Release notes for Zoom Rooms for iPad

Upcoming Release

Details about upcoming releases will be posted as they become available. 

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Current Release

June 26, 2022 version 5.11.0

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Whiteboard enhancements
    Users can start a meeting from an open whiteboard, access their whiteboard content, as well as access their existing whiteboards on Zoom Rooms Touch devices.
  • Zoom Rooms Voice Commands
    Zoom Rooms Voice Command accuracy has been improved and is now in general availability.
  • Upgrade alerts for free accounts
    Personal Zoom Room users with a free account will receive a notice when their remaining meeting time reaches ten minutes. The notice includes information on how to upgrade.
  • Proxy Support for Zoom Rooms integrated with Zoom Phone
    Zoom Rooms have proxy capability when Zoom Phone is enabled and configured within the web portal.
  • Turkish and Polish Language support
  • User interface enhancements
    Settings, sign-in, and various sections in the user interface have been updated for Zoom Rooms Controller to match the look and feel of the new user interface.
  • Multiple-day meeting display
    Scheduled meetings that run for multiple days will be displayed on the Zoom Rooms display for each applicable day.
  • Calendar integration parsing enhancement
    Added support for the parsing of calendar invites with 3rd party meetings in multiple languages. This allows for one touch-join of 3rd party meetings, with a non-English invite.
  • Zoom Room API functions
    Organizations can use API commands to answer or decline meeting invites, and mute or unmute microphone input.
  • Spam call indicator
    Users can see a spam call notification if one is detected.
• In-meeting features
  • Disable Broadcast Message from host to breakout rooms
    Admins on the account can now disable the ability for meeting hosts to broadcast messages to all breakout room participants.
  • Multi-pin and multi-spotlight
    With host permission, users will now be able to pin up to 9 participants on their end. The host can also spotlight up to 9 participants for everyone in the meeting.
  • Watermark enhancements
    Meeting hosts can edit the visual watermark, and turn it on or off during a meeting. Watermarks will display the entire email address over a participant’s shared screen and video tile, as well as displayed over their video in most video layouts (Speaker, Gallery, Side-by-side). The watermark is also visibly more apparent as a tiled pattern across the video or shared screen.
  • Toggle participant entry tones
    If the Zoom Room is the meeting host, participant entry tones can be toggled on or off from the room controller.
  • Smart Gallery Improvements
    Remote meeting attendees will be able to see which camera feeds belong to the same Zoom Room. Zoom Room camera feeds will sort together by default. Smart gallery is enabled by tapping Multi-stream on the zoom room controller.
  • Optimized in-meeting chat experience
    The chat interface will not be covered by the meeting interface or the “participant is talking” notification.
  • Optimized user interface
    The meeting interface has been optimized to resemble the standard Zoom Rooms meeting interface.
  • Optimized video utilization
    The video layout has been optimized to make it as large as possible for the iPad screen ratio of 4:3.
  • Breakout rooms management
    Meeting hosts can use the features of breakout rooms with a Zoom Rooms controller or touch screen.
• Controller features
  • Dark Mode for user interface
    Administrators can change the current primarily white background user interface to Dark Mode.
• Zoom for Home features
  • Touch up my appearance
    Gives the picture display a softer focus and enhances digital appearance in real-time when enabled.
  • Shared lines
    The Shared Lines feature allows multiple users to share one extension number for outgoing calls.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

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Previous Releases

Note: The information in the past release notes may have been superseded by subsequent release notes. Please review all current release notes carefully.

April 24, 2022 version 5.10.3 (480)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Zoom Whiteboard
    The virtual whiteboarding experience has been redesigned to bring you the all-new Zoom Whiteboard, a cross-platform visual collaboration solution. With Zoom Whiteboard, you can brainstorm and collaborate on a persistent, expandable, digital canvas. All Zoom Rooms can open, view and save whiteboards from a desktop client paired to the Zoom Room. Zoom Rooms for Touch can also create and save whiteboards. This feature is separate from the “classic” whiteboard feature, which will continue to be available. The administrative controls for the new Zoom Whiteboard on Zoom Rooms are found in the Zoom web portal on the Zoom Rooms account settings page, and on the pages for lower tiers of the Zoom Rooms location hierarchy.
  • Zoom Event tickets
    Zoom Event organizers or hosts can now invite Zoom Rooms that are listed in an organizations directory to an event. The event will appear on the Zoom Room's calendar, which allows users to join the event from the room.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

April 2, 2022 version 5.10.0 (421)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • User interface updates
    The Zoom Rooms user interface (UI) has been updated to provide a more consistent experience. The new UI aligns with the Zoom desktop and mobile clients, matches Zoom’s current branding, and provides an optimized information architecture to better meet user needs. The in-meeting experience has been updated for Windows, Mac, and iPad Zoom Rooms. It has also been updated for Zoom Rooms Appliances and iOS and Android Zoom Rooms controllers. The out-of-meeting experience has been updated for Windows-attached and Web Zoom Rooms controllers. See our blog post for more information. 
  • Support for joining Zoom Events via pairing with Zoom Rooms
    Attendees can start or join live sessions via a Zoom Room that is paired to their Zoom clients on laptops or mobile devices. Start/Join buttons are only accessible on the Zoom client interface. 
  • Hide user personal information in contact details
    Enable this setting to hide users’ personal information in the contact details page. The affected fields are: personal note, company, department, manager, job title, locations, internal number, extension, direct number, phone number, email.
  • Removal of Calendar Integration error message 
    Previously, when a Zoom Room was not linked to a calendar, a prominent error on the Zoom Rooms Controller home page appeared: "This room needs to be connected to a calendar. Contact your Zoom Rooms admin". This error message has been updated to suggest that connection to a calendar is not mandatory. Organizations that do not wish to connect their Zoom Rooms to a calendar can have their admins hide the upcoming meetings list on Zoom Rooms Controllers, which removes the message completely.
• In-meeting features
  • Live transcription (automated captions) notification
    If saving transcripts (captions) is disabled for the meeting, attendees will be notified. 
  • Reclaim host in breakout rooms
    The original meeting host can reclaim the host privileges in a breakout room if they leave and rejoin the meeting. 
  • Additional  chat settings
    Meeting and Webinar hosts can tap the Security button on the Zoom Rooms user interface to set the chat privileges for participants, attendees and panelists.
  • Persistent notification for waiting room
    When an attendee is in the Waiting Room a persistent notification will display on the Zoom Rooms display. 
  • Live streaming notification
    All attendees will see a notification when the meeting or webinar host starts a live stream. Attendees who join the session after the live stream has started will be notified when they enter. 
  • Enhanced in-meeting user abuse reporting 
    Users submitting reports will be required to include their email addresses.
  • Screen sharing indicator
    The green Share Content button on the room controller will change to a red Sharing Content button when a screen share initiated by the Zoom Room is in progress.
  • Web settings for gallery view
    Attending a webinar as a Zoom Room will display  gallery view according to web settings, such as show non-video participants. 
  • Gallery view when an attendee is spotlighted
    Zoom Rooms users can switch to gallery view when an attendee is spotlighted.
  • Language Interpretation relay enhancement
    Language interpreters can listen to either the main audio or another translator’s audio, which can be useful when a translator doesn’t know the main language being spoken, but knows another language the audio is being translated to. This feature must be enabled by Zoom.
• Management features
  • Microsoft calendar authentication notification
    Microsoft plans to disable basic authentication for Microsoft Exchange Web Services for Office 365. If a Zoom Room calendar integration to a Microsoft O365 calendar service encounters authentication errors because of this change, a notification message will display.  Customers are encouraged to update any Zoom Rooms calendar integration with Microsoft O365 to use OAuth instead of basic authentication by re-authorizing their calendar integration in the Zoom admin portal. 
  • OnZoom disclaimer
• Zoom for Home features
  • Support for displaying Zoom Events on the calendar
    After registration, Zoom Events will appear on the user’s calendar with a join option.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

January 25, 2022 version 5.9.4 (280)

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes 
• Security enhancements 

January 9, 2022 version 5.9.3 (279)

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes 

December 28, 2021 version 5.9.0 (253)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Support for Workspace Reservations (Beta) - Win, Mac, Appliances, iPad, iOS zrc, Android zrc
    Users can reserve workspaces and Zoom Rooms on the web, kiosks, and Zoom Room for Touch devices. Users can check into workspaces through the web or on a Zoom Rooms for Touch device. Floor maps showing available and unavailable workspaces can be seen on digital signage, kiosks, and the web.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

December 20, 2021 version 5.9.0 (253)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  
  • Display gender pronouns 
    If enabled by account admins and added to their profile by either the user directly or through SAML mapping, a user’s gender pronouns are displayed in their contact card and as part of their display name in meetings and webinars.
  • Support for joining Google Meet meetings via PEXIP invite SIP URL
    Zoom Rooms can join Google Meet meetings via PEXIP invites with audio and video. Clicking the invite will dial the SIP URL of the meeting. 
• In-meeting features
  
  • Optional Reclaim Host when rejoining
    When the original host of a meeting rejoins, they are now given the option to reclaim host controls or remain as a participant, in order to not disrupt the current host.
  • Profile pictures return when Focus Mode is turned off 
• Management features
  • Support for Graph API
  • Disable phone controls 
    Administrators can disable or enable phone controls on Zoom Rooms controllers for rooms without 3rd party SIP or Zoom Phone entitlement. This setting can be disabled on accounts with an active audio plan. 
  • Disable in-meeting chat 
    Administrators can disable the display of in-meeting chat for Zoom Rooms. 
  • Improvements for Digital Signage 
    Administrators can choose to have Digital Signage content displayed whenever the Zoom Room is not in a meeting. A scheduled meeting will not stop the content from being displayed.  
  • Zoom Rooms kiosk/virtual receptionist 
    Administrators can enable kiosk mode which will allow visitors to use the Zoom Room to call a receptionist.
• Zoom for Home features
  • Support for iPad 
    Zoom for Home features are accessible on iPad devices using the Zoom Rooms Controller app. This requires iPad OS 14.0 or later. 

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes