Meeting Summary in Zoom Meetings: what does this AI read, and can you turn it off?
Checked on November 8, 2026 by verification chain vchain-1
Whether it is on by default is not yet verified; it can be turned off.
The facts, edition by edition
| All editions | |
|---|---|
| What the AI does | Summarize “Generate a summary and next steps of what was discussed in your meetings and share through email and Chat.” “Zoom uses temporary speech-to-text data, optical character recognition (OCR), and in-meeting chat data for the purpose of generating a meeting summary” “Zero Data Retention for Zoom Meeting Summary allows meeting summaries to be generated without retaining the transcript” [3] dated copy |
| Model | Not yet verified |
| What it reads | Meetings “Generate a summary and next steps of what was discussed in your meetings and share through email and Chat.” “Zoom uses temporary speech-to-text data, optical character recognition (OCR), and in-meeting chat data for the purpose of generating a meeting summary” “Zoom uses temporary speech-to-text data, optical character recognition (OCR), and in-meeting chat data for the purpose of generating a meeting summary and does not retain a persistent transcript of the meeting conversation, unless the in-meeting chat is otherwise saved by an attendee.” “When hovering over the icon, participants can see which of these AI features are currently enabled for the meeting and if a transcript is being generated for Meeting Summary.” “if a transcript is being generated for Meeting Summary.” [3] dated copy |
| Where the data goes | Not yet verified |
| Trains on your data | No “Zoom does not use any customer audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments, or other communications-like customer content (such as poll results, whiteboard, and reactions) to train Zoom's or its third-party artificial intelligence models.” [1] dated copy |
| On by default | Not yet verified |
| Can be turned off | Yes “If desired, participants can request the meeting host to disable these Zoom AI features for the meeting, along with the option to delete assets generated by Zoom AI up to that point.” “participants can request the meeting host to disable these Zoom AI features for the meeting” [2] dated copy |
| Billing | Not yet verified |
| Feature type | Not yet verified |
| Frameworks the catalog links to it | Not yet verified |
All editions
- What the AI does
- Summarize “Generate a summary and next steps of what was discussed in your meetings and share through email and Chat.” “Zoom uses temporary speech-to-text data, optical character recognition (OCR), and in-meeting chat data for the purpose of generating a meeting summary” “Zero Data Retention for Zoom Meeting Summary allows meeting summaries to be generated without retaining the transcript” [3] dated copy
- Model
- Not yet verified
- What it reads
- Meetings “Generate a summary and next steps of what was discussed in your meetings and share through email and Chat.” “Zoom uses temporary speech-to-text data, optical character recognition (OCR), and in-meeting chat data for the purpose of generating a meeting summary” “Zoom uses temporary speech-to-text data, optical character recognition (OCR), and in-meeting chat data for the purpose of generating a meeting summary and does not retain a persistent transcript of the meeting conversation, unless the in-meeting chat is otherwise saved by an attendee.” “When hovering over the icon, participants can see which of these AI features are currently enabled for the meeting and if a transcript is being generated for Meeting Summary.” “if a transcript is being generated for Meeting Summary.” [3] dated copy
- Where the data goes
- Not yet verified
- Trains on your data
- No “Zoom does not use any customer audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments, or other communications-like customer content (such as poll results, whiteboard, and reactions) to train Zoom's or its third-party artificial intelligence models.” [1] dated copy
- On by default
- Not yet verified
- Can be turned off
- Yes “If desired, participants can request the meeting host to disable these Zoom AI features for the meeting, along with the option to delete assets generated by Zoom AI up to that point.” “participants can request the meeting host to disable these Zoom AI features for the meeting” [2] dated copy
- Billing
- Not yet verified
- Feature type
- Not yet verified
- Frameworks the catalog links to it
- Not yet verified
To turn it off
- All editions: Yes “If desired, participants can request the meeting host to disable these Zoom AI features for the meeting, along with the option to delete assets generated by Zoom AI up to that point.” “participants can request the meeting host to disable these Zoom AI features for the meeting” [2] dated copy
Frameworks the catalog links to it
Linked frameworks will appear once the reference set is published.
- All editions: Not yet verified
Sources
- Models, Processing, Storage, and Usage, Zoom, November 8, 2026
- User Transparency and Notice, Zoom, November 8, 2026
- Feature Availability Table, Zoom, November 8, 2026
Change log
No change since first publication.
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