Personal Meeting ID and Personal Link

Understanding your personal meeting ID (PMI)

Every Zoom account includes a personal meeting ID (PMI). This code functions as a virtual link to your personal meeting room, where you can host instant meetings with colleagues or people you meet with regularly.

A personal meeting ID is different from a unique meeting ID, which Zoom will create by default for a newly scheduled meeting.

Your PMI is like your personal digital office space. If someone knows your PMI, they will be able to visit this virtual space at any time (unless meetings are set to open with a waiting room, in which case you have the option to "admit" someone when they arrive). It can be handy to have spaces like this for informal meetings with people you know, but if enough people have access to your personal meeting room, it makes it easier for people to unintentionally interrupt other meetings that you hold in that space.

We recommend sharing your PMI with only those people you work closely with. For class meetings, please schedule a new Zoom meeting with an automatically-generated, unique meeting ID.

The meeting ID for your PMI can be edited from your Profile page Links to an external site. in the Zoom web portal. Details are listed under the "Meeting" section on this page. From here, you can also customize your Personal Link to provide another quick way to invite people to your PMI. This allows you to create a custom URL that points directly to your meeting link.

 

1. 1. The personal meeting ID is your personal Zoom room/virtual office space.
      Your PMI is part of your personal meeting URL; for example, https://zoom.us/j5551112222
      Select the eyelash icon to view your PMI, and select Edit to update this number.
      
      
   2. Use your PMI for instant meetings (optional:)
      After selecting Edit, you can choose to check the box to "Use Personal Meeting ID for instant meetings"
      
      
   3. Customize your Personal Link to a unique and easy-to-remember link, like your name or UW NetID.
      Select the eyelash icon to view your personal link, and select Edit to customize the URL.
      
      

NOTES:

• You can use your Personal Meeting ID to quickly invite a colleague or small group to an impromptu Zoom meeting with you.
• When a Zoom meeting is scheduled, a unique "meeting ID" and URL are created for only that meeting (or set of recurring meetings). Unique meeting IDs cannot be edited. Best practice for class meetings is to use the automatically generated, unique Zoom meeting ID.
• When a recurring meeting is scheduled, Zoom automatically creates a single meeting ID that works across all occurrences of the meeting. 
• It's possible to use your personal meeting ID for a scheduled meeting, but we recommend only using it for smaller meetings with known colleagues.

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Video: How to edit your Zoom personal meeting ID (PMI)

Learn how to edit your personal profile and PMI.