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Acandy13
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Jul 9, 2023 5:32 PM UTC
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Zoom Telling me I have to wait 10 minutes to Start New Meeting

Hello - for the first time ever, I was told I had to wait 10 minutes to start my meeting back up again (I use the free Zoom account). This happened after the 40 minute limit. 

 

Did new rules go into play today for Zoom? (7/9/23)?

 

If not, how do I avoid this? 

 

 

    CarlaA
    CarlaAAnswer
    Employee
    Jul 18, 2023 4:07 PM UTC

     

    Hi everyone!

    I understand how frustrating it can be to experience sudden disruptions during your Zoom meetings, especially when it affects your professional commitments. However, I'd like to clarify that the behavior you encountered is not an error message but rather a limitation of the free basic meetings on Zoom.

     

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    Carla,
    Zoom Community Team

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    farhan2023
    Newcomer
    Aug 27, 2023 12:52 AM UTC

    I experienced the same today and used discord instead of. I will move totally to discord or Google meet for this.

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      JN-admin
      Newcomer
      Sep 4, 2023 8:25 AM UTC

      I met with 10 minute pause after last update today and its frustrating to wait 10 minute. I say bye-bye to ZOOM i  hope. This platform was very good for meetings, but I didnt make money with meetings, so I need to find another way for meetings. 

      I hope the lost customers will be good experience for ZOOM team and its good advertise for other platforms, to get new customers.

       

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        heyheyzoomer
        Newcomer
        Oct 22, 2023 3:18 PM UTC

        Wait time is still in effect.

        Hey ZOOM, are you going to change back to zero wait time? No other product does this.

          If not, I'll have to switch to alternate free apps with no wait time.

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          lpoole
          Newcomer
          Jan 17, 2025 10:49 PM UTC

          My problem is that the audio did not work for either party. Now we had to wait 10 minutes to try again. But the audio did not work that time either. Instead of waiting another 10 minutes, I just made a phone call. The 10 minute wait should only apply if the meeting was successful, i.e. both audio and video were working for both parties.

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          VasilisNikolo
          Explorer
          May 10, 2025 11:30 AM UTC

          For  some  free  users  there  is not any  10 minutes  /waiting  limitation?Why?

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