Play, share, and download a meeting recording in Microsoft Teams

Important: As of early 2021, Teams meeting recordings are no longer saved to Microsoft Stream. All meeting recordings are now saved to OneDrive and SharePoint.

Note: Mobile users should update to the latest version of the Teams app for iOS and Android in order to experience meeting recording and video playback in Teams.

Play a meeting recording

The recording will be available after the meeting was scheduled to end (so not necessarily when it actually ends).

If you were part of a scheduled meeting, go the Details tab of the meeting event in your calendar and select the recording.

If it was a channel meeting, go to the channel conversation and select the recording.

You can also select More actions More options button on the meeting recording and choose Open in OneDrive if it was a chat meeting, or Open in SharePoint if it was a channel meeting.

Important: If your organization still uses Microsoft Stream (not OneDrive and SharePoint), you can go to Stream and select My Content > Videos to play the recording.

Note: Closed captions are not yet available in Teams meeting recordings on OneDrive and SharePoint.

Meeting recording storage and permissions

Teams meeting recordings will be stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, depending on the type of meeting.

Note that a recording will expire and be automatically deleted after a set period of time. The amount of time it's available is set by your admin, but you can change or remove the expiration date of any given recording. For more info, see Record a meeting in Teams.

Important:

If your org is still using Microsoft Stream (not OneDrive and SharePoint) to store recordings and you are a meeting owner, you can change permissions and allow people without access to view a meeting recording.
Open the meeting in Stream and select > Update Video Details.

Channel meetings

For channel meetings, the recording will be stored in a Recordings folder in the Files tab for the channel.

The Files tab stores all files in a SharePoint site and document library for the channel. Everyone who is a part of the channel will have permission to edit and view the recording.

All other meetings

For non-channel meetings, the recording will be stored in the Recordings folder in the OneDrive directory of the person who started the recording.

Note: Only the organizer of the meeting and the person who started the recording will be able to edit the recording. But everyone invited to the meeting will be able to view the recording.

Share a link to a meeting recording with others

If you recorded or organized the meeting, you can share the recording with people who weren't invited to the meeting—by just sharing it like you would share any other file.

Just find the file in OneDrive or SharePoint and share it directly with people or copy a link and share it however you like.

Notes:

Guests and external attendees can view the recording only if it's explicitly shared with them.
To learn more about sharing meeting recording in OneDrive and SharePoint, see Share OneDrive files and folder.
To learn more about sharing a file in Microsoft 365, see Share your documents.

If you weren't the person who recorded or organized the meeting, you can still share the recording with people weren't invited to the meeting. However, the meeting organizer or the the meeting recorder will need to approve your share action before other people will get access.

Download a meeting recording

Only the person who started the recording and the meeting organizer can download the recording. Go here to learn more about downloading files or folders from OneDrive or SharePoint.

Important: If your org is still using Microsoft Stream to store recordings and you are a meeting owner or recorder, you can download a meeting recording:

Go to the meeting recording in the chat history and select More options > Open in Microsoft Stream.
On the Microsoft Stream portal, select > Download original video.
Add the video to a Teams conversation by selecting Attach beneath the compose box. Or share the recording any other way you choose.