I DON'T WANT ZOOM WORKPLACE - how do I turn it off?

[drecdevine]

I went into my Zoom today, which I use for personal reasons to stay in touch with family. I opened on my desktop, per usual, signed in, and it immediately took me to "Zoom Workplace" and all my scheduled meetings were gone. I had to go onto Zoom's website and login to my account there in order to find them. 

I do not want Zoom workplace.  I do not want to be charged for Zoom workplace. I don't want to have to sign in through the website. If I find out I'm being charged extra for a service I neither wanted nor use, I'm cancelling my account and moving to another online meeting platform. 

Does anyone know how to switch back, or have experienced this?

[promiseconseque]

Zoom Workplace is a nightmare to record with. Why we have a million windows and I can't just have one that shows me what my recording is going to look like when the webinar is over just makes no sense to me. This is part of my job and it's going to create so much more work for me to fix things.

[Rioja]

Horrifically bloated, uncustomizable update! CPU and Memory Hog. Can't have any other program open! It infiltrated Task Scheduler to start up automatically whenever the PC is turned on -  no warning or setup option.  Numerous unwanted 'features' that can not be turned off. The size of this new Zoom is bigger than all other apps on my PC.  Huge folders full of playtime images. 35MB+ in the emoji folder alone! Ringtones. wallpaper, crowd pictures.  I've spent hours trying to figure out what can be safely deleted and what could be turned off in the running program. I do not want Zoom to access a calendar, contacts, emails. I deleted the MAPI executables.  I had no idea the message that an update was available would load a new product.  The AI hype will come back to bite you - what could go wrong? All I need is access to meetings.  Do I have to uninstall Zoom after every meeting?  Give us back a small client!

[Piotaire]

I don't believe you are listening to your customers. We don't like the Workplace. I find it annoying that everything I need to be visible is now gone, with the option of hotkeys for a few things. It is like a PC was traded to a Mac without asking.  Please listen to your customers and allow us to load Zoom without the Workplace changes.

[clohmar]

Here is the solution you are looking for: https://app.zoom.us/wc/home  use the web interface!
I work in sales and to accommodate our prospects we have Teams, Zoom, Webex, and we use Google Workspace. Because of the bad UI that the Zoom Workplace provides, we mainly use Google Meet now.
However, we still have a Zoom subscription as a backup.

[Scoutlewis]

Thank you for the tip.  I will use the web interface which resembles the old, allows me to easily copy the link, and easy to create the meeting for my classes...

[Piotaire]

Hello - The accepted "solution" is:

Zoom Workplace is awesome! Turn that frown upside down using a three-character hotkey found by looking up changes!

Software often does this—the intention is benign, but sometimes, the plan is seen by many as unhelpful.

Changes.

What you want is to go back to a previous version. You can download older versions of Zoom:

• here for Windows:  https://zoom-us-zoom.en.uptodown.com/windows/versions 
• and here for Mac:  https://zoom.en.uptodown.com/mac/versions 

[Andrew05]

I also have the problem, that I have created a reccuring Meeting, with no fixed schedule.
Few Years ago, this was possible, nowadasy, you have to set up fixed schedule, which is very unhandy.

The Link ist integrated in automated Emails, I can not set up a ne meeting, I need this specific meeting ID.
In the app, it was alwasy shown under reccuring meetings. There it desappeared.

In the Browser, it is on display, as an upcoming meeting.
Will it return to reccuring meetings, when the appointment is over?

I want to set up reccuring without fixed schedule.
I want all this meetings on diesplay in the recurring section, even if there is an activ appointment.

It worked well for years, until now?
Please help.

In the screenshot, one can see still one reccuring, but the AWAKEN your SOUL from 29. January, should also be in the recurring section, as well as this one specific upcomming event.