We’re preparing to upgrade the Zoom integration on iOS in line with the 9 month window. When I was doing initial testing for Webinars, I noticed that the Zoom Chat button was missing from the previous version of Zoom we have.
Please see the images below on this for the difference:
Old version of Zoom iOS SDK:
Newest version of Zoom iOS SDK:
I looked at the documentation and changelog for iOS updates and couldn’t find any changes to the Chat.
On further investigation I found that if the method setMeetingShareHidden:YES
in the iOS Zoom SDK,
This causes the chat button to disappear in the webinar, below is the code to reproduce this:
MobileRTCMeetingService *ms = [[MobileRTC sharedRTC] getMeetingService];
MobileRTCMeetingSettings *settings = [[MobileRTC sharedRTC] getMeetingSettings];
[settings setMeetingShareHidden:YES]; // BUG in ZOOM that hides the chat.
If I remove the third line I get this result:
This looks like a bug in the Zoom iOS SDK to me.