Microsoft has confirmed user reports that the Teams team collaboration app is displaying non-dismissible location prompts on some macOS systems.
According to affected Teams users, these non-dismissible prompts have been appearing on macOS devices over the past week, asking for permission to use their location "for things like GPS and Wi-Fi."
"I have been getting this message on macOS since May 14, 2026. At first, it would go away after the first click of 'Don't Allow,'" one user said. "Today, I have clicked 'Don't Allow' at least twenty times in a row, and the dialog keeps coming right back. I checked for a Microsoft Teams update, but there isn't one."
Earlier today, Microsoft acknowledged this known issue in a new incident report (TM1315837) and blamed it on a recent macOS security update that prevents the operating system from retaining users' location-permission selections.
"We've identified that a recent macOS security update doesn't store users' location permission selections for Teams as expected, resulting in repeated location prompts," it said.
