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Zoom Native Integration
Understand how Zoom native recording works in Zime, what is required for it to work, and how fallback recording behaves when native recording is unavailable.
Last updated: March 2026
Why this matters
- Zoom Native helps Zime ingest recordings directly from Zoom Cloud instead of relying only on the notetaker bot
- Understanding setup, fallback behavior, and troubleshooting helps you get reliable coverage of your Zoom calls
What Zoom Native does
- Zime connects to Zoom and fetches cloud recordings for eligible meetings
- Zime uses synced calendar events to identify and match meetings correctly
What you need before setup
- A connected calendar
- Native recording enabled in Zime
- A Zoom account with cloud recording support (Pro or above)
- Meetings that match company-level or user-level recording preferences in Zime
When Zime uses notetaker instead
- If Zoom cloud recording is unavailable
- If the meeting is externally hosted and the cloud recording is tied to someone else's Zoom account
- If native recording is not available for the current meeting setup
What to expect
- Recordings usually appear after Zoom processes the cloud recording
- Some configuration changes apply only to upcoming meetings after sync
- Native recording depends on Zoom Cloud, not local-only recordings