Zoom Workplace: the AI features, and where to switch them off

What each AI feature in Zoom Workplace does, quoted from Zoom’s own pages, and where Zoom documents the switch that controls it. Every fact was checked by a person and links to its source.

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AI chat panel

an AI assistant panel in the Zoom Workplace app that answers questions from your Zoom content and connected sources

Zoom: "you can access the AI chat panel to ask questions and receive tailored responses from contexts available to you." Its sources can include Zoom meetings, chat messages and docs, uploaded files and connected services such as Google Drive and Microsoft 365. Zoom: "You can enhance AI responses by uploading relevant files or connecting to available data sources".

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Meeting summary

AI summaries of Zoom meetings, emailed to the host and chosen participants

Zoom: "Meeting summary uses AI technology, which may include third-party models, and allows meeting hosts to initiate an AI-generated summary of their meeting." It works from the meeting's speech-to-text and can go to participants by email and the meeting's group chat. Zoom: "Meeting hosts can also configure Meeting summary to be automatically available to meeting participants when meetings start".

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Meeting questions

ask Zoom AI about what has been said in a meeting while it is running

Zoom: "Meeting questions uses AI technology, which may include third-party models, to allow meeting participants to ask questions about the content of the meeting discussions." Preset questions help people catch up, and custom questions are possible. Zoom: "participants who have the AI chat panel in Zoom Workplace app enabled can also use the in-meeting panel to ask questions that draw from data sources outside of the current meeting"

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Smart recording

AI chapters, highlights, next steps and speaking analytics for cloud recordings

Zoom: "Smart recording brings the power of Zoom AI to cloud recordings" — it splits a recording into chapters, picks highlights and lists next steps. It can also "provide the host analytics on key meeting and conversation factors, including talk speed, talk-listen ratio, longest spiel (or monologue), filler word usage, and patience."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Meeting coach

AI metrics on how hosts and participants take part in a meeting

Zoom: "When enabled, Meeting coach with AI provides Zoom meeting hosts with metrics on participant engagement, alongside personal meeting performance metrics." Zoom: "Hosts can view certain participant metrics such as talk time % for each individual participant"

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Zoom AI in third-party meetings

Zoom AI joins Microsoft Teams and Google Meet meetings to transcribe and summarise them

Zoom AI can be invited into meetings on Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. Zoom: "Once invited, AI Companion will join the meeting as a participant, transcribe the meeting to provide a summary, and answer questions post-meeting." Zoom: "You can enable or disable the third-party meeting capability manually or allow it to join automatically"

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Voice recorder

records in-person conversations on a phone and writes an AI transcript and summary

Zoom: "Voice Recorder with AI allows you to record, transcribe, and summarize in-person conversations by capturing an audio recording and automatically generating a transcript and summary of events." Recording starts from the Zoom mobile app.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Virtual background generation

AI creates a virtual background image to use in meetings

Zoom: "If you don't have your own images or videos for use as a virtual background, you can create custom backgrounds with AI" — the generated image then sits behind you in meetings.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

AI avatars

an avatar generated by AI from your photo that stands in for your live video

Zoom: "Realistic and stylized avatars use an AI model to analyze your photo and generate a 3D avatar." Zoom: "It replaces your live video feed with an AI-generated avatar that looks like you and animates in real time to mirror your expressions."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Translated captions

speech in a meeting or webinar translated live into captions in another language

Zoom: "Zoom translated captions enable users to have the speech in a meeting or webinar automatically translated in real-time to captions in another language." Participants choose their own caption language.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Voice translator

speaks translated captions aloud in a synthetic voice during meetings

Zoom: "It uses artificial intelligence to process spoken language, translate content, and generate synthetic speech in real-time." Zoom: "Translation quality may vary and evolve depending on language pair, audio quality, and speaking clarity."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Automatic smart name tags

recognises who is speaking from an enrolled voice recording

Zoom: "users can enroll with a voice recording and enable voice recognition services to identify speakers on the Workplace app." The voice recording is stored for recognition.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Webinar summary

AI summaries of Zoom webinars for hosts and panelists

Zoom: "Webinar Summary with Zoom AI uses AI technology, which may include third-party models, and allows webinar hosts to initiate an AI-generated summary of their webinar." Summaries are emailed and kept in the Zoom web portal.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Webinar questions

ask Zoom AI about what has been said in a webinar while it is running

Zoom: "The Zoom AI feature uses AI technology, which may include third-party models, to allow webinar hosts and panelists to ask questions about the content of the webinar thus far." The host starts it from the webinar toolbar.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Chat compose

AI drafts and rewrites Zoom Chat messages

Zoom: "Chat Compose with AI leverages AI technology, which may include third-party models, to help you write Chat messages by using context from your conversation." You can change the tone and length, or give it a prompt.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Chat summarize

AI summaries of chat threads, recent messages and documents shared in chat

Zoom: "Chat Summarize with Zoom AI offers a solution by leveraging AI technology, which may include third-party models, to condense chat discussions and summarize messages in a thread." It can also summarise recent messages in a chat or channel, and "when supported text-based documents (such as PDF, DOC, DOCX, and TXT) are shared in chat, users can instantly receive summaries without leaving the conversation."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Email Compose with AI

AI drafts emails and replies in the Zoom Mail client

Zoom: "Email Compose with AI for Zoom Mail leverages AI technology, which may include third-party models, to help you generate an email, using information from the thread and/or a more specific inputted prompt." Zoom also says: "Email Compose is currently unavailable for Zoom Mail accounts."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Canvas content generation and revision

AI that writes, revises and summarises Zoom Canvas docs, including from meetings

AI drafts and revises Zoom Canvas docs from prompts, templates and meetings. Zoom: "AI can summarize your doc’s content, highlighting key points to provide clarity."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Canvas sentence completion

AI suggests the rest of a sentence as you type in Zoom Canvas

Zoom: "Users can leverage predictive content suggestions with AI for Zoom Canvas to speed up content writing." Each user turns on Auto-complete per document.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Create files in Hub with AI

AI that creates docs, data tables, whiteboards and clips from Zoom Hub

Zoom: "Creating files in Zoom Hub with the help of AI provides users with a centralized access to AI-powered content generation of various Zoom assets, such as docs, data tables, whiteboards, and clips." Prompts can start from recent meetings.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Sheets content generation

AI that builds and analyses Zoom Sheets spreadsheets from plain-language prompts

Zoom: "Zoom Sheets enable users to create and analyze spreadsheets through natural language prompts." It can build data tables and run analysis.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

AI Function

an =AI() function in Zoom Sheets that classifies, extracts, rewrites and summarises cell data

Zoom: "AI provides preset sub-functions tailored to common user scenarios, including prompt templates for classification, information extraction, format adjustment, rewriting, sentiment analysis, and summarization" — written in cells like any other function.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Slides content generation

AI that builds Zoom Slides presentations, images and speaker notes from prompts

Zoom: "Zoom Slides enable users to create presentations via natural-language prompts." Zoom: "These tools can generate images, speaker notes, and even summarize entire presentations"

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Paper content generation

AI that writes, edits and summarises Zoom Paper documents and makes images

Zoom: "Zoom Paper integrates with AI to help users create, edit, and summarize documents efficiently." Zoom: "Users can also generate AI-powered images to enhance their content."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

My Notes

personal notes for meetings and calls that AI enriches from a transcript, including Teams, Slack and browser meetings

Zoom: "My Notes is a personal note-taking capability that lets you take notes during meetings, webinars, or phone calls and enhance them with a transcript." Zoom: "AI can enrich your notes using the available transcript, either automatically after you finish a note, or manually by opening the note and clicking Generate". The transcript can also come from meetings in other apps such as Microsoft Teams, Slack or Google Chrome, captured from the device's microphone and system audio.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Task creation and management with AI

AI that suggests tasks from meeting and call summaries and steps to complete them

Zoom: "With Zoom Tasks and AI, users can have AI recommend new tasks based on meeting summaries, call summaries, and meeting and phone transcripts." It can also suggest steps for completing a task.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Workspace Reservation recommendations with AI

AI suggestions for which desk, room or office day to book

Zoom: "It provides personalized suggestions for office attendance based on your building context and colleagues' schedules." Zoom: "Zoom AI can recommend available desks, meeting rooms, and optimal office days"

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Generate titles, descriptions, and tags

AI writes a title, description and tags for a Zoom Clip from its audio

Zoom: "Use Generate title, description, and tags to generate a clip title, description, and tags based on the audio transcript of your clips."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Zoom Clips AI avatars

a ready-made AI avatar presents a script as a Zoom Clip video

Zoom: "You can select from a library of 18 pre-generated avatars, add a script, and customize the avatar’s virtual background before finalizing the clip."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Custom avatars for Zoom Clips

an AI avatar that looks and sounds like the user, made from their own video

Zoom: custom avatars let users "generate a personalized digital avatar that closely resembles their appearance and replicates their voice". A script the user adds becomes a clip of that avatar speaking.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Zoom Events compose

AI writes event and session descriptions, speaker bios and announcements

Zoom: "Zoom Events Compose with Zoom AI leverages AI technology, which may include third-party models, to help you generate event descriptions, session descriptions, speaker bios, lobby announcements, and more"

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Zoom Events email compose

AI writes event emails, subject lines and calls to action

Zoom: "Zoom Events Email Compose with Zoom AI leverages AI technology, which may include third-party models, to help you generate an email, subject lines, titles, and calls to action"

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Zoom Events chat compose

AI drafts messages in an event's lobby chat

Zoom: "Zoom Events Chat Compose with Zoom AI leverages AI technology, which may include third-party models, to help you write lobby chat messages by using context from your conversation."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Zoom Events image generation

AI creates images for an event

When it is turned on, "hosts can use Zoom AI to create images to use in their event." Zoom: "Generated images that are inserted into the event are added to the Zoom Events content library automatically."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Content Studio

AI turns event recordings into clips, text and images

Zoom: "Hosts can use Content Studio to convert event recordings into shorter, shareable assets." Hosts "use AI to generate clips, text, or images" such as summaries, social media posts and blog posts.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026
Where to check the switch
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Call summary

AI summaries of Zoom Phone calls, with questions answered during the call

Zoom: "Zoom Phone users can generate AI-powered summaries of their phone conversations both during and after a call." During a call, users can ask questions in the AI chat panel; Zoom: "The real-time call summary setting is controlled by the primary setting, AI chat panel in Zoom Workplace". Zoom: "When the feature is initiated, participants hear a disclaimer and a visual indicator confirms the call is being transcribed."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Team SMS thread summary

AI summaries of SMS threads for call-queue and auto-receptionist teams

Members of a call queue or auto receptionist can "generate a summarization for their SMS thread to quickly understand the conversation and generate their response".

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Personal and Sensitive Data Group

optional AI that redacts personal data in Zoom Phone recordings, voicemails, SMS messages and call summaries

Zoom: "Account owners and admins can enable automatic masking of personally identifiable information (PII) in voicemails, recordings, SMS messages, and call summaries at the account, group, user, and site levels." Zoom: "Additionally, they can enable the option to use AI for redaction." Admins choose which types of personal data are masked.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 3 October 2026

Clinical Notes

AI writes clinical notes from a clinician's in-person or telehealth consultations

Zoom: "Zoom Workplace for Clinicians provides healthcare professionals with an integrated solution for automating clinical note-taking during in-person and virtual patient-physician interactions." Zoom: "Ending the meeting will automatically stop Clinical Notes capture and generate the note." The note can then be viewed and edited on mobile, desktop or the web portal.

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

Facial recognition check-in

visitors check in at a Zoom Rooms kiosk by facial recognition

Zoom: "Facial recognition allows visitors to check in at Zoom Rooms kiosks using their photo instead of manually entering a code." Zoom: "This feature uses the same facial recognition technology as smart speaker tags to match visitors with their pre-registered information." Zoom: "Visitors must provide consent to use their photo during registration or at check-in, and admins can control whether this feature is available at their location."

Description source
Zoom’s page support.zoom.com ↗ Checked 2 October 2026

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