I can't resize window since Zoom 5.9.1 on MacOS 12.1 (Monterey)

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January 11, 2022
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Prior to the recent Zoom update to v5.9.1 on January 10, 2022, I was able to make the Zoom Window meeting more narrow than I can now.

I use to be able to click and drag on the edge of the Meeting window to make it tight to the two people in the meeting I'm in. Since the Zoom update, I can't make it that narrow—it takes up about a quarter of my display screen.

I know this is a bit esoteric, but wonder what some options might be to make the meeting window very narrow while displaying me and whomever else I'm on the Zoom meeting with?

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gkb17

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I'm having the same problem, and it's driving me nuts! Any solution?

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eric721

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Me too - very frustrating!

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ChrisCM

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It's particularly bad working without an external monitor / 2nd screen. It's not possible to make the window any smaller than half the screen.

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saschaZoom

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I agree. It's terrible for work meetings when you need to look at docs onscreen and are on a laptop (with no extra screen).

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NathanPatterson

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This is a terrible update! I need to be able to shink the window so I can see what I'm working on in a longer meeting...

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AlexmS

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This is also driving me nuts. On a laptop screen there is no space now for a document and the zoom window. There's so little real estate on screens these days to begin with (in meetings always juggling so many documents etc), why would you make your window size BIGGER?!?

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AndyCgloucester

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Totally agree! Before this Zoom update, I LOVED the flexibility of making the Zoom gallery window exactly the size that made sense in the context of whatever Zoom meeting I was in. Now it takes up half my screen, or 2/3 of the screen if there are five people in the room and it goes on two rows. Zoom -- please PLEASE address this bug! It has to be a bug in the update, doesn't it? There is absolutely no user benefit in your having made this change deliberately. I am working on a Mac running Big Sur OS.

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geekyink

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Throwing in my hat, this seriously messed with my workflow as a user of a single monitor who used to keep zoom in gallery view in a small "sidebar".

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AndyCgloucester

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I wonder if this is a Mac OS issue. I am running Big Sur and I have the Zoom resizing-gallery-window problem; a colleague of mind is running Monterey, the newest one, and he doesn't. Are all of you, who are having this resizing issue, running OS versions that are earlier than Monterey? This might be the thing that prompts me to upgrade to Monterey, even though I keep hearing that it's pretty buggy.