Pinning participants' videos

Pinning videos in a meeting allows you to keep specific participants' video feeds visible on your screen throughout the meeting. Pinning another user's video will only affect your personal view and won't impact what other participants see on their screens. This feature is particularly useful when you want to focus on a specific presenter or maintain visual contact with key participants during the discussion. Multi-pinning is also supported, allowing you to pin up to 9 participants simultaneously. You can also pin videos in Zoom Rooms.

If you are recording the meeting locally on your computer and you pin a video, the pinned video will be recorded unless you change your video layout. Pinning another participant's video will not affect other participants' views of the meeting or cloud recordings.

The meeting host can also spotlight up to 9 videos. Spotlight video puts a participant as the primary active speaker for all participants. All participants will only see the selected speakers as active speakers. This feature is often used to spotlight a keynote speaker.

Requirements for pinning participant videos

Limitations of pinning videos in meetings

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How to pin videos in Zoom meetings

Windows | macOS | Linux

Pin a video

  1. Start or join a meeting on the Zoom desktop app.
  2. Hover over the video of the participant you want to pin and click the ellipsis icon in the top-right corner of their video tile.
  3. Click Pin.
  4. (Optional) If you want to pin additional participants' videos (up to 9 total), repeat steps 1-2 as needed.
    If you have at least 3 participants in the meeting and dual monitor enabled, you will have the option to pin to your first screen or your second screen.

Remove a pin

In the top-left corner of any currently-pinned video, click Remove pin.
This will return your view to active speaker layout.

Allow participants to multi-pin

The multi-pin feature is supported by default for all participants on versions 6.4.0 and higher. If you’re on a version lower than 6.4.0, only the host or co-host can use the multi-pin feature by default, and must allow individual participants to use multi-pin.

  1. As the host or co-host, in the meeting controls toolbar, click Participants.
  2. Hover over the participant, click More, then click Allow to multi-pin.
  3. (Optional) Repeat steps 1-2 as needed for other participants.
Android | iOS

Pin a video

  1. Start or join a meeting on the Zoom mobile app.
  2. If there are at least 3 participants in the meeting, swipe left to enter gallery view.
  3. Tap and hold the video tile of the participant you want to pin.
  4. Tap Pin.

Remove a pin

  1. Tap and hold the video tile of the pinned participant.
  2. Tap Remove pin.
    This will return the meeting to active speaker view.