How to change your name displayed during a Zoom meeting [PC/smartphone]

Currently, it is said that 300 million people use Zoom every day.

Did you know that Zoom allows you to change your name during a web conference?

This time, we will explain this “how to change the name” in an easy-to-understand manner for PCs, iPhones and other smartphones.

If you are the host (organizer), you can also change the name of the participants, so please also see how to do that.

How to change your name when Zoom is open on your computer

First, let’s look at how to change the name when using Zoom on a computer.

You can change your name before joining the meeting or during the meeting.

If you want to change your name before joining the meeting

If you want to change your name before joining the meeting, the settings will differ depending on how you are invited.

• Invited by Meeting ID
• When invited by the invitation URL

Invited by Meeting ID

This case is very easy to rename.

1. Launch Zoom
2. click the join button
3. Confirm that the “Join Meeting” screen is displayed.
4. There is your name under the field to enter the meeting ID, so change it

When invited by the invitation URL

If you click the invitation URL sent by the host, you will immediately enter the waiting room, so you cannot change your name before joining.

If you want to change your name, you will have to join the meeting once.

1. Join a Zoom meeting
2. Click the “Participants” tab at the bottom of the screen
3. hover over your name
4. Click on the “Details” button that appears
5. Click to change name
6. change to any name

Change name with iPhone or Android smartphone/tablet app

I think that your smartphone or tablet will be an iPhone or an android, but both can be renamed in the same way.

If you want to change your name before joining the meeting

As with the PC version, if you change your name before joining a meeting, the settings will differ depending on how you are invited.

• When joining a meeting by meeting ID
• When joining a meeting by clicking the invitation URL

When joining a meeting by meeting ID

1. Launch the Zoom app on your smartphone
2. tap the join button
3. Confirm that the “Join Meeting” screen is displayed.
4. Tap the name part under the field to enter the meeting ID and change the name

When invited by the invitation URL

As with the PC version of Zoom, if you click the invitation URL sent by the host, you will immediately enter the waiting room.

Therefore, you can change your name only after joining the meeting .

1. Join a Zoom meeting
2. Tap the “Participants” tab at the bottom of the screen
3. tap your name
4. Tap the “Change name” button that appears
5. Change to any name and done

If you want to change it permanently, you can change it from your profile

If you don’t want to change your name every time you join a Zoom meeting, or if you want to change your name permanently, you can change it on your Zoom room display. If the video is off, this will show or hide your name or profile settings screen.

PC version, how to set up your profile on Zoom

1. Launch the Zoom desktop app
2. Click your icon in the upper right corner of the Zoom screen
3. Click “My Profile”
4. Once the browser starts up, confirm that the Zoom site opens
5. Enter your email address and password to log in
6. You can see the word “edit” on the right side of the name, so click it
7. Optional name change and done

How to set up your profile on your smartphone or tablet

1. Launch the Zoom app
2. Tap “Details” at the bottom right of the screen
3. Click on your profile at the top
4. Check the item “Display name”
5. Done with name change

If you’re the host, you can change participant names during a Zoom meeting

If you’re the host of a Zoom meeting, you can change the names of the participants.

This can be changed in the same way on both PC and smartphone.

1. Click “Manage Participants” at the bottom of the screen when the host is in a meeting
2. Click the name of the participant you want to rename
3. Click “Rename”
4. Change to any name and done

The reason why you can’t change the name is because the host has set it as unchangeable.

Renaming is very convenient, but if participants randomly change their names during the meeting, it may interfere with the smooth progress of the meeting.

In order to prevent such troubles, the host can disable the name change of the participants and set it as fixed.

If you are prohibited from changing your name, you will have to exit the meeting room and reconfigure your profile settings. Please change the name in advance.

Setting method to disable participant name change

The setting method to disable the name change of participants is as follows for PC and smartphone.

Setting method for PC

1. Click “Details” from the meeting controls
2. Click “…” in the lower right
3. Uncheck “Allow participants to change their name”

Setting method for smartphones and tablets

1. tap the screen
2. Tap “Details” at the bottom right of the screen
3. Tap “Meeting Settings”
4. Uncheck “Rename Yourself” in “General”

summary

How was that. This time, we have explained in detail about “name change” when hosting and participating in a Zoom meeting.

You can think of various ways to use it by changing your name to a nickname, or by changing your name to “moving XX” to tell your opponent about your situation.

Learn about various functions and setting methods, including how to change the name of Zoom, and become a Zoom master.