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?

[TLMA]

Please, please give us a way to use classic Zoom. I am a teacher. I teach on Zoom. I do not need all this extra nonsense in Zoom Workplace. By bogging it down with all these new "features," not to mention the new layout which makes no sense, you've made my already difficult job nearly impossible.

[malachismith]

In all seriousness... You've taken an invaluable business tool (Video conferencing) and are making it unusable by trying to turn it into a workplace productivity tool like Teams (which is inferior in all ways and which we all hate). You are literally driving us to use Google Meet as it's the only option that isn't Teams or the new Teams-like "Zooms". I don't understand as the hatred of Teams is widespread and visceral. Are you even talking to your customers? If you were, you'd hear that the very LAST thing we want is for Zoom to become like Teams.

[Jim-1314]

Hi

Is there not a way that customers have the option to run the old Zoom programme or the new Zoom workplace. this would solve most of my issues and for many other posts as well

[Knotty1655]

Zoom are clearly not listening to these hundreds of complaints, which is why I have cancelled my subscription Probably moving to Teams.
They will perhaps put it right after everyone has left.
Shades of the Post Office - our software cannot be wrong.

[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.

[Wendy70]

I'm with you... I DON;T WANT ZOOM WORKPLACE EITHER.  I work with many elderly people that are just barely hanging on to their ability to use their computers.  All I want is the ability to set up a link to a meeting that I can use anytime without putting it on a calendar, no password to get into the meeting or any other numbers.  Once I have the meeting up and running all we need is the ability to change the view (speaker, gallery) turn on and off our camera and mic, share screens closed captioning, and have more then one of my devices "attending" the meeting (that ability disappeared in the last week or so).  I'm paying for an account and the product is becoming less and less usable for me.  It's kind of like buying a car and each time I take the car in for an oil change they take off a wheel, add a dumbbell and tell me that "it's so much better to drive without the back left wheel and oh look you can lift weights while you drive."  SHEESH
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[missymac]

That is THE BEST description I have heard! I have ENOUGH software and suites already, They should offer the suite AND the thing that made the ZOOM name and company. Those that want the suite can get it. But forcing it on me is not going to make me quit using the suite I already have and that is geared toward my industry. it's going to make me switch over and use their video meetings instead of zoom.