Consolidated missed calls list—Android

You'll now see your missed call notifications in a consolidated list on your lock screen. Just tap the drop-down arrow on the notification to see an updated list of all missed calls, with the most recent always on top. This provides a more simplified notification experience.

Share any message as a link—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Copy any message in any space as a link, and paste it in another space, or outside Webex App. When you click on the link, you'll be brought to the original message in the space.

More ways to react to a message—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

We’ve added the ability to react to a message with any emoji from the emoji picker.

You now have thousands of ways to react to a message, to enhance communications for your team and quickly respond to messages.

See, Webex App | Add emoji reactions to messages

Expand or collapse threads—Mac

Instead of scrolling through long threads, collapse the thread to quickly get to the messages you’re more interested in.

Once you’re caught up, you can always scroll back and expand the thread to read replies.

The calling service your administrator has set up for you determines which calling features you can use.

Below, we've indicated which calling service each new feature applies to. If you're not sure what calling service you have, see Webex App | Find Out What Calling Service You Have.

Multi-call window enhancements—Windows

We’ve improved the experience you have with the multi-call window by adding a few more functions to help you better manage phone calls:

• The ability to transfer, conference, or merge within the multi-call window, without popping out in-call windows.

• In addition to answer or decline, you can also ignore and silence new calls.

• Make the font and button size the same size as the apps main window.

See Webex App | Manage all your phone calls in one place

Updates for Calling widget on mobile—iPhone, iPad, Android

We've added the following updates:

• The widget is renamed to Call settings.

• Queues is visible only when you're a member of a call queue, if not you’ll see Settings that links to call settings in the app

• Forward is visible only when you’re configured to have Call Forwarding Always. If not, you’ll see Portals that links to a portals website if configured.

• Recents has been replaced with Notifications that links to the notifications settings in the app.

See Add a Webex App widget.

Additional functionality for business text messaging—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

We’ve added the following options:

• On desktop the right-click menu includes mute notifications

• On mobile the long press menu includes mute notifications

Just to let you know we released the hide, add to contacts, audio call and video call options in an earlier release, you'll see them on the long press menu on mobile.

This is available for Webex Calling with Cisco calling plans.

See Webex App | Text messages.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

In-call widget—Android

When you’re on a call, the widget provides you with quick access to call controls. The widget is always visible outside of the app giving you additional access to manage calls while multi-tasking.

You can use this feature with Webex Go or a mobile network operator (MNO) that has call signaling using Cisco call control for your mobile phone calls.

See Access call controls on mobile with the Webex App call widget.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

New Meetings platform!

Over the next few months, Webex is enhancing the meeting platform to Webex Suite meeting platform. This platform improves and simplifies hybrid work across the entire Webex Suite, and incorporates AI-based experiences, with common architecture, administration, and integrations.

The platform formerly known as the Video Mesh-ready meeting platform is now called the Webex Suite meeting platform.

The new platform converges the meeting experience across Webex applications and devices, and delivers continuous collaboration before, during, and after the meeting.

To check if you are on this new platform and read about key changes, new, and forthcoming features, see more about the Webex Suite meeting platform.

Updated first-time experience for Meetings tab—iPhone, iPad, and Android

We’ve added banners to prompt you to test a Webex meeting and connect a calendar. Test a Webex meeting starts a meeting where you can try out the features that are available to you. The connect a calendar banner redirects you to the Calendar Settings page in the app where you can better understand your calendar connections and even connect to your device's local calendar app.

Enhancement to meetings settings—Windows and Mac

Meetings settings now include the source for your meetings list. For example, when you’re not connected to a calendar, you’ll see that the meeting list is from your Webex account.

Contextual actions—Windows, Mac, Linux

Now you can perform the most commonly used actions directly from the tab you're in. For example, you can now choose to send a direct message, create a space or section, and explore public spaces directly from the Messaging tab.

See Webex App | Create a space, Webex App | Add someone to your contacts list, Webex App | Start a conversation with someone

UI improvements—Windows and Mac

We've made some subtle changes to the app's design to help you distinguish key areas. For example, we've updated the color gradient in the People and Spaces list to add more definition. This should make it easier for you to quickly navigate to the people and spaces you need.

We've also made some changes to the sizing and layout of the global header, global actions will now be to the right of the search bar, which should make it more intuitive to use.

In addition, we've improved the layout of the space header. We've moved Add to favorites to the right of the space name and space settings to the right corner, beside the View pinned messages and Search in space icons. This should make it easier for you to manage your spaces and find the information you need.

See Webex App | Your user interface

What's New icon—Windows and Mac

We've added a new icon , for the in app What's new in the help menu, for more consistency across platforms.

Report an issue—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android, Web

When you encounter an issue with Webex App, you can send a report directly from the Help menu, to our technical team. This helps us find and fix issues to improve the overall Webex experience.

The new drop-down options let you quickly select the product area and issue type, and automatically include your log files when you create and send your report.

See Webex App | Report an issue

Siri Shortcuts—iPhone and iPad

You'll now see Siri Shortcuts in your Webex app settings, where you can review the full list of voice commands, turn commands on or off, and even create custom commands.

See Webex App | Use Siri voice commands

Accessibility enhancements—Windows

We’ve implemented a new bolder style for visual focus outlines around UI elements. So, you can easily see where your keyboard is focused, when navigating the app.

See Webex App | Accessibility support features

Space sections—Android

When you create sections on desktop, you can see these sections on Android.

See Webex App | Space sections

Let everyone know you're busy—Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android

Let colleagues and contacts know you're not available for calls or chat with our 'Busy' feature. Update your availability to 'Busy', without blocking incoming notifications. Get more time in your day to focus, and turn it off when you're ready to call and chat again.

See Webex App | Let people know you're busy

The calling service your administrator has set up for you determines which calling features you can use.

Below, we've indicated which calling service each new feature applies to. If you're not sure what calling service you have, see Webex App | Find Out What Calling Service You Have.

Transfer calls to an active call—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you’re juggling lots of calls, you’ll have an option to transfer a call to somebody you’ve put on hold.

See Webex App | Transfer a phone call

Receive call notifications on Wi-Fi networks—iPhone and iPad

For restricted networks or areas without internet access, the app uses specified Wi-Fi networks to receive notifications for incoming calls.

See Webex App | Connect to Wi-Fi to receive phone calls

Fit your camera video in self view—VDI

In earlier releases, if your camera video used a 4:3 aspect ratio, Webex cropped your self view to a 16:9 aspect ratio to fit the frame. With our new Zoom to fit setting, we preserve your full camera video. Preview what your self-view video looks like in Settings > Video.

If you prefer to preserve the 4:3 aspect ratio, uncheck this setting.

See Webex App | Fit your camera video in self-view

Improvements for scheduler in the Meetings tab—Windows and Mac

When you schedule a meeting, we included the day of the week to make it clearer what day you’re choosing for your meeting.

For custom passwords, we added all the password requirements to make it clearer how to create a secure meeting password.

Link in location—iPhone, iPad, and Android

For any valid URL added in the meeting location field, provide a link in the meetings detail page to make it easy to tap.

More ways to manage participants from their thumbnail video—Windows and Mac

If you’re the meeting host or cohost, no need to search the participants list to make someone the presenter, mute or unmute their audio, or stop their video. Now you can do all that by clicking More options in their thumbnail video.

See Make someone a presenter

Cohosts can record meetings in the cloud—Windows, Mac, Linux, VDI, iPhone, iPad, and Android

We originally announced this feature in April. It's available on a phased rollout and will be available to all customers by June 20.

We’re excited to announce that we’re allowing cohosts to record a meeting in the cloud. This makes it easy to record a meeting if the host isn’t available or is busy during the meeting.

Cohosts have the same capabilities that a host has. They can start, stop, or pause the recording. After the meeting ends, the host still owns the recording. The recording is shared automatically with the cohosts within the organization.

If you prefer, your Webex administrator can also allow meeting participants to record meetings in the cloud.

See Webex | Record a meeting in the cloud

Annotate on shared content—Windows and Mac

If you want to highlight or point out something that you’re sharing, draw right on the screen or application window. Use the pen or disappearing ink, which fades away after a few seconds.

Optionally, allow other participants to annotate on the shared content too.

See Webex App | Mark up a shared screen with annotations

Run two instances of your app side-by-side—iPad

Take advantage of your iPad's ability to multitask so you can focus on specific meeting content. Split shared content, the participants panel, or the chat panel into its own window on your iPad screen so you don't miss anything. If you attached a monitor to your iPad, move the second window to its own screen to give yourself more room to see what's going on. For select iPad models, use the iPad's Stage Manager for easier multitasking.

See Show meeting content in multiple windows on iPad

Play a notification sound when someone’s waiting in the lobby—VDI

If you lock your meeting, sometimes it’s difficult to notice when someone’s waiting in the lobby to join.

Hosts and cohosts can now choose to the app play a sound on their computer when someone enters the lobby.

You only hear the sound when you're the host or cohost. The sound only plays once every 10 seconds, regardless of how many users have entered the lobby.

See Webex App | Play a notification sound when someone is waiting in the lobby

Hide the participant video and meeting control panel when you’re sharing content—VDI

In a meeting, if you prefer to see only the content that you’re sharing, you can now hide the floating panel that contains participant videos and the meeting controls.

In earlier releases, you had the option to collapse the panel but now you can hide it completely if you prefer if you prefer the panel to be out of your way.

To show the panel again, press Ctrl + Alt + P (Windows) or Shift + ⌥ + P (Mac).

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Fit your camera video in self view—VDI

In earlier releases, if your camera video used a 4:3 aspect ratio, Webex cropped your self view to a 16:9 aspect ratio to fit the frame. With our new Zoom to fit setting, we preserve your full camera video. Preview what your self-view video looks like in Settings > Video.

If you prefer to preserve the 4:3 aspect ratio, uncheck this setting.

See Webex App | Fit your camera video in self-view

Features available only on our Video Mesh-ready meeting platform

The following additional features are available only on the Video Mesh-ready meeting platform. Find out if your meetings are running on the Video Mesh-ready meeting platform.

Allow participants to hear the meeting in their preferred language with simultaneous interpretation—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

As a host or cohost, use simultaneous interpretation to create language channels, invite interpreters, and assign them to languages. Interpreters select the source language for interpretation, change the interpretation direction, and hand off interpretation to the next interpreter. With our enhanced work flow, inactive interpreters can request that the active interpreter hand off interpretation to them, otherwise they go in the order that the host set.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

See Simultaneous interpretation in Webex meetings, webinars, and Personal Rooms

Automatically hear the original meeting audio when it’s in your language with simultaneous interpretation—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

When the original audio is in the same language as the interpretation channel that you subscribe to, and the interpreter stops speaking in that channel, you automatically hear 100 percent original audio (floor audio) after a few seconds.

When the interpreter starts speaking in that channel again, you hear the volume balance of interpreter/original audio according to what’s set. You can change it according to your preference.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

See Select your preferred language audio channel in Webex meetings and webinars

Start a Slido poll during a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

With Slido, you can easily engage with other participants and the host. Open Slido from Apps or More options from the meeting controls. By default, Slido is available for hosts and cohosts, who can turn it on for attendees in meeting options.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

Move your meeting to a new device—VDI

Seamlessly move a meeting from one desktop or mobile device to another without disrupting or disconnecting from the meeting. For example, if you commute to work and join a meeting on your mobile device, move the meeting to your laptop when you get to the office. Or, if you need to step away from your computer during a meeting, move the meeting to your mobile device.

By default, the meeting moves to the new device, and you leave the meeting on the previous device. If you prefer, change your meeting preference to keep both devices in the meeting.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

See Webex App | Move a meeting to another desktop or mobile device

Gmail bot—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Stay in Webex App while you stay on top of emails. The Gmail bot provides real-time notifications to make sure you never miss a new or important email and even helps you keep your mailbox organized. Draft and respond to emails, or add a label to save it for later.

HelloSign bot—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Stay up-to-date with sign requests from Dropbox Sign directly in Webex App. Receive notifications in the app for sign requests, view, sign or decline the requests. Choose a signature request criteria for notifications

Google form bot—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Add the Google form bot to get notified when new Google forms are submitted. Select and view details of all Google forms tagged to your account in the app. Manage bot notifications for added, edited, or deleted forms.

New message icons—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android

You'll now see separate icons for @me or @all messages in your spaces list.

• —messages that only mention you.

• —messages that mention everyone in your spaces.

See Webex App | Tips for managing notifications

Preferences to Settings—Mac

Preferences has been replaced by Settings in MacOS Ventura, and it's quite a change.

We've updated Webex App to reflect the new look, so you'll now see Settings in the profile picture menu, and in a few other places in the app.

Space list sections—Windows, Linux, and Mac

Struggling to manage your spaces? We're introducing a new way to organize your spaces into sections. Create your sections and move spaces into them with drag and drop, or a right-click. You can also collapse and expand sections to give your space list a clean new look. When collapsed, if there are unread messages within your favorites or other sections, the section title will be bolded with a blue notification dot, making sure you don't miss an unread space.

When you create sections on desktop, you can see these sections on iPhone or iPad.

The calling service your administrator has set up for you determines which calling features you can use.

Below, we've indicated which calling service each new feature applies to. If you're not sure what calling service you have, see Webex App | Find Out What Calling Service You Have.

Enhancements to Calling tab—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

The call history lists only includes calls, we’ve removed your past meetings.

See Webex App | View call history

Block Spam callers—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Stay focused on what’s important, stop unwanted calls directly in the app. Block callers from your recents list or add the number to your block list.

See Webex App | Block calls

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

911/988 business text support—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Send a business text message to 911/988, the app cross-launches the messaging app for your mobile device.

This feature is supported for business texting with Webex Calling enabled.

See Webex App | Send a text message

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

More functionality for multiple lines—Windows

When you’re assigned multiple lines, you can now park calls on any of those lines and join or leave call queues from any line.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

Remove background noise on the remote end of a phone call—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you're in a phone call with someone who's not using Webex App and they're in a noisy location such as a busy airport or cafe, no need to worry. Just suppress the remote noise during your call.

See Webex App | Remove background noise from the other end of a phone call

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

More calling controls available when you share content—Windows and Mac

You can now record the call directly from the floating window that appears when you share content during a call.

See Webex App | Share content in a phone call

To learn about what's new for full-featured meetings, see What's New for the Latest Channel of Webex Meetings.

If you subscribe to Webex from your Service Provider, your meetings in Webex App are always full-featured. To learn about what's new for full-featured meetings, see What's New for the Latest Channel of Webex Meetings.

More meeting controls available when you share content—Windows and Mac

You can now record the meeting, open the participants panel, and lock the meeting directly from the floating window that appears when you share content during a meeting.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Option to include Webex App when you share your screen—Windows and Mac

Other meeting participants no longer see your Webex App when you share your whole screen or a portion of your screen in a meeting.

If another participant is helping you use Webex App, it can be useful to share your app. To share your app when you share your screen, select More sharing options > Include my Webex app when sharing my screen to change the setting.

When you provide remote desktop control to another person, Webex App is shared automatically.

See Webex App | Include Webex App when sharing your screen

Make a call during a meeting—Windows and Mac

Be in two places at once and make important calls without leaving a meeting. Pause your audio and video in the meeting and then make the call. The meeting continues even though your meeting audio and video are paused. And when you're finished with your call, go back to the meeting without having to rejoin.

See Webex App | Make a call during a meeting

Book an available room when invited to a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

As a meeting invitee, search for and add meeting rooms to a scheduled meeting. Simply type the room name, and see if it's available for your meeting time.

See Webex App | Update a meeting

View contact card for room—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you schedule a meeting in the Webex App, you can select a room and view the contact card for that room. For any meetings already scheduled that include a room, you can view the contact card for the room in the meetings detail page.

Details on the contact card include the type of room, capacity, location, and devices available. Room details are entered in Control Hub.

See Webex App | Schedule a meeting from the meetings calendar

One tap to join a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you join a meeting as an attendee, you’ll see a new dial-in option One Tap to Join. Meeting information is automatically entered and you’re joined directly to your meeting.

Features available only on our Video Mesh-ready meeting platform

The following additional features are available only on the Video Mesh-ready meeting platform. Find out if your meetings are running on the Video Mesh-ready meeting platform.

Download a meeting transcript without recording the meeting—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you want a written copy of the meeting audio but you don’t want to save the audio and video from the meeting, download a transcript without having to record the meeting.

To download a transcript, turn on closed captions. Then, you can save a transcript any time before the meeting ends. Your Webex administrator must enable saving transcripts.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

See Webex App | Download a meeting transcript without recording the meeting

We’re launching a new experience to share files—Windows and Mac

• Present with ease when multiple presenters take turns—It can be time consuming to transition among presenters when you’re taking turns to present content in a slide deck. Our new Take control feature makes it easy for multiple presenters to transition seamlessly when they present.

• Catch-up on what’s presented during a meeting—As an attendee, sometimes you want to go back to a previous slide or read ahead. Now you can, without interrupting the presenter. Switch back to the presenter view when you’re ready.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

See Webex App | Share a file in a meeting, Webex App | Take turns presenting a file in a meeting, and Webex App | Browse through a file someone's sharing in a meeting

Turn off the raise hand feature for all meeting participants—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

As a host or cohost, if you don’t want to let anyone in the meeting raise their hand, turn off the raise hand feature.

If you turn off raise hand and uncheck Allow attendees to unmute themselves, muted participants won’t be able to raise their hand to request to be unmuted.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

See Webex App | Turn off the raise hand feature for all meeting participants

The calling service your administrator has set up for you determines which calling features you can use.

Below, we indicate which calling service each new feature applies to. If you're not sure what calling service you have, see Webex App | Find Out What Calling Service You Have.

Calling widget on mobile—iPhone, iPad, Android

Get quick access to key calling features from your home screen with the calling widget. Key calling features include call history, setting do not disturb, call forwarding, and call queue settings.

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

To learn about what's new for full-featured meetings, see What's New for the Latest Channel of Webex Meetings.

Schedule recurring meetings—Windows and Mac

You can now create a meeting series that repeats in daily, weekly, or monthly increments. Meeting organizers can edit specific instances to include additional people, or update meeting agendas. Meeting invitees can choose to accept or decline a single instance of the recurring meeting, or the entire meeting series.

Show up to 81 participant videos at a time—Windows, Mac, and Linux

If you have more than 25 participants in your meeting, now you can increase the number of participants to show in grid layout. You can choose to view up to 81 participants on-screen at a time in a 9 × 9 grid.

Go to Settings > Meetings > Layout to select the default number of participant videos to view on each page for the grid layout.

See Webex App | Adjust the maximum number of participants you see per page in grid layout

Hide your self view when you turn off your video—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you turn off your video in a meeting, your self view shows your profile picture or your display name when you're in grid layout. If you prefer, you can choose to hide your self view in grid layout whenever you turn off your video. If you turn on your video, your self view shows.

See Webex App | Show your self view only when your video is on

See yourself in full-screen mode—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you’re the only person in the meeting, your self-view video is now visible in full-screen mode.

Use an external USB camera as shared content—Windows and Mac

During a meeting, share content from an external USB camera or built-in camera, just like you share your desktop. Participants see whatever the camera sees, and they’ll still be able to view your self-view video.

See Webex App | Share content using an external USB camera

Share application windows directly from your Windows taskbar—Windows

If you use Windows 11, there’s a new way to share content during a call or meeting. Hover over any open app on your taskbar and you see a new button that allows you to share the app window.

See Webex App | Share an application window directly from the Windows taskbar

Save bandwidth during a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you want to save bandwidth on your mobile device, stop receiving incoming videos during a meeting. You'll still be able to view shared content.

During a meeting, tap More options and toggle off Receiving Incoming Videos.

See Webex App | Stop receiving incoming video in a meeting

Use an animated background in your meeting—iPhone and iPad

Add some pizzazz to your meeting and keep your audience’s attention by uploading your own animated background image.

Webex App for iPhone and iPad supports MP4 and GIF files.

See Webex App | Use a virtual or blurred background in calls and meetings

Performance enhancements for spaces with large adaptive cards—Windows and Mac

You’ll notice an improved performance when loading a space that contains large adaptive cards. The overall memory usage is also reduced by nearly 50%.

Click and drag to copy messages—Windows and Mac

We're making it easier to copy multiple messages in a space. Simply click and drag your mouse over the message area, and copy using keyboard shortcuts or the right-click menu. See Webex App | Copy and paste multiple messages.

The calling service your administrator has set up for you determines which calling features you can use.

One step to find your phone number—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

We've added your phone number to your profile picture. When you select your profile picture, you'll see your main phone number under your email address.

Choose your caller ID for customer calls—Windows and Mac

When you're set up as a call center agent and you make follow-up calls to customers, choose a suitable caller ID from a list of call queues your administrator has assigned to you.

See Webex App | Change your caller ID

Let Someone Else Control Your Computer—VDI

Want help troubleshooting a problem? Just hop on a call or jump into a space and share your screen. You can then grant that person control of your computer and watch the person's mouse move over your screen. They can even use keyboard shortcuts to move around your app. When they're done, you can take back that control at anytime.

To learn about what's new for full-featured meetings, see What's New for the Latest Channel of Webex Meetings.

If you subscribe to Webex from your Service Provider, your meetings in Webex App are always full-featured. To learn about what's new for full-featured meetings, see What's New for the Latest Channel of Webex Meetings.

Meetings associated with a space—Windows, Mac, Linux, VDI, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Meetings associated with a space have been improved!

We’ve enriched your meetings experience in a space. Now, when you join or schedule a meeting in a space, you have access to all the features you’ve come to enjoy in Webex Meetings. You can leverage this new experience in every meeting you schedule or join from here on in.

To schedule or start a meeting in a space, you must have a Webex Meetings license or the free Basic Meetings license, and be in the same organization as the person who created the space. Without a license, you only have the capability to join meetings.

The enhanced experience isn't yet available in Webex for Government.

See Webex App | Improved meetings associated with a space

Global menu on meetings tab—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Start, join, or schedule a meeting from the new global menu on the Meetings tab.

See Webex App | Start a Personal Room meeting, Webex App | Join a meeting using the action button, and Webex App | Schedule a meeting from the meetings calendar

Calendar view uses preferred first day of week—Windows and Mac

The calendar views in the meetings tab take the locale setting you set for your preferred first day of the week in your operating system.

Connect to your Google calendar—Windows and Mac

You can manage your meetings and events from your Google calendar directly in the Webex App. Connect to the calendar in the Meetings settings in the app, and you'll see your meetings and events populated in the Meetings tab. However, if your organization administrator has already set up your calendar, you won't be able to change it.

Share only what you want others to see—Windows, Mac, and VDI

If you only want to share one window of an application instead of the entire application, choose the setting, Share an individual window only, and then select the window to share.

See Webex App | Share all or an individual application window

Turn on “Share computer audio” in real time—Windows and Mac

It’s more convenient to share your computer audio when you share a file with audio. You can now select Share computer audio from the share control bar that appears at the top of your screen while you share content.

Turn on “Show me in front of presentation” in real time—Windows and Mac

It’s more convenient to show your video in front of your presentation. You can now select Show me in front of presentation from the share control bar that appears at the top of your screen while you share content.

Raise your hand in a meeting easily—Windows and Mac

Raise hand now appears as an icon in the meeting controls. It's right next to Reactions so it’s now easier to raise your hand when you need to ask a question in a meeting.

See Webex App | Raise your hand in a meeting

Enhanced scheduling of meetings associated with a space—Windows and Mac

When you schedule a full-featured meeting associated with a space, advanced settings are now available. You can now also modify the meeting password.

The cohost setting, Let me choose cohost for this meeting, is now selected by default. Members of the space are assigned as cohosts automatically, but you can remove the cohost role from any of the invitees by hovering over their name and clicking > Remove cohost.

Always see your preferred video layout when someone shares content—Windows and Mac

If you change your video layout to side by side layout to see more of the content that’s being shared during a meeting, the app remembers your preference. Each time you start or join a meeting, you no longer have to switch to side by side layout when someone shares content.

Shared content in stage view is now larger—Windows and Mac

When you share content in a meeting, the shared content is now larger, and the speaker’s video is now smaller. The ratio between shared content and speaker videos is approximately 70:30 but depends on the size of your screen and the number of speakers on the stage.

Mute or unmute yourself right from the taskbar—Windows

During a meeting, you’ll find a microphone icon in your Windows taskbar. Click it to mute or unmute yourself. The icon is present throughout your meeting, so it’s always accessible.

Whiteboards now available in scheduled and Personal Room meetings—Linux

Use the in-meeting whiteboard to brainstorm, collaborate, and plan. Anyone in the meeting can start a whiteboard. Everyone in the meeting can see and work on updates to the whiteboard together in real time.

See Webex App | Create and share a whiteboard during a meeting

Identify if a meeting participant is internal, external, or unverified—Linux

In the list of participants waiting in the lobby, you can see if a participant is Internal (verified and within your organization), External (verified and from a different organization) or Unverified (not signed in).

See Know who you're letting into your Webex meeting

Express yourself without saying a word—Linux

Animated reactions let meeting participants express themselves without saying anything in a meeting. Cheer on the speaker with the clapping hands reaction or appreciate a joke with the haha reaction. Get a sense of the audience's response by asking participants to give a quick thumbs up or thumbs down.

See Webex App | Use reactions in your meetings

Maximize what you see when content is shared—Linux

Show the thumbnail videos of the participants in a floating panel that you can move around, so it doesn’t cover up what’s being shared. Choose to have the floating panel in grid view, active speaker view, or minimized.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Maximize your view when someone’s sharing content—Linux

When you’re viewing shared content in full-screen view, you can now resize the floating panel that shows the videos of meeting participants. Make the panel smaller to see more of the shared content. Make the panel bigger to see more of the meeting participants.

See Webex App | Switch between shared content and speaker in a call or meeting

Hosts can set a stage view for all meeting participants—VDI

If you join a full-featured meeting and the host syncs their stage with everyone, you and all of the other participants in the meeting see what the host wants you to focus on, such as the active speaker and any participants that the host has moved to the stage.

See more in thumbnail videos—Linux

An audio indicator to the left of the name label indicates whether the participant is muted or unmuted.

Name labels in thumbnail videos are now aligned to the lower left, have a more transparent background, and are reduced in size to avoid covering up the participant's face.

All the world’s a stage—Linux and VDI

Customize your video layout when you’re in stack or side by side layout. Drag a video from the filmstrip on to the stage to get a closer look at a participant. Place an active speaker right next to the content that's being shared, or keep people who aren't actively speaking, such as a sign-language interpreter, in view.

Move to stage gives you the flexibility to resize your layout to focus on shared content or other participants.

See Move participants to the stage in meetings, webinars, and events, Resize the stage in meetings, webinars, and events, and Webex App | Rearrange videos in stage view

Choose the skin tone for your reactions—Linux

For reactions that use hand emojis, such as thumbs up, you can choose the skin tone that you prefer.

See Webex App | Choose the skin tone for your reactions

Set the default for your self view—VDI

Choose whether to hide or show your self view, and where your self view appears on your screen.

Hide your self view if you prefer not to look at yourself.

Show your self view with others if you want to feel included in the meeting.

If you want to make more room on your screen to see other people or the shared content but still see yourself, show your self view in a floating window.

See Webex App | Change your self-view location

We’ve made it more intuitive to join a meeting—Linux

Enhancements to the Join meeting window make it clearer when you’re not yet in the meeting. Visual changes let you know what your audio options are when you join the meeting.

It's easier to see what your camera options are, how to upload or change your virtual background, and make changes if you’re connected to a device.

See Webex App | Join a meeting

Preview of shared content—Linux

When you share content, you now see a preview of the content. You're able to make sure that you’re sharing only what you want and that everyone in the meeting can see it.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Automatically start your video when you join a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you always turn on your video during a meeting, save yourself the step of having to start it each time. Select the meeting option, Start my video when I join.

See Webex App | Automatically start your video when you join a meeting

Microsoft Teams Integration: More streamlined calling experience for mismatched UPN (User Principal Name)—Windows and Mac

Previously, when you made a call and your UPN in Microsoft Teams didn't match your UPN in Webex, we asked you to confirm before making the call. We have now simplified this experience by checking your email addresses (not just your UPN) and allowing the call to go through without needing confirmation.

Your UPN in Microsoft Teams can be different than the UPN used in the Webex integration, if your organization has gone through an acquisition, rebranding, or if you moved from a different department in the company, or maybe you changed your name: your email address would be updated, but your UPN would remain the same.