Built-in note-taker
Somebody is asking Zoom AI about your meeting while it runs: what “meeting questions” is, and how to switch it off
Meeting questions lets people in a Zoom meeting quietly ask Zoom's AI what has been said so far, in a side panel, and get answers with timestamps. It works from the meeting's live transcript.
Part of Zoom's own app
Read on 10 November 2026
How it got into your call
- The host's account has it switched on, and it was started for this meeting. Participants can also ask the host to turn it on.
- When it is on, everybody sees a lit-up AI sparkle icon at the top right of the meeting window. Hovering over it shows which AI features are running.
Turn it off
- The host can switch meeting questions off during the meeting, and can delete the transcripts and summaries the meeting has produced so far.
- Before meetings, the host decides in their Zoom settings whether to use it. A company's Zoom admin can make a notice appear when somebody turns it on, and can require people to agree to recording and transcription first.
Stop it in a call that is running
- If you are not the host, send the host a request to turn meeting questions off — Zoom lets participants do that during the meeting.
- If the icon is grey rather than lit, neither meeting questions nor meeting summary is running.
What it keeps
Answers are drawn from the meeting's speech-to-text. The host can delete the meeting's transcripts and summaries from inside the meeting; Zoom's pages do not say how long each person's questions are kept.
In Zoom's own words
What it does
Zoom“allows the first 1,000 participants to discreetly ask Zoom AI questions about the meeting or webinar within the side panel while the session is in progress”
library.zoom.com/ai/ai-whitepaper/zoom-ai-features
Where answers come from
Zoom“Using the meeting’s speech-to-text data, Zoom AI provides participants with contextual and relevant answers, including timestamped citations from the conversation for additional context and clarity.”
library.zoom.com/ai/ai-whitepaper/zoom-ai-features
Catching up late joiners
Zoom“This feature can also help late joiners quickly catch up on missed points by offering AI-generated responses based on what has already been discussed.”
library.zoom.com/ai/ai-whitepaper/zoom-ai-features
The icon
Zoom“attendees will see an illuminated AI Sparkle icon in the top-right corner of the meeting window”
library.zoom.com/ai/ai-whitepaper/user-transparency-and-notice
When it is off
Zoom“When Meeting Summary and Meeting Questions are not enabled, the AI Sparkle icon is unilluminated.”
library.zoom.com/ai/ai-whitepaper/user-transparency-and-notice
The host can stop it
Zoom“meeting hosts will have an option to turn off meeting summary and meeting questions in a Zoom meeting.”
library.zoom.com/ai/ai-whitepaper/administrative-controls
Guests can ask the host
Zoom“Participants can also send a request to the host to disable meeting summary and meeting questions during the meeting.”
library.zoom.com/ai/ai-whitepaper/administrative-controls
A notice first
Zoom“Account administrators can configure a prompt to display custom messages to users when turning on meeting summary or meeting questions with Zoom AI in a meeting.”
library.zoom.com/ai/ai-whitepaper/administrative-controls
Agreeing first
Zoom“admins can require users to agree to recording and transcription before proceeding.”
library.zoom.com/ai/ai-whitepaper/administrative-controls
Read on 10 November 2026 from Zoom's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.
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