Zoom Keyboard Shortcuts: Essential Key Combinations You Need to Know

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(Pocket-lint) – Despite enjoying huge success over the past few years, Zoom isn’t the most user-friendly app.

There’s been a lot of conversation in many households about how to do just about anything in Zoomland. And that’s no surprise; it’s a business-focused tool that’s been brought into the limelight and repurposed for pub quizzes and wine-focused random catch-ups everywhere. As we’re on our way back to normality, there’s no denying that Zoom has become an essential part of most of our daily lives.

Keyboard shortcuts can take some of the pain out of using Zoom, since you often do things repeatedly, like mute and unmute your microphone. To that end, we’ve selected only the most useful shortcuts here, categorized by operating system for easy searching.

If the defaults don’t work for you, you can reassign shortcuts in your Zoom desktop client for PC and Mac. Just click on your profile picture, then Settings, then Keyboard Shortcuts.

The Best Zoom Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

• Space – Press to talk (temporarily unmutes while talking)
• Alt + V: Start/Stop video
• Alt + A: mute/unmute sound
• Alt + M: mute/unmute for everyone except host (for host only)
• Alt + F: enter or exit full screen mode
• Alt + H: show/hide the chat panel during the meeting
• Alt+U: show/hide the participants panel
• PageUp/PageDown: scroll through gallery display pages on screen
• Alt + F1: Switch to the active speaker view in the videoconference
• Alt + F2: switch to gallery video display in the videoconference
• Alt + Y: raise/lower hand
• Alt + Shift + T: screenshot
• Switch to Portrait/Landscape mode: Alt + L

The best Zoom keyboard shortcuts for macOS

• Space – Press to talk (temporarily unmutes while talking)
• Command(⌘) + Shift + A: mute/unmute sound
• Command(⌘)+Shift+V: start/stop video
• Command(⌘)+Shift+N: Switch camera
• Command(⌘) + Shift + F: enter or exit full screen mode
• Command(⌘)+Control+M: mute for everyone except host (for host only)
• Command(⌘)+Control+U: Unmute everyone except host (for host only)
• Command (⌘) + Shift + W: Switch to active speaker view
• Command(⌘) + Shift + W: Switch to Gallery view
• Control + P: Show previous screen in gallery view
• Control + N: show next screen in gallery view
• Command(⌘) + Shift + H: show/hide meeting chat panel
• Command(⌘) + U: show/hide participants panel
• Option + Y: raise hand/lower hand

The Best Zoom Keyboard Shortcuts for iPadOS

The range of shortcuts for iPadOS is a bit more limited, and unfortunately there’s no pressure to speak with the spacebar.

• Command + Shift + A: Mute/unmute my sound
• Command + Shift + V: start/stop my video
• Command + Shift + H: show/hide chat
• Command + Shift + M: Minimize meeting
• Command + U: show/hide participant management
• Command + W: close the front window

Written by Dan Grabham. Edited by Luke Baker.