you sign in to Microsoft Teams on one device to sign out of Microsoft Teams on another device, things get more complicated. Because this time it will not be a single device to which you will have to close the Teams session, but there will be two. The only way to sign out of Microsoft Teams is to manually grab each device to apply the aforementioned process.
Microsoft may implement a remote logout feature in the not too distant future. Now, if one day you have problems with your Teams account, you can find information on the Microsoft support page. There, you will see how to solve any problem related to Microsoft Teams.
