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Remove Read AI from a Zoom meeting

On Zoom, the host or a co-host can remove Read AI from the participant list, and everyone else has another way. Here is each, and how to keep it out of the next meeting.

Leaves when somebody types Read Stop · Opt OutRead on 10 November 2026

Remove it from a Zoom call now

  1. The host: Participants → the three dots next to Read → Remove → Remove again.
  2. Anyone else: type read stop in the chat and Read leaves, keeping a report of what it heard — or type opt out (or click the opt-out link if Read posted one) and it leaves and deletes the recording.

If you are not the host

  1. opt out is the one to use if you do not want a report made at all. Type it without quotation marks.

What you will see on Zoom

On Zoom in particular

Zoom now requires every meeting bot to be authorised by a signed-in Zoom user. So Read can only be in a Zoom meeting if the person who sent it has connected their Zoom account to Read and is in the call, signed in. If they are not there, Read cannot be either.

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 Read AI's own settings — how to stop Read AI joining.

In Read AI's own words

On Zoom, who
Read AI“The meeting host can remove Read as a meeting participant.”support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-meeting
Two commands
Read AI“"Read stop" : Read leaves the meeting and creates a meeting report from what it recorded up to that point.”support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-meeting
Deleting it
Read AI“"Opt out" (or the opt-out link, if one is posted in the chat): Read leaves the meeting and deletes everything it recorded.”support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-meeting
Zoom’s new rule
Read AI“Zoom requires every meeting bot, including Read, to be authorized by a signed-in Zoom user.”support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/48409575283347-Upcoming-Changes-to-Zoom-Meetings
So it cannot come alone
Read AI“You can’t send Read to a Zoom meeting on its own anymore.”support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/48409575283347-Upcoming-Changes-to-Zoom-Meetings

What Zoom says about the host's controls

The waiting room
Zoom“Waiting Room is an effective way to screen who is trying to enter your meeting and keep uninvited automated meeting tools, dial-in users, or third-party room systems out.”library.zoom.com/zoom-workplace/zoom-meetings/securing-zoom-meetings-explainer/manage-automated-tools-and-participants-in-your-zoom-meetings
Spotting a tool in the meeting
Zoom“The Active Apps Notifier icon will appear in the top-right corner of the meeting window when an automated meeting tool begins accessing meeting or webinar content.”library.zoom.com/zoom-workplace/zoom-meetings/securing-zoom-meetings-explainer/manage-automated-tools-and-participants-in-your-zoom-meetings
The host decides
Zoom“The meeting host may allow the automated meeting tool to stay in the meeting, or the host may remove and/or report it if the automated meeting tool is uninvited.”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 Read AI's and Zoom's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.

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