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When hosting a meeting, you have the option to move attendees to the waiting room at any time during the meeting. This feature is only available if the host enabled the waiting room option upon scheduling the meeting.

The waiting room feature allows the meeting host to control when an attendee can join the meeting. As the host, you can admit or deny attendees individually, or hold them in the waiting room to be admitted all at the same time.

Note: Once you move participants to the waiting room, you can admit them back.

Select where you want to use this feature.

## Desktop & web

Enabling a waiting room while scheduling a meeting
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* Go to **<var class="keyword">
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* Click **Schedule**.
* Check the **Enable waiting room**box.
* Select the type of participants who will wait in the waiting room from the dropdown list. Options include: *Anyone outside my company, Anyone not signed in,* or *Everyone.*

  ![Enabling a waiting room while scheduling a meeting](https://assets.ringcentral.com/content/dam/xml-assets/doc_team/en_us/ringcentral/mvp/Using-a-waiting-room-in-a-RingCentral-Video-meeting/topics/media/image1.png)

Admitting attendees who are in the waiting room
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* While in a meeting, click **Participants** via the bottom menu bar.
* Admit participant(s)
  * One user: Click **Admit** next to the participant's name.
  * All users: Click **Admit all** at top right of the participant window.

Moving attendees to the waiting room
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* While in a meeting, click **Participants** via the bottom menu bar.
* Click on the **More** icon at the right of the attendee's name and select **Move to waiting room**.
* Repeat Step 2 to move additional participants to the waiting room.

Note: You can click on **Admit**at the right of the attendees' name to admit them back into the meeting at any time.

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## Mobile

As a meeting host, you can:

* move participants to the waiting room,
* admit participants back to the waiting room,
* and re-invite them back to the meeting.

Note: Only meeting hosts can perform these actions.

* While in a meeting, tap **Participants**via the bottom menu bar.
* Tap the **More** icon at far right of the attendee's name, and then tap **Move to waiting room.**
* Repeat Step 2 to move additional participants to the waiting room.

To admit attendees back to the meeting, simply tap **Admit**at the right of the attendees' name.