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crashnorun
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May 12, 2023
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Exit app when I close the window

  • May 12, 2023
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It is absolutely frustrating every time I close a zoom meeting the application remains open and minimizes itself to the notifications area. Who thought this was a good idea? I would like to close the application and be done with it. This becomes a multi-step process to close out of zoom after every meeting that is a waste of my time. It's even more infuriating that there is no way to turn this option off. I've searched the forum for similar posts and the zoom team marked it as solved. The issue is NOT solved hence why I am resurfacing this issue. It's a complete disregard to the end user and such a waste of resources. 

 

Please develop a real solution for this problem before closing out this topic.

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      Franziskus
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      September 12, 2024

      Frustrating and system resource-consuming behaviour.

      Please change this and let the users decide instead of patronising them.

       

      Users wish this since a long time e.g. here:

      https://community.zoom.com/t5/Zoom-Meetings/Exit-app-when-I-close-the-window/m-p/28362/thread-id/14018

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        David_968
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        November 15, 2024

        To exit an app when the window is closed, you can handle the window's close event depending on the programming language or framework you're using.

        If you're using a different framework or language, let me know, and I can adjust the solution accordingly.

         

         

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        Jos453
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        March 25, 2025

        When is Zoom going to fix this?

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          Interconnected
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          May 23, 2025

          This is still a bug / issue / unexpected / unwanted behaviour as of 23rd May 2025.  I do not want an application that has access to my webcam, microphone, etc, to 'Minimise' when I click 'Close'.

           

          Users expect that clicking the red button with an X on it to Close, closes the program.

          They expect clicking the dash icon, to Minimise the program to the Taskbar.

          Most users also probably know about the option that most communication / IM services have to 'keep running in background', or at least enough to search online for the solution.

           

          At best this seems to be a really daft error before releasing the software.

          At worst it seems to be suspicious.  Whether to bump up usage statistics, or something else I don't know.  

           

          It feels coercive.

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            Jos453
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            May 23, 2025

            It's pretty clearly intentional. Someone in Europe should initiate a GDPR complaint.

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              petoknm
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              July 25, 2025

              In my settings, I have clearly disabled this terrible "feature" called "Minimize Zoom to notification area when closed". I still however experience that the app does not close when hitting the freaking close button. It remains minimized. 

               

              Zoom, did you intentionally break this setting? Don't worry, I use Linux, so you can just distract from the real issue by saying its a Linux issue. In which case, please fix the Linux port of your app to respect the user setting. Having to kill the process every time is even more annoying than the horribly long app launch time...

              Ray_Harwood
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              Ray_Harwood
              Community Super Champion | Customer
              July 25, 2025

              The Minimize to Notification Area feature is not broken … It does keep the app off of the Task Bar, as designed. 

               

              Teams, Slack, Adobe Creative Cloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Edge, Chrome, Discord, Steam — all of these leave some processes active to catch communication in the background. If you view Zoom as “Just a meeting app”,  then you probably don’t realize all of the additional functionality that the Zoom Workplace app is designed to perform. Maintaining an open communication is essential for Zoom Workplace, like the aforementioned apps.

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              baz444
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              July 25, 2025

              Calling the minimize feature 'not broken' seems to be a pretty disingenuous dismissal of the concern described here.  No one is claiming that when zoom says 'hitting the x button on the zoom window sends it to the notification area' is not actually functioning.  Their complaint is that hitting x should mean that the app closes, not that it simply appears closed.  Do you truly not appreciate the difference between those two things and why people are irritated?

              Do you really feel Zoom is at all comparable to the many different cloud storage programs you have listed?  File storage is something that makes a lot of sense to be persistently running.  Maybe there are some people who use zoom as frequently as they may call up dropbox but I would not guess that to be common. 

              I imagine there are a very large number of people that have only a handful of zoom calls in a given period.  I had one this week, none the week before, and three the week before that.  I bet I am a pretty typical user.  I do not need nor do I want an app that I wont need for 8 days running constantly, collecting who knows what, and just generally unnecessarily using resources.  How is it so difficult to understand that some people would want to be able to easily close the program with one click?  Wouldn't the ideal solution be an option to set this behavior?  This was an option previously.  Does the loss of that functionality for... reasons... surely not at all tied to zoom's business interest not entitle users to some frustration?

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