Raising your hand in webinars and meetings
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The raise hand feature in meetings and webinars allows meeting participants, attendees, panelists, co-hosts, and the host to raise their hands to indicate that they need something from the host, co-host, or other panelists. As a host, it may be helpful to inform your participants how you would like to use this feature at the start of the meeting or webinar. For example, many webinar hosts use this feature to know if an attendee has a question and would like to be unmuted to speak.
Prerequisites for using the raise hand feature in a webinar or meeting
To raise your hand in a meeting or webinar:
- Zoom desktop client for Windows, macOS, or Linux: Global minimum version or higher
- Zoom mobile app for Android or iOS: Global minimum version or higher
- Zoom web client
To manage participants with raised hands:
- Webinar host, co-host, or panelist role
- Host permissions in the meeting, or co-host permission (set by the host)
- Zoom desktop client for Windows, macOS, or Linux: Global minimum version or higher
- Zoom mobile app for Android or iOS: Global minimum version or higher
How to raise your hand in a webinar or meeting
- In the meeting/webinar controls, click Reactions
, then click Raise Hand
.
The host will be notified that you've raised your hand.
If the host allows you to talk, you may be prompted to unmute yourself. While unmuted, your profile picture and name are displayed to the host and panelists. Only your name is displayed to other attendees. - In the meeting/webinar controls, click Lower Hand to lower it, if needed.
This will not mute yourself if you are unmuted.
Note: Users can also raise or lower their hand with the Alt+Y (Windows) or Option+Y (macOS) keyboard shortcuts.
- In the meeting/webinar controls, click Reactions
, then click Raise Hand
.
The host will be notified that you've raised your hand.
If the host allows you to talk, you may be prompted to unmute yourself. While unmuted, your profile picture and name are displayed to the host and panelists. Only your name is displayed to other attendees. - In the meeting/webinar controls, click Lower Hand to lower it, if needed.
This will not mute yourself if you are unmuted.
- In the meeting/webinar controls, tap Reactions
, then tap Raise Hand
.
The host will be notified that you've raised your hand. - If the host allows you to talk, you may be prompted to unmute yourself. While unmuted, your profile picture and name are displayed to the host and panelists. Only your name is displayed to other attendees.
- Tap Reactions
again, then tap Lower Hand to lower it, if needed.
This will not mute yourself if you are unmuted.
- In the meeting/webinar controls, tap Reactions
then tap Raise Hand
.
The host will be notified that you've raised your hand. - If the host allows you to talk, you may be prompted to unmute yourself. While unmuted, your profile picture and name are displayed to the host and panelists. Only your name is displayed to other attendees.
- Tap Reactions
again, then tap Lower Hand to lower it, if needed.
This will not mute yourself if you are unmuted.
- In the meeting/webinar controls, click Reactions
, then click Raise Hand
.
The host will be notified that you've raised your hand.
If the host allows you to talk, you may be prompted to unmute yourself. While unmuted, your profile picture and name are displayed to the host and panelists.
Note: Only your name is displayed to other attendees. - In the meeting/webinar controls, click Lower Hand to lower it, if needed.
This will not mute yourself if you are unmuted.
If you join the webinar by phone, dial *9 to raise and lower your hand.
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