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Customize the Zoom button bar during meetings

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
September 28, 2023
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Hello, when I host a meeting, the Zoom toolbar has all the buttons visible for all the possible options (audio, video, security, participants, chat, share.... etc.)

However, I only us a few of these.

I don't need Summary, AI Companion, Polls, Whiteboards, Notes. I never use them, and they take real estate on the bar. How can I disable these buttons?

Having too many buttons just makes the UI busy and difficult to use

For example, when the window is small, the Breakout Rooms button is removed and goes into the More menu, requiring one extra click. But if I can remove the buttons I never use, then everything remains visible and immediately accessible.

I have not found any information on customizing the button bar. I just would like to select what to show in the button bar, and what to leave optional (maybe in the More menu).

Can anyone share any tips?

Or is this a new feature request for Zoom?

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OhZoom

Newcomer

I strong agree with this being a huge annoyance. The useless menu clutter with items that I will never use is a huge regression on the part of Zoom.

If anyone from Zoom is reads and cares about their community forums: Please don't make your product worse for so many users!

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gilbertstudios

Newcomer

YES!! I agree. PLEASE let us choose which to show and which to hide OR at least reorder them.

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raincity

Newcomer

I agree, accessing the meeting controls I use is difficult when they're hidden under "more", esp. break out rooms or chat. I have no need for AI, Apps, Whiteboard, Summary, Notes, at this time. Would be nice to be able to prioritize the controls for individual needs. It's hard to believe that Zoom has zero customer service, not even responding to Zoom Community posts. Hope they see this and upgrade the meeting controls bar.

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allenfuller

Newcomer

This was bothering me as well, so this was our solution:

In the Zoom Web Portal, if you go to Account Management > Account Settings, you can then go to each tab for these services (AI Companion, Whiteboard, Notes, Clips, etc) and disable the "In-Meeting" setting. This will then remove the buttons from your in-meeting control bar, cleaning it up substantially.

Hope that helps!

108harekrishna

Newcomer

So I followed your instructions and disabled everything but the buttons still show in my bottom bar. Here's a screenshot. You can see that annoying AI companion button is there, summary, Apps, whiteboards, all things I don't need to see. Thank you though. It was good to disable some of these things for my users.

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allenfuller

Newcomer

Did you end the meeting and start a new one? I did not see the difference until I started a new meeting. AI companion was tricky! A Zoom employee posted a solution in another thread here:

https://community.zoom.com/t5/Zoom-AI-Companion/How-to-completely-disable-all-AI-features-in-Zoom-meetings/m-p/150224#U150224

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DalongChen

Newcomer

Thanks for your feedback.
We already have a plan to support customizing menus in the meeting control bar in future release.

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Love-for-God

Newcomer

Really great to hear !!!

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kharrisma

Explorer

I am SO very glad to hear that, Dalong. Zoom was starting to smell a lot like Microsoft in the way they load up your front end with their shiny new ideas at the expense of the things you ACTUALLY USE, and not give you any way to reverse or alter the change. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

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