Zoom Updates - Week of October 26, 2020


New Updates to App

General Features

  • Sync sub-folders in cloud contacts: When syncing contacts from Office 365, sub-folders will now be synced in addition to the main contacts folder.

Meeting/Webinar Features

  • Support for live streaming on YouTube on mobile: For Android and iOS users, hosts can live stream their meetings and webinars through the YouTube mobile app.
  • Virtual Background support for additional CPUs: For Windows users, Virtual Backgrounds are now supported for i3 5th-gen and above, i5/i7/i9 3rd-gen and above, all including Y-series. These CPUs will support Virtual Backgrounds at 15fps and 360p.
  • Scheduling with custom Join Before Host time limit: Users can schedule meetings with Join Before Host set to allow participants to join 5, 10, or 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Meeting Features

  • End-to-End (E2E) Encryption: E2E Encryption for meetings is now available in technical preview. Account owners and admins can enable E2E Encryption for meetings, providing additional protection when needed. Enabling E2E Encryption for meetings requires all meeting participants to join from the Zoom Desktop Client, mobile app, or Zoom Rooms. Users will not be able to join by telephone, SIP/H.323 devices, on-premise configurations, or Lync/Skype clients, as these endpoints cannot be encrypted end-to-end. Zoom Web Client and third-party clients leveraging the Zoom SDK are also not supported at launch. Enabling this setting also disables the following features: join before host, cloud recording, streaming, live transcription, Breakout Rooms, polling, and meeting reactions. This setting is enabled in the Zoom web portal at the account, group, and user level and can be locked at the account or group level.
  • Additional share options with Proximity Share for Zoom Rooms: For Windows, macOS, and Linux users, Proximity Share now supports sharing specific apps, share computer audio, and optimize for full screen video.
  • Change ringtone for meeting invites and phone calls
  • Improved experience for saving annotations on mobile for Android and iOS users
  • Improved pre-assigned Breakout Room behavior

Chat Features

  • Search in channel option added to channel info panel for mobile for Android and iOS users
  • Search starred messages for Windows, macOS, and Linux users

Phone Features

  • Bootstrap mode for nomadic emergency services: If bootstrap mode is enabled by an account owner or admin, phone users can report their current locations as company locations and/or report underlying network data for existing company locations. User-reported location and network data must be approved by administrators before it becomes actively part of defined company locations. These operations will send email notifications to admins (at most one email per day).
  • Call notifications for busy call queue members: If enabled, call queue members can receive call queue calls when they are busy on a call.
  • Opt out of specific call queues: Users who are members of multiple call queues can opt out of specific call queues to disable call notifications from those call queues.


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