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.

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.

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

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.

More functionality for multiple lines—Windows and Mac

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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

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.

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.

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

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

Calling widget on mobile—iPhone, iPad, Android

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

This feature isn't supported for Webex for Government.

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

Schedule recurring meetings—Windows and Mac

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See Webex App | Share content using an external USB camera

Share application windows directly from your Windows taskbar—Windows

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

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

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

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

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

See Webex App | Stop receiving incoming video in a meeting

Use an animated background in your meeting—iPhone and iPad

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Click and drag to copy messages—Windows and Mac

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

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

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

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

Choose your caller ID for customer calls—Windows and Mac

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

See Webex App | Change your caller ID

Let Someone Else Control Your Computer—VDI

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

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

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

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

Meetings associated with a space have been improved!

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

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

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

See Webex App | Improved meetings associated with a space

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

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

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

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

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

Connect to your Google calendar—Windows and Mac

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

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

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

See Webex App | Share all or an individual application window

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

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

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

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

Raise your hand in a meeting easily—Windows and Mac

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

See Webex App | Raise your hand in a meeting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mute or unmute yourself right from the taskbar—Windows

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

Whiteboards now available in scheduled and Personal Room meetings—Linux

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

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

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

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

See Know who you're letting into your Webex meeting

Express yourself without saying a word—Linux

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

See Webex App | Use reactions in your meetings

Maximize what you see when content is shared—Linux

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

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Maximize your view when someone’s sharing content—Linux

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

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

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

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

See more in thumbnail videos—Linux

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

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

All the world’s a stage—Linux and VDI

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

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

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

Choose the skin tone for your reactions—Linux

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

See Webex App | Choose the skin tone for your reactions

Set the default for your self view—VDI

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

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

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

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

See Webex App | Change your self-view location

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

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

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

See Webex App | Join a meeting

Preview of shared content—Linux

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

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

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

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

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

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

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

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

Public spaces⁠—Windows, Mac and Linux

In this hybrid work world, it's now more important than ever to make connections with people in your organization. Join or create easy-to-discover public spaces that anyone in your company can join, and message people with similar interests, or keep up with the latest news.

See Webex App | Public spaces

Reply directly—iOS and Android

Ever felt reluctant to reply to a message in a busy space, or want to reply to a message from an announcement space? We've made it easier to reply to the author in a direct message, quoting the original message.

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.

Only hosts can end a meeting—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Cohosts can no longer end a meeting. When cohosts leave a meeting, they can’t inadvertently end the meeting for everyone else.

See Webex App | Leave or end a meeting

Whiteboards now available in scheduled and Personal Room meetings—Windows and Mac

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

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

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

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

Turn off picture in picture when multitasking—iPhone and iPad

Control whether to show the floating mini window that appears when you're multitasking and have minimized the meeting window.

See Webex App | Hide the floating mini window when multitasking during a call or meeting

Never miss an important notification during a meeting—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

During a meeting, notifications now show in a consistent position on your screen and don’t overlap. The most important notifications that you need to respond to are more visible and show in the center of your screen. Less important and information-only notifications show in the upper right of your screen and disappear after a few seconds.

Choose how many participants to show in grid layout—Windows and Mac

Show a maximum of 25, 16, 9, 4, or 1 participant in the grid, depending on the number of people in the meeting. The fewer participants you show, the larger their video is.

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

Set the default for your self view—Windows and Mac

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

Change the font size for messaging—Windows, Mac, and Linux

You don't have to strain your eyes to read your messages any more. Just choose a font size you prefer, so you don't miss any details. You can always change it again at any time, simply go to the Accessibility tab in your Settings on Windows (or Preferences on Mac).

See Webex App | Change the font size for messages

Find a quote in context—Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android

Looking for added context when a message is quoted in a space? With one click, easily find the original quote, and its associated reactions and threads.

See Webex App | Quotes or threads and Webex App | Quote someone's message

Reply directly—Windows, Mac and Linux

Ever felt reluctant to reply to a message in a busy space, or want to reply to a message from an announcement space? We've made it easier to reply to the author in a direct message, quoting the original message.

See Webex App | Reply directly

Be selective about what you share—VDI

You have more options when you're sharing content, making presentations or troubleshooting a more seamless experience:

• Share specific applications
• Swap one application for another without having to stop sharing.
• Use annotations to mark up what's being shared.
• If you're sharing a video, you can share your computer audio.
• Others see what you're sharing with high frames per second (FPS).

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.

Know who's calling you—VDI

When someone in your organization's directory calls you, their name appears in the Caller ID and your call history, rather than just their phone number. This helps you decide whether you want to answer certain calls.

Remove background noise on the remote end of a phone call—Windows and Mac

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

Fewer clicks to get to your call queues—Windows and Mac

We've made access to your call queues more convenient. Instead of having to navigate to your profile picture to change your call queue status or to join or unjoin a call queue, you now have it all available from the footer of your app. From there, change your call queue status and join or unjoin any queues your administrator has made you a member of.

See Webex App | Change your call queue status

Bring work home with you—VDI

You can already make calls from an alternate device when connected to your work network. Now, that network connection is no longer required. Make a call from your desk phone, mobile phone, or home phone at home, when you're not connected to your work network. You can even take advantage of some calling features, such as transfer, hold and resume.

Be selective about what you share—VDI

You have more options when you're sharing content, making presentations or troubleshooting a more seamless experience:

• Share specific applications
• Swap one application for another without having to stop sharing.
• Use annotations to mark up what's being shared.
• If you're sharing a video, you can share your computer audio.
• Others see what you're sharing with high frames per second (FPS).

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 the 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.

Focus on the individual, instead of their surroundings, during a meeting—Windows and Mac

This feature is in beta.

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'll feel more connected to them—as if you were there in person.

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

Seamlessly move your meeting to a video device—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you start or join a meeting on your desktop or mobile device but then walk into a conference room, take advantage of the features available on the room's video device. Transfer your meeting to the video device without disrupting or disconnecting from the meeting.

See Webex App | Move your meeting to a video device

Right-to-left language support for Arabic and Hebrew in closed captions—Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you select Arabic or Hebrew for closed captions, you’ll see the right-to-left text direction in the closed captions box and captions & highlights panel, regardless of your language setting in Webex App.

See Show or hide automated closed captions during a Webex meeting or webinar

It’s more convenient to see who’s recording a meeting—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Select the recording indicator to see who started, paused, or stopped recording the meeting. Previously, this information showed in the participants list.

This feature is available when the host or cohost records the meeting on their computer.

See Get started with Webex App

Schedule a webinar from Webex App—Windows, Mac, and Linux

Schedule a webinar right from the Meetings tab. You're redirected, and automatically signed in, to the Webex site you've selected in the Webex App settings, the site is where you'll schedule your webinar.

If you're already signed in to a different Webex site though, you're redirected to the sign-in screen for the site you've selected in the Webex App settings.

Webex App supports Center Stage, the camera feature from Apple—iPad

If you move around during a meeting, turn on Center Stage so your camera automatically pans to keep you and anyone with you, in the frame.

Turn on or turn off Center Stage from the options in your self-view video or from Settings on your iPad.

See Webex App | Turn on Center Stage

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

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

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

See Choose your audio and video settings before you join a meeting or webinar

Hear the meeting in a language that you can understand—VDI

If interpretation is available in a meeting that you join as an attendee, you can choose to hear the audio translated, simultaneously, in the language of your choice.

The meeting host determines which languages are available in the meeting.

Hosts and interpreters can include simultaneous interpretation in meetings scheduled from Webex Meetings, not in meetings scheduled from Webex App.

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

All the world’s a stage—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 and Resize the stage in meetings, webinars, and events

Choose the skin tone for your reactions—VDI

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

Message and schedule meetings at 36,000 feet!—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

In partnership with airline Wi-Fi providers, Webex App users can work effectively using non-real time capabilities while flying.

See Webex App | Restricted networks.

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.

You've never looked better—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you share your video in a call, you can control your own video on your connected device from your app. You no longer have to reach or walk over to your device to turn your self-view on or off.

See Webex App | Change the video layout of a connected device

Focus on what matters—iPhone, iPad, and Android

If you're about to join a meeting or you just want to focus on the task at hand without distraction, silence your mobile ringer for incoming calls. You won't hear incoming calls come in but you still get a visual notification so that you can choose whether to answer the call or not.

See Webex App | Turn off notifications for incoming calls

Share an image or PDF file—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Instead of having to share your entire screen during a call, choose a specific photo or PDF file to share.

Tap More options > Share content, and then choose the image or PDF file.

See Webex App | Share content in a phone call

"Share computer audio” option is in a new location—Windows and Mac

When you’re sharing content that contains audio, the Share computer audio check box is now located directly to the right of the Automatically optimize option in the Share content dialog.

See Webex App | Share content in a phone call

Extend calling capabilities to a third-party application—Windows and Mac

If you're using Contact Center, Receptionist thin client, or a third party app that doesn't have calling capabilities, use Webex App as your calling device. Make calls from your third-party app, answer calls from there, and put calls on hold, all while Webex App runs in the background. Just make sure that your administrator makes Webex App your primary device.

Forward thinking made easier—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Now, when you set up call forwarding, your call notifications let you know who's calling instead of where the call is being forwarded from. This way, you know whether you want to answer the call or not.

See Webex App | Forward your phone calls

Bring work home with you—Windows and Mac

You can already make calls from an alternate device when connected to your work network. Now, that network connection is no longer required. Make a call from your desk phone, mobile phone, or home phone at home, when you're not connected to your work network. You can even take advantage of some calling features, such as transfer, hold and resume.

See Webex App | Make a call from an alternate device

Create inclusive and interactive meetings using Slido live polling and Q&A—Windows, Linux, and Mac

Hosting an interactive meeting can be a challenge, but Slido can help. Get real-time feedback using word clouds, rating polls, and multiple-choice questions. Set up a live Q&A session, where participants can upvote the questions they want answered the most.

See Polls in Slido and Q&A in Slido

Hear the meeting in a language that you can understand—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and VDI

If interpretation is available in a meeting that you join as an attendee, you can choose to hear the audio translated, simultaneously, in the language of your choice.

The meeting host determines which languages are available in the meeting.

Hosts and interpreters can only use simultaneous interpretation in Webex Meetings, not in Webex App meetings.

When Webex App is connected to a new cloud-registered device that's supported for simultaneous interpretation (attendee view only), you can toggle the interpretation controls remotely on the app or directly on the device.

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

You've never looked better—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you share your video in a meeting, you can control your self-view video on your connected device from your app. You no longer have to reach or walk over to your device to turn your self-view video on or off.

See Webex App | Change the video layout of a connected device

Be front and center when you present—Windows and Mac

Create a more personal and engaging experience while you present. In the Share Content window, select Show me in front of presentation to immerse your video directly into the screen or application you're sharing.

Your video shows in the lower right corner, by default, but you can resize and position your video anywhere you want during your presentation.

See Webex App | Show yourself in front of your presentation

All the world’s a stage—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

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

Hosts can set a stage view for all meeting participants—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

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.

Share an image or PDF file—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Instead of having to share your entire screen during a meeting, choose a specific photo or PDF file to share.

Tap More options > Share content, and then choose the image or PDF file.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Say goodbye to the days of being surprised by a dead battery—iPhone, iPad, and Android

During a meeting, you now receive a notification when your battery life goes below 15 percent. Then, you can switch to audio-only mode to conserve battery.

See Webex App | Turn on audio-only mode

Manage closed captions more efficiently with new keyboard shortcuts—Windows and Mac

We've added keyboard shortcuts to toggle on and off closed captions, move the closed captions box, and go to the More menu in the closed captions box.

See Webex App | Keyboard navigation and shortcuts

Schedule a one-time Webex meeting with Hybrid Calendar—Windows and Mac

In your work calendar, add @webex:onetime as the location to schedule a one-time Webex meeting. Your administrator needs to set up your account with Hybrid Calendar. Administrators can change the default behavior for @webex to @webex:onetime for the organization.

"Share computer audio” option is in a new location—Windows and Mac

When you’re sharing content that contains audio, it’s now more convenient to select Share computer audio. The option now appears at the top of the Share content dialog.

See Webex App | Share content in a meeting

Improved Participants list—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

Quickly find the person you’re looking for in the Participants list by expanding or collapsing the In the meeting and Not in the meeting sections.

You'll see the total number of participants listed at the top of the In the meeting and Not in the meeting sections, so you’ll know how many people have or haven't joined.

See Webex App | Manage participants in your meeting

Hide the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons when the stage is resized to its minimum width—Windows and Mac

If the presenter resizes the shared stage to its minimum width, the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons are hidden. If the presenter makes the shared stage wider than its minimum width, the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons appear above the shared content.

New message area—Windows and Linux

We've rebuilt the message area to leverage some platform components. You'll see improvements to quality, performance, and a new accessibility experience in the message area.

See Webex App | Accessibility features for Windows and Webex App | Copy and Paste Multiple Messages

Space contact cards—Windows and Mac

Hover over a space contact card or space link and see a summary of the space details, just like people contact cards.

See Webex App | Verify space details

Don't forget about your drafts—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android

Sometimes you start typing a message only to find your attention is needed in another space, or conversation. You'll see a visual indicator next to spaces with drafts left in them, so you can easily jump back whenever you’re ready to hit send.

See Webex App | Get back to your drafts

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.

Boost the brightness of your video—Windows, Mac, and VDI

Making or answering a call from a dark or dimly lit room where it's hard for others to see you? Now, you can automatically adjust the brightness, contrast, and color saturation of your video, or manually adjust these settings yourself.

See Webex App | Adjust the brightness and contrast of your video

Quick calling at your fingertips—Windows and VDI

If you make and receive a lot of calls in a day or you manage multiple phone lines, make your life easier and use the Multi Call window. You don't have to worry about carting your multiline phone back and forth from the office to your home. Just open the Multi Call window from Webex App and access all of your lines from there. You can also use some of the more common calling features right from the Multi Call window:

• Make a call, answer a call, and take advantage of several mid-call features (hold, mute, dial pad, and transfer).

• Get a visual indicator for your shared lines letting you know how many calls have been missed and whether there are any voice messages.

• Line status on shared lines lets you know when a call is coming in (flashing amber), when you're on a call (solid amber), and when the line is free (green) or in use by someone else (red). (Unified CM only)

• If you don't want others to know you're using a shared line for a call, toggle on the Privacy setting. (Unified CM only)

• Barge into a call that's already in progress on a shared line. The call then becomes a conference call between three people. (Unified CM only)

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

Optimize audio for your voice—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Taking your calls from a noisy environment like an open office or a coffee shop? Suppress all background talkers and noise and allow others to hear you better by selecting Optimize for My Voice during the call.

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

Optionally, set this as the default for all your calls in your audio settings.

See Webex App | Change your audio settings

Do not disturb across the board—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

You no longer need to set your status to do not disturb (DND) in more than one place. When you turn DND on or off from your app on one device, that setting automatically gets applied to all of your devices.

See Webex App | Let people know you're busy

Read your voice messages—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android

When you miss a call and someone leaves you a voice message, the message is automatically transcribed for you and is available from your Voicemail tab. Copy and paste any part of the transcription, like a phone number or part of the message that you want to share with someone else. If you get rid of the voice message, the transcription also gets deleted.

Transcriptions are available in English.

See Webex App | Listen to your voice messages

Get up close and personal—VDI

If you’re in the healthcare field, diagnosing and treating patients in a virtual setting just got easier. You can get a better view of someone during a call or meeting by controlling the angle of the patient’s camera and even zooming in. Letting you focus on facial expressions and any physical ailments a patient may have so you can provide high quality care.

See Webex App | Control someone else's camera during a video 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.

French, German, and Spanish spoken language transcription available in closed captions—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Linux

For meetings with Webex Assistant or closed captions, meeting hosts can now select the spoken language (transcription) of the meeting in four different languages: French, German, and Spanish, and English.

If you want transcription in more languages, as well as translation capabilities, get the real-time translation add-on, which enables spoken language (transcription) in 13 languages, and caption language (translation) in 100+ languages.

See Show real-time translation and transcription in meetings and webinars

Optimize audio for your voice—iPhone, iPad, and Android

Taking your meeting from a noisy environment like an open office or a coffee shop? Suppress all background talkers and noise and allow others to hear you better by selecting Optimize for My Voice during the meeting.

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

Optionally, set this as the default for all your meetings in your audio settings.

See Webex App | Change your audio settings

Boost the brightness of your video—Windows, Mac, and VDI

Joining a meeting from a dark or dimly lit room where it's hard for others to see you? Now, you can automatically adjust the brightness, contrast, and color saturation of your video, or manually adjust these settings yourself.

See Webex App | Adjust the brightness and contrast of your video

Turn reactions on or off while you're in a meeting—Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and VDI

As a meeting host or cohost, choose whether all participants—including the host, cohosts, and the presenter—can send reactions during the meeting from More options .

See Webex App | Turn off reactions in a meeting

Turn on GPU acceleration for virtual background in advanced video settings—VDI

Using a virtual background in your meetings can use more CPU resources. We've enabled graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration, by default, to help decrease that usage. You can always turn off this feature at any time.

Make the closed captions box the perfect size for you—VDI

You can now resize the closed captions (CC) box to show more or fewer lines of text at a time.

See Show or hide automated closed captions during a Webex meeting or webinar