Zoom Updates - Week of July 19, 2020
- Waiting Room now under the Security section when scheduling a meeting: When scheduling a meeting, the Waiting Room setting is now available under a Security heading.
- Meeting and webinar passwords now called Passcodes: Meeting passwords will now be called “Passcodes” and are meant to be shared. Your account or user password, should never be shared.
- Setting to request permission to unmute: As an account owner or admin, you can enable a setting to request permission to unmute, allowing the host to request permission to unmute meeting participants and webinar panelists. Permissions, once given, will apply in all meetings scheduled by the same person. This setting is available at the account, group, or user level and can be locked at the account or group level. This requires client 5.2.0, which is planned for release in early August.
- Configure Waiting Room options without enabling the setting: As an account owner or admin, you can now configure Waiting Room options, such as adding approved domains, without enabling the setting. This allows admins to configure these default settings without forcing Waiting Rooms for all users. Users can enable Waiting Room with these admin configured options at the user or individual meeting level.
- Setting for webinar passcodes: Account owners and admins can enable or disable a setting for webinar passcodes separately from meeting passcodes. This setting is available at the account, group, or user level. You can lock this setting at the account or group level. If this setting is enabled and locked at the account or group level, it can also be applied to previously scheduled webinars by checking the option below the setting.
- Profile phone number verification with a phone call: In addition to the option to verify with SMS, users can choose to verify with a phone call to successfully save their phone number in the Zoom web portal under Profile.
- Setting to sign in with Apple ID on iOS: Users can sign in with Apple ID on the iOS app on version 5.1.1 or higher. Account owners and admins can disable this feature in the Zoom web portal, under Advanced then Security. The Web setting was released on June 28th, 2020 and the iOS client was released on July 2nd, 2020.
- View toll-number changes in the operation logs: You as an account owner or admin, can view changes to available toll numbers in the operation logs on the Reports page of the Zoom web portal.