 If you recently updated your Zoom client and tried to unmute someone during a meeting, you might be wondering what happened to the Unmute button. Let me explain. When you update Zoom and start a new meeting, you will find that the Unmute button is no longer available. Instead, the button has changed to Ask to Unmute. As Zoom becomes more focused on privacy, the participants now have control over whether they want to unmute themselves or whether they want to turn on their video. In both cases, the host can only ask the participant to unmute, just like how it used to ask the participant to start the video. If you still want the previous feature where you could quickly unmute a participant, then follow these steps to enable this feature. Log into your Zoom account and go to Settings. Scroll down till you find the setting Request Permission to Unmute. As we can see, it is disabled by default. That's why we were unable to unmute in the meeting. Let's enable it. Once the setting is enabled, we can now schedule a meeting. Enter your meeting details and you will now notice that there is a new setting available for you. Request Permission to Unmute participants. You need to enable or disable this for every meeting that you create. Let me enable it. Let's see what happens when we start the meeting with the Unmute setting enabled. When a participant tries to join a meeting with the Unmute setting enabled, they will get an alert on their screen to either accept or reject the Unmute option by the host. If they accept that the host can unmute them, then you will notice now the button has changed from Ask to Unmute to Unmute. I can now unmute the person or mute the person as and when I want to. So there you have it. If you as a host want to unmute participants without sending them an unmute request, now you know what to do.