| Feature |
Windows
macOS |
iPad/iOS |
Web client |
Start or join meeting
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| Join a meeting without signing in |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Join a meeting in progress |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Sign in using Zoom account, Google, Facebook, or SSO |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Start an instant meeting. |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Schedule one-time or recurring meeting |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Share your screen in a Zoom Room by entering in the sharing key or meeting ID. |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Display upcoming meetings |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Display synced calendar events (if you added a third-party calendar service) |
✓ |
✓ |
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| View, edit, start, or delete your scheduled meetings |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Participants are pre-assigned to breakout rooms (if set up by the host) |
✓ |
✓ |
|
In-meeting controls (participants and hosts)
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| Join computer audio |
✓ |
✓ |
✓
(A) |
| Mute/unmute mic |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Start/stop video |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Invite others to join meeting |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Change your screen name for the meeting |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Non-verbal feedback |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Share screen |
✓ |
✓ |
✓
(B) |
| In-meeting chat |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Start cloud recording |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Start local recording |
✓ |
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| Request remote control |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Gallery view |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Participant in breakout rooms |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
In-meeting controls (hosts and co-hosts)
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| Create, edit, and launch polls |
✓ |
|
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| Start breakout rooms (host only) |
✓ |
|
✓ |
| View pre-assigned participants in breakout rooms (if set up in web portal) |
✓ |
|
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| Live stream meeting |
✓ |
|
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In-meeting security controls (hosts and co-hosts)
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| Lock meeting (don't allow other participants to join the meeting in progress) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Place the attendee in a virtual waiting room |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Control if participants can share screen |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Control if participants can use in-meeting chat |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Control if participants can unmute or rename themselves |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Enable/disable video receiving |
|
|
✓ |
Webinar controls (hosts)
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| Launch question and answer session |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Launch polls |
✓ |
|
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| Live stream webinar |
✓ |
|
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Manage participants (hosts)
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| Stop a participant's video |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Assign a participant to be the host |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Assign a participant to be a co-host |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Allow a participant to start or stop a recording |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Assign a participant to type closed caption |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Change a participant's name that is displayed to other participants |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Remove participant from meeting |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Mute/unmute all participants |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Automatically mute participants as they join the meeting |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Play chime when participants join and leave |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Don't allow other participants to join the meeting in progress |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Control who participants can chat with |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Put a participant on hold |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Share screen controls
|
| Share whiteboard |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Annotate on shared screen or whiteboard |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Pause your current shared screen |
✓ |
|
✓ |
| Show or hide names of annotators |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Stop a participant's screen share (host and co-host only) |
✓ |
|
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| Control if multiple participants can share screen simultaneously |
✓ |
|
✓ |
Profile
|
| Add a personal note |
✓ |
✓ |
|
Change profile photo or screen name
Note: On the desktop client, you will be redirected to the web portal to change your screen name |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Manually change your status |
✓ |
|
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Chat
|
| Mark messages as unread |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Edit your sent messages |
✓ |
|
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| Delete your sent messages, images, or files |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Save images or files sent in the chat |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Add messages to your starred list and view all messages you have starred |
✓ |
|
|
| View starred messages in a specific chat |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Use your personal chat space |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Send images or files |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| View all files sent or all files received in chat |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Share sent or received chat files with contacts |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Send a capture of the current screen |
✓ |
|
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| Send animated GIFs |
✓ |
|
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| Send code snippets |
✓ |
|
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| Send emoticons |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Encrypted chat |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Store chat message history |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Invite contacts to an existing chat |
✓ |
✓ |
|
Channels
|
| Change notifications for new channel messages |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Add channels to your starred list and view channels you have starred |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Create a channel |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Edit a channel (must be a channel admin) |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Invite members to a channel |
✓ |
✓ |
|
Contacts
|
| Add contacts |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Add contacts to your starred list and view contacts you have starred |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Directory for contacts, channels, and Zoom Rooms |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Add contact to auto-answer group |
✓ |
|
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Settings
|
| Automatically join meeting by computer or device audio |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Automatically mute when joining meeting |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Automatically call phone number to join meeting |
|
✓ |
|
| Insert a link preview whenever a chat message contains a link |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Change notification settings for chat |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Manage blocked contacts |
✓ |
|
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| Display meeting reminders |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Display connected meeting time |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Display closed captions (if available) |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Automatically disable your video when joining a meeting |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Touch up appearance |
✓ |
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| Virtual Background |
✓ |
✓
(iOS only) |
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