Actually v5.2.2 is causing some issues to me, because there is no android version compatible with multiple spotlight, and when there are two or more cameras in spotlight, the android client highlights anyone that is speaking instead of only those that are in spotlight, it just seems like no one is in spotlight anymore.
Yes iâm aware of that. The client with the newest version (desktop) able to see the multiple spotlights on primary screen, but the android / ios version didnât get the ability to view the multiple spotlights, most of my participants using mobile version. Also the dual / second monitor is still showing 1 spotlighted participant.
In our typical application we do not want mullti-spotlight. I have 5.2.2 MacOS. I need to turn off mulit-spotlight so it defaults to one spotlight participant at a time.
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@tommy Itâs great to have multi-spotlight in 5.2.2⌠but sadly we have now lost the ability to replace a single spotlighted participant. Ideally, Zoom should allow multi-spotlight as an additional (or secondary) use case, while still supporting the primary use case of spotlighting one participant at a time. Without the ability to replace spotlight, 5.2.2 is basically unusable for our organization. Weâll have to downgrade to 5.2.1 until this is addressed.
Thank you,
Alex
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Same here and fully agree⌠but where can we download the previous version?
I was able to rollback to 5.2.1 from web archive. The installer is signed, so it should be safe.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200831194310/https://zoom.us/client/latest/ZoomInstaller.exe
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Looking for a Mac version, but thanks! Latest on the WayBackMachine is from June 28, looks like version 5.1.2:
Will have to do for now.
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We are having the same problem with our organization. We want to spotlight one person at a time and in our role we are changing the spotlight every 15-20 seconds. This is causing many issues right now.
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Hey @tommy,
Is there a way in the zoom room to pre-determine that the room will be in the spotlight?
I use a zoom room in our university classrooms and I want only the lecturer and his board to appear in the ârecord in the cloudâ and not the students.
I concur with Carol and a few others here. It should not be the only option. We need single spotlight option back with multi-spotlight as an secondary option.
Not only iOS and Android apps, the Cloud Recording also doesnât support the multispotlight feature. That is, if more than one person is spotlighted, the recording displays anyone speaking as if nobody has been spotlighted.
I can understand the not-yet-updated client apps not supporting this feature, but the Cloud Recording?
Well, thanks so much for ruining the recordings of many (large) meetings 
Also, yes, agreeing with all others, this definitely should be a secondary option.
~ Fatih
Love the fact that Zoom listens to its users and implements these features. We also quite regularly can benefit from multi-spotlight. More often than not we need the spotlight to stay exclusively on one person, with new spotlight automatically cancelling the previous (basically, old behaviour). Can it be an option in the settings or a separate button at least? Something like âAdd to spotlightâ or in the opposite case âSwitch spotlightâ
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Just adding, itâs important for the user experience to be consistent across all platforms. Right now, you donât get multiple spotlighting on iOS or Android. We wish to produce a meeting in which we not only know what everyone will see, but can control that for everyone too.
The new multi-spotlight feature has additional problems. For example, if you spotlight two participants, then a third opens his mic, on tablets he will be auto spotlighted, on computers with the latest version they will still see the two spotlighted participants and wonât see the new participant. Itâs REALLY important that a co-host be able to completely control spotlighting as seen on all platforms.
Itâs also important that we can turn multi-spotlighting on and off. We do a lot of single spotlighting. With the multi-spotlight feature, itâs extremely cumbersome to spotlight a new participant, then cancel the previous one. For a second or so, you see both while the co-host chases down and cancels the first one. But since multispotlighting is useful too, we need to be able to turn it on and off, and have that follow for all participants.
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Oh my giddy aunt! Iâve a horrible feeling, after reading this, that my practice of spotlighting person 2 will no longer simply replace person 1! Iâve an important Zoom this afternoon and fear that it will be less than smooth.
I actually came on here to find out how to go back to gallery view after I have removed a spotlight from someone. I hosted a Zoom for the first time since the upgrade yesterday and was totally disconcerted by Zoom shifting me to speaker view as it took me several moments to work out what was happening. In the past, Iâve gone back to gallery view and thatâs what I wanted. Surely the default should be to go back to whatever view was there before spotlighting? In fact, I used to remain in gallery view but was able to tell who was being spotlighted by the green (?) border on their video and that was great as I could also see the others in the room which, as host, I needed to do. This upgrade has made it far worse!
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OK, there is the option to add spotlight or replace spotlight, which is great and I like that functuality. I also know that after I have spotlighted someone, I can click view to get myself back to gallery view, but that is a huge nuisance when Iâm dealing with a Q&A session as I have to be nifty. I would be very glad if gallery view is not replaced by speaker view when Iâve spotlighted someone. Iâve a feeling it also happens to everyone in the call, but wasnât able to verify that.
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Completely agree with that. We also do meetings with Q&A in sign language, and having the view switched every time we spotlight someone is giving some trouble to the host/cohost. It would be good if there was a setting for that, or if the default action was to not change the view.
Currently we are using the keyboard shurtcut to go back to the gallery view (ALT+F2) and we customized it to improve speed. This is still good, but feels like a workaround.
Thanks, I didnt know they added an option to replace the spotlight, it was introduced in version 5.3.0 but the release notes didnt say anything about that.
Now I can use the latest version as meeting host, instead of using the version 5.2.2.
I wasnât aware of the shortcut. Thank you. How did you customise it to improve speed please?
And you are aware that you can spotlight two and more people now? That would probably really help with the signing so that you can spotlight both the person speaking and the person signing. I have a feeling though that if you are recording, and have the thumbnail set, it shows whoever is speaking regardless of spotlighting.
Youâre welcome!
We didnât do much, but ALT+F2 was a little tricky to get right fast, so we went into settings --> keyboard shortcuts (or similar). Then, you click on the shortcut (precisely where it tells you which keys to press) and set it to a single key. The host of the meeting decided to set it with the key âQâ because for him it was easier to reach, but you can set it to whatever you prefer.
For the multiple spotlight, yes, we are really happy for that! Still, there are some elderly ones that have hard time doing updates. When everyone has updated their app, weâll use it for sure!