MS Teams Helper using up >100% of CPU MacBook

I give it a try once a month, but quit the client directly as soon as it becomes unusable. Normally after seconds, sometimes during the first call. So I can verify that the current version runs into the same problem as the version before.

ATM, I use the browser version for my daily work. I have no "reactions" and cannot see them and cannot remote control another screen, but at least I can talk to my co-workers.

I really don't get why this problem seems to be unsolvable.

the problem is THEY DON'T CARE what benefit is it to them to sort it.

the problem is THEY DON'T CARE what benefit is it to them to sort it.

This thread has been active for 2 years.... WT Eff?.... Disaster!

I wrote a bash script along with 'cpulimit' via Homebrew to stop it from overusing CPUs. Had to do the same for OneDrive. while it does slow MS teams down a bit, my mac remains usable. YMMV

#!/bin/bash
while [[ 1 ]]; do
clear
date
cpulimitpids=ps auxm | egrep -v "grep" | egrep cpulimit | egrep "pid=" | tr -s " \t" "\t" | cut -f 15 | tr -s "=" "\t" | cut -f2

echo OneDrive:  
uppercasename=ONEDRIVE  
apppids=`ps auxm | egrep OneDrive | egrep -v grep | egrep -v "File Provider|FinderSync" | tr -s " \t" "\t" | cut -f2 | sort -n`  
for apppid in ${apppids[@]}; do  
     FOUND=`echo $cpulimitpids | tr " " "\n" | egrep "^$apppid\$" | wc -l`  
    if [[ "$FOUND" -eq "0" ]]; then  
        cpulimit --limit=100 --lazy --include-children --pid=$apppid &  
    fi  
    echo ${uppercasename}:  $apppid  Found:  $FOUND  
done  

echo Teams:  
uppercasename=TEAMS  
apppids=`ps auxm | egrep 'Microsoft Teams Helper' | egrep -v GPU | tr -s " \t" "\t" | cut -f2 | sort -n`  
for apppid in ${apppids[@]}; do  
    FOUND=`echo $cpulimitpids | tr " " "\n" | egrep "^$apppid\$" | wc -l`  
    if [[ "$FOUND" -eq "0" ]]; then  
       cpulimit --limit=100 --lazy --include-children --pid=$apppid &  
    fi  
    echo ${uppercasename}:  $apppid  Found:  $FOUND  
done  
sleep 60  

done

What "fixed" it for me was going into Preferences, then Files, and choosing for Teams to open files in the teams app. I had changed it to Desktop App before since I like that better but noticed the spiking in Microsoft Teams Helper (Renderer). Had been like this for about 2 weeks then it struck a lightbulb that this started when I made the change initially. As soon as I reverted back to Teams in that setting the problem went away almost instantly.