Microsoft Teams on Mac: how to turn off keyboard media keys and fix playing the call sound

Microsoft teams current version on Mac seems to associate media keys, so when you finish a call and press Play media key (F8), the call sound starts instead of Spotify / Youtube Music.

To fix this, the thing that worked for me was just launching this command from the terminal

touch ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/hooks.json

that is the equivalent of creating a hooks.jsonfile in that directory. Restart Teams after this

If still that doesn’t work you can try launching Teams with an additional parameter

-disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling

I don’t know a way to add this to Teams when clicking on it, but I know it from the terminal

nohup /Applications/Microsoft\ Teams.app/Contents/MacOS/Teams -disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling &

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