How to Auto Mute on Zoom Calls

As a meeting participant, you can choose to mute your microphone by default when joining a meeting by enabling Mute my microphone when joining a meeting.

Once this setting is enabled, your microphone is automatically disabled/muted upon joining each meeting, and you must manually enable audio to unmute.

Prerequisites for automatically muting your microphone when joining meetings

Zoom desktop client

• Windows: 5.0.0 or higher
• macOS: 5.0.0 or higher
• Linux: 5.0.0 or higher

Zoom mobile app

• Android: 5.0.0 or higher
• iOS: 5.0.0 or higher

To disable audio by default

To enable Mute my microphone when joining a meeting:

• Sign in to the Zoom desktop client.
• Click your profile picture, then click Settings.
• Click Audio audio-button.png.
• Select the Mute my microphone when joining a meeting check box.
• Disable video or audio by default when joining a meeting
• You can also disable audio or video before joining a meeting by toggling the following options after clicking Join.

To disable audio or video before joining a meeting:

• Sign in to the Zoom desktop client and join a meeting.
• Select the Do not connect to audio check box.
• (Optional) Select the Turn off my video check box if you want to disable your video.
• Click Join.