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Why did they make it so difficult to allow participants to share screen?

Forum|Forum|21 days ago
March 17, 2026
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I am a private tutor. My students just come to my personal meeting room. For the last six years, every time I’ve opened my room I click “host tools” and then “allow screen share.” Seemed weird I couldn’t just do that by default, but it was fast.

Today, after the update, I open the meeting room and have to go to “host tools” then go off to the side and click “advanced” (not “participants” which would be logical) then “share” then choose “all participants” from the dropdown menu, then close the sidebar that opened.

That is wayyyyy too many clicks for something that I have to do every. single. time.

Is there no option to just always allow participants to screen share?

Why update an app in 2026 to make it remind me of a Blackberry phone from 2005?

ExpertswhoJohn

Community Super Champion | Customer

hi @Beth-MG

great question. If you go to your Zoom.us/profile/settings you can setup all the options you want as defaults.

Please like and mark as the solution if this helps

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Beth-MGAuthor

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I am using a personal meeting room- there is no option to change that. See screenshot

storyhub

Community Super Champion | Customer

FYI, for security reasons it is recommended to use a recurring with “no fixed time” instead of the personal meeting ID.

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Jeanie Martin

Newcomer

Bravo, well said! I am a tutor as well. I just lost an hour of income because the only option I had was to share screen for a homework project. I find it absolutely unacceptable that as a paying Zoom client there was no notification by Zoom of the update. We are just caught unable to work with our clients, looking like fools fumbling with technology and losing money!

I actually closed the classroom with the hopes of calling Zoom and was told I am not eligible to talk to a human. I then spent 10 minutes with a BOT who fixed it wrong 3 times (host sharing instead of client sharing). I am disgusted with Zoom, but grateful for your explanation. Thank you for taking the time to share!

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Guadalupe de la Fuente

New Member

Estoy totalmente de acuerdo con su comentario. Soy docente a través de Zoom y, desde que lo actualicé, he tenido muchos problemas para compartir pantalla, para utilizar las herramientas que se despliegan con el botón flotante. La verdad siendo una clienta que paga por el servicio, es increíble que no pueda comunicarme con un asesor humano para ver de qué manera se soluciona el problema

storyhub

Community Super Champion | Customer

You are communicating with skilled HUMAN advisors on this forum - we are not BOTs. If you read our previous comments you will see that there are solutions. I also use Zoom as a gospel doctrine teacher. However, I do not expect Zoom to do every teaching task, even though there is a special version of Zoom designed for educators. Certain other software is needed to do certain tasks. With respect to screen sharing it is possible for multiple participants to share at the same time and this can be pre-configured in the web portal (as previously shown above) so it is on at the beginning of the meeting.

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