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arodznegron
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April 23, 2024
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Zoom Desktop Client lost Meetings Tab

  • April 23, 2024
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Hi!

 

My Zoom Desktop Client (on Windows) updated to one that has consolidated the Calendar and Meetings tabs (or so it says, feels more like it -lost- the Meetings tab) and now I can't really access cloud recordings from my desktop client. Or I just can't find them. Is there a way to go back to the old UI? Having to log into my Zoom account on my browser when I have a desktop client open just to get a cloud meeting's URL is a really bad experience.

    Best answer by CarlaA

    Hi there @arodznegron thank you for posting for the first time, and welcome to the Zoom Community!

     

    In your settings: https://zoom.us/profile/setting, you can disable the Merge Meetings and Calendar tabs. This will add a Meetings tab to your navigation. 

    Let me know if that helps!

     

    EDITED: SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

    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.

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    CarlaA
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    CarlaAAnswer
    Community Manager
    April 29, 2024

    Hi there @arodznegron thank you for posting for the first time, and welcome to the Zoom Community!

     

    In your settings: https://zoom.us/profile/setting, you can disable the Merge Meetings and Calendar tabs. This will add a Meetings tab to your navigation. 

    Let me know if that helps!

     

    EDITED: SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

    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.

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    YadinF
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    October 17, 2024

    This is unacceptable.  You have removed options and taken away capabilities.  I don't need another d*mn calendar app, we have a company calendar system.  I just need to create Zoom meetings, and now I can't do that without scheduling a calendar meeting.  I can't make a calendar meeting because your app sucks and doesn't let you do that (clicking all over on the calendar and nothing happens to create a meeting).  Clicking on a past meeting gives a full screen window with no details, you can't modify anything about the Zoom meeting in this stupid calendar object that does nothing.  So now the only way I have found to actually make a Zoom meeting is to go to the Home tab and click the Schedule button.  This is beyond stupid.  The Calendar tab is useless.  The meeting tab is now gone so I can't go to a place to see all my meetings in a list and start or join a meeting or see recordings (ok there is a open recordings link on the Home as well, but WTF...).  You have taken away the primary function of your platform.  Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to be fired immediately and this whole thing needs to be rolled back to be functional again.  Otherwise we're going to have to look for a replacement platform because Zoom just ate itself.  Or after wasting an hour of my time, is the real answer that you're abandoning the desktop app??  Looks like the web app is now fully fleshed out and works the way the desktop used to before this calendar nonsense.  But, it also lacks the ability to make a new meeting on the meetings tab, you have to go to Home, but then that opens a whole other browser tab at a whole other UI to schedule the meeting.  And, that doesn't have calendar integration.  So I guess you want us to abandon our other calendar system and use yours which doesn't work properly?  Nope, you've killed your product.

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      arodznegronAuthor
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      April 29, 2024

      Thank you! That works!

      My feedback: not a good feature to merge them. It's good that there's the option to "unmerge" them, but as a user that spends all time in the client itself, it's a double-whammy of a negative experience:

       

      • A change was introduced that had a negative impact on my use of the product
      • The only way to revert the change is to:
        • Go to the website, which I don't even use
        • Find the setting and modify it
        • Restart the Zoom desktop client

      Maybe make these changes opt-in in the future?

       

      Anyway, thank you very much!

        CarlaA
        Community Manager
        CarlaA
        Community Manager
        April 29, 2024

        Great input @arodznegronI'll pass it along!

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        TerryEPMN
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        September 15, 2024

        After applying the update today, my meeting tab disappeared again.  I went to the web Zoom settings, and the search on "merged" resulted in "no results found".  Where did the opt out of the calendar and meeting tabs go? Zoom is getting very complicated. When I started using it during the pandemic its appeal was its simplicity.

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          Marty6
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          September 20, 2024

          From: 

          Using the merged Meetings and Calendar tabs

          https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0075226&_ga=2.163963643.55642664.1726765774-956084763.1720473329&_gl=1*f57opd*_ga*OTU2MDg0NzYzLjE3MjA0NzMzMjk.*_ga_L8TBF28DDX*MTcyNjc5Mjg3NC43LjAuMTcyNjc5Mjg3NC4wLjAuMA..
          If your Zoom Workplace app version is lower than 6.2.0 and you have the Merge Meetings and Calendar tabs toggle enabled prior to September 16, 2024, you will continue to see the merged Calendar and Meetings tab.

          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.  Once you upgrade to version 6.2.0, the Calendar and Meetings tab will merge, and you won’t have the option to return to separate tabs.

          Zoom developers: WHY???  The app is centrally about Zoom meetings, why would you drop the Meetings tab in the app??

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            Rigatuso
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            September 20, 2024

            I am with @Marty6! 

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              mathew_m
              Explorer
              December 12, 2024

              Yes, this is incredibly irritating. I used the meetings tab all the time, and literally no other part of the Zoom client. Now it's gone.

               

              I tried turning off calendar integration, and the meetings tab reappeared, but now all of today's meetings are missing — though I have some from January that are showing up for some reason.

               

              Please fix this. I just want a list of upcoming meetings I can click on when it's meeting time. Nothing else. No calendar, no documents, no contacts database, no AI garbage, no whiteboards — I'm never going to use any of that, I already have all of that in the OS.

               

              As it stands, I think I'm going to start using Slack huddles for meetings as much as possible, rather than Zoom, rely on my regular calendar and URL links to start meetings, and quit the Zoom client after each meeting.

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