# Leave a meeting

> Click the Leave room button at the far top left of the room and confirm with Leave room; you keep access to the room and everything in it stays saved.

Category: Rooms and meetings
Web page: https://www.pactto.com/help/leave-a-room
All guides: https://www.pactto.com/help.md

## Leave a room

Leaving ends your part of the meeting. The room, its canvas, and its chat stay saved, other people can keep working in it, and you keep your access so you can come back any time.

### Leave

1. Click the **Leave room** button at the far top left of the room.
2. In **Leave this room?**, click **Leave room**. Click **Stay in room** to cancel.
3. You return to **Your rooms**.

If you were sharing your screen, sharing stops and the shared screen is removed from the canvas.

Closing the browser tab also takes you out of the meeting.

### Leaving for good

The **Leave room** button does not remove you from the room. To give up your access, use the **Leave** option on your own row in the room's **Share** dialog. See [Invite people](https://www.pactto.com/help/invite-people.md). The room owner cannot give up access to their own room.

Guests who joined through a direct link are the exception: when they leave, they lose access to the room.

### "Are you still here?"

When the AI assistant is running in the room and nothing has happened for 60 minutes, Pactto asks **Are you still here?** and counts down: **We'll leave the room for you in 60s.**

- Click **Stay in room** to keep going. The 60-minute timer starts again.
- Click **Leave now**, or let the countdown run out, and Pactto takes you out of the room the same way the Leave button does. You keep your access.

Almost anything counts as activity: clicking or typing anywhere in the room, editing the canvas, sending or receiving chat messages, comments, using the assistant, and people talking (live captions).

### Good to know

- Leaving does not delete the room. To delete it, see [Find, rename, and delete rooms](https://www.pactto.com/help/find-and-manage-rooms.md).
- To come back, click **Join room** on **Your rooms**.

## Related guides

- [Join a meeting in a room](https://www.pactto.com/help/join-a-meeting.md): Click Join room next to the room in Your rooms (or open the room link); if you are not yet a member, set up your devices and click Request to join, then wait for the host to admit you.
- [Find, rename, and delete rooms](https://www.pactto.com/help/find-and-manage-rooms.md): Use the Your rooms list to search and sort rooms and see who is in each one; use the three-dot Room actions menu to rename a room, and to delete it if you are the owner.
- [Invite people to a room](https://www.pactto.com/help/invite-people.md): Open the room's Share dialog, type one or more email addresses, choose a role in Invite as, and click Invite; Pactto emails each person a link to the room.
- [Fix connection problems in a meeting](https://www.pactto.com/help/connection-problems.md): Pactto reconnects on its own after short drops and shows Reconnecting...; if it cannot, it asks you to reload with Reload room or Reconnect, and your canvas work is kept.
- [Share your screen](https://www.pactto.com/help/share-your-screen.md): Click Share screen at the top right of the room (or press S), pick what to share in your browser, and your screen appears on the canvas for everyone; others can follow it and zoom in.