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November 1, 2022
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Muting a Disruptive Attendee

  • November 1, 2022
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We anticipate a future public meeting where an attendee may want to talk over folks. When I mute this person do they have the ability to unmute themselves or is there a feature where I can mute them permanently if they get too disruptive? Does anyone have best practices on how to manage this kind of experience in a public meeting setting? Thanks.

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    chrismenard7
    Community Champion | Customer
    Community Champion | Customer
    November 1, 2022

    In a Zoom meeting, when you Mute all, a dialog box appears and asks if you want to allow participants to be able to unmute. Click NO.  Another suggestion is, since this is a future meeting, to reach out to the one person that talks over folks and ask him/her not to talk over people. Back to not allowing people to unmute, ask people to use the chat box to ask questions. You could also use Reactions and ask users to Raise Hand. 

    stephanehanrez
    Employee
    Employee
    November 2, 2022

    As a meeting host, if you mute a participant, this is considered a force mute, and they won't be able to unmute themselves until you remove the force mute. Once you remove the force mute, you also have the option the request them to unmute (but you cannot unmute them directly, for evident privacy reason).

     

    Stéphane

    Newcomer
    August 6, 2025

    Has this changed? I tested it and the attendee was able to unmute themselves after I muted them. Is there some way I can disable the option for certain individuals to unmute themselves? Thank you.

    Newcomer
    December 1, 2025

    I don't know whether its changed, but according to the docs, you can control "Allow Participants to Unmute Themselves" through the participants panel.