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Fake Teams Call

A call in the familiar purple, with a participant grid, the meeting name and clock along the top, and a speaker ring that moves between tiles.

Press F for fullscreen, Esc to exit.

What the fake teams call is

The palette does the work here. A dark grey interface with a purple accent reads as Teams to anyone who spends their working day in it, without any logo being needed.

It is a specific kind of useful on an open-plan desk: a screen that says, unambiguously, that now is not the moment.

  • Signalling that you are in a meeting on a shared or visible screen
  • A prop call for a screenshot or a presentation
  • A joke for a team that spends too long in calls

Fake Teams meeting screen, no login

Nothing is connected to and no permission is requested. The page cannot access a camera, a microphone or an account, because it never asks.

Adjust the participant count for a one-to-one or a full team call; the setting is kept in the URL.

How to run it, and how to stop it

Press F for fullscreen, then F11 to hide the browser’s own toolbars. That second step is the one that matters: an address bar sitting above the screen gives the whole thing away instantly.

To end it: Escape leaves fullscreen, F11 brings the toolbars back, and closing the tab removes it entirely. Nothing is installed, no file is written and no setting is changed, so there is nothing to undo afterwards.

Worth saying plainly — use this on people who will find it funny, and on machines you are allowed to touch. Show them the way out once the joke has landed.

Questions

Do I need a Teams account?

No. There is no login and no connection to any service. It is a page that draws a call-shaped interface.

Will it turn my camera on?

No. It never asks for camera or microphone access, so your browser will not even prompt you.

How is this different from the Zoom version?

The furniture. Teams reserves a header strip, floats its controls in a pill of round buttons and keeps the hang-up separate; Zoom overlays the header on the tiles and labels every button. The grid and the speaker ring behave identically.

Is the fake teams call safe?

Yes. It is a web page that draws a picture. It installs nothing, writes nothing to your device, requests no permissions, and cannot survive the tab being closed.

How do I exit?

Press Escape to leave fullscreen. If F11 was used to hide the browser toolbars, press F11 again to bring them back. Closing the tab ends it completely.