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has Zoom changed its setup? zoom used to give you unlimited time if you had a meeting with only one person. now i see it only gives you 40mins.

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Hi @monkeygirl , as of July 2022, 1:1 meetings hosted by free users are limited to 40 minutes.

To read more about this change, please check out the following article: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/5809097508109-Basic-user-meeting-duration-changes

Bri
Zoom Community Team
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