Video conferences with many participants can become confusing. With Zoom and Zoom alternatives such as Skype and Microsoft Teams, the current speaker is usually highlighted or the main display. Depending on the settings on Zoom, however, you’ll only see a few of the other participants. There is a solution to this, though! With the Zoom gallery view you can see more meeting participants on your screen simultaneously. How to see everyone on Zoom will be the topic of this article.
Does this sound familiar? You create a Zoom meeting or join a Zoom meeting and all you see is a list of names. Depending on which speaker is currently active, the video image might jump back and forth between speakers. Wouldn’t it be nice to see all participants at a glance or decide for yourself how Zoom displays the participants of the video conference? Easily done!
There are various layout settings for this. For example, you can pin a video to avoid jumping between active speakers, or you can hide videos without video transmission. It’s possible to minimize or maximize the video chat. To see all participants, you need to use the Zoom gallery view. It allows you to see up to 49 participants at the same time and to scroll to all other Zoom participants by arrow or swipe. Depending on the Zoom version, up to 1,000 participants can attend a meeting!
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The prerequisite for the gallery view on Zoom is that no-one can be sharing their screen on Zoom. If this prerequisite is met, you can see all participants with the following steps in the desktop client or on the app.
In the “normal settings”, the gallery view only shows up to 25 participants. With the following steps you can extend the display up to 49 participants.
If you record a Zoom meeting and have enabled the Zoom gallery view in the process, it will also appear in the recording, but limited to a maximum of 25 participants, and only in the desktop application. Whether participants can be recorded in the gallery view also depends on their recording settings. In the Zoom mobile app, which only supports cloud recording, the gallery view does not appear in the recording.
To return to the “Speaker View”, click the “View” icon again in the upper right corner.
On the iPad, you can see up to 9 or 16 participants at the same time in the gallery view. With the iPad Pro 2020 “11” and iPad Pro 2020 “12.9” you can even see up to 25 participants at the same time.
Touch the screen again and tap the silhouette icon on the left if you want to return to the Speaker View.
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