

Select ‘Meet with Video’ or ‘Meet without Video’ from the menu or just click Meet. In the Zoom program for Windows, there’s only meeting choices. That opens up the communication options for that contact Meet, Call, Chat and Share. Then tap on the top line of ‘About Chat’. On an iPad, go to Contacts, select a contact then click the circled i at top right. Open a call by finding the person on your contacts list see Setup Contacts on Zoom then choose whatever call or meet options are available. Hopefully you know someone else with Zoom that you can try out calling with. If you haven’t already, setup a free Zoom account and test your speaker, microphone and camera. Here we’ll focus on Zoom ‘one to one’ calls which is a simple way to start with Zoom. It seems that Zoom considers all audio/video connections to be ‘meetings’. Sometimes there’s only a ‘Meet’ option and in a ‘call’ there are meeting options. However, there’s no clear difference between a ‘call’ and a ‘meeting’. It’s even possible to start/accept a Zoom call while in a Zoom meeting or vice-versa.

Zoom makes a blurry distinction between a call (between two people) and a meeting (more than two).

Here’s how to call someone using Zoom or answer a call, then some of things you can do in a call.
