Web app settings
Expand the following sections as needed to enable or disable settings for the Amazon Chime web app.
Follow these steps to open the Amazon Chime Settings pane.
To open the Settings pane
In the web app, choose your name, and on the menu that appears, choose Settings.
The General tab provides these settings:
- Web browser cookie preferences
-
Allows or prevents several types of cookies.
Note
Preventing functional cookies will turn off some of the web app's features.
To allow or prevent cookies
Choose Customize cookie preferences
Select or clear the Allowed checkbox next to the desired type of cookies.
Choose Save preferences.
- Sync with OS setting
Syncs Amazon Chime's visual mode with your operating system's visual mode. For example, when you switch your operating system to dark mode, Amazon Chime also switches to dark mode.
- Light mode
Keeps Amazon Chime in light mode regardless of your operating system's visual mode.
- Dark mode
Keeps Amazon Chime in dark mode regardless of your operating system's visual mode.
- Play sound for notifications
When selected, Amazon Chime plays a sound when it receives a notification.
The Audio and video tab provides the following settings.
Video settings
- Blur background
Starts or stops background blur during meetings. Also sets a default blur strength. During meetings, you can turn background blur on and off and change the blur strength.
- Mirror my self view
Starts or stops mirroring. When on, you see a mirror image of yourself where. For example, with mirroring on, your left hand appears on the left side of your screen.
- Show me my self view uncropped
When selected, keeps your video tile in the 16:9 format.
Audio settings
- Join muted
When selected, automatically mutes your microphone whenever you join a meeting.
- Voice Focus (noise suppression)
When selected, starts or stops Voice Focus, which helps reduce background noise during meetings.
- Auto-adjust audio levels
When selected, prevents the audio from becoming too loud or soft. When off, you need to adjust levels manually.
- Auto-detect microphone problems
Automatically detects microphone problems and displays a message with information about troubleshooting steps.
- Mute detection
When selected, displays an alert when you speak into a muted microphone.
- Push to talk (Spacebar)
When selected, allows you to mute and unmute your microphone by pushing the space bar on your keyboard.
- Auto-correct system audio settings.
When selected, automatically adjusts your system audio to its previous settings.
Device preview
- Skip device preview dialog when joining meetings and calls
When selected, hides the Device preview dialog box and joins you directly to a meeting or call. Use this setting when you have stable audio and video inputs. For example, when you always join meetings in a conference room or on your laptop.
The Meetings tab provides these settings:
Auto-call settings
Large meetings
- Mute new attendees, turn off join and leave tones, and suppress roster notifications
When selected, during large meetings, Amazon Chime automatically mutes all attendees, turns off the join and leave tones, and turns off roster notifications. For more information, see Using the large meeting settings.
Layout
- Hide my own screenshare view when I am sharing.
When selected, this setting prevents you and other attendees from seeing an infinite number of Amazon Chime meeting windows if you choose the meeting window while you share.
- Show floating meeting control bar when in background
When selected, the meeting control bar remains visible when you switch to another program window.
Video row location
- Above featured content
When selected, places any video tiles above the screen share window.
- Below featured content
When selected, places any video tiles below the screen share window.
For more information, see Using video during meetings.
The Chat tab provides these settings:
Automatic markdown
- Use markdown for all messages
When selected, you don't need to enter
/mdto add markdown syntax to your text messages. For more information, see Collaborating using Amazon Chime chat and Participating in meetings.
Emoji
- Convert emoji shortcut to emoji
When selected, automatically converts emoji shortcuts, such as
:-)to emojis. For more information, see Collaborating using Amazon Chime chat and Adding emojis to in-meeting chat messages.
The Accessibility tab provides these settings:
Machine generated captions
- Use machine generated captions for all my meetings
When on, Amazon Chime automatically generates closed captions during meetings.
- Language for my meetings
Open the list to choose the language for closed captions.
- Caption type size
Open the list to change the size of the closed-caption text.
- Caption type color
Open the list to change the color of the closed-caption font.
Chat type size
Controls the size of the text in the meeting chat window. You have the following choices:
Smallest
Small
Standard
Large (default)
Larger
Largest
Optimize text entry for screen reader
- Alternate text entry
When selected, optimizes screen reader performance.
The Delegates tab provides these settings:
- Add delegates
Choose the button to add one or more contacts to your list of meeting delegates. For more information, refer to Creating delegates in this guide.
