Microsoft has confirmed that its Teams Live Captions profanity filter will remain switched on by default for certain government users until the end of August, a month later than originally planned. The filter, introduced in 2023, replaces swear words with asterisks in live captions, and Microsoft had intended to switch it off by default for new and unconfigured users to make captions more accurate and to support accessibility and regulatory alignment, including EU rules.

The change reached general availability for most users after being added to the roadmap in April with a June rollout target, but Government Community Cloud (GCC), GCC High and Department of Defense environments have seen completion slip from the end of July to the end of August. Microsoft has not explained the reason for the delay, though it remains an opt-in setting users could always toggle themselves.