Prevent teamviewer from using any sound

Ok, so this problem seems to be the opposite of what most people are asking for.

I want to be able to disable Teamviewer from hijacking local sound when connected to a remote client.

To be clear: If im working on PC1 and i use Teamviewer to connect to PC2. I dont want Teamviewer to disable local sounds on PC1. I want to continue listening to Spotify or whatever. Currently Teamviewer will hijack sound, and prevent audio from local applications from playing.

Does anyone know of a fix for this, or is it how Teamviewer functions? And if so, can developers please add an option for preventing this?

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Julia

Hi nems,

Please open your Windows Sound options, click on the tab "communication" and make sure that this option is set to "never".

This should help

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Julia

Hi nems,

Please open your Windows Sound options, click on the tab "communication" and make sure that this option is set to "never".

This should help

FrankBe

https://community.teamviewer.com/English/discussion/comment/99507#Comment_99507

I fixed this the following way:

Go to Teamviewer settings -> Audio Conferencing.

Change Voice playback device and go (from Default communication device) to "Standard playback device" it seems TV is not handled as "communication tool" anymore form windows but as a regular sound source.

At least my HostPC sound kept working after this change.

Frank

FranHo

One way is to set Call by telephone in the communicate tab.

regsville

Right click on your Volume icon on the System Tray then click on Open Volume Mixer, and simply mute the TeamViewer application from that point.

koutnypetr

Unfortunately, I dont see Team Viewer in my Volume Mixer in Windows 10 :-( ... so the app is still hijacking the system audio.

Waheed-Pohyar

Try to keep the TeamViewer sound active (go to options and open Audioconference or make a test session), Then it will show up in the sound mixer.

jzhhn

Julia is almost right for Windows 10. Right click on the speaker icon. Chose sounds. Go to the communications tab. Chose do nothing. Click apply. Click OK. It's done.

LocalTech

Teamviewer is treating the audio connection it uses as a hand-free call so if you have a bluetoothe device that does calling and standard audio (sony XM series headsets for example) then teamviewer will break your bluetooth device until you reconnect it UNLESS you change teamviewer to use any random NOT bluetooth audio device. in my case I use a TV. my problem now is that the TV turns off and that audio device disappears and teamviewer goes back to default which breaks my audio. I have seen this behavior in more and more apps lately and I have a hunch that devs are copy pasting audio solutions from github and blindly implementing this massive issue that only impacts a few people.

fabeskins

https://community.teamviewer.com/English/discussion/comment/131177#Comment_131177

Not only do you have to do this with the Audio Playback but also the Voice Input section as well, change 'Default Device' to Standard Recording Device, or something like that.

pcruiter

I've tried all the above options but none solve this issue on my Windows 11 laptop.

Is there any insight when this issue is going to be resolved.

Very annoying!

Epsgmc

I have Windows 11. I went to settings > sounds > volume mixer and there you will see list of applications an TeamViewer being one of them. I turned off the sound for TeamViewer there.