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August 31, 2026

Add ability to launch Zoom Meetings with Desktop App from the New Web Experience Home Page

  • August 31, 2026
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Our organization just updated to the New Zoom Web Experience. On the Web Home Page, when you click ‘Start’ on a scheduled Meeting on your Calendar, it opens the Meeting only using Zoom on the Web.

 

The Desktop Workplace App offers a more complete feature set, better user experience and, by Zoom’s own admission, the “best media quality” as compared to the Web version. Inconsistently, using the New Meeting or Join buttons on the Home Page both launch the Desktop App, as well as the Meetings Tab under the Waffle.

 

My suggestion: Create an Admin Center setting to select the default behavior when launching Meetings from the Home Page Calendar: either the Desktop App, the Web App or to prompt the user to select which one.

 

    1 reply

    Employee
    September 1, 2026

    Hi ​@Jack Wolfe - Welcome to the Zoom Community.

    Great observation, and you're absolutely right, the New Meeting and Join buttons launch the Desktop App, so it makes sense to expect the same when clicking Start from the Home Page Calendar. For now, a quick workaround is to start your scheduled meetings from the Meetings tab (via the Waffle menu) — that one launches the Desktop App as expected.

    Your feature suggestion is spot-on though. An admin setting to control the default launch behavior would be a great addition. I'd encourage you to submit it directly to Zoom product team (please see this support article how: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0068808) as our team does review those, and requests like yours make a difference.

    Thanks for taking the time to write this up so clearly!