Changing settings in the Zoom desktop/mobile app

To access settings in the Zoom desktop app:

1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop app.
2. Click your profile picture then click Settings.
   This will open the settings window, giving you access to the following options.

General

Change the general settings for appearance, themes, Zoom workplace app, Zoom Rooms and Zoom apps.

Appearance

• Color mode: Change the background color of the Zoom desktop app.
• Theme: Change the accent color when using light mode.
• Emoji: Change the reaction skin tone

Navigation bar: Reset the default order of the Zoom Workplace navigation bar

Zoom Workplace app

• Update app automatically: Set the update frequency for the Zoom Workplace app.
  • Slow (fewer updates, more stability)
  • Fast (more updates, earliest feature access)
• Auto-start Zoom Workplace: Open and display the Zoom app when Windows starts.
• Minimize Zoom to notification area when closed: Keep Zoom running in the notification area after closing.
• Sync Zoom presence with Outlook status
• Enable diagnostic data viewer: View diagnostic information.

Presence status

• Change status to "Away" when inactive for: Set inactivity timeout (2–60 minutes).

Zoom Rooms

• Show "Pair with room" icon in the app navigation bar: Display pairing icon in navigation bar
• Automatically enable companion microphone when joining as companion:Enable companion mic by default when joining
• Use Zoom Rooms auto-detection: Enable auto-detect for Zoom Rooms
• Join method when paired to Zoom Rooms: Select the join method from the drop-down when pairing with Zoom Rooms..
  • Select method every time
  • Join from room and as companion
  • Join from computer only
  • Join from room only

Zoom Apps: Clear the Zoom app's local data and cookies.

Video & effects

View your video feed, change your camera and customize your virtual backgrounds.

Camera: Select the camera you want Zoom to use from the drop-down menu.

• HD video: Enable High-definition video.
• Maintain original ratio: Keep the original aspect ratio of your video display.
• Mirror my video: Horizontally flip your video. This option is useful if your camera flips your video by default.
• Adjust for low light: Improves video brightness and quality in low light surroundings. Select your low light settings between Auto and Manual.
• Touch up my appearance: Adjust the slider to apply a softening effect to skin to minimize the visibility of imperfections.

Virtual backgrounds: Select an image for your Virtual backgrounds

• Click the plus  icon to add image from your computer.
• Click Generate to create a virtual background using Zoom AI.

Avatars: Customize your profile avatars.

Video filters: Apply overlays, color filters, and other custom video frames during meetings and webinars

Studio effects: Apply eyebrows, mustache or beard, and lip color filters as part of your video appearance.

Audio

Set your microphone and speaker, test them, adjust their volume, and change other settings.

• Speaker: Select the speaker you want Zoom to use from the drop-down menu.
  • Test Speaker: Click to play a test tone. 
  • Output volume: Adjust the volume slider as needed to control volume levels.
  • Spatial audio: Voices will match each person's position on the screen.
  • Hear incoming call ringtones on an additional device: Play incoming call ringtone on an additional device
• Microphone: Click the drop-down to select the mic you want Zoom to use.
  • Test Microphone: Click to record audio and play it back. 
  • Input volume: Adjust the slider to change the microphone volume.
  • Automatically adjust microphone volume: Automatically make your microphone softer or louder as needed to normalize the volume and make it easier for other participants to hear you. If you are having issues with your audio fading in and out, you may want to turn this setting off.
• Audio Profile
  • Zoom background noise removal: Recommended for most uses, this audio profile provides standard background noise suppression, which can be adjusted below:
    • Background noise suppression Choose between Auto, Low, Medium, and High levels of noise suppression.
  • Personalized audio isolation: Recommended for crowded environments. Zoom will use your voiceprints to optimize audio for voice clarity and remove background noise in your meetings. Click Create voice recording and read the text from the following window. Once you complete reading the text, click Stop recording to record your voiceprint. Click Close to save your recording. You may update or delete your voiceprint if needed.
  • Original sound for musicians: Adds an in-meeting button to disable noise suppression and echo cancellation, while increasing codec quality or encoding in stereo.
    
    • High-fidelity music mode: This disables echo cancellation & post-processing, while raising audio codec quality to 48Khz, 96Kbps mono/192kbps stereo. Professional audio interface, microphone, and headphones required.
    • Echo cancellation: Prevents the creation of echoes between mic and speakers. Disable only recommended when using headphones to isolate audio or when playing instruments.
    • Stereo audio: Encodes mic audio in stereo. Requires a stereo-capable microphone or audio interface.
  • Live performance audio: Further reduces latency for audio to ~30-50ms.
• Headset: Enable to automatically sync headset buttons.
• Advanced: View advanced audio settings.

Notifications & sounds

Change notifications and sound settings.

Sounds

• Ringtone volume: Adjust the slider to change the the ringtone volume.
  Note: Applies to incoming meeting and phone calls.
• Ringtones
  • Video calls: Apply different ringtones for your video calls.
  • Extension: Apply different ringtones for your extension.
  • Direct number: Apply different ringtones for your direct number.
  • Custom contact ringtones: Click Manage to apply custom contact ringtones.
• Notification sounds:
  • Toggle on/off Play new chat message sound.

Desktop notifications: Enable or disable the following desktop notifications.

• Notification preferences
  • Set "Do not disturb" hours: Mute chat and call alerts during set hours.
  • Hide incoming phone calls during meetings
  • Hide chat notifications during meetings and calls
  • Open new chat window when selecting a push notification
  • Show message preview for chat notifications
  • Show desktop notifications until dismissed
  • Silence system notifications when sharing desktop
• Send desktop notification for: 
  • Upcoming meetings: Click the drop-down menu to set the notification time before an upcoming meetings. 
  • New recordings available
  • New chat messages
    • All message
    • Direct messages, mentions, and replies only
  • Except these groups chats and channels: Click Manage to set notifications for direct messages, mentions and replies. You can also choose different notification options for specific group chats and channels. Click Save to apply your changes, or click Reset to restore the default settings.
  • Keywords mentioned: Click Manage to receive notifications when adding keywords from the list. Click Done to save.
  • Contacts mentioned: Click Manage to receive notifications for messages from the contacts that you will enable from your contacts list. Click Save to apply your changes, or click Reset to restore the default settings.
• Activity center notification: Click Manage to customize the activity center notifications. Click Save to apply your changes, or click Reset to restore the default settings.
  Note: These notifications are displayed in the Zoom Workplace Application under activity center.
• Other notifications:
  • Contact center
    • Always play notification: Play sound notification for all unread messages.
    • Mute during meetings and calls: Mute sound notifications only during Contact Center video or voice calls, Zoom meetings and Zoom Phone calls.
    • Always mute notifications: Mute sound notifications for all unread messages.

Meetings & webinars 

Change settings when joining meetings or webinars.

Join experience

• When joining meetings and webinars: Enable or disable the following settings.
  • Show video preview first
  • Keep my camera off
  • Keep my microphone muted
  • Automatically connect to computer audio
  • Enter full screen automatically
  • Open selected Zoom Apps: Click Manage to enable or disable Zoom apps.

In-Meeting and in-webinar experience: Enable or disable the following settings.

• Display
  • Use dual monitors
  • Keep participants names visible
  • Show meeting timer
    Note: The timer is visible only to you.
  • Show participant profile pictures in chat
• Controls
  • Keep meeting controls visible
  • Press and hold "Space" key to temporarily unmute yourself
  • Play audio chime for mute/unmute
  • Automatically copy invite link to clipboard
• My Video
  • Hide your own video from the video gallery
  • Show me as an active speaker when I talk
  • Stop audio and video when computer locks
• Participant video
  • Show non-video participants
    • Maximum participants per screen: Select between 25 participants or 49 participants.
• Reactions
  
  • Show reactions above toolbar: Display your reactions and nonverbal feedback above the toolbar after selection.
  • Animate emojis
  • Use hand gestures to activate reactions: Activate the thumbs-up emoji or hand-raise feature visibly by showing a thumbs-up or raised hand to the camera for 5 seconds.
  • Play audio chime when someone has raised their hand
• Leave experience
  • Ask me to confirm when leaving
  • Keep my Zoom Apps open: When enabled, any Zoom Apps you open during meetings will remain open when the meeting ends.

Advanced

• Advanced meeting
  • Enable stop incoming video feature: This setting allows you to stop all participants' videos all at once.
  • Skip audio prompts in third-party meetings: Do not show audio prompts when joining a meeting with a third-party connection.
  • Reset meeting disclaimers: Click Reset to re-enable in-meeting disclaimers hidden by selecting "Do not show again".
• Advanced video
  • Optimize incoming video quality with super resolution: Enables software-based upscaling to increase received video resolution.
  • Optimize outgoing video quality with de-noise: Enables software-based noise removal to improve video quality.

Use hardware acceleration for: Save CPU resources by using the graphics card’s hardware video decoder. Enable or disable the following settings.

• Receiving video
• Sending video

Recording

Change recording and storage settings.

Local recording storage

• Storage location: Open or change the folder location of your local recordings.
  • Enable or disable Select local storage location after every meeting.
• Cloud recording storage: Click Manage to manage your cloud recordings from the Zoom web portal.
• Recording preferences: Enable or disable the following settings.
  • In my recordings:
    • Show participants names
    • Include timestamps
    • Record video during screen sharing
      (Optional) Enable or disable Show video and screen share side-by-side
• Advanced: Enable or disable the following settings.
  • Record separate participant audio files: Record a separate audio file for up to 80 participants. The audio of users who joined by phone will be merged into one audi file.
  • Keep unconverted recordings files for troubleshooting: Retain any unconverted recordings files to help Zoom troubleshoot when there is a problem.
  • Optimize for third-party video editors: Generate recording files in a standard format compatible with third-party video editors. This may increase file size.

Share Screen

Change settings related to screen sharing.

When others share

• Window size when shared screen: Choose how you would like the meeting window to change when viewing shared content.
  • Select between Maintain current size or Enter into fullscreen.
• Scale to fit shared content: Automatically scale the shared screen to fit the size of the Zoom window.
• See shared content in side-by-side mode: View shared content directly to the left of participants' videos.

When I share

• Windows shared from an application
  • Select between Choose individual windows or Share all windows from an application.
• Show green border around my shared content
• Show my Zoom Workplace Application and meeting windows: When sharing your entire desktop, others will see your Zoom Workplace applications or active meeting window if they are open.

Share button behavior

• Share button behavior in meetings: Select between Preview available content or Share entire desktop.
• Share button behavior in Zoom Rooms: Select between Preview available content or Share entire desktop.

Advanced

• Advanced share screen: Enable or disable the following settings.
  • Screen capture mode: Click the drop-down menu to choose a method to capture the screen.
  • Use TCP connection for screen sharing: Select this option when you cannot see content on the shared screen or when others cannot see your shared content.
  • Screen share frame-per-second limit
  • Enable remote control in all applications
• Use hardware acceleration for: Save CPU resources by using the graphics card’s hardware video decoder. Enable or disable the following settings.
  • Screen sharing
  • Video sharing
  • Annotations

Phone

Displays information relating to Zoom Phone if you have a Zoom Phone license.

Calling Information: Displays your direct number, company number local dialing, area code and Emergency address.

Location

• Location permission: Allow Zoom enhanced location access for emergency calls and advanced features like location-based access and call routing.

Ringtones: Click the Set up button to set up ringtones in the notifications and sound settings.

Calling preferences

• Call default: Click the drop-down menu to choose the app for your phone calls.
• Default language selection: Click the drop-down menu to choose the default language for features such as voicemail, videomail, live transcription, call recording and call summary transcription.
• Call control actions: Click the Manage button to configure your desk phone device to perform call control actions from the Zoom Workplace App, including making and accepting calls.
• Launch an external app or a URL for incoming calls: Opens a webpage or launch an app that can help manage or save the information from incoming callers.

Greeting and Voicemail

• Video greeting for internal callers: Click the Record button to record a video greetings.
• Voicemail prioritization with AI Companion: Automatically label voicemails by topic using AI. Requires English voicemail transcription. Click the Manage button to setup the Voicemail prioritization.

Report problem: Click the Report Problem button to report a problem when using Zoom Phone.

Team Chat

Change settings related to Zoom Team Chat channel and message notifications.

Left sidebar look: Customize the theme of the left sidebar

• Customize sidebar look
• Message grouping: Manage meeting chats

• • Combine all chats into the Recents folder
  • Separate direct message, channels, and meeting chats
• When opening sections or folders:
  • Open one section at a time
  • Open multiple sections simultaneously
• Manage badge settings: Click the Manage button to manage tab badges and individual chat badges.
  • Manage tab badges: Click the drop-down menu for the following options to customize how notification badges appear in the left tab bar.
    • DMs
    • Channels
    • Meeting chats
    • Shared spaces
    • Apps
    • Starred 
    • Folders
  • Manage individual chat badges
    • At each chat or channel level:
      • Show unread count for channels ()
      • Show unread count for meeting chats ()
• Reset left sidebar to default: Click the Reset button to restore the left sidebar to default settings.

Unread messages

• When reviewing unread message in a channel:
  • Start at the first unread
  • Start he latest unread
• Move message with new replies to the bottom of the chat

Chat preferences

• Show link preview: Display a preview with title, image, and description for links in messages.
• Blocked users: Click the Manage button to manage your blocked users.

Message translation

• Preferred message translation language: Click the drop-down menu to choose a translation language..

Accessibility

You can change the font size for closed captioning in chat and video.

Chat and video

• Chat Display Size: Adjust the font size for in-meeting chats and on Team Chat.
• Automatically dim video when clashing images or visual patterns (such as stripes) are detected.

Closed Captioning

• Font Size: Click and drag slider to make closed captions font size smaller or larger.
• Caption color: Choose from five preset colors, or click the color wheel to set a specific color, which will be used when displaying manual or automated captions.
• Translation color: Choose from five preset colors, or click the color wheel to set a specific color, which will be used when displaying translated captions.
• Always show captions: Click to automatically show captions, when the host has captioning enabled.

Screen Reader Alerts: Enable or disable the following screen reader alerts. Click the Restore button to restore to the default settings.

• In meeting
  • Participants has joined/left meeting (host only)
  • Participants has joined/left waiting room (host only)
  • Participant has raised/lowered hand (host only)
  • Audio muted by host
  • Video stopped by host
  • Screen sharing started/stopped by a participant
  • In-meeting file updated completed
  • Closed captioning is available
  • Livestream started/stopped
  • Q&A questions received
  • Q&A answer received
• In webinar
  • Role changed to panelist
  • Role changed to attendee
• Chat received
  • IM chat received
  • Public in-meeting chat received
  • Private in-meeting chat received
• Meeting permissions
  • Recording permission granted/revoked
  • Remote control permissions granted/revoked
  • Host privilege granted/revoked
  • Co-host privilege granted/revoked
  • Closed captioning typing privilege granted/revoked

Keyboard Shortcuts

Displays keyboard shortcuts you can use with Zoom. Click Restore Defaults to revert any changes to shortcuts. 

Statistics

Shows how much CPU and memory Zoom is currently using. If you are in a meeting, it will show data like latency and jitter so you can evaluate your audio and video quality. If having problems with the Zoom desktop app, you can also submit problem reports with logs to Zoom Support. It will also show you the Audio, Video and Screen sharing data like latency, jitter, packet loss, resolution and frames per second. If you have a Zoom Phone license, it will show information about Register ID, Register server IP:Port, Network switch and Local network interface.

My account

• Edit My Profile: Open the Zoom web portal to change personal information like you profile picture and name.
• View My Subscription: Open the Zoom web portal and display your current paid plan and options to change it.
• View Advanced Features: Open the Zoom web portal to adjust settings not available in the app.
• Where you're logged in: Shows all the devices your account is signed in to.
• Sign me out of all sessions 

To access settings in the Zoom desktop app:

1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop app.
2. Click your profile picture, then click Settings.
   This will open the settings window, giving you access to the following options.

General

Change the general settings for appearance, themes, Zoom workplace app, Zoom Rooms and Zoom apps.

Appearance

• Color mode: Change the background color of the Zoom desktop app.
• Theme: Change the accent color when using light mode.
• Emoji: Change the reaction skin tone.

Navigation bar: Reset the default order of the Zoom Workplace navigation bar.

Zoom Workplace app 

• Update app automatically: Set the update frequency for the Zoom Workplace app.
  • Slow (fewer updates, more stability)
  • Fast (more updates, earliest feature access)
• Pin Zoom Workplace to MacOS dock: Add Zoom Workplace to MacOS Dock.
• Enable diagnostic data viewer: View diagnostic information.

Presence status

• Change status to "Away" when inactive for: Set inactivity timeout (2–60 minutes).

Zoom Rooms

• Show "Pair with room" icon in the app navigation bar: Display pairing icon in navigation bar
• Automatically enable companion microphone when joining as companion: Enable companion mic by default when joining
• Use Zoom Rooms auto-detection: Enable auto-detect for Zoom Rooms
• Join method when paired to Zoom Rooms: Select the join method from the drop-down when pairing with Zoom Rooms..
  • Select method every time
  • Join from room and as companion
  • Join from computer only
  • Join from room only

Zoom Apps: Clear the Zoom app's local data and cookies.

Video & effects

View your video feed, change your camera and customize your virtual backgrounds.

Camera: Select the camera you want Zoom to use from the drop-down menu.

• HD video: Enable High-definition video.
• Maintain original ratio: Keep the original aspect ratio of your video display.
• Mirror my video: Horizontally flip your video. This option is useful if your camera flips your video by default.
• Adjust for low light: Improves video brightness and quality in low light surroundings. Select your low light settings between Auto and Manual.
• Touch up my appearance: Adjust the slider to apply a softening effect to skin to minimize the visibility of imperfections.

Virtual backgrounds: Select an image for your Virtual backgrounds.

• Click the plus  icon to add image from your computer.
• Click Generate to create a virtual background using Zoom AI.

Avatars: Customize your profile avatars.

Video filters: Apply overlays, color filters, and other custom video frames during meetings and webinars.

Studio effects: Apply eyebrows, mustache or beard, and lip color filters as part of your video appearance.

Audio

Set your microphone and speaker, test them, adjust their volume, and change other settings.

• Speaker: Select the speaker you want Zoom to use from the drop-down menu.
  • Test Speaker: Click to play a test tone. 
  • Output volume: Adjust the volume slider as needed to control volume levels.
  • Spatial audio: Voices will match each person's position on the screen.
  • Hear incoming call ringtones on an additional device: Play incoming call ringtone on an additional device
• Microphone: Click the drop-down to select the mic you want Zoom to use.
  • Test Microphone: Click to record audio and play it back. 
  • Input volume: Adjust the slider to change the microphone volume.
  • Automatically adjust microphone volume: Automatically make your microphone softer or louder as needed to normalize the volume and make it easier for other participants to hear you. If you are having issues with your audio fading in and out, you may want to turn this setting off.
• Audio Profile
  • Zoom background noise removal: Recommended for most uses, this audio profile provides standard background noise suppression, which can be adjusted below:
    • Background noise suppression Choose between Auto, Low, Medium, and High levels of noise suppression.
  • Personalized audio isolation: Recommended for crowded environments. Zoom will use your voiceprints to optimize audio for voice clarity and remove background noise in your meetings. Click Create voice recording and read the text from the following window. Once you complete reading the text, click Stop recording to record your voiceprint. Click Close to save your recording. You may update or delete your voiceprint if needed.
  • Original sound for musicians: Adds an in-meeting button to disable noise suppression and echo cancellation, while increasing codec quality or encoding in stereo.
    
    • High-fidelity music mode: This disables echo cancellation & post-processing, while raising audio codec quality to 48Khz, 96Kbps mono/192kbps stereo. Professional audio interface, microphone, and headphones required.
    • Echo cancellation: Prevents the creation of echoes between mic and speakers. Disable only recommended when using headphones to isolate audio or when playing instruments.
    • Stereo audio: Encodes mic audio in stereo. Requires a stereo-capable microphone or audio interface.
  • Live performance audio: Further reduces latency for audio to ~30-50ms.
• Headset: Enable to automatically sync headset buttons.
  • (Optional) Enable Sync buttons on AirPods.

Advanced: View advanced audio settings.

Notifications & sounds

Change notifications and sound settings.

Sounds

• Ringtone volume: Adjust the slider to change the the ringtone volume.
  Note: Applies to incoming meeting and phone calls.
• Ringtones
  • Video calls: Apply different ringtones for your video calls.
  • Extension: Apply different ringtones for your extension.
  • Direct number: Apply different ringtones for your direct number.
  • Custom contact ringtones: Click Manage to apply custom contact ringtones.
• Notification sounds:
  • Toggle on/off Play new chat message sound.

Desktop notifications: Enable or disable the following desktop notifications.

• Notification preferences
  • Set "Do not disturb" hours: Mute chat and call alerts during set hours.
  • Hide incoming phone calls during meetings
  • Hide chat notifications during meetings and calls
  • Open new chat window when selecting a push notification
  • Show message preview for chat notifications
• Send desktop notification for: 
  • Upcoming meetings: Click the drop-down menu to set the notification time before an upcoming meetings. 
  • New recordings available
  • New chat messages
    • All message
    • Direct messages, mentions, and replies only
  • Except these groups chats and channels: Click Manage to set notifications for direct messages, mentions and replies. You can also choose different notification options for specific group chats and channels. Click Save to apply your changes, or click Reset to restore the default settings.
  • Keywords mentioned: Click Manage to receive notifications when adding keywords from the list. Click Done to save.
  • Contacts mentioned: Click Manage to receive notifications for messages from the contacts that you will enable from your contacts list. Click Save to apply your changes, or click Reset to restore the default settings.
• Activity center notification: Click Manage to customize the activity center notifications. Click Save to apply your changes, or click Reset to restore the default settings.
  Note: These notifications are displayed in the Zoom Workplace Application under activity center.
• Other notifications:
  • Contact center
    • Always play notification: Play sound notification for all unread messages.
    • Mute during meetings and calls: Mute sound notifications only during Contact Center video or voice calls, Zoom meetings and Zoom Phone calls.
    • Always mute notifications: Mute sound notifications for all unread messages.

Meetings & webinars

Change settings when joining meetings or webinars.

Join experience

• When joining meetings and webinars: Enable or disable the following settings.
  • Show video preview first
  • Keep my camera off
  • Keep my microphone muted
  • Automatically connect to computer audio
  • Enter full screen automatically
  • Open selected Zoom Apps: Click Manage to enable or disable Zoom apps.

In-Meeting and in-webinar experience: Enable or disable the following settings.

• Display
  • Meeting window view
    
    • Single window with tabs: One window for video with an option to pop out shared content tabs.
    • Dual window: Separate windows for video and shared content.
  • Keep participants names visible
  • Show meeting timer
    Note: The timer is visible only to you.
  • Show participant profile pictures in chat
• Controls
  • Keep meeting controls visible
  • Press and hold "Space" key to temporarily unmute yourself
  • Play audio chime for mute/unmute
  • Automatically copy invite link to clipboard
• My Video
  • Hide your own video from the video gallery
  • Show me as an active speaker when I talk
  • Stop audio and video when computer locks
• Participant video
  • Show non-video participants
    • Maximum participants per screen: Select between 25 participants or 49 participants.
• Reactions
  
  • Show reactions above toolbar: Display your reactions and nonverbal feedback above the toolbar after selection.
  • Animate emojis
  • Play audio chime when someone has raised their hand
• Leave experience
  • Ask me to confirm when leaving
  • Keep my Zoom Apps open: When enabled, any Zoom Apps you open during meetings will remain open when the meeting ends.

Advanced

• Advanced meeting
  • Enable stop incoming video feature: This setting allows you to stop all participants' videos all at once.
  • Reset meeting disclaimers: Click Reset to re-enable in-meeting disclaimers hidden by selecting "Do not show again".
• Advanced video
  • Optimize incoming video quality with super resolution: Enables software-based upscaling to increase received video resolution.
  • Optimize outgoing video quality with de-noise: Enables software-based noise removal to improve video quality.
  • Video rendering method: Select the rendering method you want Zoom to use from the drop-down menu.
  • Video rendering post-processing: Select the post-processing option you want Zoom to use from the drop-down menu.
  • Video capturing method: Select the capturing method you want Zoom to use from the drop-down menu.

Use hardware acceleration for: Save CPU resources by using the graphics card’s hardware video decoder. Enable or disable the following settings.

• Receiving video
• Sending video
• Video processing
• Virtual background

Recording

Change recording and storage settings.

Local recording storage

• Storage location: Open or change the folder location of your local recordings.
  • Enable or disable Select local storage location after every meeting.
• Cloud recording storage: Click Manage to manage your cloud recordings from the Zoom web portal.
• Recording preferences: Enable or disable the following settings.
  • In my recordings:
    • Show participants names
    • Include timestamps
    • Record video during screen sharing
      (Optional) Enable or disable Show video and screen share side-by-side
• Advanced: Enable or disable the following settings.
  • Record separate participant audio files: Record a separate audio file for up to 80 participants. The audio of users who joined by phone will be merged into one audi file.
  • Keep unconverted recordings files for troubleshooting: Retain any unconverted recordings files to help Zoom troubleshoot when there is a problem.
  • Optimize for third-party video editors: Generate recording files in a standard format compatible with third-party video editors. This may increase file size.

Share Screen

Change settings related to screen sharing.

When others share

• Window size when shared screen: Choose how you would like the meeting window to change when viewing shared content.
  • Select between Maintain current size or Enter into fullscreen.
• Scale to fit shared content: Automatically scale the shared screen to fit the size of the Zoom window.
• See shared content in side-by-side mode: View shared content directly to the left of participants' videos.

When I share

• Windows shared from an application
  • Select between Choose individual windows or Share all windows from an application.
• Show green border around my shared content
• Show my Zoom Workplace Application and meeting windows: When sharing your entire desktop, others will see your Zoom Workplace applications or active meeting window if they are open.

Share button behavior

• Share button behavior in meetings: Select between Preview available content or Share entire desktop.
• Share button behavior in Zoom Rooms: Select between Preview available content or Share entire desktop.

Advanced

• Advanced share screen: Enable or disable the following settings.
  • Screen capture mode: Click the drop-down menu to choose a method to capture the screen.
  • Share selected app window only
  • Use Mac System Picker for screen sharing
  • Use TCP connection for screen sharing: Select this option when you cannot see content on the shared screen or when others cannot see your shared content.
  • Screen share frame-per-second limit
• Use hardware acceleration for: Save CPU resources by using the graphics card’s hardware video decoder. Enable or disable the following settings.
  • Video sharing

Phone

Displays information relating to Zoom Phone if you have a Zoom Phone license.

Calling Information: Displays your direct number, company number local dialing, area code and Emergency address.

Location

• Location permission: Allow Zoom enhanced location access for emergency calls and advanced features like location-based access and call routing.

Ringtones: Click the Set up button to set up ringtones in the notifications and sound settings.

Calling preferences

• Call default: Click the drop-down menu to choose the app for your phone calls.
• Default language selection: Click the drop-down menu to choose the default language for features such as voicemail, videomail, live transcription, call recording and call summary transcription.
• Call control actions: Click the Manage button to configure your desk phone device to perform call control actions from the Zoom Workplace App, including making and accepting calls.
• Launch an external app or a URL for incoming calls: Opens a webpage or launch an app that can help manage or save the information from incoming callers.

Greeting and Voicemail

• Video greeting for internal callers: Click the Record button to record a video greetings.
• Voicemail prioritization with AI Companion: Automatically label voicemails by topic using AI. Requires English voicemail transcription. Click the Manage button to setup the Voicemail prioritization.

Report problem: Click the Report Problem button to report a problem when using Zoom Phone.

Team Chat

Adjust settings related to Zoom Team Chat channel and message notifications.

Left sidebar look: Customize the theme of the left sidebar. Enable or disable the following settings.

• Customize sidebar look
• Message grouping: Manage meeting chats

• • Combine all chats into the Recents folder
  • Separate direct message, channels, and meeting chats
• When opening sections or folders:
  • Open one section at a time
  • Open multiple sections simultaneously
• Manage badge settings: Click the Manage button to manage tab badges and individual chat badges.
  • Manage tab badges: Click the drop-down menu for the following options to customize how notification badges appear in the left tab bar.
    • DMs
    • Channels
    • Meeting chats
    • Shared spaces
    • Apps
    • Starred 
    • Folders
  • Manage individual chat badges
    • At each chat or channel level:
      • Show unread count for channels ()
      • Show unread count for meeting chats ()
• Reset left sidebar to default: Click the Reset button to restore the left sidebar to default settings.

Unread messages

• When reviewing unread message in a channel:
  • Start at the first unread
  • Start he latest unread
• Move message with new replies to the bottom of the chat

Chat preferences

• Bounce application icon when receiving a new message: Click the drop-down menu to select between Once and Continuously.
• Show link preview: Display a preview with title, image, and description for links in messages.
• Blocked users: Click the Manage button to manage your blocked users.

Message translation

• Preferred message translation language: Click the drop-down menu to choose a translation language.

Accessibility

You can change the font size for closed captioning and chat.

Chat and video

• Chat Display Size: Adjust the font size for in-meeting chats and on Team Chat.
• Automatically dim video when clashing images or visual patterns (such as stripes) are detected.

Closed Captioning

• Font Size: Click and drag slider to make closed captions font size smaller or larger.
• Caption color: Choose from five preset colors, or click the color wheel to set a specific color, which will be used when displaying manual or automated captions.
• Translation color: Choose from five preset colors, or click the color wheel to set a specific color, which will be used when displaying translated captions.
• Always show captions: Click to automatically show captions, when the host has captioning enabled.

Screen Reader Alerts: Enable or disable the following screen reader alerts. Click the Restore button to restore to the default settings.

• In meeting
  • Participants has joined/left meeting (host only)
  • Participants has joined/left waiting room (host only)
  • Audio muted by host
  • Video stopped by host
  • Screen sharing started/stopped by a participant
  • In-meeting file updated completed
  • Closed captioning is available
• Chat received
  • IM chat received
  • Public in-meeting chat received
  • Private in-meeting chat received
• Meeting permissions
  • Recording permission granted/revoked
  • Remote control permissions granted/revoked
  • Host privilege granted/revoked
  • Co-host privilege granted/revoked
  • Closed captioning typing privilege granted/revoked
• Panelist
  • Participant has raised/lowered hand (panelist only)

Keyboard Shortcuts

Displays keyboard shortcuts you can use with Zoom. Click Restore Defaults to revert any changes to shortcuts.

Statistics

Shows how much CPU and memory Zoom is currently using. If you are in a meeting, it will show data like latency and jitter so you can evaluate your audio and video quality. If having problems with the Zoom desktop app, you can also submit problem reports with logs to Zoom Support. It will also show you the Audio, Video and Screen sharing data like latency, jitter, packet loss, resolution and frames per second. If you have a Zoom Phone license, it will show information about Register ID, Register server IP:Port, Network switch and Local network interface.

My account

• Edit My Profile: Open the Zoom web portal to change personal information like you profile picture and name.
• View My Subscription: Open the Zoom web portal and display your current paid plan and options to change it.
• View Advanced Features: Open the Zoom web portal to adjust settings not available in the app.
• Where you're logged in: Shows all the devices your account is signed in to.
• Sign me out of all sessions 

To access settings in the Zoom desktop app:

1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop app.
2. Click your profile picture, then click Settings.
   This will open the settings window, giving you access to the following options.

General

Change settings related to joining or starting a meeting.

• When closed, minimize window to the notification area instead of the task bar: Keep Zoom open in the taskbar notifications area when you close Zoom.
• Use dual monitors
• Enter full screen automatically when starting or joining a meeting
• Automatically copy invite link once the meeting starts
• Always show meeting controls
• Ask me to confirm when I leave a meeting: Display a prompt to confirm if you want to leave the meeting after clicking Leave Meeting.
• Show meeting timers: Display the total time you have been in the current meeting, or the time remaining for scheduled meetings.
• Remind me __ minutes before my upcoming meetings: Display a notification at the specified time before your meetings start.
• Stop my video and audio when my display is off or screen saver begins
• Show user profile icons next to in-meeting chat messages: Displays the participants’ profile photos in in-meeting chat. If no image is available for a participant, the participant’s initials appear.
• Reactions - Skin tone: Select the default skin tone when using chat emoticons and meeting reactions.
• Display your reactions above toolbar: Display your selected reactions to appear above the toolbar in the meeting.
• View More Settings: Open the Zoom web portal to adjust settings not available in the Zoom app.

Video

View your video feed and change the camera.

Camera

• Camera: Select the camera you want Zoom to use.
• Video ratio: Select Original Ratio (usually a 4:3 aspect ratio) or HD (typically 16:9 ratio).

My Video

• Mirror my video: Horizontally flip your video. This option is useful if your camera flips your video by default.
• Adjust for low light: Improves video brightness and quality in low light surroundings.
• Touch up my appearance: Apply a softening effect to skin to minimize the visibility of imperfections.
• Always display participants name on their video: Display participant's name overlayed on their video.
• Turn off my video when joining a meeting: Automatically disable your video when joining a meeting.
• Always show video preview dialog when joining a video meeting
• Hide Non-video Participants: Hide participants' thumbnail if they don't have video enabled. Thumbnails for non-video participants display their name.
• Hide self view: Hide your own video feed when in a meeting or webinar. This can also be controlled during a live session through the View  menu.
• Enable stop incoming video feature: Provides the in-meeting option to stop all incoming video.
• See myself as the active speaker while speaking: Place your video as the primary active speaker on your own screen when you speak.
• Advanced: View advanced video settings.

Audio

Set your microphone and speaker, test them, adjust their volume, and change other settings.

• Speaker: Click Test Speaker to play a test tone. Click the drop-down menu to select the speaker you want Zoom to use, and adjust the volume slider as needed to control volume levels.
• Microphone: Click Test Mic to record audio and play it back. Click the drop-down to select the mic you want Zoom to use.
  • Automatically adjust microphone: Automatically make your microphone softer or louder as needed to normalize the volume and make it easier for other participants to hear you. If you are having issues with your audio fading in and out, you may want to turn this setting off.
• Suppress background noise: Choose between Auto, Low, Medium, and High levels of noise suppression.
• Ringtones: Select a ringtone for incoming meeting invites and Zoom Phone calls. This setting doesn't sync with the identical mobile app setting.
• Automatically join audio by computer when joining a meeting: Automatically join meetings with computer audio, instead of displaying a prompt to join.
• Mute my microphone when joining a meeting
• Do not prompt joining audio when I join a meeting using 3rd party audio

 Share Screen

• Enter full screen when a participant shares screen
• Scale to fit shared content to my Zoom window: Automatically scale the shared screen to fit the size of the Zoom window.
• Show my Zoom windows to other participants when I am screen sharing: Display the Zoom app to other participants when you share your screen. By default, the Zoom app is hidden when you share your screen. The Show Zoom windows during screen share option on the Settings page in the web portal must be enabled before this will appear in the app.
• Side-by-Side Mode: Display the shared screen and participants' video side by side.
• Share selected app window only
• Grab remote control automatically when controller idle for __ seconds: If you request remote control and the other participant accepts, the remote control session will automatically start if you are idle after the specified amount of time.
• Share applications: 
  • Share an individual window: Just share the selected window of the application.
  • Share all windows from an application: Share all open windows of that application.
• When I share my screen in a meeting: Choose the default behavior when sharing.
  • Automatically share desktop
  • Show all sharing options
• When I share directly to a Zoom Room: Choose the default behavior when sharing to a Zoom Room.
  
  • Automatically share desktop
  • Show all sharing options
• Advanced: View advanced screen sharing settings.

Phone

Displays information relating to Zoom Phone if you have a Zoom Phone license.

Team Chat

Adjust settings related to Zoom Team Chat channel and message notifications.

Customize the behavior of my sidebar

• Only allow one section opened at a time: When selected, only one section of chats and channels can be open at a time, closing all others when a new one is opened. Sections include folders, recents, chats, and channels.
• Separate my Chat and Channels sections: When selected, chats and channels not assigned to a folder or the Starred section are organized into separate folders for chats (group chats and one-one-one chats), channels, and meeting chats. When unchecked, unassigned chats and channels will be listed chronologically under a combined Recents section.
• Show Profile Photos next to Direct Messages: When selected, users profile pictures are displayed next to their messages. If no profile picture is provided, then their initials are used instead.

Customize the look of my sidebar

Choose to customize the background color of the left sidebar in the Team Chat tab to a Dark or Light theme.

Other Settings

• Show link preview: Insert a link preview with the page title, preview image, and description whenever your message contains a link.
• Change my status as Away when I am inactive for ___ minutes: Change your status to Away if your computer is inactive for the specified amount of minutes.
• Time Format: Choose to display time on the Zoom app in either AM/PM or 24-hour formats. Note: Changing this requires the Zoom app restart.
• Blocked users: Click Manage blocked users to view contacts you have blocked and remove them from the blocked list.

Unread Messages

• Keep all unread messages on top: Keep chats with unread messages to the top of your chats list.
• Show unread message badge () for channels: Display the number of unread messages beside each chat.
• Move messages with new replies to the bottom of the chat
• When viewing unread messages in a channel:
  • Start at the first unread
  • Start at the latest

Push Notifications: Select what you want to receive notifications for.

• • All Messages
  • Direct Messages, Mentions, and Replies: Show notifications for private 1-on-1 chats, any time someone uses @(your name) in any channel (group chat), or replies to a thread you're on.
  • Off
  • Except: Set exceptions if you want specific channels to have different notification settings than the one your set above.
• Keyword and Contacts Notifications: Set keywords and contacts you want to receive notifications for.

Sound and Behavior

• Do not disturb from __ to __: Set the time period when you do not want to receive notifications.
• Mute chat notifications while I am in a meeting or internal call: Zoom notifications are temporarily paused when in a Zoom meeting or call.
• Show message preview (uncheck this option for privacy): Message contents partially shown in desktop notifications.

Virtual Background

You can select a virtual background, select the color of the background (green screen) behind you, and upload a virtual background image.

Recording

Select the location for your local recordings and view how much cloud recording space you have and how much is in use.

Local Recording

• Store my recording at: Choose the default location to save recording files.
  Note: Setting the default location to a cloud syncing folder (such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or One Drive), an external drive, or network storage device may cause issues with saving and converting the local recording. Zoom strongly recommends keeping the default location on a local drive for recordings.
• Choose a location to save the recordings after the meeting ends: When a recorded meeting ends, display a prompt asking where to save the recording files. If this is not enabled, recording files will be saved in the default location.
• Record a separate audio file for each participant: Creates separate audio files for each participant, instead of one audio file with all participants' audio.
• Display participants' names in the recording: Captures the display names of each participant in the local recording. Their display names are captured as part of their video tile, just as seen in the meeting or webinar.
• Optimize for 3rd party video editor: Ensure that the recording file is compatible with video editing software.
• Add a timestamp to the recording: Embed the date and time while recording the meeting.
• Record video during screen sharing: Continue to record participant's video during screen share sessions.
  • Place video next to the shared screen in the recording: When recording locally during a screen share sessions, place participants' video and shared screen side-by-side in the recording.
• Keep temporary recording files: Keep the original files to help Zoom troubleshoot when there is a problem with the recording

• Cloud Recording: View the amount of cloud recording storage you have used. Click Manage to view a list of your recordings in the Zoom web portal.
• Show notification when a new recording is available

Profile

• Edit My Profile: Opens the Zoom web portal to change personal information like you profile picture and name.
• View My Subscription: Opens the Zoom web portal and display your current paid plan and options to change it.
• View Advanced Features: Opens the Zoom web portal to adjust settings not available in the app.

Statistics

Shows how much CPU and memory Zoom is currently using. If you are in a meeting, it will show data like latency and jitter so you can evaluate your audio and video quality. If having problems with the Zoom desktop app, you can also submit problem reports with logs to Zoom Support.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Displays keyboard shortcuts you can use with Zoom.

Accessibility

You can change the font size for closed caption and view keyboard shortcuts you can use with Zoom.

• Closed Caption Font Size: Click and drag slider to make closed captions smaller or larger.
• Webview Display Size: Adjust the font size for in-meeting and IM chats.
• Dim Screen Share Video: Select the check box to automatically dim video when flashing images or visual patterns are detected in a meeting or webinar.
• Always show captions: Click to automatically show captions, when the host has captioning enabled.

To access settings in the Zoom mobile app:

1. Sign in to the Zoom mobile app.
2. In the bottom-right corner, tap More .
   This will open the Settings menu, with the following categories:

Name and Email Address

• Profile Photo: Use your phone's camera to take a new profile photo, or upload a photo from your phone.
• Account: Email address associated with a logged-in account.
• Display Name: Change the default name you join meetings with.
• Update Password: Allows a user to update their current password. Only available for users with the work email login type, and must provide their current password before changing.
• Update Password: Update the password for your login.
• Department
• Job Title
• Location
  
• Work Location
• Presence status: Set your current presence status, which is visible to other Zoom contacts.
• Personal Note: Enter a personal note that's displayed to other users.
• Personal Meeting ID (PMI): Change your personal meeting ID (requires the user have a paid license).
• Personal Link Name: Set or change your personal link name (requires being part of a Business or Education account and having a paid license).
• Default Call-In Country: Set the default country for the dial-in phone numbers in your meeting invitations.
• User Type: Shows if the current user is Basic, Licensed, or On-Prem
• Licenses: Shows any assigned add-on licenses, such as Large Meeting or Webinar
• User Fingerprint ID: Allows the use of Android Fingerprint Authentication to login to Zoom. (Must must support Fingerprint Authentication)
• Sign Out

Mail

Opens your Zoom Mail inbox, showing all of your recent emails. Learn more about connecting your email account.

Calendar

Opens your Zoom Calendar, showing all of your upcoming events. Learn more about connecting your calendar account.

Whiteboard

Opens the Whiteboard dashboard, showing all of your whiteboards and those shared with you by others.

Meeting

Audio

• Auto-Connect to Audio: Automatically connect to the audio using the chosen options available.
• Mute My Microphone: Always mute my microphone when joining a meeting.
• Use Original Audio: Adds an in-meeting button to enable original sound.

Video

• Turn Off My Video: Always turn off my video when joining a meeting. You will be able to start your video after joining the meeting.
• Keep Virtual Background For: Select if you want your virtual background to be used for All Meetings or Current Meeting Only. Selecting Current Meeting Only will require you to enable Virtual Background each time you join a meeting.
• Aspect Ratio: Select an aspect ratio when viewing participants' video. This setting doesn't affect your own video.
  • Scale to fit: Participants' video will be scaled to fit your phone's screen, causing video to be cropped.
  • Original ratio: Participants' video will be shown in their original aspect ratio. In other words, the aspect ratio of their video will be the same as what's displayed in the desktop app.
• Mirror My Video: Horizontally flip your video. This option is useful if your camera flips your video by default.
• Show Video Preview: Always show video preview dialog when joining a video meeting.
• HD Video: Allows the Zoom app to send HD video from your built-in camera. Overall video quality is dependent on other factors.
• Picture in Picture: When in a meeting or webinar and the Zoom app is minimized, the current video or shared content will appear as a thumbnail over the device's home screen or other open app. This allows you to access other device apps while in a meeting or webinar.

General

• Always Show Meeting Controls: Enable to ensure that meeting controls are always visible during a meeting. If disabled, controls will hide themselves after a few seconds and the screen must be tapped to have them appear.
• Remind me about upcoming events: Show notifications before your meetings and events without an attached meeting.
  • Click the dropdown to set notification time intervals to receive more notifications for your events and meetings.
• Show Closed Captioning (when available): Zoom will display closed captions when available.
• Show My Connected Time: Display the total time you have been in the current meeting.
• Show Name when Participants Join
• Show Non-Video Participants: Show participants' avatar if they don't have video enabled. Thumbnails for non-video participants display their name.
• Ask to confirm when Leaving a Meeting: Display a prompt to confirm if you want to leave the meeting after tapping Leave Meeting.
• Safe Driving Mode: Allows you to swipe right while in a meeting to enter safe driving mode. You will need to tap to speak and your video will be off.
• Show profile photos next to in-meeting chat messages: Displays the participants’ profile photos in in-meeting chat. If no image is available for a participant, the participant’s initials appear.
• Reaction Skin Tone: Select the default skin tone when using chat emoticons and meeting reactions.
• Animated Reactions: When using an available reaction, the emoji will be animated.
• Auto-Copy Invite Link

Contacts

• Phone Contacts Matching: Find contacts in your phone that also have a Zoom account and adds them to your Zoom contacts directory.
• Contact Requests: View sent or received contact requests.

Team Chat

• Show link preview: Insert a link preview with the page title, preview image, and description whenever your message contains a link.
• Receive Notifications For:
  • All messages
  • Direct Messages, Mentions, and Replies: Show notifications for private 1-on-1 chats, any time someone uses @(your name) in any channel (group chat), or replies to a thread you're on.
  • Off

Unread Messages

• Keep all unread messages on top: Move chats with unread messages to the top of your chats list.
• Show unread message count () for channels: Display the number of unread messages beside each chat.
• Move messages with new replies to the bottom of the chat
  
  
• Receive notifications for keywords: Set keywords you want to receive notifications for.
• Receive notifications for contacts: Set contacts you want to receive notifications for.
• Disable when in meeting: Disable notifications when you're in a meeting
• When viewing unread messages in a channel
  • Start at the first unread
  • Start at the latest
    
• Show message preview
  
• When to Notify Me
  • Always, even if I am active on desktop: Always receive notifications on your phone even if you are active on the desktop app.
  • Only when I am not active on desktop: Only receive notification on your phone if you are inactive on the desktop app.

Message Notifications Settings: Open your phone's notification settings to adjust options for the Zoom mobile app.

Phone

Displays information relating to Zoom Phone if you have a Zoom Phone license.

Audio

• Ringtones: Select a ringtone for incoming meeting invites and Zoom Phone calls. This setting doesn't sync with the identical desktop app setting.

Audio Profile

• Auto noise suppression: Recommended for most users. This setting will automatically adjust noise suppression.
• Original sound: Recommended for musicians or studio environments. This will enable a toggle during meetings that will disable noise suppression.
• Personalized audio isolation: Recommended for crowded environments. Your voice will be analyzed to create a voiceprint and enhance your audio experience.

General

• Hide sensitive information when switching tasks: Enable this option to hide potentially sensitive information from the snapshot of the Zoom Workplace window when switching tasks.
• Organize navigation bar: Add and decrease the amount of features you see in the tab bar at the bottom of the app.
  Note: You can add a maximum of 5 tabs. 

Accessibility

• Dim Screen Share Video: Tap the toggle to automatically dim video when flashing images or visual patterns are detected in a meeting or webinar.

Scan QR Code

Scan a admin-provided QR code to check in to a workspace.

About

• Version: View the Zoom app version number
• Send Feedback: Send Feedback to Zoom, including ideas, requests or general comments
• Report Problem: If having problems with the Zoom desktop app, you can also submit problem reports with logs to Zoom Support.
• Tell Others About Zoom: Send an email or message to invite others to use Zoom.
• Rate Zoom in the Google Play Store: Open Google Play to rate Zoom.
• Privacy Policy: View the Zoom Privacy Policy
• Terms of Service: View the Zoom Terms of Service.
• Community Standards: View the Zoom Community Standards.
• Open Source Software: Info about what Open Source software is used within Zoom.

To access settings in the Zoom mobile app:

1. Sign in to the Zoom mobile app.
2. In the bottom-right corner, tap More .
3. This will open the Settings menu, with the following categories:

Name and Email Address

Click on your name and email address to edit some basic profile settings or sign out from the Zoom app.

• Account: Email address associated with logged-in account.
• Display Name: Change the default name you join meetings with.
• Profile Photo: Use your phone's camera to take a new profile photo, or upload a photo from your phone.
• Update Password: Allows a user to update their current password. Only available for users with the work email login type, and must provide their current password before changing.
• Work Location
• Presence status: Set your current presence status, which is visible to other Zoom contacts.
• Personal Note: Enter a personal note that's displayed to other users.
• Department
• Job Title
• Location
• Personal Meeting ID (PMI): Change your personal meeting ID (requires the user have a paid license).
• Personal Link Name: Set or change your personal link name (requires being part of a Business or Education account and having a paid license).
• Default Call-In Country: Set the default country for the dial-in phone numbers in your meeting invitations.
• Licenses: Shows any assigned add-on licenses, such as Large Meeting or Webinar
• Sign Out

Mail

Opens your Zoom Mail inbox, showing all of your recent emails. Learn more about connecting your email account.

Calendar

Opens your Zoom Calendar, showing all of your upcoming events. Learn more about connecting your calendar account.

Whiteboard

Opens the Whiteboard dashboard, showing all of your whiteboards and those shared with you by others.

Meetings

Audio

• Auto Connect Audio: Automatically connect to the audio using the internet when joining a meeting
• Mute My Microphone: Always mute my microphone when joining a meeting. You can unmute if the host allows.
• Use Original Audio: Adds an in-meeting button to enable original sound.

Video

• Turn Off My Video: Always turn off my video when joining a meeting. You will be able to start your video after joining the meeting.
• Touch Up My Appearance: Enables the app to smooth skin tones and improve your appearance.
• Backgrounds & Effects: You can select a virtual background or upload a virtual background image. You can also apply video enhancements, such as video filters and avatars, to your video appearance.
  Note: The Avatars, Studio Effects, and Video Filters features may not be available for all regions and account types. If you do not see a specific feature, you may not have access to use it.
• Keep Virtual Background For: Select if you want your virtual background to be used for All Meetings or Current Meeting Only. Selecting Current Meeting Only will require you to enable Virtual Background each time you join a meeting.
• Aspect Ratio: Select an aspect ratio when viewing participants' video. This setting doesn't affect your own video.
  • Scale to fit: Participants' video will be scaled to fit your phone's screen, causing video to be cropped.
  • Original ratio: Participants' video will be shown in their original aspect ratio. In other words, the aspect ratio of their video will be the same as what's displayed in the desktop app.
• HD Video: Allows the Zoom app to send HD video from your built-in camera. Overall video quality is dependent on other factors.
• Mirror My Video: Horizontally flip your video. This option is useful if your camera flips your video by default.
• Show Video Preview: Always show video preview dialog when joining a video meeting.
• Picture in Picture: When in a meeting or webinar and the Zoom app is minimized, the current video or shared content will appear as a thumbnail over the device's home screen or other open app. This allows you to access other device apps while in a meeting or webinar.

General

• Always Show Meeting Controls: Enable to ensure that meeting controls are always visible during a meeting. If disabled, controls will hide themselves after a few seconds and the screen must be tapped to have them appear.
• Remind me about upcoming events: Show notifications before your meetings and events without an attached meeting.
  • Click the dropdown to set notification time intervals to receive more notifications for your events and meetings.
• Show Closed Captioning (when available): Display closed captions when available.
• Show My Connected Time: Display the total time you have been in the current meeting.
• Show Names when Participants join
• Show Non-Video Participants: Show participants' avatar if they don't have video enabled. Thumbnails for non-video participants display their name.
• Ask to Confirm when Leaving a Meeting
• Zoom Rooms Detection: Allows you to quickly search for nearby Zoom Rooms and start meetings in the Zoom Room instead of the mobile device.
• Safe Driving Mode: Allows you to swipe right while in a meeting to enter safe driving mode. You will need to tap to speak and your video will be off.
• Reaction Skin Tone: Select the default skin tone when using chat emoticons and meeting reactions.
• Auto-Copy Invite Link
• Show user profile icon next to in-meeting chat messages: Displays the participants’ profile photos in in-meeting chat. If no image is available for a participant, the participant’s initials appear.

Calendar

• Synced Calendars: Check calendars for Zoom meetings and add them to your upcoming meetings in the Zoom app.
• Meeting Reminder: Display a reminder for upcoming meetings.

Contacts

• Phone Contacts Matching: Find contacts in your phone that also have a Zoom account and adds them to your Zoom contacts directory.
• Contact Requests: View sent or received contact requests.

Team Chat

• Show link preview: Insert a link preview with the page title, preview image, and description whenever your message contains a link.
• Receive Notifications For
  • All messages
  • Direct Messages, Mentions, and Replies: Show notifications for private 1-on-1 chats, any time someone uses @(your name) in any channel (group chat), or replies to a thread you're on.
  • Off
    Note: If you don't see these option, tap Turn on Notifications to open the iOS notification settings for Zoom,
  • With exceptions for groups: Set exceptions if you want specific channels to have different notification settings than those you set above.

Unread Messages

• Keep all unread messages on top: Move chats with unread messages to the top of your chats list.
• Show unread message count () for channels: Display the number of unread messages beside each chat.
• Move messages with new replies to the bottom of the chat
  
• Receive notifications for keywords: Set keywords you want to receive notifications for.
• Receive notifications for contacts: Set contacts you want to receive notifications for.
• Disable when in meeting: Disable notifications when you're in a meeting
• When viewing unread messages in a channel
  • Start at the first unread
  • Start at the latest
• When to Notify Me
  • Always, even if I am active on desktop: Always receive notifications on your phone even if you are active on the desktop app.
  • Only when I am not active on desktop: Only receive notification on your phone if you are inactive on the desktop app.
• How to notify me
  • In-App Vibrate: Vibrate the device when a notification is displayed.
  • In-App Alert-Sound: Play a sound when a notification is displayed.

Phone

Displays information relating to Zoom Phone if you have a Zoom Phone license.

Audio

• Ringtones: Select a ringtone for incoming meeting invites and Zoom Phone calls. This setting doesn't sync with the identical desktop app setting.

Audio Profile

• Auto noise suppression: Recommended for most users. This setting will automatically adjust noise suppression.
• Original sound: Recommended for musicians or studio environments. This will enable a toggle during meetings that will disable noise suppression.
• Personalized audio isolation: Recommended for crowded environments. Your voice will be analyzed to create a voiceprint and enhance your audio experience.

General

• Hide sensitive information when switching tasks: Blurs the preview of the Zoom app when using the task switcher. Use this setting to hide sensitive information when using the task switcher.
• Use CallKit to receive calls when not on Zoom: Integrate Zoom with your phone's lock screen and contact list. You will be able to answer calls from the lock screen and make Zoom calls from the contact list.
• Organize navigation bar: Add and decrease the amount of features you see in the tab bar at the bottom of the app.
  Note: You can add a maximum of 5 tabs. 

Accessibility

• Dim Screen Share Video: Tap the toggle to automatically dim video when flashing images or visual patterns are detected in a meeting or webinar.

Siri Shortcuts

You can control the Zoom mobile app with Siri commands. The following commands can be enabled:

• Join the Next Meeting 
• View Today's Meetings 
• Start My Personal Meeting 

Scan QR Code

Scan a admin-provided QR code to check in to a workspace.

About

• Version: View the Zoom app version number
• Send Feedback: Send Feedback to Zoom, including ideas, requests or general comments
• Report Problem: If having problems with the Zoom desktop app, you can also submit problem reports with logs to Zoom Support.
• Tell Others About Zoom: Send an email or message to invite others to use Zoom.
• Rate Zoom in the App Store: Open the App Store to rate Zoom.
• Privacy Statement: View the Zoom Privacy Policy.
• Terms of Service: View the Zoom Terms of Service.
• Community Standards: View the Zoom Community Standards.
• Open Source Software: Info about what Open Source software is used within Zoom