What is Zoom?
Zoom is a popular video calling and virtual meeting platform established to compete with top similar platforms like Google meet, Microsoft, and so on.
Currently, it is the leading video calling and online meeting platform covering about 80 counties around the globe as per the 2021 statistics. This fast rising and growth of the platform show that it is a long-term project that has come to stay.
However, Zoom has been in existence before now for more than a decade, but the growth in less than 365 days is what baffles many people in comparison to the growth in the past ten years.
The app offers online person-to-person meet to connect and interact with friends, families, colleagues, and classmates as well as online conferences and other events.
The platform gave its users hope and confidence to continue using it with their privacy safe and protected when it introduced end-to-end encryption later.
How to get around Zoom’s 40-minute limit
Knowing fully well that the Zoom meeting free version has a limit of 40 minutes after which the call is immediately terminated, requiring users to either start all over again or buy a subscription, we will guide you on how to get around Zoom’s 40-minute limit.
You don’t necessarily need a third-party app to make your meeting last longer than the 40-minute limit.
Below is a detailed explanation and guide on how to get around Zoom’s 40-minute limit, a must-read if this is what you want.
- Open Zoom either via the app or on your browser and sign in to your account.
- Click on the calendar icon (schedule icon) from the home screen and set the date and time for when you want your meeting to last. This includes both the starting time and the ending time of the meeting.
- Copy all the info about the meeting and send it to your required participants for the meeting. This includes the joining Link, meeting ID, and the passcode for the meeting (for access to the scheduled meeting).
- Keep an eye on your timer which will appear once it gets between 30 and 38 minutes close to the 40 minutes limit count-down. The Host at this point, should immediately leave the meeting without ending it for all and choose a new host as you will be prompted to do so.
- Everyone else should start leaving one after the other, then start a new one using the same joining Link before everyone else has left the original (initial) meeting.
- Other participants should join the new meeting now and the timer will restart for another 40 minutes.
- You can repeat steps 4 to step 5 above over and over again and spend many hours in your meeting as there’s no limit on how often or how many times you can do this.
But however, this will be done with a break of about 40 minutes always until the Zoom meeting is over and then you can finally end your meeting.
When Did The 40 minutes limit begin?
The one-on-one Zoom meeting has always been unlimited right from the time of launch, but the 40 minutes time limit has been on for group meetings since the software was launched in 2013.
How long does a Zoom free meeting last?
The Zoom free meeting usually allows two participants to have a meeting for up to 24 hours before terminating the meeting until May 2022 when the company announced the reduction of the time to 40 minutes only.
Once the countdown of 40 minutes expires, everyone in the meeting will be removed from the call immediately as the call will be terminated.
The subscription price for a Zoom meeting
The subscription price for Zoom meeting packages starts at $14.99/£11.99 per month or around $149.90/£119.99 per year. However, the cheapest subscription extends the time limit to 30 hours for up to 100 people only.
Note: The higher the subscription plan, the fewer the limit attached.