Sometimes the sound quality (for example music sound) of my MacBook Pro M1 16" becomes very bad. And only one solution for me is to start Zoom, wait when it will load and quit Zoom. After that the sound becomes normal again. My OS: MacOs Ventura Version 13.2.1 Can it be fixed somehow?

Huge echo with my living room setup when using Facetime on a Mac Mini with external camera (nice Logitech). Zero echo using Zoom. Or really, anything else. Even Skype seems fine. The echo is heard by the party being called, but not on our end. The microphone is on the logitech camera (C910, and BRIO, both attempted), the speaker is out of the TV. I have attempted to move both, turn down the TV volume, change positioning in the room, etc... Of course, it is convenient to use Facetime, but actually my mother and father are using this as the seed of a 'let's buy Samsung phones' plan. They hear good things. They switch, I'll likely need to switch.

I'm trying to prevent Zoom to stop launching automatically when I start my Mac. It's also **not** listed in ~/Library/LaunchAgents or /Library/LaunchAgents. Could someone suggest a way to prevent it from starting up?

I have Zoom calls with students and an administrator would like to see my entire screen while I am giving a lecture to give me pointers. What are some feasible ways to do this? I have a few ideas: 1. Use Teamviewer to share my entire screen while using Zoom, but I am concerned this might introduce issues as two video call softwares are being used. 2. Use an HDMI to USB-C capture card to grab the HDMI output of my Macbook with the Zoom call and send it to a second Macbook, which I then share with the admin using Teamviewer. I am wondering on the feasibility of the above and if there are any better ideas for this. Thanks very much.

I want to configure Zoom’s setting by pushing the plist file to the device from MDM. After pushing the customized us.zoom.config.plist to my macOS device through MDM, I am able to find the plist file over /Library/Managed Preferences folder, but Zoom’s default behavior doesn’t change at all. I tried to restart my machine, reinstall the Zoom app, push different plist content, and none of these helped me to achieve my goal. Would you let me know if I missed anything? I also include the plist content below, please let me know if the format has any issues. Thank you in advance. PayloadContent PayloadDisplayName us.zoom.config.plist PayloadIdentifier us.zoom.config.F9953132-51DD-405B-9989-595CEF531A17 PayloadType us.zoom.config PayloadUUID F9953132-51DD-405B-9989-595CEF531A17 PayloadVersion 1 ZDisableVideo zDisableChat NoFacebook NoGoogle PayloadDisplayName us.zoom.config.plist PayloadIdentifier Wills-Macbook-Pro.F7329566-3114-452D-AF7C-3F03D825745E PayloadType Configuration PayloadUUID 35B0FD44-754C-4162-86BB-51B34A78110s5 PayloadVersion 2 You can install us.zoom.config.plist I attached above to /Library/Managed Preferences and watch if your Zoom app won’t turn on the camera automatically, disable the chat function, and disable FB/Google login.

Most times Zoom (on iPad) in Gallery mode shows all users with videos first, and then users without videos. But sometimes Zoom shuffles users with videos with users without videos. This is very uncomfortable for me. I seeking for a way to force Zoom always show all users with videos, and then all users without videos. Searching Google didnt give any results, and inspecting Zoom settings also didnt give result. Can you tell me please is there a way to force described behaviour in Zoom?

On a Zoom call, I'd like to use AppleScript to determine the currently active Microphone and Speaker. I can select a Mic option using https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/blob/master/commands/communication/zoom/toggle-mic.applescript but am unable to figure out how to read the values.

I am trying to combine two microphones (usb & bluetooth, so no hardware option exists probably) to feed the combined audio to Zoom. I tried this with the Audio MIDI app (creating 1 aggregate device with the two inputs) of macOS and judging from the input level in system preferences it seems to work. Now I wanted to use this as the audio input in Zoom, however this did not work. It seems that Zoom somehow only took some of those channels effectively discarding one of the two microphones. Hence my question: is there some way to combine two inputs (ideally adjust their levels) and feed that to zoom? I have read a couple of similar questions (just without zoom reference) such as here , but they mostly to point to Audio Hijack which looks great, but I find it ridiculously expensive for such a little task.

**Setup** I've got an iMac on Ventura 13.5 with a connected Magic Mouse and a Magic Keyboard. I am sharing the Magic Mouse and the keyboard with another Mac (Ventura 13.5). The two devices are a foot apart, they both are connected to the same Wi-Fi, and both are signed in with the same Apple ID. The *Mac* has a second monitor connected to it via HDMI. ![Screenshot of the Display settings arranged in the following order: iMac MacBook, and Dell monitor ][1] **Problem** With increasing frequency, the iMac has started to randomly disconnects from the MacBook. Then, one will only see the image on the Display settings. This is rather annoying as I use the mouse and the keyboard to work on the MacBook. Edit : To add more clarity, the issue as far as I understand is that the Mac display gets disconnected. That is, I can only see the iMac under the displays in the attached image. As a consequence of this disconnection, the universal control fails too. **Attempted troubleshooting** 1. Updated both the iMac and the MacBook to Ventura 13.5 2. Switched off and switched on both the keyboard and the mouse. 3. I noted previously when I am in a Zoom meeting on the iMac, the MacBook gets disconnected from it. But I do not have Zoom open anymore.

I'm a music teacher who is very interested in using Zoom and it's sound sharing ability. Previously I had the Zoom Audio Driver (can't remember exactly what it's called) present in both my Audio/MIDI setup, but also available in my system as audio selections. I did a reformat of my computer and reinstalled Zoom (have uninstalled and reinstalled several times), but no Zoom Audio Driver is present. Is this something that needs to be installed separately? Where would I find it and I guess more importantly why did it not install in my system this time around? My understanding was that it is installed with the Zoom desktop app. Current OS is Mac OS Ventura 13.3.1

I want to immediately open Zoom links without the annoying question EVERY SINGLE TIME. How can I just open Zoom and get on with my meetings? A similar question is posted on the Apple forums but no one has a good answer: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253451980

I'm helping disabled person to adapt Zoom application for their special needs. The problem is that zoom exposes only raise hand reaction via Option + y keyboard shortcut. My goal is to let this person express other reactions like yes, no and ... using keyboard shortcuts connected to special equipment. I find it challenging to access the reactions menu via Applescript. Additionally, zoom shows menu with reactions button only when user hover mouse. I started my script as

tell application "zoom.us"
	activate
end tell
try
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "zoom.us"
			tell window "Zoom Meeting"

-- some magic that reveals menu with buttons and press reactions button goes here

			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
on error errMsg
	display dialog "Error: " & errMsg
end try

Thanks for your help!

I'd like to use Zoom, Google Meet, etc. with my built in camera, or an external webcam. However, the camera is too wide and shows parts of my setup that I'd prefer it not to. Is it possible to crop the view, which is then automatically used by video conferencing software? (ideally set once and forget) For those wondering, I noticed this initially when I saw that Photo Booth crops my webcam input (which is embarrassing if you use that to judge what is in view!).

I would like to force all sound to the left speaker on my headset. This is easy when I am using a browser to watch YouTube: But when I start Zoom, the ability to balance is turned off: How can I override Zoom and force all the sound to the left speaker on the headset? This is important to me because I have a hearing impairment and having sound in my right ear causes additional tinnitus. Being able to use a headset that has silence my right ear has been a great relief. Here are the things I have tried: 1. I contacted Zoom and had a 1 hour call with them about them disabling balance. They basically said they were too busy to change it. 2. I contacted Bose and asked them to change their software to allow the headset to override the computer settings using the headset firmware; no response. 3. Looking thru Zoom settings for anything that will allow to to control balance; there is nothing. 4. Looking thru the Zoom settings and setting **Speaker** to **Same as system**. [EDIT] I tried switching back to **MacBook Pro Speakers** and they allow balance even when in Zoom. This is not a solution as I want to use my noise cancelling headset; not my speakers. Steps to reproduce: 1. ensure Zoom is not running. 2. connect Bluetooth headset (I use Bose) 3. open **Sound Preferences** and observe that you are allowed to balance 4. start Zoom 5. observe that ability to balance is disabled 6. switch to built in speakers 7. observe ability to balance is available. 8. switch back to Bluetooth 9. observe ability to balance is not available. 10. stop Zoom 11. observe that ability to balance is restored.

If I am the host of a Zoom meeting and people arrive at the meeting late and I want to admit them to the meeting without interrupting the flow of my presentation, is there any way to "Admit all from Waiting Room" from the keyboard? This is further complicated by the fact that if only one person is in the waiting room, there is no "Admit all" option. Things I've unsuccessfully tried: - There is no [pre-defined keyboard shortcut](https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/205683899-Hot-Keys-and-Keyboard-for-Zoom) for admitting people from the waiting room - There is no menu item in Zoom to admit from waiting room, so I can't assign a keyboard shortcut in System Preferences - The "Admit all" button doesn't appear in the same place on the screen depending on how many people are in the waiting room, so it looks like simulating a mouse click at particular coordinates wouldn't work. I don't know if there is a path forward with UI Scripting through AppleScript, or if I'm overlooking a simulated mouse click solution, or if there's something else I'm not thinking of, but I'd love to be able to admit latecomers to a zoom meeting from the keyboard.

I am looking for a way to automatically add a Zoom link to my meetings which I create with Apple calendar. The option to add a video conference seems to be for FaceTime only. Is there a way to automatically create a Zoom link via keyboard shortcut and paste it to the calendar's text body?

On mac OS Catalina, links I'm sent by calendar invites and Zoom, looking like https://...zoom.us/s/1234567 , open first in a browser (Firefox) and then the Zoom app comes up. Can I somehow have the OS skip the browser step and directly open the link in the App (run the App directly)?

I need to change my username in Zoom. It's incorrect. I can't log in because I don't have a zoom account. All instructions I can find on the Zoom website or on other sites (which seem to have scraped Zoom for instructions) require you to log in.

I've noticed that macOS (Monterey) is showing an orange dot in the status bar that is attributed to Zoom. I understand that this is a new security and privacy feature in macOS indicating that an application is accessing the microphone. When I quit Zoom, however, the orange dot persists. I'm wondering if Zoom, or a related service, is still running in the background after the application quit. I've checked the Activity monitor and did not see Zoom listed or anything obviously associated with Zoom. Why does the orange dot persist after quitting Zoom on macOS?

I am using Zoom on my iPad and sharing my screen. Anytime the iPad screen blanks zoom stops sharing. Then when I wake up the screen again I have to tell zoom to share. Zoom does not stop, just the screensharing. How can I keep my iPad screen shared even when the screen blanks? How can I keep my iPad screen on so it does need to wake up?