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Transitioning from the RingCentral Meetings app to
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With your transition from the RingCentral Meetings app to the new RingCentral app, you will still have access to your favorite RingCentral Meetings features as well as a better experience that provides messaging, video meetings, and phone calling all in one app.
In the RingCentral Meetings app, you could only manage video meetings and meeting recordings. But in the new RingCentral app, in addition to the RingCentral Meetings features, you can also:
- Manage company users
- Chat with co-workers
- Make and receive phone calls
- Integrate with other apps
- Manage tasks, events, files, and notes
To learn more about the different features of the RingCentral app, visit Intro to the RingCentral app.
To upgrade to the new RingCentral Video, which gives you and your participants a dramatically better communication and collaboration experience, learn more here.
Note: Users without the updated RingCentral desktop and mobile app will be notified to download the latest version or use the web app.
RingCentral Meetings app and RingCentral app comparison
Settings
The table below shows the settings differences between the RingCentral Meetings app and the RingCentral app.
| Features | RingCentral Meetings app | RingCentral app |
| Custom upcoming meeting reminder | Option to be reminded 5, 10, or 15 minutes before upcoming meetings
|
Meeting reminder notification pop up as soon as the meeting starts
|
| Appearance improvements (adjust low light) | HD, touch up my appearance and adjust for low light | HD, touch up my appearance and adjust for low light (auto & manual)
|
| Cloud recording | ✔ | ✔ |
| Keyboard shortcuts | ✔ | ✔ |
Scheduling
The table below shows the differences in scheduling a meeting between the RingCentral Meetings app and the RingCentral app.
| Features | RingCentral Meetings app | RingCentral app |
| Calendar sync (Outlook/Google Calendar) | Calendar sync via plugin/add-in | Connect calendar within the app |
| Scheduled meetings filter | ✔ | ✔ |
| Recurring meetings section | ✔ | Available for non-PMI meetings via RC Scheduler |
| Editing/deleting meetings calendar | ✔ | Available for Hosted by filter view, not in My calendar view |
| **Scheduled meeting duration | Duration | Start/end date and time |
| **Automatic generate Meeting ID | Enable/disable Use Personal Meeting ID option | Choose between Generate Automatically or Personal Meeting ID option |
| **Waiting room | Open waiting room | Waiting room |
| **Authenticated users | Only authenticated users can join | Only signed-in users can join in Advanced Settings |
| **Allow participants to join anytime | Allow participants to join anytime | Participants can only join after me |
| **Automatically record meeting (cloud/local) | Enable/disable Automatically record meeting option | Enable/disable Record meeting automatically with option to select between cloud and local |
| **Camera on/off (participant and host) | Enable/disable Turn off camera for participants and Turn off camera for host | Choose to turn On or Off video for host and/or participants |
**Features are available for both RingCentral Meetings and the RingCentral app. However, the naming conventions of the features while scheduling a meeting are different.
In-meeting
The table below shows the in-meeting differences between the RingCentral Meetings app and the RingCentral app.
| Features | RingCentral Meetings app | RingCentral app |
| Advanced sharing options | Advanced screen share option | Basic screen share options |
| Support connect button | ✔ | Use RingCentral App Resource Center |
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