Installing Teams on Mac OS Monteray 12.7.6

Amelie Day 0 Reputation points
2026-09-12T08:46:55.5566667+00:00

Hi. I'm trying to install MS Teams on my iMac. It's a 2015 iMac that runs Mac OS Monteray 12.7.6 and can't be updated past that. I've followed instructions in this forum to download Office with Teams v16.88, but when I try to run teams I get this error screen:Screenshot 2026-09-12 at 09.42.42

Can you advise how to install Teams?

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  1. EmilyS726 265.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2026-09-12T09:33:22.44+00:00

    The issue is that Office 16.88 and Teams have separate macOS requirements.

    Office 16.88 was the last Microsoft 365/Office release that supports macOS Monterey 12.  However, installing the “Office with Teams” 16.88 package does not give you a usable older Teams client because Teams enforces its own support/update requirements.

    Teams itself now requires one of the three most recent macOS versions, so Monterey is no longer supported.

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  2. Bence Weiszmann 1,640 Reputation points
    2026-09-12T08:55:00.59+00:00

    Dear @Amelie Day

    Microsoft currently supports the Teams desktop app on the three most recent versions of macOS:

    1. macOS Tahoe 26
    2. macOS Sequoia 15
    3. macOS Sonoma 14

    Since your iMac cannot be upgraded beyond macOS Monterey 12.7.6, there isn't a supported version of the Teams desktop app that can be installed on this Mac.

    You can still use Teams on the web. Teams for Web is supported on the latest versions of Edge, Chrome and Firefox, as well as the latest supported versions of Safari. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-client-system-requirements

    Best regards,
    Bence

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    2026-09-12T08:47:09.2866667+00:00

    Teams cannot be installed on macOS Monterey 12.7.6. The error shown is expected because Teams is no longer supported on that OS version.

    What can be done:

    1. Use Teams on the web in a recent browser.
    2. If Microsoft 365 apps are also needed on that Mac, macOS 12 meets the minimum OS requirement for Microsoft 365 apps, but that does not change Teams support.
    3. If the device cannot be upgraded further, the practical path for Teams is the web version.

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