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How To Rejoin a Zoom Meeting After 40 Minutes

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?

Quick Answer

To rejoin a Zoom Meeting after 40 minutes, ensure you schedule the meeting instead starting it instantly. When it’s time, start the meeting, and then ask all participants to leave the meeting/take a break towards the 40-minute time frame. Restart a new session and let the participants rejoin using the same meeting ID and invitation link as the last session. The time restarts a fresh 40-minute deadline.

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.Open Your Zoom Desktop Pc Application
  2. Click “Schedule.”Click Schedule.
  3. Fill in the details of your meeting, including when it starts and duration.Fill In The Details Of Your Meeting
  4. Click “Save.”Click Save.
  5. Copy the invitation link and send it to the participants.Copy The Invitation Link
  6. Start the meeting at the scheduled time.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.”Select Leave Meeting.
  8. Wait a few moments, then click “Start” on the “Scheduler.”Start The Meeting At The Scheduled Time.
  9. Ask the other participants to rejoin the meeting using the ID and invite link of the previous session.Copy The Invitation Link

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

Info

You are not starting a new meeting. Instead, you are resuming the meeting you scheduled earlier. When you click that “Start” button, the meeting timer starts counting afresh. For instance, if you and the participants leave the session after 30 minutes, it will be 10 minutes before the deadline. However, leaving the meeting and rejoining takes the timer to zero, and it starts counting fresh 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.Open Your Zoom Desktop Pc Application
  2. Click on the settings gear icon.Click On The Settings Gear Icon Zoom
  3. Under “General” settings, tick the “Show Meeting Timers” checkbox.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.

FAQs

Can participants rejoin the same Zoom meeting after 40 minutes?

Yes, participants can rejoin the same Zoom meeting after 40 minutes. Everyone must leave the meeting before it ends, and then the host will restart it. The participants will then rejoin the same session with the same invite link and meeting ID.

How many 40-minute meetings does Zoom allow per day?

Zoom allows unlimited 40-minute sessions per day. You can send one session and start another as many times as possible in a day.

How do I continue a Zoom meeting after the 40-minute time limit?

There are two ways to continue a Zoom meeting after 40 minutes. First, you can ask all participants to take a break from the meeting a few minutes before the deadline, then restart the session afresh and let them rejoin. Doing this refreshes the timer, giving you 40 more minutes.

Alternatively, you can end the first meeting and start a new session with a different ID and invite link.

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