

But if they muted themselves you’ll need to ask them to unmute themselves as well. If you as the host muted them, you can unmute them. This is to ensure privacy for the participant. If a participant mutes themselves the host typically cannot unmute them. Typically the reason for this is that the participant muted themselves. We’ve probably all been in meetings where the host tries to unmute someone and can’t and has to ask the participant to try unmuting themselves. Then you can call on whoever you’d like to speak.Ī quick note here about muting and unmuting others as a host. Click it and everyone will be muted except for you. You can find this in the Manage Participants pane. Thankfully hosts have access to a handy button marked “ Mute All”. So, especially at the beginning of a meeting you may want to mute everyone except yourself to draw things to order. Often someone forgets where the mute button is altogether. Sometimes people are new and sometimes they’re forgetful and sometimes they’re distracted. But you don’t have to host meetings for very long to know that often doesn’t work out. Well, as we covered above, we’d like to think that by now most people know the etiquette of muting their mic when they’re not speaking.
