2 Methods to Remove Others from Zoom: PC, Phone

Zoom is one of the leading platforms and applications for collaboration, learning, and maintaining online connections today. However, due to various reasons (publicly shared meeting information, open meetings without passwords, anyone can join) or subjective factors (lack of administrative skills by the host, granting excessive permissions to participants, etc.), your class or seminar may sometimes be disrupted by unknown individuals causing disturbances, violating rules (turning on the microphone to talk privately, chatting via messages, sharing inappropriate content), affecting the attendees.

At this point, to ensure the security of information and content for your Zoom meeting, you can choose to kick unknown individuals out of the meeting room.

Guide on How to Expel Strangers from Zoom Room, How to Remove, Invite Students Out of Zoom Room
 

1. How to Remove Others from Zoom on Mobile Phones

If someone is not a member of your Zoom meeting or class, you can put them in the waiting room or permanently delete them using participant management rights on Zoom. Specifically, from an Android or iPhone phone, you can do as follows:

Step 1: Initiate the Zoom class or meeting as the host. (Refer to the detailed guide on creating a Zoom classroom in this article)

If you haven't installed Zoom on your phone or accidentally deleted it, you can download it from the latest link below.

- Download Zoom for Android
- Download Zoom for iPhone

Step 2: Once in the Zoom meeting, select 'participants' from the bottom toolbar in the Zoom meeting window.
Step 3: The screen displays participants; scroll to the participant's name you want to remove from your meeting.

Step 4: In the menu showing customized options for the selected participant, scroll down to the bottom and select 'remove'. If you want to kick the person out of the meeting and move them to the waiting room for review, you can select 'move to waiting room'
Step 5: Finally, select 'Remove' to remove, invite this person out of the Zoom room. If this person is a stranger, you can select 'remove and report' to report the user to Zoom and get better support, protection.

Immediately after removal, the user will be expelled from the meeting and won't be able to rejoin the meeting on the same device or email address.
 

2. How to Kick Strangers Out of Zoom Room on Computer

If participants in your class or meeting exhibit disruptive behavior, have been warned, and persist, you can exercise the right to remove, kick them out of the Zoom room. Details of the steps on the computer are as follows:

Step 1: Launch Zoom on your computer and initiate a meeting as the host.
Step 2: In the Zoom meeting interface, select 'participants'.

Step 3: At this point, the right-hand screen will display a list of participants in your meeting. Click on the name of the person you want to remove, kick from the meeting, select 'more', then choose 'Delete'

Step 4: A notification screen from Zoom will ask again if you are sure you want to delete the selected participant. Press 'Delete' to agree to kick this person out of your Zoom meeting room.

3. How to Re-enter a Zoom Room After Being Kicked Out

By default, if you delete or kick a participant from a Zoom classroom or meeting, they won't be able to rejoin with the same email address. Therefore, if inadvertently expelled from a Zoom meeting and want to rejoin, you can request the meeting host to activate the feature 'allow kicked-out users to rejoin the Zoom room'.

As the host of a Zoom meeting, here's what you do:

Step 1: Log in to the Zoom web portal using your email and password. Click on quick access Here.

Step 2: On the Zoom.us homepage, click on 'Settings' in the left navigation bar, then select 'in the basic meeting'

Step 3: Scroll down, find the feature 'allow deleted participants to rejoin', and activate this feature.

Important:

- The method above also applies to situations where teachers or hosts want to remove students from a Zoom room, expel students from a Zoom room when they disrupt the class.

- To maintain safety and stability for online classes, Zoom meetings, you need to enhance your meeting management skills. Some solutions you can choose include not granting users too many permissions in the class, not assigning multiple members as hosts, locking screen sharing permissions, enabling microphones for attendees only when the host allows them to speak, etc.

Kicking others out of Zoom on a computer, phone, removing strangers from a Zoom meeting is not difficult, you can easily do it on your computer, phone, and keep the meeting, online learning safe.

Additionally, while organizing meetings or classes on Zoom, for the convenience of tracking attendance of members in the class, you can utilize the feature to export the list of participants on Zoom. Refer to our guide on how to export the list of participants on Zoom to learn how to do it.