When you are hosting a meeting of about 100 people (that’s Zoom video limit), it’s hard to control the chat section. You can enable this within Meetings under the Settings menu. So, it’s smart to always turn off your mic and video when you join a meeting. Moreover, Zoom doesn’t give you a video preview until you join the call. However, when you are attending the meeting midway, it might disturb other participants and the host. This might be okay when you are hosting the meeting or joining at the start of it. With Zoom when you join a meeting from the app, it automatically turns on your mic and camera. Automatically turn off your mic and video # Now, if you want to fill in your looping videos like the ones on Twitter, you would need a Zoom Room subscription that costs $50/month. This ensures that you can still virtually bunk your lectures without anyone knowing about it. Next tap the three dots at the bottom right of the screen to open the More menu and tap on Virtual Background.Īdditionally, it’s a dirty trick but people are pasting their attentive looking picture as virtual background during lectures. To activate virtual background from a Zoom Android and iOS app, open the app and start a meeting. To have the best effect, make sure you use an even green color background.

Now, when you host a video, the solid background behind you will be replaced by the virtual background you have provided. Here, you can either use the default background image or upload a photo from your computer. To set it up, open the Zoom app, click your profile in the top right corner, and click Settings and then choose Virtual Background. You can either choose from the default background images provided by Zoom or upload a picture of your own. Zoom has a fun little option, that lets you change your messy room background to any image or even a video. Unfortunately, there is no support for Android.

Within the Video Settings look for “Touch Up My Appearance.” Check the box to turn it on.Īs of now, this feature is available one Zoom Desktop Client for Mac or Windows and Zoom Mobile App for iOS. To activate it, open the Zoom app and on the homepage, click the gear icon for Settings in the upper right corner. Similar to ‘Beauty Face Mode’ on most smartphone cameras, Zooom offers “Touch up my appearance” filter which smoothens out the skin, removes the marks and blemishes. So, here are some Zoom video app tips and tricks to make most out of it. While it’s easier to get started with Zoom, a lot of features are hidden options in advanced menus like auto disabling your mic, recording a zoom meeting, touching up your appearance, virtual video background and much more.

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