Dell laptop

Debian 12.9 amd64

Zoom Workplace 6.3.6

SSO sign-in (Okta)

Every time I quit the app and restart it, I am met with a Zoom login prompt and my Settings are reset to default, even though I check the box on the login screen to keep me signed in. As for settings, all are reset to default each time I launch the app and log in.

For example, I can set the following:

General : Ask me to confirm when I leave a meeting: no

Video : Original ratio: yes, HD: yes, Mirror my video: no, Turn off my video when joining meeting: yes

Audio : Automatically join audio by computer when joining a meeting: yes

Team Chat : Show my status as Away when I am inactive for __ minutes: no

I close the settings window and these preferences are preserved for days and through multiple meetings, as long as I leave Zoom running. I can even sign out and back in, and settings are preserved as long as I didn't quit the app. But if I close Zoom and reopen the app, I have to sign in again and all of these settings are back to default. Is this expected behaviour? I don't think so, but I don't know how to correct it so that I can stay signed in and my settings are preserved across multiple launches of the app.

I am not familiar with Team Chat, but I would like to use it for a meeting that I didn't host. The host has given me permission to start a chat with the other members. The meeting ended a few days ago. Questions:

1. Am I able to start a Team Chat session if I was not the host of the meeting? I have the meeting ID and password.
2. Will Team Chat still be available even though the meeting has ended and all participants have logged off?
3. How will participants know that a chat has begun since they have logged out of the meeting? Will they receive some kind of alert? 

Thank you in advance for any help. 

I do not have time to click person by person during a discussion meeting.
Most times their suggestions come to me (the host) via the chat and I do not want others to see their inputs.

Now, I have to click name by name to check their inputs. Ridiculous when I have almost 100 people in the meeting.
I need to be able to read all incoming messages quickly at a glance as we are discussing stuff.

Please allow us to choose if we want to see all messages at a glance instead of having to click user by user!