

Depending on your CPU, the desktop client can display up to 25 or 49 participants in a single screen of the Gallery view. Gallery view lets you see thumbnail displays of participants, in a grid pattern, which expands and contracts as participants join and leave the meeting. Pinning a participant will keep them as the largest video for your view of the meeting, while spotlighting will do the same but for everyone in the meeting. If it is just you and one other participant, your video will be smaller at the top and their video will appear below. Speaker view will switch the large video window between who is speaking with 3 or more participants in the meeting.

How to hide participants who have their video turned off.Other video layout controls include rearranging the gallery view order, pinning or spotlighting up to 9 participants' videos, hiding non-video participants, or stopping all incoming video. Any of these layouts can be used in fullscreen or windowed mode, with the exception of the floating thumbnail view. When someone is screen sharing, you can use Side-by-side mode or view the screen share with Speaker view. There are 4 available video layouts when no one in the meeting is screen sharing: Speaker view, Gallery view, Immersive view, and floating thumbnail window. Customize your video layout preferences during your Zoom meetings-see everyone, hide participants, and much more.
