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draddison
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September 14, 2024
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New app UI is terrible - I need my list of meetings, not a calendar view

  • September 14, 2024
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I launched the app today to an unpleasant surprise - there seems to be no way to get my list of recurring meetings to show up other than from a tiny dropdown?  This is a terrible change for my use purposes - most of my meetings are "no fixed time" and I rely on being able to see and access that list easily throughout my work day as I meet with clients. The other thing I do at start is launch my personal meeting room for drop-in meetings, and that is also difficult to find and access. I do not want Zoom to manage my calendar, I do not want or need a calendar view, and now there is no option other than this useless view? I would like to have choice in what kind of display I have, because this is not it! Older questions about this kind of issue reference a "merge meetings and calendar tab" option in account settings, but this setting DOES NOT EXIST - I have searched the account settings using Zoom's search feature and it returns no results (see image 2 below).

 

 

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    MGSR
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    MGSR
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    September 19, 2024

    Hello Zoom Community members! I'm sorry for the delayed response. 

     

    The setting for merging the Meetings and Calendar tabs was removed from the Web portal on September 16, 2024. For Zoom Workplace app version 6.2.0 and higher, the tabs are now permanently merged to enhance visibility of calendar views and meeting details. More details on this change are available in our support article: Using the merged Meetings and Calendar tabs. Using the "Agenda" option will provide a view that is more similar to the previous Meetings view rather than a full calendar view

     

     

    If you would like to submit a feature request regarding the Calendar view, you can do so using the Give Feedback tab within the Zoom client.

    Thank you for understanding.

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    harp
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    September 24, 2024

    This isn't answering the question at all.  Is Zoom going to be bringing back the simple, functional, list of meetings?  We don't want a calendar - Zoom is for online meetings, other apps manage our schedules.

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      dan_suthers
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      September 25, 2024

      Very much in agreement! Zoom is for meetings. Thunderbird is for email. Why are both trying to be calendars too, when we have iCal and the like? 

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        tlambe
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        September 30, 2024

        I see that in web Settings / Meeting that switch for "Merge Meetings and Calendar tab" is back. Was able to get "Meetings" tab back on client.

         

        Merge Meetings and Calendar tabs

        View all Zoom Meetings and calendar events in one combined tab.

         

         

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          dan_suthers
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          October 2, 2024

          I have this setting on in web Settings / Meetings but it does not restore the previous simple list of meetings. The only meeting it puts in a list is the one that has no scheduled time (my virtual office). The meetings for my classes are not on the list; they are only in the calendar view. 

            Zoom, you have lots of feedback, are you listening? Restore the list. Or let us revert to the previous version. This version is also having problems with black video in recordings when the video is coming from another clinet. 

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            tlambe
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            October 3, 2024

            After changing settings, had to sign out/in to see “meeting” tab back. I see list of scheduled meetings on my calendar and all recurring meetings with no time or date as before. 

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            mfaulstich
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            November 4, 2024

            I confirm - the new UI is really aefull.
            All Meetings I sat up are repeated meetings without a special term and I need a list of them to attend.

            A hint for all with the same problem:

            Additionally to the personal meeting, accessible in the lower left corner of the window there ist a "Recurring" button on the left of the personal meeting (I'm not allowed to post images).

            With the "Recurring" button a Dialog rises up which shows the Meetings without term.

            Unfortunatelly it's a modal dialog and not a view like "Agenda".

            @zoom-Team: Please create a normal view from this!

             

             

             

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              UniversityTech
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              January 14, 2025

              Please, I beg of you to have an option so just meetings are listed(like before) and no calendar integration. This does not work for all the classrooms with their own Zoom account and OID. I have to schedule meetings for each room (Which was SUPER EASY), and I do not use calendar to do this. Please bring the simplicity back.....all my end users are not happy with this change because it used to be a ONE CLICK and meeting starts.

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                raposa
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                January 20, 2025

                The community moderator MGSR posted that this IS the new behavior.

                 

                I tried going through Support to see if there's a way to have the setting restored. I received a similar response:

                The merge of the calendar and meetings tab has been enforced last September 16, 2024.

                If your Zoom Workplace app version is lower than 6.2.0 and you have the Merge Meetings and Calendar tabs toggle disabled prior to September 16, 2024, you will still see separate tabs for Meetings and Calendar even if you upgrade to version 6.2.0 or higher.

                This statement doesn't seem to be true or there's some nuance here. I have always had the merge setting disabled for my personal account and the account I use at work. However, my work account still has the setting and the old behavior. Regardless, Support is not able to restore the setting/previous behavior to my personal account.

                 

                They only offered this:

                If you prefer the previous behavior, please send feedback to our Product/Engineering Team located at https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0068808

                I'm going to follow steps for feedback, but I don't expect anything to change. Maybe if Zoom is flooded with enough feedback or enough of us cancel our accounts but I doubt they care about my 1 user personal account vs my company's 6k+ user account.

                 

                IMO, Zoom dropped in utility when they started to try and "do everything" like an email provider and calendar service. Please focus on being the best video conference platform. This and other changes have broken so many of our workflows and in some cases made it pretty much impossible to keep using Zoom. I hope enough large accounts cancel to get you to pay attention. I don't need an email provider, calendar, a chat service outside of meetings, animated avatars, or AI anything. I want a simple interface to launch scheduled meetings with video and screen sharing. Stop trying to become a communications platform to replace email, calendar, chat, etc.

                 

                 

                 

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