Adjusting your video layout during a virtual meeting in zoom App
During Zoom meetings, you can customize your video layout preferences-see everyone, hide participants, and more. When there is no screen sharing, four video layouts are available: Speaker view, Gallery view, Immersive view, and floating thumbnail window. View the screen share with Speaker view or Side-by-side mode when someone is screen sharing. With the exception of the floating thumbnail view, any of these layouts can be used in fullscreen or windowed mode.
You can also rearrange the gallery view order, pin or spotlight up to nine videos, hide non-video participants, or stop all incoming video.
Prerequisites for changing meeting view settings
View Gallery (mobile app):
- Meetings with three or more participants (only two participants required for iPad meetings)
Gallery View displays up to 49 thumbnails per page:
- Version 5.2.0 or higher of the Zoom desktop client for Windows or Mac
- The desktop client video settings set the maximum number of participants per screen to 49
Note: - Not all computers can support this option.
- Supported processors for single monitor
- Intel i5
- 4 cores or higher
- 4th generation or higher
- Intel i7, i9, Xeon
- 2 cores or higher
- Intel Atom
- 6 cores or higher
- Other Intel processors
- 6 cores or higher
- 3.0GHz or higher
- AMD Ryzen 5 series
- Intel i5
- Supported processors for dual monitors
- Intel i5
- 4 cores or higher
- 6th generation or higher
- 2.0GHz or higher
- Intel i7, i9, Xeon
- 4 cores or higher
- Intel Atom
- 6 cores or higher
- 1.6GHz frequency of higher; OR
- 8 cores or higher
- Other Intel processors
- 8 cores or higher
- 3.0GHz or higher; OR
- 12 cores or higher
- AMD Ryzen 7/9 series
Note: - While using dual monitors in the desktop client gallery view will still only be shown on one monitor.
- Intel i5
- Version 5.6.6 (423) or higher of the Zoom mobile app for iOS (only available for iPad)
- 12.9-inch 5th generation iPad Pro
Speaker view
The large video window will switch between participants speaking with 3 or more other participants in the meeting when speaker view is enabled. Only you and one other participant will be able to see your video, while their video will appear below yours.
If you pin a participant, they remain the largest video in your meeting view, while spotlighting does the same for everyone.
Gallery view
Participants can view thumbnail images of themselves in Gallery view, which expands and contracts as they join or leave a meeting. On a single screen of the Gallery view, the desktop client can show up to 25 or 49 participants depending on your CPU.
If there are more attendees than the number of thumbnails per page you can display, the system creates additional pages with your maximum number of thumbnails per page. The next page of participants will be displayed by clicking the right or left arrows in gallery view as you navigate through the pages.
Also in Gallery view, you can re-arrange the order of the videos based on your needs, as well as save them for use in future sessions. This feature is described in the support article, Setting a custom gallery view order.
As a participant begins to speak in Gallery view, the speaker is relocated to the current page you are viewing and highlighted, making it easier to identify who is speaking. In the case of custom gallery orders, this functionality is not available, as the order will remain in place.
Full-screen meeting window
You can switch to full-screen mode by double-clicking the Zoom window in any of the layouts (except for the floating thumbnail window).
Alternatively, you can press Esc on your keyboard to exit full-screen mode.
Note: On older versions of macOS, click Meeting in the top menu bar and select Enter Fullscreen.
Floating thumbnail window
Zoom can be minimized while the floating thumbnail window is kept on top of other open applications. The video window can be moved around your screen, or completely hidden.
To switch to floating thumbnail view, follow these steps:
- For Windows, click the minimize icon, which is located at the top-right corner, for Mac users, it is located at the top-left corner.
- Click the arrow on the left side of the video to collapse it once in mini-window view. You can expand it again by selecting the arrow.
- By pressing the and buttons respectively, you can also mute or unmute yourself, or turn off your video while in this mode.
- The floating thumbnail window can be closed by clicking the arrow on the right side to return to the full Zoom window.
Layout when screen sharing
The following 3 options are available when viewing shared content:
- Standard:
- The shared content is below the other video tiles, similar to the Speaker view. Fullscreen mode fills the screen with the shared content and video tiles become smaller, movable thumbnails.
- Side-by-side: Speaker:
- Meeting windows in the side-by-side mode are split between shared content and video thumbnails, so you can adjust how they are split between the two. The active speaker will only appear in the portion of the page containing video thumbnails.
- Side-by-side: Gallery:
- The meeting window in side-by-side mode is split between the content being shared and video thumbnails, and the proportions of the split are adjustable. In the portion containing video thumbnails, the gallery will display a maximum of 6 videos (when the shared content receives the most space) or 49 videos (when the shared content receives the least space).
The meeting window can also be maximized for any of these views to be used.
How to hide participants who have their video turned off
- If you’re viewing a video layout, click on the three dots
next to any thumbnail video that has its video off or joined by telephone. - To hide all participants without video, click Hide Non-video Participants.
- Click the View button at the top-right corner of your screen and select Show Non-Video Participants to re-display the non-video participants.
next to any thumbnail video that has its video off or joined by telephone.
To preserve bandwidth or prevent mental fatigue, you can also stop all incoming video.
How to switch between Gallery view and Speaker view during a meeting
Windows | macOS | Linux
- Meetings can be started or joined.
- Select Speaker or Gallery from the View menu at the top-right.
Note: The number of participants per screen can be displayed in full screen or at reduced size if you’re displaying 49 thumbnails per screen.
Android | iOS
- Join or start a meeting.
This view is displayed by default in Zoom. A video thumbnail will appear in the bottom-right corner if one or more participants join the meeting.
- To switch to the gallery view, swipe left from the active speaker view.
Note: When three or more people are present in the meeting, you can switch to Gallery View.
- The video of up to four participants can be viewed simultaneously. View more videos by swiping left.
- Switch back to the active speaker view by swiping right to the first screen.
iPad
Note: When viewing on an 11″ and 12.9″ iPad Pro (2nd, 3rd, or 4th generation), you can see up to 16 participants at once, and when viewing on a 5th generation 12.9″ iPad Pro, you can see up to 49 participants at once.
- If you do not see the controls, tap your screen to get them to appear. To switch from Active Speaker View to Gallery View, tap the upper-left corner of the Zoom window.
Note: If there are two or more participants in the meeting, you can switch to Gallery View.
- This will display a gallery view, where you can see up to 16 people (4×4) or 25 (5×5) simultaneously.
- In the top-left corner of the Zoom window, tap Switch to Active Speaker to return to Active Speaker View.
Web client
- Create a meeting or join an existing one.
- Select Speaker or Gallery from the View menu in the top-right corner.
- Note: Due to technical limitations of the web client and to maintain consistency across all supported web browsers, gallery view on the web client is limited to nine videos per page.