# Lock Meeting via API (not SDK)?

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/lock-meeting-via-api-not-sdk/133729>\
**Category:** Meetings\
**Created:** [June 6, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/lock-meeting-via-api-not-sdk/133729 "2025-06-06T22:33:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![mdphawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@mdphawk](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/mdphawk)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/lock-meeting-via-api-not-sdk/133729/1 "2025-06-06T22:33:44Z")

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**API Endpoint(s) and/or Zoom API Event(s)**  
Create Meeting REST API, Update Meeting REST API

**Description**  
Current Google AI results for `zoom lock meeting via API` seem to indicate there was / is an endpoint that can lock a meeting to prevent any attendees from joining, e.g. after a meeting has ended: `PATCH /meetings/{meetingId}/settings/security`. I don’t see this endpoint documented in the API reference, though I do see the SDK has the ability to do so.

Does anyone have info on this endpoint, or another way to lock a meeting via the API?

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**Author:** ![expertswho](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/expertswho/32/60945_2.png) [@expertswho](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/expertswho)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/lock-meeting-via-api-not-sdk/133729/2 "2025-06-07T10:27:21Z")

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hi @mdphawk,

Welcome to the meeting  
I agree. There is no lock feature in the meeting API.  
You can not lock people out of the meeting.  
You could of course have the waiting room active and that will stop visitors coming into the meeting.

You can kick members form the meeting  
You can put members back into the waiting room  
These two actions can not be done on hosts and cohosts

All the best

John Drinkwater