Stop lowering my hand!

hi drosselli,

according to June 5, 2023 version 5.14.10 (17221) release notes:

Meeting features
Raise hand enhancements
The visibility of participants that have raised their hand is enhanced to make it easier for hosts to be aware of raised hands and take action to address that participant. A new notification will appear for those who raised their hand, with the option to immediately open the Participants panel and take action, such as requesting their unmute to ask their question. Users can enable an audio chime through client settings for when someone raises their hand. Lastly, after speaking with your hand raised, Zoom will start a countdown to lower your hand, unless manually canceled by the user.

when you mention stand-ups and stand-downs to show who hasn't gone yet, does 'who hasn't gone yet' equate to who has not spoken yet? 

thanks,  eliot

"does 'who hasn't gone yet' equate to who has not spoken yet" The answer is no. One might comment on someone's update but still be left to take their turn for standup.

We have the exact same problem. Would be great if Zoom would allow us to disable this feature.

this started happening to me today. I hate it and i can't find a way to disable it. who asked for this???

100% agree that this new feature is extremely annoying to our team.  Similar to previous posts describe, we have used the raise hands feature for years in our team standup meetings to indicate who hasn't given a status yet.  This new automatic hands down feature needs to have a preference that allows it to be turned OFF because it's annoying. 

This new feature completely breaks standups and presumably many other forms of meeting.  It assumes that the only reason for raising hands is when there is a single presenter and everyone else is generally passive.  I've been in very few meetings which fit that model.

This feature should be disabled by default, but enabled by the host for individual meetings.

I agree with all the above – the new feature might be useful in some cases (^) but completely breaks many uses of raised hands. Please allow us to disable the feature!

^ I will note that the auto lowering of hand countdown begins when you start talking, not when you finish talking, which is also something could be improved

We run 2 meetings 7 days a week in groups between 25-70. We have someone assigned to mute and lower hands after each person speaks. This has become confusion and while a convenience for larger groups, not so in this setting. Please add a toggle for this. thanks. 

I agree and can confirm in our company we frequently use the raise hand feature as a "line/queue" to show order of people who want to talk. This falls apart when people randomly drop the line because of this new automated "feature" that is the opposite of helpful. Which also brings up another issue, which I will open a new post for - when someone joins a Zoom meeting with hands already raised before joining, the order doesn't get passed so everyone is out of order.

I'm confused on how Zoom would introduce a new feature and not include a setting to turn it off, especially since it has the capability to be disruptive. Automation almost always needs to have a manual override option!

Hello,

This forum is useful, but for more traction submit feedback to Zoom directly.

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Regards

I'll chime in with my disapproval that this "handy feature" is annoying without settings and/or the ability to disable. I realize software developers gotta justify their jobs, but this was NOT a broken feature.

PLEASE add timer settings AND a disable feature...ASAFP..