With the specific circumstances the current year has brought, group call apps, such as Zoom, have become invaluable for personal, educational, and business purposes. You can unmute them whenever you want by choosing Unmute Audio from the same menu. Once there, tap on the name of the person you’d like to mute and pick the Mute Audio option. If you’d like to mute only a certain individual in the call, you’ll need to enter the Participants page again. The shortcuts are listed in this Zoom support article.Ĭan I mute a specific participant in Zoom?

There are plenty of other options available through keyboard shortcuts, and any avid Zoom user can familiarize themselves with the commands.

Starting or stopping the screen share: Alt + Shift + S.

Muting and unmuting the audio for everyone except the host: Alt + M.

Switching view to the active speaker: Alt + F1.

Other useful keyboard commands for Zoom in Windows include: From there, click on Keyboard Shortcuts, and you’ll see the full list with the option to change each individual shortcut. You can customize the shortcuts by going to Settings in your Zoom client. The default shortcut to mute Zoom in Windows is Alt+A. Zoom is made with computer users in mind, so the app has a range of keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys set up for those operating systems. However, if you’re on a Windows PC, there are some different options.

For Windows smartphones using Zoom, the process will be the same as for iPhone and Android users.

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