How to Access Recorded Zoom Meetings

Last Updated: April 5, 2021

After you've recorded a meeting, you can then rewatch it if you need to. This wikiHow will teach you how to access recorded Zoom meetings. If you recorded a meeting from Android or iOS, you've most likely created a cloud recording that you'll need to use a web browser to access; computer recordings are locally stored and can be viewed using the same computer.

Method 1

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Accessing Local Recordings

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Open Zoom. You can find the computer client in your Start menu of Windows or Applications folder in Mac.
- If you recorded meetings with your computer, you created local recordings and can only access them using the computer client.
- You can also find the file in:
  - Windows: "C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\Zoom"
  - Mac: " /Users/[Username]/Documents/Zoom"
- To change the default saving location of your recorded files, go to Settings in your Zoom client, then Recording and click to change or open your file storage.
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Click Meetings. It's on the left side of the window with an icon of a clock.

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Click the Recorded tab. This will display all the recorded meetings you have.
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Click the meeting you want to access. Once you do, it will show more options.
- Audio and video files are saved as MP4; Audio-only files are saved as M4A; a text-only file is saved as TXT.
- From the computer client, you can Open, Play, Play Audio, or Delete recorded meetings. If you only see the option to Open, then the file is a cloud recording. If a video file is showing as an audio file, click Convert and wait for it to convert to a video format.^{[1]
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Method 2

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Accessing Cloud Recordings

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Go to https://zoom.us/profile and sign in. You can use any web browser to log into your account and access your cloud recordings.
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Click Recordings (if you're a "User"). If you're labeled as admin on your Zoom account, click Account Management > Recording Management to see all the recordings of your meetings.
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Click a meeting you want to access. Meetings that haven't finished their conversion process will have a "Processing Recording" label and can't be accessed.
- You can also use the date range boxes to search for recordings within specific time frames or enter the meeting ID to find a specific recording.
- Meetings saved to the cloud are automatically deleted after 120 days.
- If the meeting was recorded in a shared screen with a speaker view, it will be in an MP4 format with video and audio showing both the active speaker and shared content. If the meeting was recorded in a shared screen with a gallery view, it will be in an MP4 format with video and audio showing both shared content and the gallery view. If the meeting was recorded in:
  - Active speaker: MP4 with video and audio with the active speaker only.
  - Gallery View: MP4 with video and audio with gallery view only.
  - Shared Screen: MP4 with video and audio showing the shared screen only.
  - Audio only: M4A with only audio.
  - Audio transcript: VTT with a transcript of the audio.
  - Chat file: text file of the chat from the meeting.^{[2]
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