

Once youve enabled Virtual Backgrounds and restarted the Zoom app, youll be able to blur. If you dont see Virtual Backgrounds, youll need to enable Virtual Backgrounds for your account.

The company does have a list of ways to effectively lock down your Zoom meetings and stop Zoombombing from happening. If youre not already on this tab in the right panel, click Virtual Backgrounds below your video preview to go there now. In order to restrict this, the host has to go to their admin settings and disable the option before starting the meeting. The problem comes from Zoom’s default setting that the host of a meeting can’t control screen sharing. Newton was hosting his popular daily show WFH Happy Hour where anyone could join with the public ID and before long many of the attendees were being shown horrific videos as a troll entered the call and started sharing porn.Īttempting to block attacks by kicking the troll off these calls doesn’t help because they can simply re-enter the ID and join in as a different name. In order to turn on the Virtual Background setting on iPad devices, only iPad models of the 5th generation and above can support this feature on the Zoom iOS. It gained prominence last year on a public Zoom call hosted by tech reporter Casey Newton. Zoombombing can occur when trolls get involved with public meetings is the name that has sprung up to mean when trolls interrupt a Zoom meeting and attempt to ruin it.
