Hello,

In some of our meetings, we’ve set it up so the alternative host can start the meeting without our onsite support. If any issues come up, we’ll join as a co-host to assist.

However, we’ve noticed that when we as the organizers are about to join, Zoom still shows the “Start” option, even if the meeting has already been started by the alternative host. In the Workplace app, the notification also says the meeting is “20 minutes past the scheduled time, please start it,” which can be confusing if another team member doesn’t realize the meeting is already running.

It would be much clearer if the notification popped up as something like:

• “The alternative host has started the meeting. Join?”
  or

• Simply changing the “Start” button to “Join” once the meeting has already been started by the alternative host.

This small adjustment would help avoid confusion for our team.

Thank you!

Hey all -

Today, in two separate meetings, I (co-host with Original Sound for Musicians ON), got the pop-up suggesting that I change my spoken language to Russian, as it believes I've started talking Russian.

This is the first time it has happened, and now it's happened twice. I do not speak Russian, nor was I speaking incoherently. I have a professional audio setup, so it wasn't background noise, music, or anything else that would be coming through the stream.

It's distracting and I assume it's a bug with the latest release.

At least three times this month, I have had people unable to join my Zoom meetings due to needing a passcode. Each time, the setting for Personal Meeting ID (PMI) Passcode had been turned on. I did not turn this on. I have the waiting room enabled, so that should cover complying with the Security Guidelines. 

Every time, I have to manually go into my settings and turn Personal Meeting ID (PMI) Passcode off. 

This is a big problem for me as I have weekly recurring and monthly meetings with 10+ people.

Is anyone else dealing with this? 

A while back I signed up for a personal Zoom account. I used it mainly for online open mics where musicians perform for other musicians in an open mic fashion. Then I got a job and, of course, they had a work Zoom account for me to use. I'm on Ubuntu 21.10 so I downloaded and installed the zoom client. I get scheduled for Zoom meetings and I click on the link and a browser tab opens and starts the Zoom client. Sometimes I seem to be using my personal account and sometimes I am using my work account. And sometimes I have two zoom icons in my notification area and I am apparently running two different copies of Zoom. It's very confusing.

If I log out and stop all zooms and start one up again and click Sign In there's an SSO button there. Assuming that's single sign-on so I click that.  The Zoom window changes to say "Sign in with SSO" and then there is a domain <company name>.zoom.us. At the same time, there's another Zoom window that shows me logged in already with my work account.  Also, a browser tab opens also saying "Sign in with SSO" and has a Launch Zoom button. Finally, there are not one but two icons in my notification area for two different zoom apps running!

Clicking on the Zoom icons in my notification area yields two different menus. One Zoom icon lists:

Join Meeting...

Share Screen...

Switch Languages >

About

Exit

While the other one shows:

Join Meeting...

Share Screen...

Open Zoom

Settings

Switch Languages >

About

Log out

Exit

Looking at the process table I see not 1, not 2 but 4 zoom processes. Two of them are /usr/bin/zoom and two are /opt/zoom/zoom. /usr/bin/zoom is a symlink to /opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher. Seem that running /usr/bin/zoom (really ZoomLauncher) simply turns around and starts /opt/zoom/zoom, but then it just hangs around...

Considering I already have 4 zoom processes running with two windows and two icons in the notification area pressing "Launch Zoom"  in the browser tab seems pointless and indeed is pointless because clicking it does nothing.

Clicking on the short menu Zoom icon and selecting quit kills the Zoom window that had the "Sign in with SSO" leaving only two zoom processes. Closing the Launch Zoom tab does nothing but close that tab.

Is this really how Zoom is supposed to operate when you have personal and work Zoom accounts?

Hello,

I am a licensed Zoom host and use Zoom daily for teaching. Since the most recent update, the annotation tools have been reduced and this has made my work much more difficult:

• The Text tool is no longer available in the annotation toolbar.

• The colour options have been reduced from 16 colours down to only 4, and the white colour is missing completely.

These features were essential for teaching — especially when annotating during lessons to highlight different answers, write in different colours for clarity, and use text boxes. Losing them has negatively affected both my teaching flow and the learning experience for my students.

Please could you let me know:

• If this change was intentional or a bug.

• Whether Zoom plans to restore the full set of annotation tools (text + full colour palette).

As a paying customer, I strongly request that these tools be reinstated, or that the same functionality is made available within the classic annotation feature without requiring the new Whiteboard.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Kind regards