September 15, 2023

End of life announcement

Unicon eLux RP6 2104 LSTR and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS have reached end of life. Vendors no longer support these platforms.

Starting with Webex App VDI and Webex Meetings VDI version 43.10, users who have deployed Webex VDI plug-ins on these platforms will not receive support and updates.

For Unicon eLux RP6 2104 LSTR users, we recommend upgrading to Unicon eLux RP6 2302 LSTR.

For Ubuntu 16.04 users, we recommend upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 or later.

See Webex App | VDI release notes for further information.

September 13, 2023

Improvements for Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online integration

The file and folder picker for OneDrive and SharePoint Online content sharing (ECM) has been updated to the latest version provided by Microsoft (version 8). This version provides a much more stable and responsive experience when sharing files using OneDrive or SharePoint.

September 5, 2023

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—43.9.0.27194

  • Mac—43.9.0.27194

  • iPhone and iPad—43.9

  • Android—43.9

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.

The following feature applies to Unified CM

More ways to interact with voicemail messages—Windows and Mac

We added more options for sharing and replying to voicemail messages.

Reply directly to the person who sent you a voicemail message. Reply to everyone who got the voicemail message. Forward the message to other people.

See Forward a voice message and Reply to a voice message

The following feature applies to Webex Calling

Updates for business text messaging—Windows, Mac, iPhones, iPad, and Android

We added the following options:

  • On desktop, the right-click menu includes Add to Favorites and Leave.
  • On mobile, the long press menu includes Add to Favorites and Leave.

This feature is available for Webex Calling with Cisco Calling Plans.

See Text messages

The following feature applies to Webex Calling and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

Transfer calls to an active call—Windows and Mac

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

The following feature applies to Unified CM, Webex Calling and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

More settings for the multi call window—Windows

We've provided more options for when you can use the multi call window.

  • Choose if the multi call window is always in the foreground or in the background.

  • For incoming calls, choose if the window comes to the front or use call notifications.

Alert banner on the multi call window—Windows

If you haven't added your address for 911 calls, you'll see an alert banner on the multi call window. Click Update to go to settings and enter your address.


 

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.

Decorative element. A wide horizontal blue line.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.

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Hear an audio announcement when a meeting transcript is recording

If your Webex administrator has enabled saving transcripts in meetings, and you dial into the meeting using your phone, when someone turns on closed captions or the Webex Assistant, you now hear the audio announcement, "The meeting transcript is being recorded."

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

Respond to meeting invites—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Choose how to respond to meetings from the meetings details. Accept, decline or, if you’re not sure, choose tentative.

Access more options from each participant’s thumbnail video—Windows and Mac

Now, it’s more convenient to chat directly with someone in a meeting or view their people insights profile. In their thumbnail video, right-click or click More options to access these and other options.

We're sharing details about our planned releases, but keep in mind that we might need to make changes to release dates and the features themselves. Subscribe to this article to get updated about any changes.

Some of the following features are available in Beta if you've accepted the Cisco Beta Participation Agreement and participate in the Beta program.

Coming in October

Application

Android Auto support—Android

If your vehicle supports Android Auto dashboard, connect your Android device to your car and use Webex app to access Meetings and calls on the road. Make and receive audio calls, or see a list of your upcoming meetings and join with audio only. You can then mute, unmute, and leave the meeting or call with a single tap on your car's touch screen.

Messaging

Send messages without manually creating a space—Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone, iPad, and VDI

We're adding a new messaging option in Webex App. From the the global and contextual action buttons, you can now send messages to a group of people without defining a new space first. After you send the message, the app creates a space for you.

Drag and drop spaces and sections—Windows and Mac

We've added more improvements to our space sections feature, with a quicker way to reorganize your sections in the spaces list.

Calling

The following feature applies to Webex Calling and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

Attended transfer for mobile network operator (MNO) and Webex Go—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you make and receive calls using your mobile phone built-in dialer, use the app to do an attended transfer to someone. You can let that person know why you’re transferring the call to them.

Attended transfer will also be added to the Android in-call widget.

This feature is available with Webex Go and a mobile network operator (MNO) that has call signaling using Cisco call control for mobile phone calls.

Multi call window improvements for call queues—Windows

We’ve added the call queue status to the multi call window and you can join or leave a call queue from the multi call window.

The following feature applies to Unified CM

More ways to interact with voicemail messages—iPhone, iPad, and Android

We added more options for sharing and replying to voicemail messages. Reply directly to the person who sent you a voicemail message. Reply to everyone who got the voicemail message. Forward the message to other people.

Multi call window improvements for hunt groups—Windows

You can sign in or sign out of a hunt group directly from the multi call window.

Meetings

VoiceOver and keyboard support for self-view in meetings—Mac

Control your self-view video during a meeting by using the VoiceOver screen reader. If you’re a keyboard user, use the F6 and arrow keys to focus on and then move your self-view video.

Integrations

Enhancements to Jira Cloud Integration with Webex—Windows, Mac, Web, iPhone, iPad, and Android

With the new enhanced Jira Cloud Bot for Webex, you can choose to Select a Project, Create an Issue, and Update Issues. Add a new comment from the bot on the issue, Assign the issue and Issue Preview Card all from within Webex.

Wrike Integration with Webex—Windows, Mac, Web, iPhone, iPad, and Android 

Wrike is an online project management and work collaboration tool that is designed to provide full visibility and control over all your tasks and projects.

With the Wrike Bot for Webex, in Webex App you can create Projects, Folders. You will have the option to edit, or delete the folder using the Bot in Webex.

Features still in development

The following features were listed as coming in October, they are still in development and will be scheduled for a later date.

Set a message reminder—Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone, iPad, and VDI

August 14, 2023

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—43.8.0.26955

  • Linux—43.8.0.26955

  • Mac—43.8.0.26955

  • iPhone and iPad—43.8

  • Android—43.8

August 11, 2023

We're still working through some items, and are planning to release Webex App for August a little later this month. We just wanted to let you know about this change, and we'll post another update on August 14th.

August 9, 2023

We're planning to release Webex App for August a little later this month. We just wanted to let you know about this change, and we'll post an update on August 11th.

August 8, 2023

We're planning to release Webex App for August a little later. We just wanted to let you know about this change, and we'll post an update on August 9th.

Minimize distractions outside your work hours—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Work happens across different time zones at all hours of the day and night. Quiet hours lets you create a schedule to mute all notifications and incoming calls during specific times, and changes your availability to let others know you’re in quiet hours Quiet hours indicated by an avatar.

Go to Settings > Notifications and select a daily or custom quiet hours schedule. See Webex App | Set your quiet hours for more information.

Turn off read receipts—Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Don't want others to know you've read a message in a space? Easily turn off sending and receiving read receipts for all spaces in your settings, giving you control of your messaging experience. See Webex App | Turn off read receipts for more information.

Change the order of your space sections—Windows and Mac

Once you've created sections, you can now re-order your sections in the space list to suit your style of work. Simply right-click a section header to move up or down. See Webex App | Space sections for more information.

Expand or collapse threads—Windows

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. See Webex App | Collapse or expand all message threads for more information.

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.

The following feature applies to Unified CM, Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

Show redirect information in multi-call window—Windows

When you receive incoming calls that are redirected, you'll see more information in the multi-call window on where they are from. For example, the hunt group, call queue or who the call was forwarded by.

The following feature applies to Webex Calling and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

Updates for Business text messaging—Windows, Mac, iPhones, iPad, and Android

We’ve added the following options:

  • On desktop the right-click menu includes Add to Favorites

  • On mobile the long press menu includes Add to Favorites

This is available for Webex Calling with Cisco Calling Plans.


 

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.

Decorative element. A wide horizontal blue line.New Meetings platform!

Over the next few months, Webex meetings are moving over to a new, Video Mesh-ready 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 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 Video Mesh-ready meeting platform.

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Updated first-time experience for Meetings tab—Windows and Mac

We’ve added banners to prompt you to test a Webex meeting and connect a calendar. Click Test a Webex meeting to start a meeting where you can try out the features that are available to you. Click Connect your calendar to step you through connecting your third party calendar. See Webex App | Connect your Google or Microsoft 365 calendar.

Update a scheduled meeting—Windows and Mac

When your account is set up with Hybrid Calendar, you can update a scheduled meeting in the Webex App.

July 27, 2023

We're planning to release Webex App for August a little later. We just wanted to let you know about this change, and we'll post an update on August 8th.

July 21, 2023

Beginning September 4, 2023, we'll start phasing out support of Basic and Advanced meetings associated with a space (Classic meetings associated with a space).

In October 2022, we released a new feature for meetings in spaces called Improved Meetings Associated with a Space. Unless you have a dependency on static meeting links or you use our SDKs, you should now have improved meetings associated with a space. If you haven't yet migrated, we'll work with you over the next few weeks.

We’ve compiled a list of customers who are impacted by static meeting links or who use our SDKs. Those customers will still have access to their Basic and Advanced meeting links until a solution is available in Improved Meetings Associated with a Space.

If you purchase Webex through a Service Provider this announcement does not apply to you. Your Service Provider will be communicating to you the details and timing of the move to Improved Meetings Associated with a Space. Please contact your Service Provider directly with questions.

This doesn't apply to Webex for Government.

July 10, 2023

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—43.7.0.26612

  • Mac—43.7.0.26612

  • iPhone and iPad—43.7

  • Android—43.7

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.

The following feature applies to Unified CM, Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

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.

The following feature applies to Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

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.


 

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.

Decorative element. A wide horizontal blue line.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.

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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.

June 29, 2023

We're planning to release the Webex App for July a little later. We just wanted to let you know about this change, and we'll post an update on July 10th.

June 12, 2023

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—43.6.0.26407

  • Mac—43.6.0.26407

  • iPhone and iPad—43.6

  • Android—43.6

June 6, 2023

We're planning to release the Webex App for June a little later. We just wanted to let you know about this change, and we'll post an update on June 12th.

June 1, 2023

We've released a Webex App progressive Web App (PWA), the app provides the same capabilities as Webex App and is designed to work on Chrome OS devices. See Install Webex App PWA and Webex Meetings PWA.

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.

The following feature applies to Webex Calling and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

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

The following feature applies to Unified CM

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

The following feature applies to Unified CM, Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

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


 

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.

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.

More options in 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.

Annotation privileges

Annotate the shared content

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.

May

May 8, 2023

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—43.5.0.26155

  • Linux—43.5.0.26155

  • Mac—43.5.0.26155

  • iPhone and iPad—43.5

  • Android—43.5

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.

The following feature applies to Unified CM, Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

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

The following features apply to Webex Calling

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.

The following feature applies to Webex Calling and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

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.

The following feature applies to Unified CM and Webex Calling on Dedicated Instance

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.

The following feature applies to Unified CM

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

April 28, 2023

We're planning to release the Webex App for May a little later. We just wanted to let you know about this change, and we'll post an update on May 8th.

April 19, 2023

We've released an update for Webex App on Windows and Mac to include some improvements for pronouns and translations.

We've also included Move meeting reminders and Add files in a meeting features, for more information on these, see the Meetings tab.

The following app versions correspond to today's releases.

  • Windows—43.4.0.25959

  • Mac—43.4.0.25959

April 17, 2023

We're planning to release an update for Webex App on Windows and Mac in the coming days to include some improvements. We just wanted to let you know about this upcoming update, and we'll post again when the update is available.

April 14, 2023

Upcoming changes for start a meeting—Windows and Mac

We wanted to let you know about some changes that are coming in how you start a meeting in Webex App. These changes are currently scheduled to release in August 2023. For more detailed information see Webex App | Upcoming changes for start a meeting

April 4, 2023

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—43.4.0.25788

  • Mac—43.4.0.25788

  • iPhone and iPad—43.4

  • Android—43.4

Customize keyboard shortcuts—Windows, Linux, and Mac

Edit your keyboard shortcuts for the app to suit your work style. You can also set or remove some global keyboard shortcuts, these work when the app isn’t in focus.

With these updates to keyboard shortcuts the following are some changes to existing shortcuts:

Windows

  • Add a link: from Ctrl + E to Ctrl + K

  • Markdown: from Ctrl + M to Alt + Shift + M

  • Answer with message: from Ctrl + R to Ctrl + Alt + A

  • Reload a space: from Ctrl + Shift + R to Ctrl + Alt + Y

  • Go to @mentions to all list: from Ctrl + Shift + L to Alt + Shift + G

  • Go to @mentions to me list: from Ctrl + Shift + O to Alt + Shift + H

  • Toggle inline code: from Ctrl + Shift + C to Alt + Shift + K

  • Paste special: from Ctrl + Shift + V to Ctrl + Alt + V

Mac

  • Go to drafts: from Command + 0 to Command + 3

  • Reload a space: from Command + R to Control + Shift + Y

  • Go to Meetings: from Command + Shift + M to Command + Shift + B

  • Add a link: from Command + E to Command + K

  • Insert PMR: from Control + Shift + P to Command + Shift + K

  • Mute / Unmute: from Control + Shift + M to Shift + Command + M

  • Open home: from Command + Shift + H to Command + Shift + J

  • Show links: from Control + Shift + P to Command + Shift + K

See Webex App | Keyboard navigation and shortcuts

Set your pronouns—Windows and Mac

We're making it easier to have a more inclusive workplace. Add your pronouns to your profile, so people see which pronouns to use when they address you. This helps build better working relationships, and takes the guessing out of everyday interactions. This feature is off by default and must be enabled by your organization's administrator.

See Webex App | Set your pronouns

Set Enter to send your message—iPhone, iPad, and Android

You can choose if Enter adds a new line in the app or sends your message.

Customize notifications for all spaces—Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Notifications help you keep up-to-date with what's happening, so you don't miss anything. We're introducing a custom option so you can choose your own notification preferences for direct messages, @mentions to you, and @mentions to all, that apply to all of your spaces.

See Webex App | Set notifications for all spaces

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.

The following feature applies to Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

More options to manage incoming call notifications—iPhone, iPad, Android

On your mobile device you have more options for incoming call notifications. Turn off all notifications, choose just the banner notification, or you can choose to receive the banner notification with a ringtone.

The following features apply to Unified CM, Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

Fit your camera video in self view—Windows and Mac

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 (Windows) or Preferences > Video (Mac).

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

See the network connection status indicator when you’re sharing content—Windows and Mac


 
This feature has been delayed and isn't yet available.

The indicator that shows your network connection and CPU status now shows in the floating mini window that appears when you’re sharing your screen or application window.

The following feature applies to Webex Calling

More functionality for multiple lines—Windows and Mac

When you’re assigned multiple lines, you can now park calls on any of those lines.

The following feature applies to Calling hosted by a Service Provider

View people’s call status or pick up calls—Windows

We’ve added a Watchlist section to the Multi Call window, where you’ll see a list of people, their Busy Lamp Field (BLF) availability and call options for incoming calls. If you transfer lots of calls, use the list to check who is available to take the call. When somebody’s phone rings, you can pick up that call from this list.


 

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.


 

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.

Move meeting reminders—Windows and Linux

Reminders getting in the way? To help you finish what you’re working on before joining your meeting, drag and move your Webex meeting reminders anywhere on your screen.

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

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

Invite any user to an in-progress meeting by email—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

As a host or cohost, you can now invite Webex users from outside of your organization and users who don't have a Webex account to join a meeting that’s in progress.

In the meeting window or participants panel, click Invite people and enter their email address. The invitee receives an email invite to join the meeting.

Invite people to an in-progress meeting

Invite people to an in-progress meeting

See Webex App | Add someone to a meeting

See the meeting status indicators when you’re sharing content—Windows and Mac

The indicators that show your network connection and CPU status and whether the meeting is locked or being recorded now show in the floating mini window that appears when you’re sharing your screen or application window.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Hide the video and controls when you’re sharing content—Windows and Mac

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

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

Show video and controls in a floating window

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Fit your camera video in self view—Windows and Mac

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 (Windows) or Preferences > Video (Mac).

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

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

Share application windows directly from your Windows taskbar—VDI

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.

Share application windows directly from your Windows taskbar

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

Focus on the individual, instead of their surroundings, during a meeting—VDI

We've added new feature in grid layout called people focus, which gives you a better face-to-face experience with the people you're meeting with.

Regardless of how each person is positioned in front of their camera, the app automatically adjusts so that each person's face is what you focus on. You feel more connected to them—as if you're there in person.

See Use people focus to see people more clearly in meetings and webinars

Book an available room when invited to a meeting—Windows, Mac, and Linux

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.

Guest meeting settings—Windows and Mac

When you join a meeting as a guest, you now have access to more meeting settings, such as:

  • Appearance—change the theme color
  • Accessibility—screen reader and keyboard shortcut options

Features available only on our Video Mesh-ready meeting platform

The Webex meeting experience is now starting to roll out on the Video Mesh-ready platform. This platform allows for improved and simplified experiences for hybrid work across the entire Webex Suite, with common architecture, administration, and integrations. It converges the meeting experience across Webex applications and devices, and unlocks potential for continuous collaboration before and after a meeting, with rich real-time experiences. Find out if your meetings are running on the Video Mesh-ready meeting platform.

The following features are available only on the Video Mesh-ready meeting platform.

Add files in a meeting—Windows, Mac, Linux

Improve your meeting experience and upload files during a meeting where all attendees can download the files. Hosts and cohosts can turn off the ability for everyone to add files at any stage of the meeting.

See Webex App | Add files in a meeting

Preassign participants to breakout sessions—Windows and Mac

As a host, if you already know which breakout sessions you want to assign participants to, create the breakout sessions ahead of time when you schedule the meeting. Let Webex App automatically assign participants to the sessions, manually assign participants to the sessions yourself, or let the participants choose which session to join.

See Preassign participants to breakout sessions

Move your meeting to a new device—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

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.

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

Provide or request remote desktop control when sharing your screen—VDI

When you're sharing your screen during a meeting, you can give someone else mouse and keyboard access to your screen. You can also request access to someone else's screen when they're sharing. This can help if you need to troubleshoot an issue or if you're in a training session with someone.

Remote desktop control is supported only when you share your entire screen, and not when you share other types of content.

See Webex App | Provide or request remote desktop control

The following enhancements are available on our Video Mesh-ready platform.

When you start a meeting

After you start an instant meeting, it's easy to invite people to join the meeting, directly from the meeting window.

Invite people directly to the meeting

With our improved notification system, participants no longer need to notify the host when they're waiting in the lobby to join a meeting. We removed the Notify host button so hosts no longer need to check their email. The host now automatically receives a notification from the app when there are participants waiting in the lobby.

In the meeting window

We've made several changes to improve your experience and improve the workflow during a meeting. The Layout and Zoom buttons are conveniently located so you can switch to other layouts or show more participants.

In grid view layout, use the navigation controls to quickly go from one page to another, or to jump back to the first page of participants.

The participants panel not only shows you the participants who are In the meeting but also the people who are invited but are Not in the meeting yet. The participant panel is also now more user-centric so a user is listed once only, even when they join from multiple devices.

Since most people join a meeting with their audio turned on, the participants panel now shows an audio indicator only when a participant has muted their audio. That way, if someone is talking but you can't hear them, you can scan the list of participants to see who has their audio turned off.

The meeting options are simplified, and related menu items are removed from the right-click menu of the participants panel.

Instead of opening multiple panels at once and taking up valuable screen space, you can open one panel at a time and pop multiple panels out, when you need to.

Video mesh enhancements for meetings

We've simplified syncing the stage. After the host syncs the stage, attendees can't customize the stage and adjust the stage proportion. Attendees now always see the view that the host intended them to see.

Sync the stage view during a meeting

While sharing content

It's more convenient to share your Webex meeting window. Share it directly from the Share content dialog—where you share all other types of content—by sharing Webex App.

When you're sharing your screen, you can give remote desktop control to other participants, or they can request control, which provides a lot more flexibility to users.

To save screen space when the shared content is maximized, we show all participant videos in a narrow floating panel.

Provide remote desktop control to other participants when you're sharing your screen during a meeting

You can now share a specific area of your screen only. Participants only see the portion of the screen you select, not your entire screen.

We've simplified the actions available during sharing, keeping the share-related actions in the control bar at the top of the screen. Other key actions that you commonly use, such as mute or unmute audio, appear in the floating window.

Favorite menu bar items are now more contextual and convenient to access

We've optimized the location of the most popular options on the menu bar. You can now access options from the Share, View, Audio & Video, Participant, and Meeting menus directly from the meeting controls.

For example, access Audio Settings from the Audio options drop-down in . Access Video Settings from the Video options drop-down in .

access audio and video settings during a call or meeting from your meeting controls

Go to More options in the meeting controls to access meeting options and enable breakout sessions.

Turning off the participants list in a meeting.

When you chat in a meeting

Get more from your meeting with our enriched in-meeting chat. Organize a productive meeting by sharing the meeting agenda, notes, and a summary in the chat. Even if you join the meeting late, you can easily catch up by seeing meeting chat from the start of the meeting. Engage and express yourself by using markdown, reactions, or GIFs. Revisit and share the chat after the meeting ends.

Open and chat in a meeting.

When you're multitasking during a meeting

When the window is minimized or covered up by other applications, a floating mini window appears on top of the other applications that you’ve open. This allows you to keep an eye on what’s happening in the meeting. To easily get back to the meeting, click anywhere in the floating mini window.

Get back to your call or meeting window after multitasking

March 7, 2023

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—43.3.0.25468

  • Mac—43.3.0.25468

  • iPhone and iPad—43.3

  • Android—43.3

Sign in improvements—Mac and iOS

When you sign in and authenticate with Webex App, you can then navigate to other applications in your organization that use your Webex credentials, without entering your details multiple times. If you're using a Mac device you'll see an Apple standard security popup.

Passkey sign in—Mac and iOS

Passkey provides you with a simple and secure way to sign in without usernames and passwords. It uses biometric authentication such as a fingerprint or facial scan, or your passcode, to identify you when you sign in.

To use passkey on a Mac device, reach out to your organization's administrator for support.

Multiple windows—iPad

Start multitasking with Webex App. You can open multiple windows, each a separate instance of the app interface, so you can easily have your meetings, messages, and spaces open at the same time, and toggle between them using the app switcher. You can also view one window of the app, side by side with another copy.

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.

The following features apply to Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

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.

Share application windows directly from your Windows taskbar

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%.

February 13, 2023

We've released an update for Webex App, see Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issue resolved with this release. We submitted updates for the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted. The following app versions correspond to today's updates and we've restarted the auto update.

  • Windows—43.2.0.25211

  • Linux—43.2.0.25211

  • Mac—43.2.0.25211

  • iPhone and iPad—43.2

  • Android—43.2

February 13, 2023

We've paused the auto update for Webex App on Windows and Mac, we're planning to release a new version in the coming days, and we'll post another update on February 14th.

February 9, 2023

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—43.2.0.25157

  • Linux—43.2.0.25157

  • Mac—43.2.0.25157

  • iPhone and iPad—43.2

  • Android—43.2

Preferences vertical navigation—Mac

Preferences has a refreshed design that's easier to navigate. The horizontal tab view is replaced with a vertical navigation sidebar, which is the standard for Mac as of MacOS 13.1 (Ventura).

February 7, 2023

We're planning to release a little later this month. We just wanted to let you know about this change, and we'll post an update on February 9th.

Discover public spaces—Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and iPad

We've made it easier to find and join public spaces. You'll see a new public filter in your list of spaces, which shows the public spaces you've joined. You can also explore unjoined public spaces with just one click.

Quietly leave a space—Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and iPad

We know how much you value your privacy and anonymity. Now, when you leave a space, this action won't be visible to other space members, apart from moderators in moderated spaces.

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.

The following features apply to Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

Enhance mobile phone calls with full collaboration capability—iPhone and Android

During a mobile phone call, you can seamlessly move the call to a Webex meeting without ending the call. 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.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

The following features apply to Unified CM

Whisper coaching for Contact Center—VDI

When you're set up as a call center agent, your supervisor can listen in on your calls and discreetly provide you with advice during the calls.

The following features apply to Webex Calling

Post call survey—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Share your feedback on call quality when your call ends and choose a star rating. If you have any issues, you can choose from the list provided, or add your own text describing the issue. Include logs to help us investigate.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

Webex Calling supports site survivability—Windows and Mac

If a site in your company loses internet connectivity and you’re at that site, you can still make and receive calls, both internally in your company and externally to customers. This feature requires a survivability gateway, that your administrator must configure.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

Send a text message—iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you need to send a text to somebody, you can write your message in the app and send it to their mobile number. You can also receive text messages in the app.

This feature is currently only available in the US and Canada for Webex Calling with Cisco Calling plans.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

Improvements to text message—Windows and Mac

We've added some improvements for text messaging on desktop. You can include an emoji in your message and choose to mark a text message as unread. In the app header on Mac, when you search for a number we've added an option to send a text message in the search results.


 

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.

Raise hand emoji uses your preferred skin tone—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you raise your hand in a meeting, the raise hand emoji now uses the reaction skin tone you chose.

See Webex App | Choose the skin tone for your reactions

Share video from your mobile device’s rear camera—iPhone, iPad, and Android

During a meeting, share video from the built-in rear camera on your mobile device. Zoom in and out to focus on what you want participants to see.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Play a notification sound when someone’s waiting in the lobby—Windows, Mac, and Linux

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 have Webex 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.

Play a sound when a participant is waiting in the lobby

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

Sync your stage now syncs the video proportion of the stage—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

During a meeting, if you resize your stage to show more of the shared content or participant video while syncing to everyone, you can now update your stage, so everyone sees your changes. This ensures that everyone in the meeting sees the exact same stage as you intend.

Sync your stage view with everyone

See Sync your stage with everyone in meetings, webinars, and events

Failed call ins now get an option for an automatic callback—iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you use your mobile device to call in to a meeting and the call fails, you’ll now see an option to call back into the meeting again.

Use an animated background in your meeting—Android

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

Webex App for Android supports MP4 files.

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

Join button in meetings list—Android

The Join button appears for a meeting shortly before it begins, tap and join right from the list on the meetings tab.

Share only a portion of your screen—VDI


 
We announced that this feature was available in February but it'll be available in a future release.

If you want to share a specific area of your screen with meeting participants, select the area that you want to share. Participants only see the portion of the screen you selected, not your entire screen.

See more applications in the “Share content” window—VDI

When you have lots of applications open, sometimes it’s difficult to find the one that you want to share in a meeting. Now, you can resize the Share content window to display more applications. You can display up to 5 columns of applications. The app remembers your changes for next time.

Resize Share content window

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Participants external to your organization can start and schedule meetings in a space—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

You asked and we listened. External participants in a space who are licensed to host meetings in their own organization, can now schedule meetings in the space and start meetings in the space, when they want to collaborate instantly.

This feature also applies to enhanced meetings associated with a space, which are available on our Video Mesh-ready meeting platform.


 
When the meeting ends, meeting content from external participants isn’t shared automatically in the space. The meeting host must add the content to the space after the meeting.

January 10, 2023

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—43.1.0.24716

  • Mac—43.1.0.24716

  • iPhone and iPad—43.1

  • Android—43.1

December 6, 2022

Updated app versions

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile app to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—42.12.0.24485

  • Linux—42.12.0.24485

  • Mac—42.12.0.24485

  • iOS—42.12

  • Android—42.12

Choose your default screen—iPhone and iPad

Choose what you'd like to see first when the app opens. Maybe you'd prefer to see Meetings, set that as your default.

See Webex App | Select a Landing Screen

Webex App 2023 release update

We have a few things to tell you about our 2023 schedule:

  • For our January release, we're planning to just include some critical fixes and release on January 10th.

  • Webex App will continue to release on the first Tuesday of every month.

Seasonal emoji reactions—Windows, Mac, and Linux

To add some festive cheer, we're giving reactions a seasonal makeover. You'll see these changes for all reactions on Windows, Mac, and Linux from December 7 to December 31. (On mobile, reactions use the Android or iOS emojis so we aren't updating those reactions.)

If you'd prefer to turn this option off, contact feature-feedback@cisco.com before December 6.

This is only available using the December release builds.

Send a text message—Windows and Mac

If you need to send a text to somebody, you can write your message in the app and send it to their mobile number. You can also receive text messages in the app.

This feature is currently only available in the US and Canada for Webex Calling with Cisco Calling Plans.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

Recommended Messages—Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Recommended messages help you filter out the noise and focus on your most important messages. It prioritizes messages by understanding the messages that matter most to you.

This feature is currently only available outside the EU for enterprise customers


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

See Webex App | Recommended messages

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

The following features apply to Unified CM, Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

See more applications in the “Share content” window—Windows, Mac, and Linux

When you have lots of applications open, sometimes it’s difficult to find the one that you want to share during a call. Now, you can resize the Share content window to display more applications. You can display up to 5 columns of applications. The app remembers your changes for next time.

See Webex App | Share content in a phone call

The following features apply to Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

Enhancements for Hunt Group and Call Queue calls—Windows and Mac

We now provide a clear indication in the incoming call notification and in the call history when you receive a call from a hunt group or a call queue.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

Support for multiple shared lines—Windows and Mac

Answer calls from any of your shared lines and choose any line to make calls from within the app. Your administrator must set you up with shared lines and you can see your primary line and up to nine shared lines.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

Webex App | Multiple lines

Choose your caller ID for outgoing calls—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When your business and personal lines use the same mobile device, choose which of the lines to use for your caller ID. This feature is set up by your administrator and requires Broadworks mobility service on a mobile network operator(MNO).


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

See Webex App | Choose your caller ID for outgoing calls on mobile

Enhance mobile phone calls with full collaboration capability—iPhone and Android

During a mobile phone call, you can seamlessly move the call to a Webex meeting without ending the call. 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.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

The following features apply to Webex Calling

Send a text message—Windows and Mac

If you need to send a text to somebody, you can write your message in the app and send it to their mobile number. You can also receive text messages in the app.

This feature is currently only available in the US and Canada for Webex Calling with Cisco Calling Plans.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

See Webex App | Send a text message and Webex App | Text messages

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

Edit in-meeting display name—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

You can now edit your in-meeting display name in the meeting. This makes it easier to use a preferred name or control how you want your name seen by others.

Simply right-click your name and select Edit Display Name to edit your name for this meeting. Hosts and cohosts can edit the display name of any participant in the meeting.

The meeting recording and usage report always show the last-edited name of a participant.

For customers who prefer to block the ability to edit display names, your administrator can disable it.

See more applications in the “Share content” window—Windows, Mac, and Linux

When you have lots of applications open, sometimes it’s difficult to find the one that you want to share in a meeting. Now, you can resize the Share content window to display more applications. You can display up to 5 columns of applications. The app remembers your changes for next time.

Resize Share content window

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Improved first-time experience for connecting to a Webex device—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

The app now listens for ultrasound signals from nearby Webex room and desk devices only if you manually connect to a device or use Wi-Fi networks in your vicinity to discover nearby devices. If your organization doesn’t use Webex devices, the app no longer uses ultrasound.

See Webex | Connect to a Webex App device

Pin your self view during a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you want your self-view video to always show on your screen during a meeting, now you have the option to pin your video in place. Make sure you start your video and then, in your self view, tap More options > Pin My Self View.

Pinning your self view affects your view only, not what other participants see.

New whiteboard tools—VDI

We've added some new tools to the whiteboard:

  • Text—It's much easier to type text than writing with a mouse.
  • Shapes—There are some built-in shapes, you can discover them by clicking the Shapes tool.
  • Lasso-selection—When choosing the Arrow tool, you can lasso-select objects in the canvas and move them, delete them, bring to front or send to back.

Whiteboards now available in scheduled and Personal Room meetings—VDI

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.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

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

Hear everyone’s voices loud and clear during a meeting—VDI

When a few people are speaking into the same microphone in a conference room, make sure everyone’s voices are heard. The audio option, Optimize for all voices, removes background noise and enhances all voices nearby.

See Webex App | Remove background noise and speech in calls and meetings

Get notified before your actions interrupt the current share—Linux and VDI

When someone else shares content or a whiteboard and you start to annotate or share content, a message now appears. If you decide to continue, you stop the current share.

Message to notify that you'll stop the current content share

Enhancements to meeting details—iPhone, iPad and Android

We improved the way we show information for meetings. The details are grouped into easier to read tabs, including attendee status, more ways to join meetings, and easier access to copy and share information.

Join button in meetings list—iPhone and iPad

The green join button appears for a meeting shortly before it begins, tap and join the meeting right from the list on the meetings tab.

November 8, 2022

Updated app versions

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—42.11.0.24187

  • Mac—42.11.0.24187

  • iPhone and iPad—42.11

  • Android—42.11

More choice with message reactions—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

We've increased the number of animated reactions to messages in a space. Express yourself and take conversations to another level.

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

The following features apply to Unified CM

Whisper coaching for contact center—Windows

When you're set up as a call center agent, your supervisor can listen in on your calls and discreetly provide you with advice during the calls.

The following features apply to Unified CM, Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

Remove background noise on the remote end of a phone call—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.


 

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

Share only a portion of your screen—Windows and Mac

If you want to share a specific area of your screen with someone, select the area that you want to share. They'll only see the portion of the screen you selected, not your entire screen.

See Webex App | Share only a portion of your screen

Answer a call during a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Be in two places at once and answer important calls without leaving a Webex scheduled meeting, a Personal Room meeting, or a meeting associated with a space. Just put your audio and video on hold in the meeting and take the call. The meeting continues even though you put it on hold, but your audio and video are paused. And when you're finished your call, go back to the meeting without having to rejoin.

See Webex App | Answer a call to your video address during a meeting

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

Enable Airplay Audio—iPhone and iPad

When you're in a meeting on your iPhone or iPad you can enable Airplay Audio, and stream your meeting audio to any surrounding Apple AirPlay compatible devices.

Search and book a room—Windows and Mac

You can search for, and book a meeting room when scheduling a meeting from Webex App. With the in-app scheduler, you can search for a room by name, and also see the current availability.

See Webex App | Schedule a meeting from the meetings calendar

New whiteboard tools—Windows and Mac

We've added some new tools to the whiteboard:

  • Text—It's much easier to type text than writing with a mouse.
  • Shapes—There are some built-in shapes, you can discover them by clicking the Shapes tool.
  • Lasso-selection—When choosing the Arrow tool, you can lasso-select objects in the canvas and move them, delete them, bring to front or send to back.

The speaker bubble now appears in a new location—Windows and Mac

In meetings, the speaker bubble appears when someone is speaking, but their video or profile picture isn’t visible on the screen. It lets you know who’s talking.

We’ve moved the speaker bubble to the top center of the screen so that it doesn't overlap or obscure the participants’ videos or the shared content.

Speaker bubble appears at the top center of the screen

 
On Mac, the speaker bubble briefly replaces the meeting name in the top header bar when it appears. When no one is speaking, the meeting name is in the top header bar.

Share only a portion of your screen—Windows and Mac

If you want to share a specific area of your screen with meeting participants, select the area that you want to share. Participants only see the portion of the screen you selected, not your entire screen.

Share portion of screen

See Webex App | Share only a portion of your screen

Option to use less mobile data during a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you’re not connected to Wi-Fi, save mobile data by turning off the option to use data to show participants’ videos and your self view. Go to Meetings settings and toggle off Use Mobile Data for Video. Otherwise, the app will continue to use mobile data to show videos.

If you connect to Wi-Fi, the videos automatically show again.

Get notified before your actions interrupt the current share—Windows and Mac

When someone else shares content or a whiteboard and you start to annotate or share content, a message now appears. If you decide to continue, you stop the current share.

Message to notify that you'll stop the current content share

View participants page by page in grid layout—iPhone, iPad, and Android

In grid layout, by default, you now see participants’ videos in a new pagination view. On your mobile phone, a maximum of four participants per page appear in portrait mode and a maximum of six participants per page appear in landscape mode.

Pagination view shows a maximum of four participants' videos

On a large tablet, a maximum of 24 participants per page appear in portrait mode and a maximum of 25 participants per page appear in landscape mode.

Pagination view shows a maximum of 25 participants' videos

Swipe left to view more participants.

If you prefer scrolling view, which was the default in earlier versions, go to Meetings settings and change the Grid View Layout.

Support for Apple Continuity Camera—Mac and iPhone

Apple Continuity Camera lets you replace Mac's built-in web camera using the iPhone camera. You can use the rear-facing, wide-angle camera of an iPhone to support high-quality photo and video capture. It also enables the Mac Desk View app, which works like an overhead camera setup to show the desk area in front of the Mac without any additional equipment.

Select your iPhone from the camera list

See Webex App | Use iPhone Continuity Camera in a call or meeting

Answer a call during a meeting—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Be in two places at once and answer important calls without leaving a Webex scheduled meeting, a Personal Room meeting, or a meeting associated with a space. Just put your audio and video on hold in the meeting and take the call. The meeting continues even though you put it on hold, but your audio and video are paused. And when you're finished your call, go back to the meeting without having to rejoin.

Resume the meeting after taking a call

Resume the meeting after taking a call

See Webex App | Answer a call to your video address during a meeting

Guest users can send feedback—iPhone, iPad, and Android

People who join a meeting as a guest can report issues and send feedback about their experience with meetings or the app.

Linked folder enhancements—Windows and Mac

Adding a folder from Microsoft to a space is much more discoverable, there’s a call to action next to your files, whiteboards, and other space content. We’ve made the following enhancements:

  • When you add a folder, the embedded view from Microsoft OneDrive or SharePoint is directly accessible from the space

  • You can fully navigate the linked folder from the embedded view, including any subfolders

  • You can use all file management actions without leaving Webex App, for example, deleting, editing, or sharing files

  • We’ve improved the layout of the folder management in the space content tab

  • We’ve made it easier to switch views between files shared in a space and files in the linked folder

October 26, 2022

Update to supported operating systems—Mac, iPhone and iPad

The Webex App is supported on macOS Ventura 13.0, iOS 16.1, and iPadOS 16.

October 19, 2022

We've released the Webex App for Linux, the following version corresponds to today's release.

  • Linux—42.10.0.24000

October 4, 2022

Updated app versions

The following app versions correspond to today's releases. See Webex App | Release Notes to get information about the issues resolved with these releases. We recently submitted the mobile apps to the app stores for review, and you'll be able to download them after they're approved and posted.

  • Windows—42.10.0.23814

  • Mac—42.10.0.23814

  • iPhone and iPad—42.10

  • Android—42.10

Message notification sounds—Windows and Mac

Customize your Webex App experience with notification sounds. Select a sound from our extended list of options for specific types of spaces, to alert you to the messages that matter most.

Unlink the social network account you use to sign in—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

You may not want to continue using your social network account to sign in to Webex App. You can now unlink your social account from the app, and switch to an email and password based sign in, quickly and easily from the Welcome screen.

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.

The following features apply to Unified CM, Webex Calling, and Calling hosted by a Service Provider

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.

Whiteboard in a meeting

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.

Thumbnail video improvements

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.

Audio connection options

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.

Use virtual background

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.