TEAMS - mute by default when entering a meeting

you can achieve this by being the organiser going to meeting options, setting yourself as the only presenter - this will auto demote all participants existing and future joins to attendees, as then you have attendees you can select mic off for all attendees - this will literally force everyone to be muted - then you can turn mics back on when you are ready to start and attendees will have option to turn on or unmute themselves.

see screenshot - effectively solves the problem you describe - also solves auto attendees so kids cant mute or kick others.

when ready to start meeting re-slide the allow mic for attendees and they will still be muted just have option to unmute (if you like)

I found this same thing. I joined a meeting and proceeded to have a conversation for five minutes...and then noticed that I was on Mute!! Why would it show me as muted when I'm not?

Yes, I would like to request a default MUTE settings upon join meetings. I dont think this settings is too difficult to implement.

Agreed, would REALLY like to have the option of muting my mic by default instead of having to manually mute EVERY. SINGLE. TIME!

I agree with all the responses on this. Everytime I join a call I have to quickly watch all the sounds being made around me just in case theres something happening in the background that can be heard.

So frustrating.