What's New in Zoom? | T&L Website

Updated June 9th 2026

Added Dynamic Gallery view to automatically crop video tiles and optimize screen space by focusing on participants’ faces.
Enabled instant meeting launches directly from a browser using zoom.new.
Resolved an issue causing unexpected Zoom Workplace app crashes.
Added an inactivity timer for paid users that displays a 5-minute countdown after 55 minutes of inactivity.
Allowed users to extend meetings, end meetings immediately, or disable the inactivity timer from the countdown modal.
Added controls for enabling or disabling the inactivity timer through Zoom Workplace meeting settings.
Resolved an issue affecting Zoom app synchronization with Apple AirPods Pro 3 button controls.

Added transcription controls through the Transcription icon displayed in the top-right corner once transcription is enabled by the host.
Enabled hosts to stop and delete meeting transcripts directly from the Transcription menu.
Allowed participants to request that hosts stop transcription during meetings.
Expanded automated captioning support to additional languages and regional dialects, including Afrikaans, Arabic (Gulf), Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Galician, German (Switzerland), Greek, Latvian, Norwegian, Serbian, Slovak, Somali, and Zulu.
Enabled new caption languages by default.
Added admin controls for managing caption language availability through the Automated captions setting in the web portal.

Enhanced Meeting Coach provides hosts with participant engagement analytics and individual performance metrics.

It is accessible through a new tab on the post-meeting calendar card.
The feature supports meetings using AI Companion features.
Meeting Coach is turned off by default but can be enabled through Harvard Zoom settings.

Restored visibility of external attendees’ email addresses in reports.
Restored availability of meeting registration reports.
Allow alternative hosts to reclaim host status after rejoining meetings they were previously hosting.
Require reconnecting alternative hosts to manually reclaim host status.

Improved Outlook and Office 365 synchronization to correct meeting visibility, timing, duplicate entries, and Upcoming Meetings listings.
Restored missing meetings for users with scheduling privileges.
Resolved a macOS issue that caused the Zoom Workplace app to freeze during webinar chat and Q&A interactions.

Added video auto-framing to automatically keep participants centered in the camera view during meetings.
Expanded auto-framing support to both built-in laptop cameras and external webcams.
Reduced the need for manual camera adjustments as participants move during meetings.
Improved visual consistency and professional presentation during Zoom Meetings.
Resolved an iOS issue causing meeting video flickering on iPad when expanding the Participants tab.

Resolved an iOS issue causing the virtual keyboard to disappear while screen sharing on iPad.
Fixed slide control functionality for Google Slides in the Edge browser.

Improved recording ingestion and linking by correcting missing tracking field associations with meeting IDs.
Restored accurate Webinar Survey response reporting within the Survey tab.
Added support for sending GIPHY GIFs in meeting chat regardless of Advanced Chat Encryption settings.