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FunkyBob
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March 30, 2022
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Zoom keeps stealing focus

  • March 30, 2022
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When I click to join a meeting, Zoom spawns a succession of windows, which may live for a few seconds or a few minutes depending on the window and  other things beyond my control.

 

Each and every one will steal keyboard focus from whatever I'm doing.

 

So if I try to continue to be productive whilst waiting to join a meeting, I'm repeatedly interrupted.

 

Other posts have been told this is "by design"

What possible excuse is there for interrupting the user this way?

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      serhiiku
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      April 20, 2024

      The issue was there in 2020, today is 2024, Zoom continues to steal focus. Really annoying and terrible thing!

       

      I'm interpreting Zoom meetings, and when the host wants to read some quotation, I start to search the same quotation in my language. And just in this time the host starts sharing screen with the quotation.

       

      At this time I need to work quickly as possible to find the same quotation in translated language. But Zoom steals the focus to itself, while I'm typing. Even two times! Zoom window itself and then also Zoom notification about starting screen sharing!

       

      It significantly interrupts and delays my interpretation work. Four years, and Zoom keeps stealing computer's focus!

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        Crash83K
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        April 21, 2024

        And they will not change this behavior, give you the option to disable this behavior, nor explain at all their reasoning for it and their refusal to do anything about it. 

         

        My only theory is that they aren't capable of making the change. I believe they do not have developers capable of undoing these changes that some developer added long ago before getting laid off and replaced by much cheaper developers.

         

        Because it's either that, or the answer is far more nefarious. No matter what, zoom is making the wrong call.

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          April 21, 2024

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