When you show an object, a board or anything non human, zoom automatically blurry even if its on the foreground. Even showing a piece of paper with a drawing is a challenge now.

This is so frustrating that I am about to change to another program. How can zoom have such disregard for teachers?

Just add an option to disable enhanced or ai focus.

I'm an art teacher, and I need to be able to keep my webcam focused on my paper on my desk so my students can see what I'm drawing very clearly when I move my hand around the drawing (I don't want it to refocus on my hand). In every app that I test it out in, it looks great, and stays focused on the paper like it's supposed to. When I use this same set up in zoom, it falls apart. There seems to be something going on in zoom where it blurs parts of the image that it doesn't think is the main focus. So, it doesn't matter if I have my camera's focus locked, because zoom blurs it after the fact when I move my hand into the frame. There is something similar happening with the webcam that is pointed at my face. If I select the same camera in facetime, obs, and zoom - the entire image is clear in facetime and obs, but zoom blurs the background. (I have the background blurring function disabled, so that's not what's going on). Can someone help me figure out how to fix this?

I can't hear audio outside of the zoom app during meetings. I need to be able to hear notifications outside the meeting. I tried adjusting the setting in the volume mixer and changing the background noise suppression settings. Using different headphones doesn't change anything. I can't change the output audio settings without muting everything. I'm on Windows 10.

my participants appear in miniature size windows and they seem far away. I am unable to use functions like unmute, mute, or rename my participants.  My profile as a host appears small and distant.

I've never faced this issue before. Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated

Hello,

I am helping a client that's having trouble sharing their screen while teaching a class with several attendees.

"Every once in a while, Zoom gets all buggy around sharing my video, the video pauses every second. Zoom is up to date, disabled Loom, and other extensions, just in case. Any idea what is happening?"

They are using a Macbook using MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1 and their Zoom app is regularly kept up to date.  They do not use a firewall.

They also use a 2nd monitor.  We've tested Zoom performance with and withoot the external monitor, and the same diffculty is observed.

We also tried lowering the frame rate per the local app’s Settings > Share Screen > Advanced Settings 

Of note, they have redundant internet and switch to Starlink for improved bandwidth, but we observed the same problem even at 150/30Mbps.  Their internet is otherwise 130up / 9down

Lastly of note for now, they are having intermittent and non concurrent isseus with Chrome crashing at times, though it is also kept up to date; likely unrelated.

These are the General and Screen share settings they roll with:

Any ideas on what may be causing this or suggestions for troubleshooting?

Thank you.