# Select a Different Default Camera When Multiple are Present

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/select-a-different-default-camera-when-multiple-are-present/64343>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [February 15, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/select-a-different-default-camera-when-multiple-are-present/64343 "2022-02-15T14:55:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![cole.jackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@cole.jackson](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/cole.jackson)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/select-a-different-default-camera-when-multiple-are-present/64343/1 "2022-02-15T14:55:09Z")

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**This is for developer-specific feature requests. For other requests please contact our customer support team.**

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**

We have a few classrooms with multiple cameras connected to the Teachers workstations, and it’s a bit frustrating that we can’t find a way to have Zoom startup and select a specific camera as the default before the user changes it.

**Describe the solution you’d like**

I would like there to be a config file, a registry setting, or some other kind of way for me to set which camera I want to be the default in Zoom for when a new user logs in to a computer. (But still let the teacher change the camera when they want to once they log in to Zoom)

**Describe alternatives you’ve considered**

After checking multiple forums there is this misleading message “Change the default camera for Windows and Zoom will use that.” But there is no setting to do this.

- You can’t go into control panel\>choose “devices and printers”\> and if you right click on a camera, you don’t get an option to set it as the default.  
-The other suggested option is to go into Device Manager to disable all cameras except the one you want to be the default is not a good solution either, since teachers need to be able to switch between cameras during a class.

**Additional context**

I’m more focused on the Windows side with this issue, but would appreciate a fix for both Mac and Windows.  
Perhaps a way to select a camera, and if the camera isn’t present on the machine, then revert to the other default camera choice that Zoom used before.