# Allow participants to unmute themselves programmatically

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-participants-to-unmute-themselves-programmatically/25826>\
**Category:** Android\
**Created:** [July 31, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-participants-to-unmute-themselves-programmatically/25826 "2020-07-31T08:49:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![phong.nguyen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/phong.nguyen/32/2437_2.png) [@phong.nguyen](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/phong.nguyen)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-participants-to-unmute-themselves-programmatically/25826/1 "2020-07-31T08:49:25Z")

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**Description**  
Is it possible to allow/disallow participants to unmute themselves programmatically (via the Android SDK)

**Which version?**  
v5.0.24433.0616

 ![Screen Shot 2020-07-31 at 3.48.15 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/2X/0/0e9168d180013d46afc8443bd9760fd6143f0f5b.png)

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**Author:** ![carson.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/carson.zoom/32/785_2.png) [@carson.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/carson.zoom)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-participants-to-unmute-themselves-programmatically/25826/2 "2020-08-05T06:08:16Z")

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Hi @phong.nguyen,

Thanks forthe post. Currently we do not have an interface for this but I have forwarded this as a feature request to the engineering team.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![phong.nguyen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/phong.nguyen/32/2437_2.png) [@phong.nguyen](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/phong.nguyen)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-participants-to-unmute-themselves-programmatically/25826/3 "2020-08-05T07:18:57Z")

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Hi @carson.zoom, thanks for your confirmation.

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**Author:** ![carson.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/carson.zoom/32/785_2.png) [@carson.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/carson.zoom)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-participants-to-unmute-themselves-programmatically/25826/4 "2020-08-08T02:10:39Z")

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Please follow our Github repo for any updates: [https://github.com/zoom/zoom-sdk-android](https://github.com/zoom/zoom-sdk-android). I will go ahead and close this thread. Please feel free to create another post if any other questions. 🙂

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**Author:** ![carson.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/carson.zoom/32/785_2.png) [@carson.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/carson.zoom)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-participants-to-unmute-themselves-programmatically/25826/5 "2020-08-08T02:10:41Z")

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Closed on August 8, 2020, 2:10am UTC