I'm using Zoom on my MacBook, and I previously used it on Windows. On Windows, I was able to use a feature similar to Picture-in-Picture (PiP), where a floating screen would appear during a meeting, allowing me to see the active speaker or shared screen even when I wasn’t in the main Zoom app.

However, since switching to my MacBook, this feature is not working. The floating screen only appears when I am the one sharing my screen, but not when others are sharing or speaking.

I’ve spent several days looking through the settings and trying to find a way to enable this feature, but haven’t had any luck. Does anyone know how to get this PiP-like feature working on a MacBook?

Hello everyone!

Up until today, I used breakout rooms during my meetings without any issues (even yesterday, the same link worked perfectly). However, today, I encountered a problem: I couldn't open the breakout rooms.

Here’s what usually happens:

1. During the meeting, I create the breakout rooms.
2. The participants are already divided, and I just press Open All Rooms.
3. Everyone gets a button prompting them to connect, and we start.

But today, none of that happened. No button appeared, and the feature seemed to freeze. When I pressed the X button to close the breakout room window and reopened it, it showed that no one had entered the breakout rooms. It only gave me the option to close all rooms—nothing else.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

• Updating Zoom to the latest version.
• Resetting the breakout room settings in Zoom.

Unfortunately, none of these steps worked. I’m not sure if this is a Zoom issue or something specific to my account (I’m using a free account).

I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions to fix this problem. Thank you so much in advance for your help!

Effective today, May 2, 2022, new limits are in effect for 1:1 meetings in Zoom Basic/Free accounts.

 Zoom has announced that the time limit for 1:1 meetings in Basic/Free accounts will be set to 40 minutes, the same limit that has been in effect for larger meetings in these accounts. See this Zoom Support article under the May 2, 2022 release notes “Changes to existing features “ section for details.  The relevant text there reads:

More information is also available in this Zoom Support article “Free account meeting duration changes”. 

Please  keep in mind that the volunteers in the Zoom Community don’t make these changes and don’t have information beyond what is already available to the public. This post is for your education, and we’re generally unable to answer many of your related questions, many of  which been discussed or  answered in other Zoom Community discussions.

See this post. 

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