Joining from specific countries/regions

Account owners and admins can either allow participants from specific countries/regions to join a meeting or block entry for participants from specific countries/regions. If you are targeting a meeting to an audience in a specific location, approving access for your participants’ specific countries/regions will provide additional privacy and security to your meeting.

Once this setting is enabled, it will apply to future Zoom meetings. If you do not want this setting to affect your meetings, disable this setting.

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How to enable or disable Approve or block entry for users from specific countries/regions

Account

To enable or disable this security setting for all users in the account:

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an admin with the privilege to edit account settings.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Account Management then Account Settings.
  3. Click the Meeting tab.
  4. Under Security, click the Approve or block entry for users from specific countries/regions toggle to enable or disable it.
  5. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
  6. Select Only allow users from selected countries/regions or Block users from selected countries/regions.
  7. In the Countries/Region box, enter the countries/regions that you want to allow or block.
  8. Click Save.
  9. (Optional) To prevent all users in your account from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.

Group

To enable or disable this security setting for a group of users:

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an admin with the privilege to edit groups.
  2. In the navigation panel, click User Management then Groups.
  3. Click the applicable group name from the list.
  4. Click the Meeting tab.
  5. Under Security, click the Approve or block entry for users from specific countries/regions toggle to enable or disable it.
  6. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
    Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at the account level and needs to be changed at that level.
  7. Select Only allow users from selected countries/regions or Block users from selected countries/regions.
  8. In the Countries/Region box, enter the countries/regions that you want to allow or block.
  9. Click Save.
  10. (Optional) To prevent all users in the group from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.

User

To enable or disable this security setting for your own use:

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Settings.
  3. Click the Meeting tab.
  4. Under Security, click the Approve or block entry for users from specific countries/regions toggle to enable or disable it.
  5. If a verification dialog displays, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
    Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at either the group or account level. You need to contact your Zoom admin.
  6. Select Only allow users from selected countries/regions or Block users from selected countries/regions.
  7. In the Countries/Region box, enter the countries/regions that you want to allow or block.
  8. Click Save.