If you're looking to download MS Teams on your MacBook Air, follow these simple steps to get started.

First, make sure that MS Teams is enabled in your Applications folder. To do this, select the item from the left column, scroll through the list of applications, and ensure that Teams is checked.

Next, allow MS Teams to access your Camera, Microphone, Accessibility, Files and Folders, and Screen Recording by clicking on the padlock in the lower-left corner of the window. From the window that appears, select 'Security & Privacy'.

Click on the menu in the top-left corner, then select 'System Preferences…'. If you're running macOS 10.15.x or macOS 11+, continue on.

To check your macOS version, click on the menu in the top-left corner, then select 'About This Mac'. Check your macOS version – the following steps are only available in macOS 10.15 Catalina and macOS 11 Big Sur.

To configure your security settings for MS Teams, please do the following: this has a direct impact on Microsoft Teams as all of these settings must be allowed to use MS Teams at its full capacity. For example, apps are now required to ask your permission before accessing your webcam, microphone, or recording/sharing your screen.

With that done, you can visit and log in to your Microsoft account. First, you need to install Microsoft Edge that runs natively on your Mac.

Additionally, the web version of Microsoft Teams is also a Progressive Web App (PWA), which means you can install it as an app on your device. To do this, click on the 'Install This Site as an App' button and go to the Apps section.

It's worth noting that beginning with macOS Catalina 10.15, Apple introduced new security controls to better protect your computer. However, running Microsoft Teams with Rosetta 2 translation suffers from performance issues like slow app startup time, slow button click feedback, chat history search lag or hang, and even sometimes freezes.

If you're using an M1 MacBook Air, you may experience slow performance when running MS Teams due to the lack of native support. Apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that belong to the Microsoft Office suite are able to support Apple Silicon not very long after the M1 machine's debut, which is great news. However, Microsoft Teams still requires Rosetta 2 translation to run on M1 Macs until today.

I started using my M1 MacBook Air as my main work machine in early 2021 and found it quite interesting that the Microsoft Office suite apps support ARM natively except for Microsoft Teams. Hopefully, this will change soon!

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