Topics on API created meetings forced to "Zoom Meeting"

API and Webhooks
1

API Endpoint(s) and/or Zoom API Event(s)
POST users/{userId}/meetings
(it won’t let me include a link)

Description
When I create new meetings, the topic is being overridden with “Zoom Meeting”. This happened only occasionally in the past but is now happening all the time. This started happening constantly on 2026-06-30.

I have searched the forum. I have found others experiencing the same issue. What helped them has not help me.

One of the suggestions is to check the follow setting which you can see the value of:

(it won’t let me include an image.)

The setting is “Always display “Zoom Meeting” as the meeting topic” and we have it set to off. The selector is to the left. The unlock icon is displayed.

Error?
I do not receive any errors.

How To Reproduce

  1. Send the request below.
  2. Receive the response below.
  3. Note the changed topic.

Request

{
"topic": "Our Organization Virtual Consult with Redacted Redacted",
"type": 2,
"start_time": "2026-07-13T15:00:00",
"duration": 15,
"timezone": "America/New_York",
"agenda": "",
"password": 3320493909084,
"settings": {
   "host_video": true,
   "participant_video": true,
   "cn_meeting": false,
   "in_meeting": false,
   "waiting_room": true,
   "mute_upon_entry": false,
   "watermark": false,
   "use_pmi": false,
   "approval_type": 0,
   "audio": "both",
   "auto_recording": "none",
   "enforce_login": false
  }
}

Response

{
"uuid": "redacted",
"id": redacted,
"host_id": "redacted",
"host_email": "``redacted@ourdomain.com``",
"topic": "Zoom Meeting",
"type": 2,
"status": "waiting",
...
}

Thanks for your help with this!

2

The problem was the Always display “Zoom Meeting” as the meeting topic setting being set at the group level not the account level. Now, the mystery is how and why did this setting change.