Allowing or preventing participants from renaming themselves

As an account owner or admin, you can control whether meeting participants and webinar panelists are allowed to change their display names shown during Zoom meetings and webinars. In the Zoom web portal, you can configure this setting at the account, group, or user level depending on who you want it to apply to.

When enabled, meeting and webinar hosts and co-hosts can manage whether meeting participants and webinar panelists are allowed to change their display name during meetings and webinars. When disabled, meeting participants and webinar panelists cannot change their display names during meetings and webinars.

Note: If display names are mapped through SAML and participants are not allowed to rename themselves, they cannot change their display name when joining a meeting.

Requirements for allowing or preventing participants from renaming themselves

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How to enable or disable participant renaming themselves

Account owners or admins can allow or prevent whether meeting participants and webinar panelists are allowed to change their display names shown during meetings and webinars. This setting can be configured depending on whether you want the change to apply to all users in the account, specific group, or only to your own user-level settings.

Enable or disable participant renaming themselves at the account level

As an account owner or admin, you can allow or prevent participant renaming themselves at the account level to apply it to all users in the account.

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an account owner or admin with the privilege to edit account settings.
  2. In the top-right corner, click your profile picture or initials, then click Admin Center.
  3. In the side menu, click Settings Image of the Settings icon.
  4. Click Meeting.
  5. Under In Meeting (Basic), click the Allow participants to rename themselves toggle to enable or disable it.
    The setting will be enabled or disabled for all users in the account.
  6. (Optional) To prevent all users in your account from changing this setting, click the lock icon Image of the Lock icon, and then click Lock to confirm.

Enable or disable participant renaming themselves at the group level

As an account owner or admin, you can allow or prevent participant renaming themselves at the group level to apply it only for users in the selected group.

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an account owner or admin with the privilege to edit groups.
  2. In the top-right corner, click your profile picture or initials, then click Admin Center.
  3. In the side menu, click Users Image of the Users icon.
  4. Click Groups.
  5. Click the applicable group name from the list.
  6. In the General configuration section, click Edit product settings.
  7. Click the Meeting tab.
  8. Under In Meeting (Basic), click the Allow participants to rename themselves toggle to enable or disable it.
    Note: If the Allow participants to rename themselves toggle is grayed out, it has been locked at the account level and must be changed at that level first. Contact your account owner if you cannot make changes for the selected group.
  9. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to confirm the change.
    The setting will be enabled or disabled for users in the selected group.
  10. (Optional) To prevent all users in the group from changing this setting, click the lock icon Image of the Lock icon, and then click Lock to confirm.

Enable or disable participant renaming themselves at the user level

At the user level, you can control whether meeting participants and webinar panelists can rename themselves in meetings or webinars you join as a host or co-host.

Note: You do not need admin privileges to change this setting unless it's already been configured or locked by an admin at the account or group level.

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. In the top-right corner, click your profile picture or initials, then click My account.
    Your profile page will open in a new browser tab.
  3. In the side menu, click Settings Image of the Settings icon.
  4. Click Meeting.
  5. Under In Meeting (Basic), click the Allow participants to rename themselves toggle to enable or disable it.
    Note: If the Allow participants to rename themselves toggle is grayed out, it has been locked at either the group or account level. You cannot change it yourself and must contact your account owner or admin.
  6. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to confirm the change.
    The setting will be enabled or disabled only at the user level.