Allow participants to unmute themselves

Hello,

This setting (Automatically mute all participants when they join the meeting) will disable all participants’ audio when they first join the meeting, i.e. they will be able to unmute themselves after joining.

Afterwards, the host or co-host can mute all participants that are already in the meeting, as well as new participants joining the meeting. 

1. Click Participants 
    
    located in the meeting controls.
2. Click Mute All to mute all current and new participants.
   
    

    

3. (Optional) Check Allow participants to unmute themselves if you would like participants to be able to unmute at any time during the meeting.
   
    

Let me know if that answers your question, and click accept this as a solution if this resolves it!

Thanks,

Micah

I think the original post was referring to the fact that all the meeting now requires host permission to "unmute themselves"  as long as you disable "Mute all participants when they join a meeting" .

Previously,  participants can automatically unmute themselves even when we enable the "Automatically mute all participants when they join the meeting."

Can we have that option of participants will be muted at the beginning when joining zoom but can unmute themselves without host permission to toggle the "mute themselves" on security settings??

Hello,

When you are scheduling the meeting, you can have this setting enabled which will mute participants upon entry. This will not require the host to unmute, participants will be able to unmute themselves.

If your security settings inside the meeting have the "allow participants to unmute themselves" unchecked, than that could explain the issue you are having: 

Thanks,

Micah