Still not great..
It’s hard for me to believe that after a year of everything being online, the leading video meeting platform still has some glaring issues on iPhone. The biggest issue I have is the fact that you can’t hear someone’s shared screen audio unless you are looking at their screen. If you swipe to look at 3 faces at a time (another limitation that doesn’t make sense to me - there should be an option to see more people in smaller boxes), the sound of the share cuts out. If you swipe into safe driving mode, the sound cuts out. Pull down your notification center or control center, look at your home screen, lock the phone, everything causes the sound to cut out until you return to look at the screen share. What baffles me is that none of these problems occur if only sound is being shared with not screen share, you can hear it anywhere just like someone’s voice This seems like an unnecessary limitation (or an awful glitch if its unintentional) and I hope it gets fixed eventually.
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Zoom to the Rescue!
When COVID hit the world it could have been a real threat to the work I do as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist. Being familiar with zoom from using zoom in the past meant an easy transition to seeing my clients online. Some people needed some help to get started but it has been so good to have been able to use zoom. I led a busy social life when we were in Stage 4 lockdown in Melbourne because of zoom, I was able to maintain my spiritual journey, I could keep seeing all my clients, support isolated friends and we ran successful groups over zoom! I really like zoom!!
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Completely unintuitive
This app deserves to win the Design Hall Of Shame award. For a simple workflow of setting up a meeting and adding invitees it’s completely nonsensical. “New meeting” is the obvious button but that just starts one now. “Schedule” does that mean show a list of meetings scheduled or schedule a new one. Seems like yes it’s a new one. Meeting Id - what’s that about? Why wouldn’t one not want to have audio and video. No place here to invite anyone. Click “save”. Is that it then? No. You are presented with a screen with the information you’ve just entered. If you exit this screen your meeting is not set up. Hopefully you notice the “add” button. Add what? You’ve already added a meeting. Well anyone click Add however crazy that sounds. After all this no one has been invited. Is it a meeting to talk to oneself? To invite anyone you have to select your meeting from the “meetings” list. Find “add invitees” and the click “cancel” unless you want the meeting to start right away. If you had wanted that why would you have scheduled it?
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Your app has allowed us to keep serving God
This app has given our organization the opportunity to never miss a beat from day one of the quarantine we have met world wide to get our spiritual feeding through this app. Jehovah God has blessed us with so much spiritual food so I know God has guided us to your organization to keep the source of our spiritual meals flowing. Thank you for being the company you are and fir making the isolation bearable because of all the nuggets of nourishment about Jehovah God, His Kingdom and His son, Jesus Christ who died for all of faithful mankind. We have the commemoration of Jesus Christ’s death coming up so if you get a letter and you would like to attend just reach out to the person who sends you the invitation and they will give you the meeting information fir your area. Your app has allowed many of us to join meetings in other states and country’s we would not normally get to visit and hear the spiritual food. Thank you and keep striving to enabl people to come together.
La Vonne
La Vonne
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Meadow S best friends with Lilly W
I think that zoom is great. Especially the new software update where you can for example have a slice of pizza on top of your head. Or 3-D goggles that aren’t really there but it is just a filter.
You can also have a red and white checkered pattern bow on top of your head and you can have a shark mouth. It is really cool. I only have one complaint about zoom. When I try to do a virtual background, my face goes into the background.
What I mean by that is when I had a solid purple background, my face was just a purple blob. You could still see my hair but you couldn’t see my face and the details.
I do appreciate zoom and how it has helped us in the viciously boring corona pandemic. I think zoom and Bing it it is awesome.
I also want you to understand if you are reading this review is that you can only have the pizza slice on top of your head and the red and white bow if you have the latest Apple software update on your iPad. iOS 14 or something like that.
I know that this is getting really long but I want to give every single detail. Zoom has a chat and you were able to raise your hand. You are also able to put a heart or clapping hands or a thumbs up or a surprised face or a crying face or a party popper on your screen. You can also do a virtual background even though it doesn’t always work perfectly and you can also which is the best part talk to your friends and or family. I think that zoom is awesome thank you.
You can also have a red and white checkered pattern bow on top of your head and you can have a shark mouth. It is really cool. I only have one complaint about zoom. When I try to do a virtual background, my face goes into the background.
What I mean by that is when I had a solid purple background, my face was just a purple blob. You could still see my hair but you couldn’t see my face and the details.
I do appreciate zoom and how it has helped us in the viciously boring corona pandemic. I think zoom and Bing it it is awesome.
I also want you to understand if you are reading this review is that you can only have the pizza slice on top of your head and the red and white bow if you have the latest Apple software update on your iPad. iOS 14 or something like that.
I know that this is getting really long but I want to give every single detail. Zoom has a chat and you were able to raise your hand. You are also able to put a heart or clapping hands or a thumbs up or a surprised face or a crying face or a party popper on your screen. You can also do a virtual background even though it doesn’t always work perfectly and you can also which is the best part talk to your friends and or family. I think that zoom is awesome thank you.
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Excellent on my iPad Air, so far; unlike FaceTime which keeps stopping
Downloaded the Zoom App onto my iPad Air, following repeated interruption problems with FaceTime, and no satisfactory action to resolve this issue from Apple Support.
Zoom isn’t that intuitive to start using for the first time, but I just tried different approaches, to see what options I could use.
Tried Scheduling a meeting in advance, using iCloud Diary to provide the link; then, copied & sent the link in an Email. It worked okay.
I then tried starting a video & used links displayed at the top of my screen, to find a link to copy. I then sent that in a reply to an iMessage I’d received; in little time, I then received a notification that that person was wanting to join my meeting; accepted this and our video chat started promptly afterwards.
Video & sound quality was very good, far better than with FaceTime.
Only potential issue seemed to be that battery usage was much greater than expected; any problems are easily avoided by ensuring your iPad is fully charged and plugged in to the charger. Then, you can relax and chat away.
Very pleased, so overall 5 stars.
Zoom isn’t that intuitive to start using for the first time, but I just tried different approaches, to see what options I could use.
Tried Scheduling a meeting in advance, using iCloud Diary to provide the link; then, copied & sent the link in an Email. It worked okay.
I then tried starting a video & used links displayed at the top of my screen, to find a link to copy. I then sent that in a reply to an iMessage I’d received; in little time, I then received a notification that that person was wanting to join my meeting; accepted this and our video chat started promptly afterwards.
Video & sound quality was very good, far better than with FaceTime.
Only potential issue seemed to be that battery usage was much greater than expected; any problems are easily avoided by ensuring your iPad is fully charged and plugged in to the charger. Then, you can relax and chat away.
Very pleased, so overall 5 stars.
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Raise hand/ unmute
So the only problem I have is the way the raise hand then go to unmute works on iOS devices. Can this somehow be made simplified for users. Raising the hand has been moved to reactions, but could there also be an option to select a reaction to be on the main video viewing screen and have it easy to reach, then we can go straight to unmute, instead of going through - more, then raise hand, then exit and unmute.
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Zoom is amazing!!!
This app is amazing! I totally recommend it. The part that I really like is that the host has control over many things. I like being able to control who comes in and out through the waiting room. It is also helpful to be able to lock the meeting. Being able to mute and turn off the video of you and others in the meeting is super helpful, especially as a teacher. The chat feature is great for people how do not want to unmute. Also you have a virtual background, you can raise your hand, make a reaction, share your screen and, so much more!
But, there are a few downsides to Zoom. One of them is people freeze and glitch, sometimes you can’t see or hear them at all. It may just be the internet but, I find this annoying. Second, when you exit the app and you are are still on the meeting your camera turns off. I find this annoying when you are sharing your screen or accidentally exit Zoom. Lastly when the host shares their screen people can draw or write on it. This is so annoying and distracting. I can not find a way to disable this.
Although there are problems, minor ones, I still enjoy Zoom. The problems don’t stop me from recommending zoom. Once those glitches are gone, Zoom will be perfect. I love Zoom!!!
But, there are a few downsides to Zoom. One of them is people freeze and glitch, sometimes you can’t see or hear them at all. It may just be the internet but, I find this annoying. Second, when you exit the app and you are are still on the meeting your camera turns off. I find this annoying when you are sharing your screen or accidentally exit Zoom. Lastly when the host shares their screen people can draw or write on it. This is so annoying and distracting. I can not find a way to disable this.
Although there are problems, minor ones, I still enjoy Zoom. The problems don’t stop me from recommending zoom. Once those glitches are gone, Zoom will be perfect. I love Zoom!!!
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Traumatizing.
If I could, I would give it a 0 star review. You’d think that before you join a meeting it would give a preview of how you look and whether or not your camera and microphone are on right? NO. I just joined a meeting after getting out of the shower and almost flashed my class because I didn’t know my camera was on before joining. Thanks. It’s been 4 days into the new year and my year is already ruined.
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