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September 17, 2025
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Missing Text button when sharing screen. Cant find the Text button which was in the annotations bar

  • September 17, 2025
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Hello,

I am a licensed Zoom host and use Zoom daily for teaching. Since the most recent update, the annotation tools have been reduced and this has made my work much more difficult:

• The Text tool is no longer available in the annotation toolbar.

• The colour options have been reduced from 16 colours down to only 4, and the white colour is missing completely.

These features were essential for teaching — especially when annotating during lessons to highlight different answers, write in different colours for clarity, and use text boxes. Losing them has negatively affected both my teaching flow and the learning experience for my students.

Please could you let me know:

• If this change was intentional or a bug.

• Whether Zoom plans to restore the full set of annotation tools (text + full colour palette).

As a paying customer, I strongly request that these tools be reinstated, or that the same functionality is made available within the classic annotation feature without requiring the new Whiteboard.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Kind regards

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CarlaA
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 17, 2025

Hi @6553703170, thank you for posting to the Zoom Community!

 

I checked on the latest version of Zoom and I’m still seeing the Text annotation tool and full color options. Since I can’t replicate the issue, could you let us know which Zoom app version, operating system, and device you’re using? That information will help us investigate further.

 

Thank you!

Ray_Harwood
Community Super Champion | Customer
Community Super Champion | Customer
September 17, 2025

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @6553703170.

 

A screen shot would also be nice, if possible.  Here's my tool bar, currently running Zoom Workplace 6.5.12:

What's yours look like?

Newcomer
September 23, 2025

Hi Ray. Here are 2 screen shots of my annotation bar. One as I share the screen and the other as I share a document.  Before the 5 colours which I have now,  I used to have 12 colours.  And the T text bar has gone.  Im more concerned  about the Text bar than the colours.