Webex App | About the Webex Suite meeting platform (2024)

Higher resolution videos in meetings—Windows and Mac

During a meeting, the app now smartly adjusts the quality of the videos based on your device's screen resolution. It all depends on the capability of your computer and how large the app window is on your screen. Make the app window bigger and enjoy those crisp, clear videos.

Webex App | Change your video layout during a meeting

Whiteboards in end-to-end encrypted meetings—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

You can now share new whiteboards in end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) meetings.

See Webex App | Share a whiteboard during a meeting

Annotations in end-to-end encrypted meetings—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

You can now annotate on content that someone else is sharing in an end-to-end encrypted meeting.

See Webex App | Mark up shared content with annotations

Simplified meeting join page—Web

If you're a guest user joining a meeting from a web browser, we've got some great news! The option to join the meeting through the browser is now as prominent as the option to download the app.

See Join a Webex meeting using the meeting link

Better accessibility with fewer pop-ups in meetings—Windows and Mac

We tidied up our meeting interface by removing pop-up messages for features that were introduced before the latest release. This makes the app more accessible and creates a smoother experience for you.

If you're curious about any of the features we released earlier, find all the details in by clicking Help > What's New in the navigation sidebar of the app.

See Webex App | Accessibility support features

Google Pixel Fold support—Android

We fine-tuned Webex App for Android to work with your Pixel Fold phone. Now, you can enjoy the convenience of folded screen mode and then unfold your phone for a more immersive, collaborative experience on a larger screen.

See Webex App | Download the Desktop or Mobile App

Support new Jabra headset and headset dongle models—Windows and Mac

If you want to upgrade your audio experience in meetings, we now support the Jabra Engage 50 II headset and the Jabra Link 390 headset dongle.

See Webex App | Details about headset support

Remind invited users not in the meeting to join—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Web

Have you ever been in a meeting and realized that a few folks you invited haven't shown up yet? If you're hosting or cohosting the meeting, you can give them a gentle nudge to hop in. Take a peek at the list of people who aren't in the meeting and select their names. They get a friendly email reminder that includes a handy link to join the meeting right away.

If you use your Personal Room for the meeting, only invitees from organizations that have Common Identity appear in the list of people who aren’t in the meeting.

See Webex App | Remind invitees to join an in-progress meeting

Let others know when you step away from the meeting—Windows and Mac

If you need to answer the doorbell or grab a glass of water, now you can give the other participants a heads up. Manually set your status to Stepped away or set the app to automatically switch to Stepped away when you move away from your camera for a while.

When you step away, we mute your microphone, turn off your video, and replace your profile picture with an image of a hot beverage and the text, Stepped away. This lets other participants know you're temporarily away from the meeting.

See Webex App | Step away from a meeting

Easily switch between multiple shared files and a whiteboard during a meeting—Windows and Mac

If you're juggling multiple shared files or bouncing between a whiteboard and the files, things just got a whole lot smoother. Now you can seamlessly switch between different shared files on the fly, without interrupting your presentation.

When you're ready to switch to another file or the whiteboard, click You're sharing… above the shared content.

See Webex App | Switch between shared files and a whiteboard during a meeting

We changed the default value of "Connect to audio without pressing 1"—Windows and Mac

Great news for those who use the Call me option for audio during meetings on Windows and Mac. You no longer have to check Connect to audio without pressing 1. This option is now checked by default. Enjoy your meetings with one less click.

Annotate on camera content shared during a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Now, when someone shares their camera in a meeting, both the presenter and other participants can annotate on the shared content.

You or the presenter can save a PDF snapshot of the annotations.

When you share a camera, you control who can annotate. Allow all participants to annotate, have others ask for approval to annotate, or block all requests so only you can annotate.

See Webex App | Mark up shared content with annotations

Annotate on files shared during a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When someone shares a file from a mobile device, you see a preview of that file. Now, you can also annotate on what you see. You or the presenter can save a PDF of the annotated view at any time.

See Webex App | Mark up shared content with annotations

Annotate on files shared during a meeting—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

Now, when someone shares a file in a meeting, both the presenter and other participants can annotate on the file. You can even mark up a different page than the one that the presenter’s currently sharing.

You or the presenter can save a PDF copy of the file that includes all the annotations.

See Webex App | Mark up shared content with annotations

Start multiple calls or meetings simultaneously from Webex App—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

Good news for multitaskers. With the latest update on Webex App VDI, you can make or answer calls right in the middle of a meeting. Or, if you're already on a call, you can hop into a meeting whenever you need to.

And there's more: The performance on your thin client just got a turbo boost. We're talking smoother experiences with CPU, GPU, and memory usage slashed to just a third of what they used to be.

Hear a beep when you mute or unmute yourself—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

The beep provides confirmation that you muted or unmuted yourself. Only you can hear the sound. Not other meeting participants. If you prefer, turn off the beep.

See Webex App | Turn off the beep you hear when you mute or unmute yourself

Keep your meetings and calls going smoothly in Webex App—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

When you're in a meeting or on a call, Webex App prevents sleep mode activation for your virtual desktop (HVD) server or thin client. This makes sure you have a stable and continuous connection throughout the duration of your meeting or call, without interruption.

No more worrying about warning messages for version mismatches in the Health Checker—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

Now, if the Webex App version on your hosted virtual desktop (HVD) and the plug-in version on your thin client play well together, you see a friendly green check mark in the Health Checker—even if they're not the exact same version.

We’re launching a new experience to share files—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

• Present with ease when multiple presenters take turns—It can be time consuming to transition among presenters when you’re taking turns to present content in a slide deck. Our new Take control feature makes it easy for multiple presenters to transition seamlessly when they present.
• Catch-up on what’s presented during a meeting—As an attendee, sometimes you want to go back to a previous slide or read ahead. Now you can, without interrupting the presenter. Switch back to the presenter view when you’re ready.

See Webex App | Share a file in a meeting, Webex App | Take turns presenting a file in a meeting, and Webex App | Browse through a file someone's sharing in a meeting

Answer a call to your video address during a meeting—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

Be in two places at once and answer important calls without leaving a meeting. Just put your audio and video on pause in the meeting and then take the call. When you finish the call, go back to the meeting without having to rejoin.

See Webex App | Answer a call to your video address during a meeting

AI Assistant in meetings—Windows and Mac

Sometimes you may join a meeting late, need to step away for a moment, or you're multitasking and get distracted. With AI Assistant, you can now quickly catch up on what you've missed with meeting summaries, understand what's being discussed, ask questions without disturbing the meeting, and stay on top of the conversation. You also receive a summary and transcript after the meeting, without having to record.

AI Assistant is only available on the Webex Suite meeting platform. Your administrator must also have this feature enabled. It will be on a delayed release schedule.

See Webex App | Cisco AI Assistant in meetings

See higher resolution video thumbnails in meetings—Windows and Mac

In stack and side-by-side layouts, when you drag the resize handle between the video thumbnails and the stage, the app now dynamically adjusts the size of the thumbnails to accommodate higher resolution videos.

See Webex App | Change your video layout during a meeting

External USB camera support—iPad

Great news if you're using Webex App on your iPad—it now supports USB-C external cameras. All you need is to be running iPadOS 17 or later, and you can hook up an external USB camera.

See Webex App | Use an external camera for calls or meetings on your iPad

Allow participants to hear the meeting in their preferred language—Web

As a host, use simultaneous interpretation to create language channels, invite interpreters, and assign them to languages. Interpreters select the source language for interpretation, change the interpretation direction, and hand off interpretation to the next interpreter.

Inactive interpreters can request that the active interpreter hand off to them.

See Simultaneous interpretation in Webex meetings, webinars and Personal Rooms

Show meetings in calendar list view when messaging is unavailable—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

View meetings in your calendar list when messaging is unavailable in the app, this includes all active instant meetings, and Personal Room meetings. For ongoing meetings, you can see the join button and review the participant list.

Enhancements to calendar settings—iPhone, iPad, and Android

We’ve improved the way you view your meetings on mobile. You can choose to just see the meetings that are connected to your Webex account or you can include the calendars that are on your device, for example your calendar app on Apple devices. These toggles are available at Settings > Calendar and they only hide or show the meetings, you’re not disconnected from your calendars.

Annotate on files shared during a meeting—Windows and Mac

Now, when someone shares a file in a meeting, both the presenter and other participants can annotate on the file. You can even mark up a different page than the one that the presenter’s currently sharing.

Don't worry about losing the annotations when the meeting ends. Both you and the presenter can save a PDF copy of the file that includes all the annotations.

When you share a file, you control who can annotate. Allow all participants to annotate, have others ask for approval to annotate, or block all requests so only you can annotate.

See Webex App | Mark up shared content with annotations

Automatically accept requests for remote desktop control—Windows and Mac

If more than one person is training you or helping you to resolve an IT issue, they can now take control of your desktop without each person having to wait for your go-ahead.

A new setting on the share control bar allows you to automatically accept all requests for desktop control. Click More sharing options > Remote control privilege > Automatically accept requests.

See Webex App | Provide or request remote desktop control

Your pronouns now show in meetings—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you set your pronouns to show in Webex App, they’re now visible next to your name in the participants panel and in your thumbnail video.

See Webex App | Set your pronouns

Associate a meeting with a space—Windows and Mac

Create a space when you schedule a meeting or add a space when your meeting ends. Everyone invited can share files and collaborate before and after the meeting.

We changed the default panel behavior in the Cisco predefined Session Type "Pro Meeting" with ID = 3—Windows and Mac

Before this release, the panels were set to Open by default. To make the meeting interface more streamlined, we’ve now set the panels to Closed by default.

This is because we’ve changed the default behavior of the panels in the Cisco predefined Session Type "Pro Meeting" with ID = 3. You can think of a Session Type as a meeting template that your Webex administrator uses.

If your organization uses other Session Types or custom Session Types, nothing’s changing there. And the default behavior of all existing custom Session Types doesn’t change either.

Enhance your annotation experience by using the text tool—Windows VDI, Mac VDI, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Good news for VDI and mobile users! Now you can use the text tool when you annotate on shared content. It’s much easier to use your keyboard to type than draw text with your mouse or the pointer.

See Webex App | Mark up shared content with annotations

Annotate on shared content—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

If you want to highlight or point out something that you’re sharing, draw right on the screen or application window. Use the pen or disappearing ink, which fades away after a few seconds. Optionally, allow other participants to annotate on the shared content too.

See Webex App | Mark up shared content with annotations

Access all the meeting controls when you’re presenting—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

Now, when you're presenting content, you can access all the meeting controls, not just a few, from the floating video panel.

If the floating video panel is taking up too much screen space, collapse it. Need it again? Expand it with one click.

With these changes, we aim to give you more control and flexibility during your presentations.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Remote control when sharing an application window—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

During a meeting, you can request or receive control of someone's shared application window.

See Webex App | Provide or request remote desktop control

Join meetings faster with Apple universal link support—Mac

Webex has applied Apple universal link technology to Webex join meeting links. Now, when you click a meeting link from your calendar, email, or Webex App, the meeting preview window opens directly. A browser window doesn’t open first so you join the meeting quicker.

Protect your organization's content by adding watermarks to participant videos and shared content—Windows and Mac

Deter participants from leaking meeting information. As a meeting host, have Webex superimpose a watermark image pattern over all the meeting video and shared content. Each participant who views the meeting sees a watermark image pattern with their own email address. If the participant isn’t signed into Webex, the watermark image pattern includes their display name and their email address. Your organization can choose to add the meeting number as part of the watermark.

You pick the opacity of the watermark, so that the image pattern is an effective deterrent but doesn’t cause too much distraction.

When you add visual watermarks, your organization may prevent recording the meeting.

See Webex App| Add visual watermarks to shared content in a meeting

Request to annotate or remote control from the context menu—Windows and Mac

When someone's sharing content, now there’s another way to ask the presenter for permission to annotate the shared content or control their shared screen. Simply right-click on the shared content and click Annotate or Request remote control.

These options are in addition to the Annotate and Request control icons that appear above the shared content.

See Webex App | Provide or request remote desktop control and Webex App | Mark up a shared screen with annotations

Upload up to 10 virtual background images—Windows and Mac

Now you can upload up to 10 images to use as virtual backgrounds in your meetings. This is a big step up from the previous limit of three images. So go ahead and choose your favorite images to add some personal flair to your next meeting.

See Webex App | Use a virtual or blurred background in calls and meetings

Meet instantly with a one-time link—Windows and Mac

Start a meeting immediately with a unique one-time meeting link. Invite other people to join by sending them the meeting link without all the steps needed to schedule a meeting.

On the Meetings tab, you see Start a Webex meeting, the default action starts a one-time meeting link or you can click the drop-down list to select Start a Personal Room meeting.

Your administrator configures the available options.

Use Webex on Apple TV 4K (2nd generation or later)

Webex App makes it easy for you to collaborate and engage with your team on your biggest screen, whether it's in the office or your living room. Use your Siri Remote to view your upcoming meetings and join when it's meeting time.

See Webex App | Use Webex on Apple TV 4K (2nd generation or later)

Choose a custom meeting password—Android

When you schedule a meeting, you can choose if you want to use a custom meeting password or a generated password. The custom password is validated to ensure it meets the criteria for a secure password.

See Webex App | Schedule a meeting from the meetings calendar

Use Webex on your Apple Watch

Easily join Webex meetings with just a tap on your wrist device.

See Webex App | Use Webex on your Apple Watch

Customize the lobby—Windows, Mac, and Web

When you host a meeting and have people wait in the lobby before you admit them, create an engaging experience for them while they wait.

Add a welcome message, banner image, logo, and an image or video that promotes your organization or the meeting topic.

See Webex App | Customize the lobby

View embedded apps on passive devices

Passive devices are devices with no touch capabilities, such as Room Series devices.

If you join a meeting on a passive device, when a participant opens an app, you now see a screen share of the app session.

Sharing content takes priority over sharing the app. So, if someone shares content, you no longer see the app session.

This feature is available when someone starts a Stage View app from Webex App for Windows or Mac.

Access all the meeting controls when you’re presenting—Windows and Mac

Now, when you're presenting content, you can access all the meeting controls, not just a few, from the floating video panel. If you want to save some screen space taken by the floating video panel, collapse it. Need it again? Expand it with one click.

With these changes, we aim to give you more control and flexibility during your presentations.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Use Webex on Apple Vision Pro

Connect with others in an immersive Webex meeting environment that fills the space around you. View and join upcoming meetings. Pop out individual participant videos or shared content and resize them to life size.

See Webex App | Use Webex on Apple Vision Pro

Remote control when sharing an application window—Windows and Mac

During a meeting, you can request or receive control of someone's shared application window.

See Webex App | Remote desktop control when sharing an application window

Enhance your annotation experience by using the text tool—Windows and Mac

Good news for desktop users! Now you can use the text tool when you annotate on shared content. It’s much easier to use your keyboard to type than draw text with your mouse.

See Webex App | Mark up a shared screen with annotations

Join a meeting when already on a call—Windows and Mac

When you're on a call with your IT support and they need you to share your screen or give them remote control of your computer, they can request you to join a meeting simultaneously. Your audio remains on the original call, but you can actively participate in the meeting.

Share files with up to 200 pages—Windows and Mac

During a meeting, you can now share files with up to 200 pages. The previous limit of 50 pages is a thing of the past.

If you use an earlier version of Webex App and someone shares a file with more than 50 pages, you'll only be able to see the first 50 pages. We recommend that you update your Webex App to the latest version.

See Webex App | Share a file in a meeting

Participants panel now honors the Session Type settings—Windows and Mac

Your organization administrator can customize Session Type settings, which include setting the default behavior of the participants panel. If the participants panel's default behavior is set as Open in the session type, you see the participants panel when you start or join a meeting.

We've no meetings features this month. Look through earlier releases below for features.

Use Webex smart audio on macOS Sonoma

In macOS Sonoma (macOS 14), Apple added Mic Modes to the main system bar when there’s an active microphone. This feature appears on Mac models from 2018 and later.

Mic Modes take effect before the audio is provided to Webex App and can conflict with your smart audio settings. To ensure the best audio quality, we recommend you use Standard mic mode with Webex App and control your microphone optimizations with our smart audio settings.

If you select a mic mode that lowers the audio quality of the smart audio setting you select, a prompt appears with a link to change the mic mode.

Access chat while you share your screen—Windows and Mac

If you want to chat with participants while you share your screen, now it's convenient. In the floating window, click More meeting controls > Chat to open the chat panel.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Clean mode when sharing content—Windows and Mac

When you share content during a meeting, you can choose Hide Webex controls and panels from More sharing options . This mode hides the share control bar, the floating video window, and the chat and participants panels. Alternatively, you can use the Ctrl+Shift+Q shortcut to switch on or off clean mode, or click Esc to exit clean mode.

See Webex App | Hide the Webex controls and panels while sharing content

Move participants to the lobby from a breakout session—Windows and Mac

If you're the meeting host or cohost and you need to talk privately to some of the participants in a breakout session, temporarily move the other participants to the lobby. Admit them back into the breakout session when ready.

Participants waiting in the lobby can't hear or see any of the shared content or interact with anyone in the main meeting or breakout sessions.

See Webex App | Move participants to the lobby during a meeting

View type of content shared—Windows, Mac, iPhone, and iPad

When somebody shares content, you see more information on the type of content. For example, when the content shared is their screen, you see Viewing [presenter name]’s screen or if it’s an application Viewing [presenter name]’s application.

Share an existing whiteboard in a meeting—VDI

If you prepare a whiteboard before the meeting or previously closed a whiteboard during the meeting, now you can share it in the meeting.

If you scheduled the meeting from a space, participants can view the whiteboards from that space and share them.

See Webex App | Share a whiteboard during a meeting

Use Webex App for Amazon WorkSpaces—Windows VDI and Mac VDI

We now offer extended support for virtual desktops with a dedicated Webex plug-in for Amazon WorkSpaces. The plug-in optimizes your audio and video experience when you use Webex App with an Amazon WorkSpaces Windows client.

Webex App supports built-in meeting scheduler—Web

You can schedule a meeting in Webex App for web. The new layout includes basic settings and advanced settings. If your administrator has configured Hybrid Calendar, you can see invitees and their free or busy calendars.

New device pair settings—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

The device pair settings are redesigned to provide greater flexibility, to decide whether to use the microphone to detect and connect to nearby devices based on your individual needs. You can connect to devices using the redesigned Device panel style available when you click Connect to a device.

In some cases, the options are under the control of the administrator.

See Webex | Connect to a Webex App device

Customizable keyboard shortcuts for reactions in-meeting—Mac

Use keyboard shortcuts to open the reactions panel and navigate the panel using the up and down arrow keys to view the shortcuts. Use keyboard shortcuts to render a reaction in the meeting. Customize keyboard shortcuts for up to 5 reactions from the reactions panel.

See Webex App | Keyboard navigation and shortcuts

Whiteboard can now be used in breakout sessions—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Whiteboard is available in breakout sessions. You now have the same experience as a meeting, where you and can start a new whiteboard or share an existing one.

Full featured right-click menu on the participants list—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

More actions are added into the "..." on a participants menu, so that when you right click on a participant, the menu shows up.

See Webex App | Manage participants in your meeting

Webex supports sign language interpretation in meetings—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Host more inclusive, accessible meetings by including sign language interpretation. When you schedule or during a meeting, select a sign language channel and assign interpreters.

If you’re a meeting participant who’s deaf or hard of hearing, select the sign language channel in the meeting. Then, view the interpreter on the stage or, on desktop, you can pop out the sign language interpreter's video and resize it or move it to another screen.

Interpreters can view the participants who select their sign language channel, either on the stage or, on desktop, in a separate window.

See Webex App | Use sign language interpretation in a meeting

New dedicated device controls panel—Windows and Mac

When you join a meeting connected to a device, the device controls panel lets you mute or unmute the device, start or stop the device video, change the device volume, and select a different video layout for the device.

You can conveniently access the device controls from the floating mini window that appears when you're multitasking.

When someone shares content, it now appears both on the device and in the meeting window.

Show participant videos both in the meeting window and on the device—Windows and Mac

When you join a meeting connected to a device, you can now show participant thumbnail videos on both the device and in the meeting window.

This option, which appears on the new device controls panel, lets you have a clearer view of participants on your desktop.

You can change the video layout on both the device and the meeting window.

Claim the host privileges in a meeting with the host key—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

If the meeting host is running late or can’t join a meeting, they can have somebody else take over the host role in the meeting by providing them with the host key.

If someone gives you the host key, enter it after you join the meeting. The host key gives you more privileges than you have as an attendee. For example, you can record the meeting, mute or unmute participants, and end the meeting.

If the original host joins the meeting later, they reclaim the host role from you.

See Webex App | Reclaim the host role in a meeting using the host key

Share Webex App now shares the meeting window and all floating windows—Windows and Mac

If you're training someone or demonstrating how to use Webex App, you want them to see all the Webex App-related controls and dialog boxes. When you share the app, participants can now see the meeting window, share control bar, preview window, and panels.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Hear a beep when you mute or unmute yourself—Windows and Mac

The beep provides confirmation that you muted or unmuted yourself. Only you can hear the sound. Not other meeting participants.

If you prefer, turn off the beep in Settings > Notifications > Meetings.

See Webex App | Turn off the beep you hear when you mute or unmute yourself

Copy and paste text during a remote desktop control session—Windows and Mac

If someone gives you remote access to their computer, now you can copy text from your local computer and paste it into the remote computer. Conversely, you can copy text from the remote computer and paste it into the local computer.

This can help you troubleshoot issues if you’re an IT Support person, and you want to copy commands.

See Webex App | Provide or request remote desktop control

Enhancements to in-app scheduler settings—Windows and Mac

We’ve made some improvements to the wordings for settings available for auto admit. We’ve renamed Auto admit in the advanced settings to Join rules. There are other setting updates to make it clearer who the settings apply to and the corresponding admin settings in Control Hub are also updated. There are no functionality changes.

Enhancements to all day events—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you have an all-day event, in the Meetings tab you see it in a new All day section at the top. When you have more than one event, on iPhone and iPad, you can drag and move the separator up and down to view more or less all-day events. On Android, you can tap the arrow under All day to expand the view of all day events.

Use picture-in-picture to show your video when you share content—iPhone and iPad

Create a more personal and engaging experience when you share content in a meeting. Turn on picture-in-picture so participants can see your video in a floating window when you share.

If you prefer to hide your video when you share, turn off picture-in-picture.

See Webex App | Hide the floating mini window when multitasking during a call or meeting

Next meeting on top—Android

We've made some improvements to what you see on the Meetings tab. Your latest meeting is on top, this could be an ongoing meeting or one that's about to start. You can still scroll back to see previous meetings or scroll forward to see upcoming meetings.

Share and collaborate on 3D models during a meeting—Android

Showcase your 3D model to a wider audience, such as students, potential customers, investors, or partners. Choose a 3D AR object from your Android phone, Android tablet, Google Drive, or One Drive. As you interact with the model, meeting participants can offer feedback on the design, functionality, and aesthetics.

You can share GL Transmission Format (.glb and .gltf) files. You can't annotate shared 3d models.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

VoiceOver and keyboard support for self-view in meetings—Mac

Control your self-view video during a meeting by using the VoiceOver screen reader. If you’re a keyboard user, use the F6 and arrow keys to focus on and then move your self-view video.

See Webex App | Accessibility features for Mac

Share an existing whiteboard in a meeting—Window, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you prepare a whiteboard before the meeting or previously closed a whiteboard during the meeting, now you can share it in the meeting.

If you scheduled the meeting from a space, participants can view the whiteboards from that space and share them.

See Webex App | Share a whiteboard during a meeting

Get a better view of the meeting by hiding the meeting controls—Windows and Mac

Maximize the space available for participant videos or shared content during a meeting by hiding the meeting controls. You can always show the meeting controls whenever you want to use them.

See Webex App | Hide the meeting controls during a meeting

Long press to respond to meetings—iPhone, iPad, and Android

In an earlier release, we added the ability to respond to meeting invites in the meeting details page. With this update, you can respond in the Meetings tab. Long press a meeting to respond and choose Accept, Tentative, Decline.

Hear an audio announcement when a meeting transcript is recording

If your Webex administrator has enabled saving transcripts in meetings, and you dial into the meeting using your phone, when someone turns on closed captions or the Webex Assistant, you now hear the audio announcement, "The meeting transcript is being recorded."

The new announcement accompanies the notification that appears in the meeting window.

Respond to meeting invites—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Choose how to respond to meetings from the meetings details. Accept, decline or, if you’re not sure, choose tentative.

Access more options from each participant’s thumbnail video—Windows and Mac

Now, it’s more convenient to chat directly with someone in a meeting or view their people insights profile. In their thumbnail video, right-click or click More options to access these and other options.

See Webex App | Chat in a meeting or breakout session and Webex App | View people insights profiles

Updated first-time experience for Meetings tab—Windows and Mac

We’ve added banners to prompt you to test a Webex meeting and connect a calendar. Click Test a Webex meeting to start a meeting where you can try out the features that are available to you. Click Connect your calendar to step you through connecting your third-party calendar. See Webex App | Connect your Google or Microsoft 365 calendar.

Update a scheduled meeting—Windows and Mac

When your account is set up with Hybrid Calendar, you can update a scheduled meeting in Webex App.

Allow participants to hear the meeting in their preferred language with simultaneous interpretation—VDI

As a host or cohost, use simultaneous interpretation to create language channels, invite interpreters, and assign them to languages. Interpreters select the source language for interpretation, change the interpretation direction, and hand off interpretation to the next interpreter. With our enhanced work flow, inactive interpreters can request that the active interpreter hand off interpretation to them, otherwise they go in the order that the host set.

See Simultaneous interpretation in Webex meetings, webinars, and Personal Rooms

Automatically hear the original meeting audio when it’s in your language with simultaneous interpretation—VDI

When the original audio is in the same language as the interpretation channel that you subscribe to, and the interpreter stops speaking in that channel, you automatically hear 100-percent original audio (floor audio) after a few seconds.

When the interpreter starts speaking in that channel again, you hear the volume balance of interpreter/original audio according to what’s set. You can change it according to your preference.

See Select your preferred language audio channel in Webex meetings and webinars

Playback bar revamp for the recording player—Windows and Mac

To enhance the ease of playback experience, the playback bar for the recording player is being enhanced to prioritize capabilities that help you skim through a recording faster. This involves changing the position and icons of capabilities like playback speed, follow speaker, edit recording, and volume control for better access.

Updated first-time experience for Meetings tab—iPhone, iPad, and Android

We’ve added banners to prompt you to test a Webex meeting and connect a calendar. Test a Webex meeting starts a meeting where you can try out the features that are available to you. The connect a calendar banner redirects you to the Calendar Settings page in the app where you can better understand your calendar connections and even connect to your device's local calendar app.

Enhancement to meetings settings—Windows and Mac

Meetings settings now include the source for your meetings list. For example, when you’re not connected to a calendar, you’ll see that the meeting list is from your Webex account.

Improvements for scheduler in the Meetings tab—Windows and Mac

When you schedule a meeting, we included the day of the week to make it clearer what day you’re choosing for your meeting.

For custom passwords, we added all the password requirements to make it clearer how to create a secure meeting password.

Link in location—iPhone, iPad, and Android

For any valid URL added in the meeting location field, provide a link in the meetings detail page to make it easy to tap.

More ways to manage participants from their thumbnail video—Windows and Mac

If you’re the meeting host or cohost, no need to search the participants list to make someone the presenter, mute or unmute their audio, or stop their video. Now you can do all that by clicking More options in their thumbnail video.

See Make someone a presenter

Cohosts can record meetings in the cloud—Windows, Mac, Linux, VDI, iPhone, iPad, and Android

We’re excited to announce that we’re allowing cohosts to record a meeting in the cloud. This makes it easy to record a meeting if the host isn’t available or is busy during the meeting.

Cohosts have the same capabilities that a host has. They can start, stop, or pause the recording. After the meeting ends, the host still owns the recording. The recording is shared automatically with the cohosts within the organization.

If you prefer, your Webex administrator can also allow meeting participants to record meetings in the cloud.

See Webex | Record a meeting in the cloud

Annotate on shared content—Windows and Mac

If you want to highlight or point out something that you’re sharing, draw right on the screen or application window. Use the pen or disappearing ink, which fades away after a few seconds.

Optionally, allow other participants to annotate on the shared content too.

See Webex App | Mark up a shared screen with annotations

Run two instances of your app side-by-side—iPad

Take advantage of your iPad's ability to multitask so you can focus on specific meeting content. Split shared content, the participants panel, or the chat panel into its own window on your iPad screen so you don't miss anything. If you attached a monitor to your iPad, move the second window to its own screen to give yourself more room to see what's going on. For select iPad models, use the iPad's Stage Manager for easier multitasking.

See Show meeting content in multiple windows on iPad

Play a notification sound when someone’s waiting in the lobby—VDI

If you lock your meeting, sometimes it’s difficult to notice when someone’s waiting in the lobby to join.

Hosts and cohosts can now choose to the app play a sound on their computer when someone enters the lobby.

You only hear the sound when you're the host or cohost. The sound only plays once every 10 seconds, regardless of how many users have entered the lobby.

See Webex App | Play a notification sound when someone is waiting in the lobby

Hide the participant video and meeting control panel when you’re sharing content—VDI

In a meeting, if you prefer to see only the content that you’re sharing, you can now hide the floating panel that contains participant videos and the meeting controls.

In earlier releases, you had the option to collapse the panel but now you can hide it completely if you prefer if you prefer the panel to be out of your way.

To show the panel again, press Ctrl + Alt + P (Windows) or Shift + ⌥ + P (Mac).

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Fit your camera video in self view—VDI

In earlier releases, if your camera video used a 4:3 aspect ratio, Webex cropped your self view to a 16:9 aspect ratio to fit the frame. With our new Zoom to fit setting, we preserve your full camera video. Preview what your self-view video looks like in Settings > Video.

If you prefer to preserve the 4:3 aspect ratio, uncheck this setting.

See Webex App | Fit your camera video in self-view

Allow participants to hear the meeting in their preferred language with simultaneous interpretation—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

As a host or cohost, use simultaneous interpretation to create language channels, invite interpreters, and assign them to languages. Interpreters select the source language for interpretation, change the interpretation direction, and hand off interpretation to the next interpreter. With our enhanced work flow, inactive interpreters can request that the active interpreter hand off interpretation to them, otherwise they go in the order that the host set.

See Simultaneous interpretation in Webex meetings, webinars, and Personal Rooms

Automatically hear the original meeting audio when it’s in your language with simultaneous interpretation—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

When the original audio is in the same language as the interpretation channel that you subscribe to, and the interpreter stops speaking in that channel, you automatically hear 100 percent original audio (floor audio) after a few seconds.

When the interpreter starts speaking in that channel again, you hear the volume balance of interpreter/original audio according to what’s set. You can change it according to your preference.

See Select your preferred language audio channel in Webex meetings and webinars

Start a Slido poll during a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

With Slido, you can easily engage with other participants and the host. Open Slido from Apps or More options from the meeting controls. By default, Slido is available for hosts and cohosts, who can turn it on for attendees in meeting options.

Move your meeting to a new device—VDI

Seamlessly move a meeting from one desktop or mobile device to another without disrupting or disconnecting from the meeting. For example, if you commute to work and join a meeting on your mobile device, move the meeting to your laptop when you get to the office. Or, if you need to step away from your computer during a meeting, move the meeting to your mobile device.

By default, the meeting moves to the new device, and you leave the meeting on the previous device. If you prefer, change your meeting preference to keep both devices in the meeting.

See Webex App | Move a meeting to another desktop or mobile device

Download a meeting transcript without recording the meeting—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you want a written copy of the meeting audio but you don’t want to save the audio and video from the meeting, download a transcript without having to record the meeting.

To download a transcript, turn on closed captions. Then, you can save a transcript any time before the meeting ends. Your Webex administrator must enable saving transcripts.

See Webex App | Download a meeting transcript without recording the meeting

We’re launching a new experience to share files—Windows and Mac

• Present with ease when multiple presenters take turns—It can be time consuming to transition among presenters when you’re taking turns to present content in a slide deck. Our new Take control feature makes it easy for multiple presenters to transition seamlessly when they present.

• Catch-up on what’s presented during a meeting—As an attendee, sometimes you want to go back to a previous slide or read ahead. Now you can, without interrupting the presenter. Switch back to the presenter view when you’re ready.

See Webex App | Share a file in a meeting, Webex App | Take turns presenting a file in a meeting, and Webex App | Browse through a file someone's sharing in a meeting

Turn off the raise hand feature for all meeting participants—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

As a host or cohost, if you don’t want to let anyone in the meeting raise their hand, turn off the raise hand feature.

If you turn off raise hand and uncheck Allow attendees to unmute themselves, muted participants won’t be able to raise their hand to request to be unmuted.

See Webex App | Turn off the raise hand feature for all meeting participants

Invite any user to an in-progress meeting by email—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

As a host or cohost, you can now invite Webex users from outside of your organization and users who don't have a Webex account to join a meeting that’s in progress.

In the meeting window or participants panel, click Invite people and enter their email address. The invitee receives an email invite to join the meeting.

See Webex App | Add someone to a meeting

Hide the video and controls when you’re sharing content—Windows and Mac

In a meeting, if you prefer to see only the content that you’re sharing, you can now hide the floating window that contains participant videos and the meeting controls.

In earlier releases, you had the option to collapse the window but now you can hide it completely if you prefer the window to be out of your way.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Share application windows directly from your Windows taskbar—VDI

If you use Windows 11, there’s a new way to share content during a call or meeting. Hover over any open app on your taskbar and you see a new button that allows you to share the app window.

See Webex App | Share an application window directly from the Windows taskbar