# Reason User left Meeting

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/reason-user-left-meeting/30488>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [September 16, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/reason-user-left-meeting/30488 "2020-09-16T20:55:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![vt-zoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/71c47a/32.png) [@vt-zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/vt-zoom)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/reason-user-left-meeting/30488/1 "2020-09-16T20:55:19Z")

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**  
Yes, We do not know why a user has left a meeting, only the duration they were present. We were told to cross post from Developer Forum Support to Feature requests.

A user can leave a meeting due to connection lost, Removal by Host/Co-Host or they leave of their own accord. From the apis and responses, we are unable to locate the reason a user left a meeting. This cause should be known to Zoom but we cannot find in the API results.

The use case here is for forced removal in which we do not want them to re-enter but do not want to use waiting rooms as it adds friction. We also need to report on this behavior so we can determine problem participants, user actions versus connectivity issues.

**Describe the solution you’d like**  
Extend the APIs, WebHooks and Reporting to provide the reason the user left

**Describe alternatives you’ve considered**  
Zoom Developer Forum Support

**Additional context**

> [@Reason User left Meeting?](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/reason-user-left-meeting/30326):
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> Description A user can leave a meeting due to connection lost, Removal by Host/Co-Host or they leave of their own accord. From the apis and responses, we are unable to locate the reason a user left a meeting. This cause should be known to Zoom but we cannot find in the API results. How do we determine the reason a user left a meeting? The use case here is for forced removal in which we do not want them to re-enter but do not want to use waiting rooms as it adds friction. We also need to repor…

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**Author:** ![jwei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/jwei/32/30058_2.png) [@jwei](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/jwei)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/reason-user-left-meeting/30488/2 "2021-08-12T17:38:45Z")

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Any progress on this? Adding this info to the webhooks/api would be very helpful for our use-case as well, where we’d like to know if an attendee was forced to leave the meeting by the host vs. left on their own accord.