How to Enable the Waiting Room in Zoom
Enabling Waiting Room for your Personal Meeting ID Zoom session.
- Go to the "Home" tab of your Zoom application.
- Click the downward arrow beside "New Meeting."
- Ensure "Use my Personal Meeting ID (PMI)" is checked.
- Click on arrow pointing to the right/greater than sign " >. "
- Click on PMI settings and the Personal Meeting ID Settings window will pop-out.
- Under the Security portion in the pop-out window, ensure Waiting Room is checked and hit the Save button
Enabling Waiting Room for your Scheduled Meetings.
- Go to the "Meetings" tab of your Zoom application.
- Click on " + " icon and choose Create event.

- In the "Meeting Security" section of the pop-out window, check "Waiting Room" and click Save.