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Forum|Forum|4 years ago
December 21, 2021
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How do I adjust my recurring meeting settings in Zoom to default to allowing participant screen sharing?

Best answer by Bort

Hi all,

You can set the default sharing behavior on the Settings page in the web portal. Under the Screen sharing option, you have the Who can share? and Who can start sharing when someone else is sharing? options, which will set the default behavior for all your Zoom meetings. Unfortunately, there is no way to set that default on an individual meeting basis.

Hope that helps and please make sure to mark the solution as accepted if this information is what you needed.

Bri

Community Manager

Hi there! In your host controls, click the arrow next to Share and click Advanced Sharing Options Screen 😀

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nickredwoodAuthor

Newcomer

Hi Bri - is there a way to change this setting so it's the default? I would like to set it up so I don't have to be in the call to change this setting.

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jmsinnz

Newcomer

I guess you didn't get an answer to this. Must be a lot of people who want to be able to make this simple default.

BortAnswer

Employee

Hi all,

You can set the default sharing behavior on the Settings page in the web portal. Under the Screen sharing option, you have the Who can share? and Who can start sharing when someone else is sharing? options, which will set the default behavior for all your Zoom meetings. Unfortunately, there is no way to set that default on an individual meeting basis.

Hope that helps and please make sure to mark the solution as accepted if this information is what you needed.

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hea-consulting

Newcomer

Thank you, Bort. I've done this in the past (probably from your post) but this really needs to be at the meeting level. How do we propose features? I'm now going to have to switch the default back to anyone can share to facilitate a growing team on recurring internal meetings, but much prefer that sharing is not the default for other meetings and events.

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misszoomie

Newcomer

Thank you!

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thatsh1tsdingo

Newcomer

It's here. I finally found it. Not sure why Zoom makes this very needed and common feature so hard to find. Why can't this be done on the App....

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LZ2

Newcomer

Thanks!

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MrSingh

Newcomer

I have already selected this, but still i have to join the meeting, click on security, and click on allow participant to share. Only then participants can share. How to make this by default, so that i need not to join everytime to enable participants to share.

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hewitta77

Newcomer

Same issue for me - when a meeting begins in my zoom room and someone wants to start sharing their screen, they always need to remind me to "allow screen sharing" . Frustrating. I have the screen sharing settings turned on as per above, but this doesn't seem to change the default. I remember a time when zoom meetings were being hacked due to this screen sharing feature being "on" by default. Zoom then switched it the default to "off" so you had to turn it on yourself. Which tells me they didn't resolve the security issue, are being extra careful, and/or forgot to update the settings to let users have control over the default screen sharing settings for participants.

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