If you’re looking for a way around this problem, we’ve got your back! Keep reading this article to mute zoom meetings without muting your main computer speakers.
How to Only Mute Zoom Meetings?
You can mute zoom meetings in four ways without muting your computer speakers. You could play around with the volume mixer and even devoid zoom from accessing your computer speakers.
From Volume Mixer
You can mute the application or the browser that is running zooms on your computer. This will mute any sound coming from only the application and not the whole computer in general. The volume mixer is present only in Windows. Here are the steps you can refer to if you own a device running Windows:
Change Audio Setting
You can mute the speakers from the Zoom app itself. In this way, any sound from only the Zoom application will be muted. Similarly, you can change the output audio device to a passive device. You can change the audio device from the Zoom meeting itself. This gives you the liberty to use your computer speakers for other applications. Refer to these steps to change the output audio settings on Zoom:
Zoom App
You can flicker the Zoom audio settings when you’re outside of a meeting. If you’re not currently in a meeting, follow these steps to alter the audio settings for the Zoom application:
Zoom Meeting
If you’re in a Zoom meeting, you can follow along with these steps to change the speaker for the meeting you’re currently attending:
Block Permissions
You can block the speaker permissions if you do not want to hear anything from the browser running the Zoom meeting. When you block such permissions, Zoom cannot access your speakers to play the audio. Remember to enable the permissions after you’re done with the meeting, or anything you play from the site will be muted. Refer to the following steps to block the permissions to access your speakers from Google Chrome:
How to Mute Participants in Zoom?
If your meeting doesn’t have enough participants, you could mute individual participants from the meeting. We recommend you only use this method in smaller meetings as it can be tedious to mute all participants individually if the list is long. Follow these steps to mute individual participants in a Zoom meeting:
