Adjusting your video layout during a virtual meeting
Customize your video layout preferences during your Zoom meetings—see everyone, hide participants, and much more. There are 5 available video layouts when no one in the meeting is screen sharing: speaker view, gallery view, multi-speaker view, immersive view, and floating thumbnail window. When someone is screen sharing, you can use side-by-side mode or view the screen share with speaker view. Any of these layouts can be used in full screen mode, with the exception of the floating thumbnail view.
Gallery View (mobile app): 3 or more participants in the meeting (only 2 participants required for iPad)
Zoom Web App
System requirements for displaying up to 49 thumbnails per page in Gallery view
The Maximum participants displayed per screen in Gallery View is set to 49 participants in the desktop app video settings. Note: If your computer does not meet the CPU requirements, this option is unavailable.
Supported processors for single monitor
Intel i5
4 cores or higher
4th generation or higher
Intel i7, i9, Xeon
2 cores or higher
Intel Atom
6 cores or higher
Other Intel processors
6 cores or higher
3.0GHz or higher
AMD Ryzen 5 series
Supported processors for dual monitors
Intel i5
4 cores or higher
6th generation or higher
2.0GHz or higher
Intel i7, i9, Xeon
4 cores or higher
Intel Atom
6 cores or higher
1.6GHz frequency of higher; OR
8 cores or higher
Other Intel processors
8 cores or higher
3.0GHz or higher; OR
12 cores or higher
AMD Ryzen 7/9 series Note: While using dual monitors in the desktop app gallery view will still only be shown on one monitor.
Speaker view will switch the large video window between who is speaking with 3 or more participants in the meeting. If it is just you and one other participant, your video will be smaller at the top and their video will appear below.
Pinning a participant will keep them as the largest video for your view of the meeting, while spotlighting will do the same but for everyone in the meeting.
Gallery view
Gallery view lets you see thumbnail displays of participants, in a grid pattern, which expands and contracts as participants join and leave the meeting. Depending on your CPU, the desktop app can display up to 25 or 49 participants in a single screen of the Gallery view. If more attendees than are allowed to be displayed are in the meeting, additional pages are created with your max number of thumbnails on each page. Cycle through the pages and view up to 1,000 thumbnails by clicking the right or left arrows in gallery view to display the next page of participants.
When in Gallery view and a participant begins speaking, that active speaker is relocated to the current page you are viewing and is highlighted, making it easier to recognize who is speaking. This functionality is not possible when using a custom gallery order, as the order will remain in place.
Multi-speaker view
Multi-speaker view provides 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. With 4 or fewer participants, gallery view is used instead, but in a meeting with at least 5 participants, up to 4 active speakers will have their video tile enlarged and made the focus of the meeting. Pinning videos is supported with multi-speaker layout, keeping the pinned video in focus, but spotlighting is not supported, as the spotlighted video tile will take control of the video layout for all.
Note: Multi-speaker layout requires desktop app for Windows or macOS version 6.0.0 or higher.
Immersive view
Immersive view allows hosts to place video participants onto a single virtual background, such as a classroom or boardroom scene. Learn more about using immersive view.
Floating thumbnail window view
The floating thumbnail window allows you to minimize the main Zoom window, but keep the video on top of other applications you have open. You can move the window around your screen as needed, or hide the video entirely.
To switch to floating thumbnail view:
Click on the minimize icon, located at the top-right corner for Windows, or top-left corner for macOS.
Once in mini-window view, you can collapse the video by clicking on the arrow on the left side. Click the arrow again to expand the video thumbnail.
While in this mode, you can also easily mute/unmute yourself or turn on/off your video by clicking the microphone and video icons respectively.
To close the floating thumbnail window and return to the full Zoom window click the Show full meeting window icon on the right side.
Video layouts during screen sharing
When viewing shared content, you will have the following view options:
Standard: Similar to Speaker view, where the shared content is below and other videos tiles are along the top. When in fullscreen, the shared content will fill the screen and video tiles will become smaller, movable thumbnails.
Side-by-side: Speaker: When in side-by-side mode, the meeting window is split between the shared content and video thumbnails, with the ability to adjust the proportions of the split between the two. Side-by-side: Speaker will only show the active speaker in the portion containing video thumbnails.
Side-by-side: Gallery: When in side-by-side mode, the meeting window is split between the shared content and video thumbnails, with the ability to adjust the proportions of the split between the two. Side-by-side: Gallery will display a maximum of 6 (when the shared content is given the most space) or 49 video thumbnails (when the shared content is given the least space) in the portion containing video thumbnails.
Side-by-side: Multi-speaker: When in side-by-side mode, the meeting window is split between the shared content and video thumbnails, with the ability to adjust the proportions of the split between the two. Side-by-side: Multi-speaker will dynamically adapt to current speakers by highlighting and enlarging their video tiles over others below.
You can switch any of the layouts (except floating the thumbnail window) to full screen mode by double-clicking your Zoom window.
You can exit full screen by double-clicking again or pressing the Esc key on your keyboard.
Note: In older versions of macOS, click Meeting and Enter Fullscreen in the Top Menu bar.
How to hide different views of video layouts
Hide participants who have their video turned off
Hiding non-video participants can reduce the number of participants displayed on the screen and draw more attention to those with video on. While this can be controlled through the out-of-meeting client settings, this can also be adjusting during a live session as well.
In the top-right corner of the video window, click View .
Click Hide Non-videoParticipants to hide all participants without video.
To show non-video participants again, click the View button at the top-right corner of your screen and select Show Non-Video Participants.
When presenting while on video, seeing your own video can be distracting for some. While this can be controlled through the out-of-meeting client settings, this can also be adjusting during a live session as well.
In the top-right corner of the video window, click View .
Click Hide Self View to hide your video.
How to hide the Smart Gallery full room view
If a Zoom Room is participating in your meeting with smart gallery enabled, a camera view of the entire room will accompany the other smart gallery video streams by default. If you want to hide this view and see only the individual video streams, follow these steps:
Start a meeting and wait for the Zoom Room participant to join and enable smart gallery.
Click Participants.
Click More next to the entry for the Zoom Room participant.
Click Hide Room View.
(Optional) If you want to change the setting again, follow steps 2-4 and click Show Room View.
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