TeamViewer15.6.7

Indispensable for occasionally assisting family and friends who live far away and need help urgently, but poor customer service with long delays to emails. I too am getting "Commercial Use Suspected " popups all the time despite having informed them that I am NOT being paid for it's occasional use

DON'T DOWNLOAD & INSTALL VERSION 13.1.2559. Lots of users are reporting a major problem (crash at launch). WAIT FOR UPDATE. Otherwise: very good & easy-to-handle software.

TeamViewer is great. But, why did MacUpdate put me on the Beta version? I want to stay with the stable versions.

be advised, that if you decide to try version 12, version 11 guest can not connect to version 12 host. that is true in general of Teamviewer..i.e. the a guest can not connect to a host version that is greater than itself. Also, if you have paid for a license, licenses are NOT lifetime. They do not span across versions, so a license bought when version 11 was current will not transfer to version 12. So you must sure your hosts don't upgrade if you wish to retain use of your version 11 TV to log in remotely.

I've used Teamviewer for several years, great app saves me gas. Recently started to get contact requests from unknown people (decline obviously). There has been some buzz lately about TV getting "hacked" and it even occurred with strong passwords and two factor authorization. I uninstalled it for now. Search around, you'll see.

I used this app several times to help my parents resolve some issues with their computer while being hundreds of miles away. I'd certainly recommend it to those, who need remote assistance in troubleshooting issues on Macs and PCs. Pros: - Free for personal non-commercial usage - Fast and comprehensible - Pretty simple - Cross-platform Cons: - Depends on the speed of the Internet connection - Could have been more stable Bottom Line: A good free application.

Works like a charm, is free, and does its job very effectively. I use it often to log in to my colleague's PC from my Mac. That is the simplest of its capabilities but it works perfectly. Highly recommend it.

1.) It's free for personal use. 2.) It runs on OS X and Windows, and 3.) it has (free) iphone and android apps. I don't think there's any other product out there that can make that claim. I'm the tech support guy for many of my friends and family. I used to use Logmein, which IMO is a superior product, but when they started charging (a lot!) for it, I had to find an alternative and it seems that Team Viewer is the only viable alternative at this time. I recently attempted to install it on a brand new 27" retina iMac running 10.10.1. The installer would not work. I opened a trouble ticket and heard back from someone within 24 hours. They had a new build which purportedly fixed that problem. And It did! I was pretty impressed that they were so quick to respond with a solution to a customer that's using the free version of their product. Version 10 seems to be in *very* active development. If you download it from their website, you may find different build numbers from day to day. I have use remote screen control, file transfer, video and audio chat as well as the iOS app. It all gets the job done okay, but it lacks the polish of its competitors. Id give it three stars, but since it remains free while all of its competitors have a substantial cost, I'm adding a star so as to not look a gift horse in the mouth. Thank you, TeamViewer. You have my gratitude.

Totally not working here, keeps logging me out of my desktop and then freezing. Stuck on bouncing icon in the dock. Even doing a kill -9 in Terminal won't kill the processes - just keeps re-spawning. Was doing this when I tried the beta as well was hoping they'd fixed this in the final release, had to uninstall and go back to version 9 again and back to normal. Anyone else having this issue? I'm 10.10.1

I just started playing with this product, and have yet to explore its full capabilities. There are parts of it I really like, and other parts that annoy me. For starters, I'm not real sure why this is better than just using the Mac's screen sharing capabilities (Go To Server: vnc://target.ip.address). On the other hand, I just set up a new network at home, and without knowing it public IP address, TeamViewer had no problem connecting me to my home Mac! PLUS. My major annoyance is that the TeamViewer toolbar collides with the target Mac's menu bar, and I have to make sure I'm clicking beneath it, or I may find myself with unexpected results. MINUS. I can live with the splash / thank-you screen at the end of a session, but it approaches being an annoyance. Given that the company offers this product at no cost, the splash screen seems like a small price to pay for it. NEUTRAL. I haven't yet tried accessing my home Mac from a PC (which I do using TightVNC Client), or accessing a PC using my Mac (which would be handy, since it wouldn't require setting up a VNC "server" on the PC as TightVNC does. Or at least I think TeamViewer would hide that complexity). The other features, such as collaboration and meetings aren't in my needs list, so I can't address them. Thus, I can't give TeamViewer a full review. What I've seen so far is a nice implementation, but not something I can't live without.

Why it downloads version 8.02 instead of version 9.0.31181?

I don't know the reason, but if I click an the download link I always get an outdated version 8 from Sept 2013 The problem stays the same, if i download from the official site. Everytime I have to search for other download locations to really get the newest version Can't they deliver a simple working download link????

I don't like how the uninstall procedure is missing for Mac. Has instructions on their website for uninstalling for Windows and Linux, but not for Mac. Makes me think Mac is simply an afterthought for the company and lowers my trust for them. http://www.teamviewer.com/en/help/uninstall.aspx

DISCLAIMER: I have NO reason or suspicion or inside information at all to think TeamViewer will discontinue it's free service for non-commercial use. Having said that, this morning, thousands of LogMeIn Free users awoke to find an email from LogMeIn notifying them that the LogMeIn Free service was being discontinued as of TODAY, JAN 21. Anyone logging in starting today will start a 7 day grace period to either switch to LogMeIn Pro (paid) else the Free account will expire after those 7 days. Yes, there is and will be the massive whining and moaning, but in the end, LogMeIn will absorb the PR hit and move on. There was NO prior formal announcement or notification leading up to this, although there were certainly 'warning signs'. (if you think about it, why would they give advance notice, they know they are going to get hammered, so just drop the bomb and deal with it). In a statement to its investors (not users, investors), LogMeIn said: "the rationale is that remote access is a mature market — there’s no need to seed it any more with free accounts." In other words, they used to use the Free model to pull new users in, especially when LogMeIn was one of the few if only vendors offering any free option at all, counting on some % of those free users eventually would migrate to a Paid model, enough so to subsidize the cost of maintaining the free users. But with so many other free remote access solutions available now, that no longer makes business sense to LogMeIn, so why continue absorbing all of that cost for free users who will NEVER, EVER switch to pay. As a LogMeIn user, I'm disappointed of course. But as a professional in this tech field, their decision makes sense. Their costs to support all the free users they had acquired in TEN YEARS, must have been STAGGERING! So to anyone using TeamViewer, one does have to consider if the market will drive TV to the same decision at some point. Does the current market and business model they have allow them to eat the cost of continuing to support a free model? Think about it, up till now, the number of TeamViewer free users may have been relatively small compared to their commercial, but FOR SURE starting TODAY, the number of free users is going skyrocket as many LogMeIn free users find somewhere else to go. I have no idea how many, but the number of free LMI users must have been huge, and they have 7 days to find some other solution. For all you TV users, sorry, but TV is about to get hammered by a large influx of ex LMI users starting today. Let's be real; there are certainly a large portion of TeamViewer Free and LogMeIn Free users who use(d) the product for commercial purposes, that the two companies will never see a dime from. Eventually, LMI couldn't absorb;justify the cost anymore. As the number of TeamViewer free users jumps after today, at what point does the company say "Holy cow! The cost of maintaining these free users is getting too high, and many are former LMI abusers who are never going to pay, even though they use it for commercial purposes. What do we do?" Anyway, i think it is wise that TeamViewer users, FREE OR PAYING, consider that it is certainly a possibility down the road that the free service may be discontinued or modified (do we start seeing in program advertising to support the free?) This effects the paying customers too, absolutely. Guys, SOMEBODY has to pay for those costs to maintain the free users; either the paying customers pay for it in higher fees, or advertisers, or a combination, or it goes away.

... after two times uninstalling Teamviewer and searching for all remaining Teamviewer files (incl. invisible files and folders), restarting the computer and reinstalling Teamviewer again it now "behaves" again normally, meaning that I can put it wherever I want on my hard drive and it still works. Therefore, back to 5 stars for Teamviewer! (PS: It would be so good if Macupdate FINALLY would create a possibility to change one's own postings. This is years overdue in my opinion.)

It appears that the Teamviewer 9 application file has to be located directly in the Applications folder. I consider this to be a big downer. I have literally hundreds of applications on my Mac and have them nicely sorted in folders and subfolders and subsubfolders within my Applications folder. Not to be able to do that with Teamviewer 9 makes this for my from a 5 star application to a 2 star application (and certainly not an application that I would spend $750 on).

Folks, I'm a long time LogMeIn Free user, but lately have become disenchanted due to some bugs with the Mac client version. I'm interested in trying TeamViewer. My question at this time to any users, is there any indication that TeamViewer is sending any "snooping" information in the background? Often with 'free' versions of software, they are free because it is subsidized by collecting user behavior information which is sold to marketing companies. I do use Little Snitch, but the very nature of a product like this requires pretty open access, and you can't really tell what info is being passed (at least I don't have the expertise to determine that). Any use limits on the free version? LogMeIn Free recently went to a 10 max per account, forcing me to divide up clients into separate accounts of 10 or less. I have mixed MAc and Windows hosts. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

I bought a laptop to my 85 years old mom who never touched a computer, doesn't know anything on informatics, and live 2 hours far from my home. With TeamViewer, everything is a breeze: I may explain and show up straight what and how to do, organize and configure her laptop, do for her all the updates... All of this from home! I got an Internet Nanny 2.0! Absolutely satisfied!

As of today, MU downloads stable v8 instead of beta v9. Had to go to dev's site for v9

Never had a problem with them until the last OSX release, which introduced a bug that causes TeamViewer to crash every time it closes. Provided numerous information to the TeamViewer support, and after getting two canned responses about WINDOWS client troubleshooting (I had to remind them I was using OSX) and waiting weeks to get a response, they said this was a known issue and no way to fix it currently. So, they don't know what they did between the previous version which didn't crash, and the (previous) current version? Very poor customer support.

Not Good.

Absolutely brilliant App. I look after a large Mac User Group whose members are scattered far and wide. I can now fix most problems from my home and have saved tens of dollars in fuel costs. The latest version now seems to work better with slower connections This is important as several of our members only have ADSL 1. Absolutely indispensable, I use it nearly every day I cannot afford a commercial App so this suits me well.

Something seems to be very wrong with Teamviewer 8. When I connect with Teamviewer 8 to someone who has TeamviewerQS 7 or 8 open I see only a white screen without any content on my end. However, the other side sees how I move the cursor - which means that I am connected, there is just no picture coming from the other end to my computer. After uninstalling Teamviewer 8 and re-installing Teamviewer 7 (which I luckily still have) everything works fine again. The bad thing is that it is not possible to connect with Teamviewer 7 to someone who has TeamviewerQS 8 installed.

Latest version is 8.0.16464 as of today.

There is a big bug with Teamviewer v7.0.11474 : this version of the software generates a continuous pressure on some keys that is visible in the utility "Keyboard Viewer" ... Mac OS 10.8 French

How about Sparkle updates?

NO VPN ON MAC!!!

Teamviewer's a mixed bag. One one hand it's amazingly simple. My clients can download a small App and without configuring any firewalls I can remote access their machines and save thousands of miles a year. On the other hand it can be very unstable, freezing the screen whenever there's a large change (such as closing a window) and randomly ignoring most Mac keyboard shortcuts. The file transfer interface has had very little thought put into it, it works but is centred mainly towards IT professionals who know what they're doing. Recently I have been receiving emails warning me that I'm initiating too many sessions, when I only have it installed on two computers and never use them at the same time. Clearly their servers are struggling to keep up with the demand. The £500 I spent on a commercial license is a bit steep, especially considering the pitiful customer support. I sent 3 beta feedback emails through the program & the teamviewer website, each was returned with an invalid mailbox error. I hope I've made back the money on petrol-saved but time will tell.

Yesterday (03/20/2012) installed Teamviewer 7 beta. Today when I started my computer Little Snitch came up with the message "TeamViewer_Service" wants to connect to ping3.teamviewer.com on TCP port 5938" What is happening here? Why does Teamviewer want to connect to anything when it is not running? Developer, please explain! Develeoper, please fix this!

Been using version 4 almost every days without any problem. Version 6 just don't work. "Authentication failed" even before entering any pswd. "Protocol negotiation failed". Reverting to v4…

I urgently needed to remote control an other mac from 2 different places. All I wanted was something easy to use and most of all: free. I googled free remote control and there it was. It's so easy to use. And it worked perfectly fine on both sides. There are enough utilities in the free version for you to helpout someone who is not o. The same network. Really, it's the best to me. Thanks a lot!

Is this a peer-to-peer connection or does each client go through servers operated by TeamViewer's vendor? It's not apparent from either the description here at MacUpdate or at the developer's website.