Zoom provides up-to-date release notes for the Zoom Meetings and Webinar products. This article contains information about recent changes to these products, including new and enhanced features, updates to existing features, and bug fixes, as they apply to the Zoom desktop and mobile apps, the Zoom web portal, and the Zoom Web App. In addition, you can find information about upcoming changes (if available) and see a recent history of updates made.

Other relevant release notes: Web portal, Zoom client, Team Chat, Zoom Phone, and Zoom Whiteboard

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Upcoming Release

Details about upcoming releases will be posted as they become available.

April 15, 2024

Changes to existing features

• Late joining participants no longer blocked from unmuting or starting video 
  Participants joining a meeting that has already started recording, live streaming, or using an AI Companion feature will no longer be blocked from unmuting or turning on their video. They will still see the applicable consent prompts and have their audio (recording, live streaming, AI Companion) and video (recording and live streaming) muted, but will not be blocked from using these controls while the prompt is still visible. Previously, these consent prompts prevented users from unmuting or starting their video until the prompt was acknowledged and consent provided.
• Consolidated Meeting and Calendar tabs 
  The Meetings and Calendar tabs are merging to provide the greater visibility of the calendar view with the meeting details needed for your daily tasks. Easily view and filter upcoming meetings, view the invitees and their responses, and review shared materials ahead of the session, while also reviewing previous meetings and their assets, such as recordings, continuous meeting chats, whiteboards, and more. This change will be rolled out to accounts over time and be controlled through a web setting available at the account, group, and user levels. Initially, Basic, Pro, and some smaller Business accounts will have this available with the March release, with this enabled by default for those Basic and Pro accounts. Other accounts can expect this in an upcoming release, which can be managed for eligible accounts through the Feature Release Controls.

New and enhanced features

• Zoom Workplace desktop and mobile app features (version 6.0.0)
  • Meeting/webinar features
    • Multi-speaker video layout - Windows, macOS
      The Multi-speaker video layout helps provide meeting participants a more engaging experience, dynamically adapting to current speakers by highlighting and enlarging their video tiles over others, while still providing a view of other participants in a smaller gallery view below. This will also be available when viewing shared content in side-by-side mode, with the speakers being more prominently displayed next to the shared screen or app window.
    • Updated icons and meeting visuals - Windows, macOS, Linux
      The in-meeting experience is updated with new icons and other visual changes to menus and toolbars.
    • Personalized in-meeting toolbars - Windows, macOS, Linux
      Zoom Meeting participants can personalize the in-meeting toolbar by dragging-and-dropping to add, move, and remove meetings feature options to suit their needs. Buttons can be reordered, or dragged to/from the More menu. Personalizations for signed-in users will be synced across their desktop experiences. Additionally, the default in-meeting toolbar has fewer buttons and consolidated many options under the More menu to support improved ease of use. The Audio, Video, More and End options cannot be removed from the in-meeting toolbar. Additionally, the floating screen-sharing toolbar is updated and simplified to make it easier to use and more focused on core tasks while presenting during a meeting.
    • Improved collaboration with Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive files - Windows, macOS, Linux
      Sharing files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive is updated to make it easier to select files and share them for in-meeting viewing or collaboration. First, the third-party service’s native file picker will be used to select a file, instead of the Zoom file picker. After selecting a file from Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive, choosing Collaborate (which will grant participants file editing permissions), invites all participants to join in collaborating on the document using their system browsers,
    • Improved voiceprint for personalized audio isolation - Windows, macOS, Linux
      The Personalized audio isolation audio profile is enhanced to allow for users to make a short voice recording of them reading a predefined script. This helps to enhance audio isolation performance whether headset or non-headset microphones are used, even in open environments. Zoom will store and use your voiceprint for this purpose, until you delete it, which you can do at any time in your audio settings.
    • Improved Companion mode - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Connecting a device in Companion mode allows for easier video, chat, and sharing across multiple devices in any meeting. Connect in Companion mode from the Zoom app to view and respond to in-meeting chat or begin sharing the camera or an image on the device, all without joining the meeting as additional duplicate versions of yourself in the meeting. Start the meeting from another client, then connect on the desktop app and continue sharing a slide deck, managing participants, conducting a poll, and more. Additionally, when connected to a local Zoom Room in Companion mode, the Zoom Rooms Controller app, if enabled by admins, will no longer automatically open, but will still be readily available as an option in the control toolbar. Clicking will open the Zoom Rooms Controller app as a side-panel in the meeting window. This change in behavior to the Zoom Rooms controller app will currently only be available for the Zoom desktop app for Windows, with macOS to follow soon. This feature will be rolling out to accounts over the next few months.
    • Portrait lighting for video - Windows, macOS, Linux
      The new portrait lighting setting allows Zoom to dim your background while brightening you in the foreground, making you stand out even more in your meetings. This is available through in-app video settings and has hardware prerequisites similar to using virtual backgrounds without a greenscreen.
    • Sign-in prompt within profile cards to view more - Windows, macOS
      When a user is not signed-in to a Zoom account and is viewing another participant’s profile card in a meeting, they are only able to see their display name and profile picture, but are prompted to sign-in to view additional available information.
    • SIP/H.323 interoperability UI enhancements - Windows, macOS, Linux
      When a Zoom user client calls a SIP or H.323 Room System or destination, the caller ID will indicate the user name, instead of “Zoom” followed by the meeting ID. Also, some indicators embedded in the video stream sent to the SIP/H.323 destination, such as quality bars, participant counts, and participant name labels, are hidden to avoid duplicative or unnecessary information display.
    • Exclude hosts and panelists from survey participation - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      A new web setting can prevent individuals with hosting roles from participating in surveys, streamlining the administration process and ensuring more accurate and unbiased feedback from participants. This includes the host, co-host, and webinar panelists.
    • Consolidated notifications for enabled/disabled features - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Unnecessary and redundant in-meeting notifications are removed or set to not appear multiple times, clearing up visual clutter that may interfere with the live meeting. The initiator of a feature will not see a confirmation notification, as they are aware of the feature they are selecting, and when certain features are disabled, the corresponding notification is suppressed as well.
    • Automated captioning and translated caption support for Hebrew - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Automated and translated captioning support is expanding to include captioning for the Hebrew language. This language is enabled by default, but admins can control the availability of this language through the Automated captions and Translated captions settings within the web portal.
    • Greek, Bengali, Norwegian, and Welsh support for translated captions - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Accounts using the translated captions feature will be able to have automated captions translated from any currently supported language to Greek, Bengali, Norwegian, and Welsh, facilitating easier communication between participants in Zoom Meetings. Translated captioning is not yet supported when translating from these languages, as they are not yet supported for automated captioning. These languages are enabled by default, but admins can control availability of this through the Translated captions setting in the web portal.
  • Meeting features
    • In-meeting AI Companion disable and delete - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Hosts, co-hosts, and participants (in the absence of a host) can choose to turn off all AI Companion features at once in a meeting. Additionally, they have the option to delete meeting assets generated thus far, such as recordings, summary, and transcript, to help ensure these assets are not unintentionally shared with anyone after the meeting. These options are available to the host and co-hosts by default, with participants able to request disablement as well. In the absence of either the host or co-host in a meeting, any participant will be able to disable and delete assets.
    • In-meeting AI Companion features combined enablement - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      The host and co-hosts in a meeting can more easily enable both AI Companion features in a meeting with just a click of a combined Turn on all option under the AI Companion option in the meeting toolbar. This enables both Meeting Summary and Meeting Questions features for the current meeting.
    • Simplified AI Companion consent notifications for hosts - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      When the meeting host initiates the meeting summary or meeting questions features, they will no longer see the consent prompt, and instead will see a simple toast notification along the top of the meeting window, which will disappear after a few seconds. Other meeting participants will see the consent notification as a prompt along the top of the meeting window, but must acknowledge the prompt before it will disappear.
    • Meeting wallpapers - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Meeting hosts can customize the wallpaper in their meeting, adding more color and customization to their meeting view. The host or co-host can choose from preset images provided by Zoom or their account admins. With a selection made, they can also adjust how much to blend the participant videos with the wallpaper image. Admins can control use of this at the account level, as well as provide additional default images, which are available to the host and co-host during meetings. Images uploaded through the web portal by admins must be JPG/JPEG or 24-bit PNG with a maximum size of 15 MB. The recommended resolution is 1920x1080px.
    • Dynamic emoji reactions for video tiles - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Meeting reactions appearing in a user’s video tile, either in gallery or speaker views, are more dynamic with emojis appearing and floating up and around the user. This provides a greater visual indication of other video participant’s reactions for the presenter or speaker. These reactions only appear for video-on participants and can be disabled through the in-meeting Reactions settings.
    • Support for expanded remote control settings regarding external participants - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      The Zoom app supports recent changes to web settings to control the use of the remote control feature when external participants are present, which includes preventing guests from controlling other guests’ screens and preventing internal users from controlling a guest's screen.
    • AV1 video codec - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      To provide higher quality video while conserving bandwidth usage, Zoom continues rolling out this video codec to Pro accounts. Use of codecs, including AV1, is adaptive, and Zoom dynamically chooses the most appropriate codec.
  • Webinar features
    • Full emoji suite support for Webinar Reactions - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Similar to Meeting Reactions, Webinar Reactions are able to utilize the full suite of available emojis, in addition to the 6 standard emojis. Availability of all emojis versus the standard set can be controlled at the account, group, and user level settings page.
    • Removed email field for webinars not collecting emails - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      For webinars not collecting attendees’ email addresses, meaning registration is not required and the Include email address in attendee report setting is disabled, attendees joining the session will no longer be prompted to enter an email address.
    • Customized waiting room for Webinars - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Hosts and account admins can customize the waiting room experience for webinars, allowing customization of the image, text, and other waiting room assets that attendees see before joining each session and providing a more engaging and branded joining experience for attendees. These custom assets can be saved to webinar templates for reuse. Additionally, hosts can also view the number of attendees waiting to join while the webinar is in practice mode, allowing them to decide when it is the best time to end practice mode and allow attendees into the webinar. This feature will be rolling out to accounts over the next months.
• Zoom web portal: Administrator features
  • Personal Meeting Room Authentication: Admin controls
    Admins have greater control over use of required authentication for their users’ Personal Meeting Room. Admins can require participants to be authenticated to join their users’ Personal Meeting Room, as well as choosing a specific admin-created authentication profile. This setting is available at the account, group, and user level settings pages and must be enabled by Zoom.
  • Survey and Polls/Quizzes: Require answers to be non-anonymous
    Account owners and admins can force answers to Surveys and Polls/Quizzes to be non-anonymous by enabling the Collect email address from correspondents settings either for Surveys, Polls, and Quizzes, or for both. This setting is available at the account, group, and user levels. When enabled and locked at the account level, the ability to change the setting at the group and user levels will be disabled.
  • Automated captioning and translated caption support for Hebrew
    Automated and translated captioning support is expanding to include captioning for the Hebrew language. This language is enabled by default, but admins can control the availability of this language through the Automated captions and Translated captions settings within the web portal.
  • Greek, Bengali, Norwegian, and Welsh support for translated captions 
    Accounts using the translated captions feature will be able to have automated captions translated from any currently supported language to Greek, Bengali, Norwegian, and Welsh, facilitating easier communication between participants in Zoom Meetings. Translated captioning is not yet supported when translating from these languages, as they are not yet supported for automated captioning. These languages are enabled by default, but admins can control availability of this through the Translated captions setting in the web portal.

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Current Release

March 25, 2024

New and enhanced features

• Zoom web portal: Administrator features
  • Retention policies for Meeting Summaries: Admin control
    Admins can choose to have meeting summaries automatically deleted after a set number of days. This can be set and locked by admins at the account and group levels.
  • Control visibility of meetings users have been invited to
    Admins can control the visibility of synced calendar events that their users were invited to and have associated Zoom Meeting details. Admins can also restrict the visibility of these meetings to just internal meetings, preventing external meetings invites from appearing. This setting is available at the account, group, and user settings pages.
• Zoom web portal: User features
  • Control visibility of meetings users have been invited to
    Users can control the visibility of synced calendar events that the user was invited to and have associated Zoom Meeting details. Users can also restrict the visibility of these meetings to just internal meetings, preventing external meetings invites from appearing.

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Previous Release

Note: The information in the past release notes may have been superseded by subsequent release notes. Please review all current release notes carefully.

March 18, 2024

New and enhanced features

• Zoom web portal: Administrator features
  • Consolidated Meeting and Calendar tabs: Admin control
    The Meetings and Calendar tabs are merging to provide the greater visibility of the calendar view with the meeting details needed for your daily tasks. Easily view and filter upcoming meetings, view the invitees and their responses, and review shared materials ahead of the session, while also reviewing previous meetings and their assets, such as recordings, continuous meeting chats, whiteboards, and more. This change will be rolled out to accounts over time and be controlled through a web setting available at the account, group, and user levels. Initially, Basic, Pro, and some smaller Business accounts will have this available with the March release, with this enabled by default for those Basic and Pro accounts. Other accounts can expect this in an upcoming release, which can be managed for eligible accounts through the Feature Release Controls.
  • Anonymous questions for Webinar Q&A: Admin control
    The settings for Q&A are available in the Zoom web portal for admins to set the default for all users on the account. These settings are available at the account, group, and user levels, and admins can also lock the Allow anonymous questions sub-setting.
  • Meeting wallpapers: Admin control
    Meeting hosts can customize the wallpaper in their meeting, adding more color and customization to their meeting view. The host or co-host can choose from preset images provided by Zoom or their account admins. With a selection made, they can also adjust how much to blend the participant videos with the wallpaper image. Admins can control use of this at the account level, as well as provide additional default images, which are available to the host and co-host during meetings. Images uploaded through the web portal by admins must be JPG/JPEG or 24-bit PNG with a maximum size of 15 MB. The recommended resolution is 1920x1080px.
  • Expanded support for disabling remote control with external participants
    The admin ability to control the use of the remote control feature when external participants are present is expanded to include preventing guests from controlling other guests’ screens and preventing internal users from controlling a guest's screen. There are no direct changes to the Disable remote control and remote support for guests in a meeting web setting, as the expanded support will be implemented as part of this existing setting. As a reminder, this setting is available at the account, group, and user levels.
  • Remote control usage report
    Admins can view insights into how much the remote control feature is used in meetings hosted by their account. The Meeting activity logs, found under the User activity reports section of the Reports page, details the Meeting ID, time, who controlled, and who was controlled. This feature must be enabled by Zoom.
  • Full emoji suite support for Webinar Reactions: Admin control
    Similar to Meeting Reactions, Webinar Reactions are able to utilize the full suite of available emojis, in addition to the 6 standard emojis. Availability of all emojis versus the standard set can be controlled at the account, group, and user level settings pages.
  • Customized waiting room for Webinars: Admin control
    Account admins can customize the waiting room experience for webinars, allowing customization of the image, text, and other waiting room assets that attendees see before joining each session and providing a more engaging and branded joining experience for attendees. These custom assets can be saved to webinar templates for reuse. The Webinar Waiting Room customization settings are available at the account, group, and user-level settings pages. Admins can set defaults for the account, as well as control a sub-setting that allows users to customize their webinar waiting rooms with their own uploaded image or video. This feature will be rolling out to accounts over the next months.
  • Exclude all types of hosts from taking a survey
    The Exclude hosts, co-hosts, and panelists from taking survey setting has been created to prevent individuals with hosting roles from participating in surveys, streamlining the administration process and ensuring more accurate and unbiased feedback from participants. This setting is available at the account and user level and is enabled by default.
  • Track webinar emails setting
    Account owners and admins can enable the Track webinar emails setting, allowing specified email addresses to receive a copy of webinar emails sent from the system to webinar participants. This feature ensures that a copy of all types of Zoom-generated Webinar emails, including panelist invitations, panelist reminder emails, attendee registration confirmations, attendee reminder emails, and post-event follow-ups and absentee emails, are captured and sent to the designated email address(es) specified by an account admin.
  • Dynamic emoji reactions for video tiles: Admin control
    Admins can control the use of new, more dynamic meeting reactions that appear and float up and around the user in their video tile, either in gallery or speaker views. This provides a greater visual indication of other video participant’s reactions for the presenter or speaker. These reactions only appear for video-on participants and can be selected separately through the in-meeting Reactions settings. This can be controlled through the Allow participants to use floating emojis sub-setting under the Meeting Reactions setting, available at the account, group, and user level settings pages.
• Zoom web portal: User features
  • Meeting Summary next-steps moved to the top
    The next steps provided as part of the meeting summary are moved to the top of the summary under quick recap, allowing viewers to get the most out of their meeting summary as quickly as possible. Previously, next steps were provided at the end of the summary. 
    
  • Expanded access for Meeting Coaching metrics
    When viewing the cloud recording, authenticated participants are also able to see their own conversational metrics. Previously, this was only available for the host of the meeting. Additionally, account admins viewing cloud recordings through Recording Management are able to view both the host and participants’ metrics.
  • Customized waiting room for Webinars
    Hosts can customize the waiting room experience for webinars, allowing customization of the image, text, and other waiting room assets that attendees see before joining each session and providing a more engaging and branded joining experience for attendees. These custom assets can be saved to webinar templates for reuse. Account admins can set defaults for the account, as well as control a sub-setting that allows users to customize their webinar waiting rooms with their own uploaded image or video. This feature and its associated backend architecture will be rolling out to accounts over the next months.
  • Q&A upvotes included in Q&A report
    If upvoting is allowed for Q&A and users indeed upvote submitted questions, the count of upvotes for each question will be included in the Q&A reports available afterwards. This will be available immediately for meeting reports. For webinars, this feature must be enabled by Zoom, the same as the View Webinar Q&A submissions from before joining feature mentioned in the February release, and when enabled, applies to all webinars on the account and requires all hosts and attendees to join with Zoom app version 5.17.0 or higher.

March 8, 2024

• Zoom desktop client and mobile app features (version 5.17.11)
  • Simplified AI Companion consent notifications for hosts 
    When the meeting host initiates the meeting summary or meeting questions features, they will no longer see the consent prompt, and instead will see a simple toast notification along the top of the meeting window, which will disappear after a few seconds. Other meeting participants will see the consent notification as a prompt along the top of the meeting window, but must acknowledge the prompt before it will disappear.

February 26, 2024 

New and enhanced features

• Zoom desktop client and mobile app features (version 5.17.10)
  
  • All screens mode 
    All screens mode allows the host to request all participants share their screen to present the host with a scrollable side-by-side view of the participants and their shared desktop(s). This feature is designed to provide a more streamlined and straightforward proctoring experience, focused on seeing both the participant video and their desktop share. When activating during a meeting, the host can also choose to allow participants to also view all shared desktops. Admins can control the use of this feature with account and group level settings, with hosts also being able to enable this for individual meetings as well.
  • Auto-move to/from Waiting Room 
    Admins have additional Waiting Room customization options, allowing them to automatically move participants to the Waiting Room if the host or alternative host leaves, as well as automatically admit those participants back into the meeting when the host or alternative host returns. Upon leaving the meeting, the host will be notified that the participants have been moved, and the participants will remain in the Waiting Room to wait for a host to return. This feature supports up to 50 participants in the Waiting Room.
  • View Webinar Q&A submissions from before joining 
    Account admins can allow webinar attendees to view Q&A submissions from other attendees, even if those submissions were from before they joined the webinar. This feature must be enabled by Zoom, and when enabled, applies to all webinars on the account and requires all hosts and attendees to join with Zoom app version 5.17.0 or higher. Those with a lower app version can still join the webinar, but will neither be able to see the Q&A option on their control toolbar nor participate in Q&A. Without this enabled for your account, webinar attendees can only view Q&A submissions from after they joined the webinar.
• Zoom web portal: Administrator features
  • Setting for sharing AI Companion Meeting Summary by email
    Account owners and admins can choose whether or not to include the full Meeting Summary text in the email that is sent to users post-meeting once the summary is generated. When disabled, users will receive only an email notification that the summary is ready, along with a URL for access. They will be prompted to sign into the web portal to view the summary content. This setting is available at the account, group, and user levels and is enabled by default.
  • All screens mode: Admin control
    All screens mode allows the host to request all participants share their screen to present the host with a scrollable side-by-side view of the participants and their shared desktop(s). Account owners and admins can enable or disable this feature at the account, and group levels. Hosts can also enable or disable it for individual meetings.
  • Auto-move to/from Waiting Room: Admin control
    Account owners and admins can automatically move participants to the Waiting Room if the host or alternative host leaves. They can also configure the settings to automatically admit those participants back into the meeting when the host or alternative host returns. These settings are available at the account level, group, and user levels.
  • View Webinar Q&A submissions from before joining
    Account admins can allow webinar attendees to view Q&A submissions from other attendees, even if those submissions were from before they joined the webinar. This feature must be enabled by Zoom, and when enabled, applies to all webinars on the account and requires all hosts and attendees to join with Zoom app version 5.17.0 or higher. Those with a lower app version can still join the webinar, but will neither be able to see the Q&A option on their control toolbar nor participate in Q&A. Without this enabled for your account, webinar attendees can only view Q&A submissions from after they joined the webinar.
• Zoom web portal: User features
  
  • All screens mode
    All screens mode allows the host to request all participants share their screen to present the host with a scrollable side-by-side view of the participants and their shared desktop(s). This feature is designed to provide a more streamlined and straightforward proctoring experience, focused on seeing both the participant video and their desktop share. When activating during a meeting, the host can also choose to allow participants to also view all shared desktops. Admins can control the use of this feature with account and group level settings, with hosts also being able to enable this for individual meetings as well.
  • Enhancement to Web portal warnings for Production Studio
    The warnings displayed in the web portal upon opening Production Studio have been revised to offer more detailed information. These updates explain how not meeting the hardware requirements of Production Studio may impact performance and affect the video resolution visible to attendees.
  • Additional supported languages for automated captions: Tamil
    Automated and translated captioning support is expanding to include captioning for the Tamil language. This is enabled by default, but admins can control the availability of this language through the Automated captions settings within the web portal.

January 22, 2024

Changes to existing features

• Profanity filter general availability 
  The transcription profanity filter, initially launched in Beta last August 2023, is leaving Beta and is generally available for customers. The profanity filter prevents transcription from displaying inappropriate words. Account owners and admins can import widely available 3rd party lists, eliminating the need to manually curate offensive words, and enabling easy customization according to their organization's needs. This filter applies to all Zoom products utilizing transcription services, including Meetings, Webinars, Smart Summaries, and Recordings. This will be enabled for most customers with this release, with remaining customers having this enabled a few weeks later.

New and enhanced features

• Zoom desktop client and mobile app features (version 5.17.5)
  • Screen share presenter layout - Windows, macOS, Linux
    Meeting users wanting a more engaging sharing session can utilize this new presenter layout, which combines your video and shared screen to present everything in one frame. Presenters have a few different layout options, ranging from having the content appear over-the-shoulder of your video, the presenter appearing in front of the content, or the presenter and the content appearing side-by-side. These options are available in the sharing window where users can select what they want to share, the layout of their video and the shared content, and a common virtual background for both you and the content. Admins can also control the use of this through web settings available at the account, group, and user-level settings pages.
  • Automated captioning and translated caption support for Cantonese and Thai - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
    Automated and translated captioning support is expanding to include captioning for Cantonese and Thai languages. These are enabled by default, but admins can control the availability of this language through the Automated captions and Translated captions settings within the web portal.
  • English to Greek support for translated captions - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
    Accounts using the translated captions feature will be able to have automated captions translated from English to Greek, facilitating easier communication between participants in Zoom Meetings. This language is enabled by default, but admins can control availability of this through settings in the web portal.
  • Attach Poll to meeting or webinar instance - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
    If the Allow host to create meeting polls and quizzes setting is enabled by admins, users can attach polls to a meeting or webinar instance and save a copy of polls attached to a meeting or webinar to their Personal Library.
• Zoom web portal: Administrator features
  • AI Companion Dashboard
    Account admins can view daily, weekly, and monthly AI Companion usage analytics for their account in the AI Companion tab of the Dashboard. Admins can see how many users on their account have used Meeting Summary, Questions, Team Chat Thread Summary, and Chat Compose features, as well as how many interactions users have had with those features (how many summaries, how many messages composed by AI Companion). Admins can also view the top 10 AI Companion users on their account. 
  • Allow host to attach Poll to meeting or webinar instance 
    Account owners and admins can enable or disable the Allow host to create meeting polls and quizzes setting for all users within their account. If enabled, users can attach polls to a meeting or webinar instance. Additionally, users can save a copy of polls attached to a meeting or webinar to their Personal Library. This setting is available at the account level and is disabled by default.
  • Screen share presenter layout: Admin control 
    The new presenter layout combines a user’s video and shared screen to present everything in one frame. Admins can enable or disable this feature at the account, group, and user levels.
• Zoom web portal: User features
  • Attach Poll to meeting or webinar instance 
    If the Allow host to create meeting polls and quizzes setting is enabled by admins, users can attach polls to a meeting or webinar instance and save a copy of polls attached to a meeting or webinar to their Personal Library.
  • Additional supported languages for automated captions: Cantonese and Thai 
    Automated and translated captioning support is expanding to include captioning for Cantonese and Thai languages. These are enabled by default, but admins can control the availability of this language through the Automated captions and Translated captions settings within the web portal.
  • English to Greek support for translated captions 
    Accounts using the translated captions feature will be able to have automated captions translated from English to Greek, facilitating easier communication between participants in Zoom Meetings. This language is enabled by default, but admins can control availability of this through settings in the web portal. 

December 27, 2023

New and enhanced features

• Zoom desktop client and mobile app features (version 5.17.1)
  • Simplified consent notifications - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
    Notifications for meeting recordings, live streams, saveable captions, and AI Companion features are simplified and condensed down into one smaller, less obtrusive notification displayed at the top of the meeting window. If there are multiple notices, they will be combined together. Participants can hover their cursor over or tap for more information about what data of theirs is being shared and with whom. Participants retain the ability to consent to remain in the meeting/webinar, or leave the meeting. If a custom notification has been created by the account admin, condensed banners will not be shown.

December 18, 2023

New and enhanced features

• Zoom desktop client and mobile app features (version 5.17.0)
  • Prompt to change screen sharing full screen behavior - Windows, macOS
    If another participant begins sharing their screen and the user quickly exits fullscreen mode of the Zoom window, they will be prompted to change the default setting. Choosing Yes will change the Window size when screen sharing setting, found under the Share Screen section of the desktop client settings.
  • Pair and transfer Zoom Events session between personal device and Zoom Room - Windows, macOS, Linux
    Desktop users can pair with a local Zoom Room and transfer an active Zoom Events session in either direction, allowing users to easily transfer an Events meeting or webinar to suit their needs. Previously, only normal Zoom Meetings and Webinar support transferring to/from a Zoom Room.
  • Support for external cameras connected to iPads - iOS
    External cameras connected to an iPad will be recognized and usable by the Zoom mobile app. 
  • Request host to start cloud recording - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
    Meeting participants can request the host begin a cloud recording of the current meeting. The meeting host will receive the request and be able to approve the request and begin the cloud recording, decline this request, or decline this and all future requests for this meeting. If unlocked by admins at the account or group level, the host can also decide to enable Smart Recording with AI Companion for the current meeting’s cloud recording, or for the current and all future meetings.
  • Improved controls for starting recordings with Zoom Revenue Accelerator - Windows, macOS, Linux
    The in-meeting controls for starting a cloud recording are updated to make a clearer distinction between starting a normal cloud recording and starting a cloud recording with Zoom Revenue Accelerator analytics. This requires the user have a Zoom Revenue Accelerator license.
  • Support for guest participants in on-prem meetings - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
    Customers with specific regulatory and security needs utilizing Zoom Node and Meetings Hybrid solution can allow external guest participants to join meetings held on premises directly through the host datacenter. This is available for accounts utilizing Zoom Meeting Hybrid with private meeting mode and must be enabled by account admins before users can invite external guests.
• Zoom web portal: Administrator features
  • Request host to start cloud recording: Admin control
    Admins can control if meeting participants can request the host begin a cloud recording of the current meeting. The meeting host will receive the request and be able to approve the request and begin the cloud recording, decline this request, or decline this and all future requests for this meeting. If unlocked by admins, the host can also decide to enable Smart Recording with AI Companion for the current meeting’s cloud recording, or for the current and all future meetings. This is available at the account level.
  • Control visibility of Join from Room option for upcoming meetings
    Admins and users can choose to disable the Join from Room option for upcoming meetings shown on the Zoom app. This setting is enabled by default to maintain the preexisting user experience. Disabling Join from Room may be useful for customers that do not have Zoom Rooms, or have non-Zoom Room SIP/H.323 devices, to avoid user confusion.
• Zoom web portal: User features
  
  • Expanded Meeting Coach support for Brazil and Singapore
    Customers with accounts based in the Brazil and Singapore clusters, or have their content storage region set to Brazil or Singapore, can utilize the Meeting Coach functionality within the Smart Recording with AI Companion feature. Previously, customers in these accounts were unable to utilize this functionality.
  • Support Survey and Poll favorites
    Users can enhance accessibility to their frequently used or favorite surveys and polls by starring these items, ensuring they are prioritized at the top of the list for quick identification. Additionally, users will be able to streamline their experience by filtering and viewing only favorited surveys or polls within the Library in Meetings, Webinars, and Team Chat. Stared polls will be prominently displayed at the top of the library for Meetings, Webinars, and Team Chat, providing a convenient and efficient user experience.
  • Assigning and deleting Polls
    Recent changes to the Survey & Polls user experiences in Zoom resulted in users being unable to assign specific Polls to meeting or webinar instances, impacting the host's ability to filter Polls, particularly in co-host scenarios. Additionally, users lost the capability to delete old polls. In the upcoming enhancement, users will regain the ability to both delete old polls and easily filter selected Polls to a meeting or webinar instance.
• Zoom Web App features
  • Enable screen share support for Safari browsing
    Zoom Web App users can utilize screen sharing support for Safari browser. This enhancement allows for a seamless and collaborative experience during your online meetings and interactions.
  • Improved controls for starting recordings with Zoom Revenue Accelerator
    The in-meeting controls for starting a cloud recording are updated to make a clearer distinction between starting a normal cloud recording and starting a cloud recording with Zoom Revenue Accelerator analytics. This requires the user to have a Zoom Revenue Accelerator license.

Note: For older updates, refer to the individual release notes for the web portal, Zoom Web App, and Zoom client for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.