Remove Otter from a Zoom meeting

Remove it from a Zoom call now

1. Anyone in the call can type stop otter in the Zoom chat. Every Otter Notetaker in the meeting leaves at once.
2. In Zoom’s own controls, only the host or a co-host can remove it: Participants, find the Otter notetaker in the list, and remove it like any guest.

If you are not the host

1. You do not need an Otter account. The chat command works for every participant.
2. If the notetaker posted a link in the chat, open it and click Stop Notetaker, then Yes, turn it off — that removes just this one, not every Otter in the call.

What you will see on Zoom

• On Zoom the Otter notetaker is a participant like any other, so it shows in Participants. If you are not the host, you will not see a Remove option there — use the chat command.
• Zoom's Waiting Room, when it is on, holds the notetaker until the host admits it.

On Zoom in particular

Otter warns that Zoom’s screens change, and points to Zoom’s own help for the current way to remove a participant.

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 Otter's own settings — how to stop Otter joining.

In Otter.ai's own words

What Zoom says about the host's controls

Read on 10 November 2026 from Otter.ai's and Zoom's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.

Otter elsewhere

Otter on Google Meet · Otter on Microsoft Teams · Cancel Otter and delete what it has

A meeting with nothing to remove

Meetful writes the notes from each person's own microphone inside the meeting, so no bot joins and there is no participant to take out. Anybody can leave themselves out of the notes and stay in the call.