Throughout the pandemic, technology has not stood still, and Zoom is an excellent example of technology that continues to evolve. This evolution includes not only added features, such as new options for video backgrounds, but also changing ways to do things within Zoom. Such is the case with the option to show or hide the Zoom controls on your screen.
Zoom has continually issued updates throughout the past year. As of this writing the most current version is 5.6.1. You can check for updates to see what your current version is.
We posted a tip in April 2020 to show how to enable or disable the meeting controls. Since then, Zoom has moved the option to “Always show meeting controls” from the Accessibility menu within the Settings window to the General menu. Now when you select the General menu item to bring up a list of settings one of the options is “Always show meeting controls.”
If this box is checked, your meeting controls are always visible. De-select this checkbox to allow the control bar to disappear and reappear, depending on the position of your mouse cursor.
An alternate way to hide meeting controls
If you don’t want to open the settings window, and if you are using a Macintosh computer, you can quickly choose to hide the meeting controls using the menu at the top of the screen. Select the “Window” menu to call up a drop-down list. Uncheck “Always Show Meeting Controls”
This process produces the same result as using the settings window. Even quicker would be to use the keyboard shortcut indicated in the menu item: Command + \
Use this keyboard combination to toggle the facility to hide or always show the meeting controls.
Zoom functionality tends not to disappear through various upgrades. Rather, access to it may be found in a different place than previously. We’ll try to keep you updated on how to do things as we learn ourselves.
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