Stop lowering my hand!

I submitted this as a bug to zoom

here’s zoom’s reply (unbelievable!!!)

This feature has been driving me bats##t.  What were you thinking???  And why would you ever spring this on your users without lots of warning AND THE ABILITY TO TURN IT OFF!!!!!!!!

Thank you for this topic, it is extremely disturbing and brought a lot of distress to our meetings. I am hosting several regular Zoom Rooms, and it is in not one meeting, where this feature is helpful.

Please remove it, or give the host to disable it!

Agree that this feature plain stinks.  Can we PLEASE give an opt-out option?!

• In most cases, I (like many others in this thread) do not want to lower my hand, as I am doing a quick follow-up and not asking my full question/making my comment.
• It's clear that whoever decided to implement this feature has never been in an actual meeting.  Even if I want to lower my hand, I DO NOT want to be interrupted by a pop-up--that ends up distracting me and often causes me to lose train-of-thought.  It's a terribly disruptive feature that creates even more "Zoom fatigue."

Agree with everyone here, this feature is disruptive.

This thread seems worthy of a response now from Zoom?

Is there any communication or update on future plans for this 'feature'?

How do I turn this feature off?? I just scrolled the entire "meeting settings" section of the Zoom advanced settings. I don't see any option to turn off this feature. Don't tell me Zoom has rolled out the ability to turn off this feature yet? The auto-lower hand causes confusion. I do not see this as a helpful, one-size fits-all, should be automatically enabled, feature. So strange that we can't turn off the auto-lower hand after unmuting feature.

Zoom customer service peeps - please respond? Thanks in advance!

I completely agree with everyone here! In our meetings a raised hand means we would like to take a turn at reading. However now, if someone asks a question their hand is automatically lowered (unless they are quick enough to cancel) and they lose their turn. This happened to me yesterday and now I will have to wait a week to get a turn at reading. VERY annoying. We need the option to turn this off

PLEASE make this configurable.  This is SUPER annoying.  When I have my hand raised, and then speak to help answer a question from another participant, I lose my place in line.   I had to wait 45 min because I went to the back of the line a few times.

AGREED!!! GIVE THE OPTION TO DISABLE!! Super annoying.

This is a terrible "feature".  If you miss the cancel opportunity, your spot in line to speak is forfeit.  There must be a way to turn this off AND if users want this feature - there must be a way to increase the timeout before having your hand lowered.  #MicrosoftTEAMS