Adjust the View
Zoom’s apps let you view participants in a meeting in a number of ways, with controls that vary by whether you’re using a desktop, web, or mobile app, and whether you’re in full-screen mode or not.
Active Speaker
All meetings start in Active Speaker view, which places the video stream of the person actively speaking audio in a large portion of the view in desktop and web apps (Figure 4). (In a desktop app, click the Speaker View 
icon to switch from Gallery View—described next—to Active Speaker; in a mobile app, swipe right.)
In desktop apps with a regular window, members appear as live, scaled-down videos in a row above the speaker, organized by the most recent speakers; the number varies by window size. You can page through previews with forward and back arrows. (Your selfie video always appears farthest left.)
Mobile versions show the most recent speakers filling the center, while your live stream appears as a smaller view. Web apps only offer that view and only show the latest active speaker plus your stream.
Desktop apps set to full-screen mode change up how previews are shown. (Click the full-screen 
icon to enter that mode.) The active speaker appears in a floating window, which you can drag larger or smaller. Click the appropriate icon in the window’s upper-left corner to change to the following modes:
Talking: A horizontal line
icon to hide all video and show only the Zoom name of the current speakerActive Speaker: A squat rectangle
icon to see just your videoMultiple speakers: An icon with two stacked rectangles
to see recent active speakers if the session involves three or more people
Gallery View
Gallery View displays equally sized live videos of each participant, divided into pages of people you can click or swipe through (Figure 5). The number shown on each page varies from up to four on a smartphone to up to 49 on a computer.
If not in Gallery View in a desktop app, click the Gallery View 
icon; in a mobile app, swipe left. You can click or swipe to show additional screens of people, if any.
In full-screen mode in desktop apps, Gallery View works just as it does in a regular window.
Minimize for a Floating View
There’s yet another view: the Mini Window. In desktop apps, you can click the minimize button in the Zoom window, and the display switches to a tiny floating window of just the active speaker.
Click the downward pointing arrow 
to switch between the Talking and Active Speaker modes as described above for the Active Speaker view. You can mute audio and video by clicking those icons. To return to the regular Zoom view, tap the expand 
icon.
In mobile apps, you can tap the More 
icon and choose Minimize Meetings. The active speaker shrinks to a thumbnail in the upper-right corner. You can drag that thumbnail to any point along any side of your screen. Tap the video to re-enter the meeting.
Pop Out a Window in Desktop Apps
The Participants list and chat are normally connected to the desktop app’s righthand side as a slide-out pane with participants on top.
However, you can click the downward-pointing arrow to the left of either the Participants or Chat pane’s name and select Pop Out to have either or both become freestanding windows. To reverse this, click the More icon and choose Merge to Meeting Window.