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January 3, 2022
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Zoom crashes while recording meeting on new MacBook M1 Pro

  • January 3, 2022
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Hi, I can have a regular zoom meeting with no crashes, however when I turn on recording, the app will crash within 30 minutes. Usually its as a quick as 2 minutes. Please advise.

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    Newcomer
    March 11, 2022

    Hey again,

     

    I cannot seem to find where my thread went in this conversation, so I'll append here.  I just had another crash mid client meeting while recording, and I didn't even get a log report.  This was after 1 week of smooth running.  I was on 5.9.3 and saw just now there is an update for 5.9.6, so hopefully that will fix future crashes with clients.

    Newcomer
    March 14, 2022

    Update:  Crashed again after updating to 5.9.6 (4993) twice mid session while just recording to computer (no screen sharing), both times without a crash report.  Opening a new ticket!

    Newcomer
    April 4, 2022

    Adding my report here. Since switching to Apple Silicon earlier this month, Zoom has crashed a half-dozen times during a session, while recording. No weird software like antivirus, video NOT turned on, but recording locally. This never, ever, ever happened before during hundreds of hours of Zoom sessions on Intel, so this seems like an Apple Silicon/Zoom issue. The crash is immediate, no warning, no error dialog--Zoom just crashes hard and is gone.

    YaBoiB
    Community Champion | Employee
    Community Champion | Employee
    April 7, 2022

    Hello All, 
    My name is Brandon. Peter asked me to jump in here and assist with this issue for the M1s. May I ask if any of you are experiencing this issue with cloud recording, or is it just local recording, and is it consistent or persistent where screen sharing and recording at the same time duplicates the issue?  I have added a document to this thread on how to enable logging for the Zoom client. These are the logs that I will need to determine where the issue is. 

    Newcomer
    April 7, 2022

    Hello,

    This happens for me while recording locally and streaming to YouTube (Maybe it's one or the other causing it, I cannot tell if it's only while doing both of these at the same time). I rarely screen share, nor do i ever use the cloud recording feature, so that's not part of the issue on my end

    Newcomer
    April 8, 2022

    My issues started after I did indeed *migrate* from an Intel to an M1 Max.  I did not do a clean install of the OS

    Newcomer
    April 8, 2022

    Same here, so the Intel version did an in-place upgrade to the M1 version. I wonder if that might be part of the issue

    Newcomer
    April 8, 2022

    FWIW I uninstalled and reinstalled Zoom, it made no difference. I doubt if it's Migration Assistant related.

    Newcomer
    April 21, 2022

    This happened to me today — a one-on-one Zoom call with local recording and Zoom crashed without warning after about 40 minutes. I reconnected with my client and started recording again and Zoom crashed without warning after 23 minutes. Fortunately I was still able to convert the recordings but I've lost a lot of confidence in Zoom at this point. I have a brand new Mac Studio with the M1 Max chip and have only ever installed the Apple Silicon version of Zoom. I'm running version 5.10.3 (6420).

    Newcomer
    April 21, 2022

    I heard from Zoom today that they seemed to have identified this issue and it will be fixed in a forthcoming update.

     

    In the meantime, everyone, the workaround is pretty simple: Uninstall zoom, download the non-Apple Silicon version of Zoom, turn off updating, and refuse all update prompts. I've never seen this crash running the Intel version via Rosetta. (Then update when Zoom pushes out a fix for this issue.)

    Newcomer
    April 21, 2022

    Thank you! Glad to hear they're working on a fix. Hope we're notified once it's available

     

    I too have not had this issue while running the non-Silicon version

    Newcomer
    March 8, 2023

    It happened to me today, Zoom crashed while converting a recording of 2h15. How can I get it back. It is no where to be found and i must provide the recording. 

    Newcomer
    April 7, 2023

    This is still happening to me, has a consistent fix ever been posted?

    YaBoiB
    Community Champion | Employee
    Community Champion | Employee
    April 7, 2023

    @CarlWilson , 

     

     Yes, we have not had any further reports of this issue since 5.12.0 was released. Can you tell me more about what you are experiencing? 

     

    Thanks, 

    Brandon 

    Newcomer
    April 7, 2023

    i have the same issue i think its a programming issue

    Newcomer
    April 7, 2023

    I have not had any issues since they release an update a long while ago. Definitely update your zoom client!