Here’s how Zoom is set to ‘change’ from May 30

No one would blame you if you hadn’t heard of Zoom on March 1. But this is a different world than it was 80 days back. Now, Zoom is a household name with working professionals, teachers, students — everyone relying on it to get their work done. Despite its widespread popularity, Zoom has had its fair share of security and privacy issues. Perhaps that’s why the app has been updating and introducing new features routinely. The company has now announced that its users need to update to the latest version — Zoom 5.0 — for enhanced features and better security features before May 30 for the platform to work properly. Here is everything that is new in Zoom’s latest update:

Beginning May 30, 2020, all Zoom clients must be on 5.0+ in order to join any meeting,

In the blog post, Zoom said that at the end of next month — from June 30 — it will have encryption between Zoom Rooms Controller and Zoom Rooms.

In order to ensure your Zoom Rooms are running properly by June 30, 2020, you would need the following OS running on your devices:

• iOS: 4.3.33237.0924
• Android: 4.3.33237.0925
• Windows: 4.3.13234.0925

As per a blog post, Zoom said that the minimum default password length will be six characters for meetings, webinars, and cloud recordings.

Meeting hosts and co-hosts can report a user in their meeting who is misusing the Zoom platform

Zoom has refined the action of ending or leaving a meeting, thanks to the new UI update which will be available on May 30

Zoom meeting hosts will now have the option to not allow participants to show their profile picture and even prevent them from changing it during a Zoom meeting/call

The security icon will enable meeting hosts to lock/unlock meetings, enable/disable waiting rooms, enable/disable in-meeting chat, enable/disable participant renaming, enable/disable screen sharing, remove a participant, and report a participants.