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Newcomer
May 24, 2026
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Zoom whiteboard - Issue with Rotated Text in Zoom Whiteboard Shapes After Recent Update

  • May 24, 2026
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I am facing an issue with the Zoom Whiteboard where the text inside flowchart shapes got automatically rotated by 90 degrees. This behavior started occurring recently, likely after a Zoom update, even though no manual changes were made to the orientation.

Issue Details:

  • Text within shapes appears vertically (rotated 90°) instead of horizontal
  • The shape itself remains normal; only the text is affected
  • Unable to reset the text orientation using standard formatting options
  • Issue persists across sessions and boards

Impact: This is affecting usability during meetings, as the content becomes difficult to read and requires additional effort to recreate shapes or re-enter text.

2 replies

Employee
July 14, 2026

Hi Kasyap Namburi
thanks for your feedback. the issue should be fixed now. can you help confirm if it was fixed in your side. thank you.

Employee
July 20, 2026

It looks like this is related to our textOrientation support. Some older documents may contain invalid data, so after this feature was enabled, those text elements started rendering vertically. You can use this button to change the textOrientation.