TEAMS - mute by default when entering a meeting

Three years of people begging for this feature and still nothing!

This is what happens when your customers and users are two separate groups. User feedback is completely ignored as that's not where the money is coming from.

I absolutely agree with everyone else here. This feature should be standard with any web conferencing software. I've been with companies that utilize direct competitors to MS Team and they have all had this feature. It's a history of this sort of lacking functionality that made me cringe when I learned that my new employer used the MS suite.

I'd optimistically hoped that things had improved over the last several years, but apparently not.

Microsoft, I'd like to join 1:1 meetings or other small meetings with mic OFF by default. The reason is, I am often scrambling to do other things and need Teams to be connected to a meeting. But, I don't want to wait for it to load and take an extra cycle to have to remember to hit mute, until (and if) a 4th person joins. It's automated, but in a not-useful way, because the behavior changes depending on what others are doing on the call. For me, I'd like it to just be "Off (muted)" until I say that it's time to talk.

This is a must feature. Please fix it.

Agreed. Also color coding the camera and mic icons would be helpful Green for on Red for off.

More than once I've received a call in Teams and clicked the red button to answer. The red button just stands out, and is the first thing I click. I think the answer button is a pale blue, or maybe even just gray. I would love it if the answer button was green.

Also, I came here hoping auto mute would occur no matter how few people are in the meeting. Seems silly that by default it doesn't just mute you when you join a meeting, no matter how many people are in the meeting.