Leave or remove someone from a group chat in Microsoft Teams
In a group chat, you can leave the chat yourself or remove someone else from the chat. Leaving removes you from the conversation. Removing someone removes them from the chat but keeps the message history.
Tip: If you’re leaving a group because you’re receiving too many notifications about new messages, you can instead turn off notifications or mute the chat from that group.
Leave a group chat
If you decide to leave a group chat in Teams, you'll stop receiving messages. You can rejoin only if someone invites you again.
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In the chat list, find the name of the group you want to leave.
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Select More optionsÂ
If you change your mind, just ask someone to re-invite you to the group.
Remove people from a group chat
Note:Â Your admin needs to turn on this setting to allow members to remove each other from a group chat.
When you remove people from a group chat in Teams, they can see past messages but can’t send new ones or see future content.
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Open any group chat of three or more people and select View and add participantsÂ
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Go to the person's name that you want to remove.
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Select RemoveÂ
A message in the chat informs everyone that you've removed the person.
People removed from a chat can see the previous chat history, but they can't send new messages or react to messages. They also can't view new conversations or files shared by the group.
Note:Â If someone leaves or is removed from a group chat, their messages will remain in the group chat history. However, editing any message in a group chat makes that message invisible to former participants.
To leave a group chat: tap the chat header and then tap Leave chat.
To remove someone else from a group chat: from the list of participants, go to the person's name and select X to remove them from the chat.
People removed from a chat can see the previous chat history, but they can't send new messages or react to messages. They also can't view new conversations or files shared by the group.
To leave a group chat: go to the chat header and tap More options
To remove someone else from a group chat: from the list of participants, go to the person's name and select X to remove them from the chat.
People removed from a chat can see the previous chat history, but they can't send new messages or react to messages. They also can't view new conversations or files shared by the group.
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