Notetaker · Zoom
Remove Fireflies from a Zoom meeting
On Zoom, the host or a co-host can remove Fireflies from the participant list, and everyone else has another way. Here is each, and how to keep it out of the next meeting.
Remove it from a Zoom call now
- In Zoom: open the participant list, click More next to Fireflies Notetaker, and choose Remove.
- Or type /ff leave in the meeting chat and it leaves straight away.
If you are not the host
- The person who sent it can also stop it from their Fireflies dashboard: the Live meeting banner at the top → the stop icon.
- If it is removed within its first three minutes, Fireflies makes no transcript or notes at all.
What you will see on Zoom
- In a Zoom call the notetaker appears in the participant list as Fireflies Notetaker unless its owner renamed it — Fireflies lets them. Only the host or a co-host sees Remove under More.
- Zoom's Waiting Room is the place to stop it before it hears anything: when it is switched on, the host sees the notetaker waiting and can leave it there or remove it.
- For anyone who is not the host, the chat command is the quickest route: it needs no permission in Zoom at all.
On Zoom in particular
Zoom’s participant menu calls it **More**; the other two apps use three dots. The result is the same.
Keep it out of the next Zoom meeting
Turn on the Waiting Room: nobody, bot or person, gets in until the host admits them, and Zoom shows which waiting guests are not signed in. While a meeting runs, the Active Apps Notifier at the top right lists any automated tool that is reading the meeting.
To stop it being sent at all, its owner changes Fireflies's own settings — how to stop Fireflies joining.
In Fireflies.ai's own words
guide.fireflies.ai/articles/7098191513-how-to-remove-fireflies-from-a-meeting
guide.fireflies.ai/articles/7098191513-how-to-remove-fireflies-from-a-meeting
guide.fireflies.ai/articles/7098191513-how-to-remove-fireflies-from-a-meeting
What Zoom says about the host's controls
library.zoom.com/zoom-workplace/zoom-meetings/securing-zoom-meetings-explainer/manage-automated-tools-and-participants-in-your-zoom-meetings
library.zoom.com/zoom-workplace/zoom-meetings/securing-zoom-meetings-explainer/manage-automated-tools-and-participants-in-your-zoom-meetings
library.zoom.com/zoom-workplace/zoom-meetings/securing-zoom-meetings-explainer/manage-automated-tools-and-participants-in-your-zoom-meetings
Read on 10 November 2026 from Fireflies.ai's and Zoom's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.
Fireflies elsewhere
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A meeting with nothing to remove
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