# Mute other participants

> If you are the room owner or an editor, open Room members from the avatars at the top right and click Mute next to a person or Mute all, or click the microphone badge on someone's camera tile.

Category: Rooms and meetings
Web page: https://www.pactto.com/help/mute-other-participants
All guides: https://www.pactto.com/help.md

## Mute someone else

The room owner and editors (people with **Can edit**) can mute other people who are online. Reviewers and viewers can see who is muted but cannot mute anyone. Only the muted person can unmute themselves.

### See who is in the room

1. In the bar at the top right, click the avatar and counter next to the **Share** button.
2. **Room members** opens with two sections: **Online** and **Offline**. Click a section header to expand or collapse it.
3. Each person shows their name and email (or **Guest**). The room owner is labeled **Owner**. The microphone icon in each row shows whether that person is muted.

### Mute one person

From the member list:

1. Open **Room members**.
2. In the **Online** section, click the microphone button next to the person (**Mute**).

From the camera tiles (on a computer):

1. Find the person's camera tile.
2. Click the microphone badge in its top right corner (**Mute** followed by their name). Once they are muted, the badge reads that they are muted and cannot be clicked.

### Mute everyone

1. Open **Room members**.
2. Click the microphone button at the top of the panel (**Mute all**).

There is no confirmation step. Everyone online except you is muted.

### What the muted person sees

- A **You have been muted** message.
- Their microphone button switches to off, and their tile shows the muted icon.
- To talk again, they click their own microphone button or press **M**.

### Good to know

- You cannot unmute another person. There is no "unmute all".
- Mute buttons appear only for people who are online, and not on your own row.
- The microphone badge on tiles is hidden on phones and while tiles are shrunk during focus mode.
- People who joined without any microphone are not affected.

## Related guides

- [Turn your camera and microphone on or off](https://www.pactto.com/help/camera-and-microphone.md): Use the camera and microphone buttons at the top right of the room, or press C for camera and M for microphone.
- [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.
- [Room roles and permissions (Owner, Can edit, Can review, Can view)](https://www.pactto.com/help/roles-and-permissions.md): Every room has one Owner and members with Can edit, Can review or Can view; the owner and editors change roles and remove people from the Share dialog.
- [Arrange camera tiles and use conversation mode](https://www.pactto.com/help/camera-tiles-and-conversation-mode.md): Camera tiles sit in a row at the top of the canvas; use the Room menu to hide or reset them, drag a tile to float it, and click the Conversation mode button to hide the canvas and show large cameras for everyone.