How To Rejoin a Zoom Meeting After 40 Minutes

The free Zoom plan puts a time limit of 40 minutes for all meetings. As soon as the deadline reaches, the app automatically ends the meeting.

However, you can get around this time limit by leaving the meeting minutes to the deadline, resting a new meeting with the details of the previous meeting, and asking participants to rejoin the meeting.

So how do you rejoin a Zoom meeting after the 40 minutes limit?

This article gives an overview and covers rejoining a Zoom meeting after 40 minutes.

Overview of Rejoining a Zoom Meeting After 40 Minutes

With Zoom’s free plan, you only get up to 40 minutes to host a meeting. To extend this limit, you need to upgrade to a paid package. What if you want to host a meeting for over 40 minutes without subscribing to a premium plan?

Although there is no official way to extend a Zoom meeting beyond the 40-minute time cap with the free plan, you can use a trick to host several 40-minute sessions. The hack is to leave the meeting before the deadline, start a new meeting with the same ID and link, and then let the participants rejoin to resume the session.

In essence, you’re not rejoining the meeting after 40 minutes. Instead, the trick is for all participants to leave the meeting a few moments before the deadline, then rejoin the meeting before the time limit lapses. The system will restart the time, giving you 40 more minutes.

How To Rejoin a Zoom Meeting After 40 Minutes

Follow the steps below to rejoin a Zoom meeting after 40 minutes.

1. Open Zoom on your computer and log in to your account.
2. Click “Schedule.”
3. Fill in the details of your meeting, including when it starts and duration.
4. Click “Save.”
5. Copy the invitation link and send it to the participants.
6. Start the meeting at the scheduled time.
7. As the meeting approaches the deadline (40 Minutes), let everyone leave the meeting by clicking “End” and selecting “Leave Meeting.”
8. Wait a few moments, then click “Start” on the “Scheduler.”
9. Ask the other participants to rejoin the meeting using the ID and invite link of the previous session.

The time starts counting the 40 minutes afresh, and you can continue the meeting for the next 40 minutes.

It’s important to enable the meeting timer on your app to track the time. This way, you’ll know the best time to leave the meeting. Follow the steps below to enable the meeting timer on Zoom.

1. Open Zoom on your computer and log in to your account.
2. Click on the settings gear icon.
3. Under “General” settings, tick the “Show Meeting Timers” checkbox.

The meeting timer will now show at the top right of your meeting, and you can tell when the deadline is approaching.

Wrapping Up

You can rejoin a Zoom meeting after 40 minutes to trick the system into thinking it’s a new meeting. Doing this allows you to host a meeting beyond the set time frame.

However, you first need to schedule the meeting, start it, leave it without ending it alongside all participants, and then restart it.

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