Is There a Class Action Lawsuit Against Zoom in 2026?

Updated August 11, 2026 · By Class Action Buddy

The short answer: the $85 million settlement is finished — the deadline was March 2022

If you are searching for a Zoom settlement payout date, this is the honest answer: there is not one coming. The $85 million privacy settlement closed to claims on 5 March 2022, and the administrator’s own site records that the payment selection period ended on 28 September 2023.

A second Zoom class action did settle more recently — final judgment on 10 November 2025 — but it was a securities case for people who bought Zoom stock, not for people who used Zoom meetings.

What the record actually shows

The user settlement is In re: Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Privacy Litigation, Northern District of California, master case 3:20-cv-02155. The administrator states the class period as Zoom Meetings use between 30 March 2016 and 30 July 2021, United States residents only, and the claims: that Zoom shared certain information with third parties, should have done more to prevent unwanted meeting disruptions, and advertised the app as end-to-end encrypted when the plaintiffs contended it was not. Zoom denied all of it and the court decided nobody was right or wrong — it approved a compromise.

The related member case Todd Hurvitz v. Zoom Video Communications, Inc. records the moment it was approved: an order of Judge Lucy H. Koh granting the settlement motion on 21 October 2021. An objector took it to the Ninth Circuit as Caitlin Brice v. Zoom Video Communications, Inc., and that appeal was voluntarily dismissed on 31 March 2023, which is what cleared the way for payment.

The newer one is Drieu v. Zoom Video Communications, Inc. before Judge James Donato — a securities case. On 10 November 2025 he signed both an order approving the plan of allocation and a final judgment and order of dismissal with prejudice. If you used Zoom but never bought the shares, that settlement is not about you.

For anything that happens from here, Zoom’s current terms are the first obstacle.

Zoom’s Terms of Service head the section like this:

“DISPUTE RESOLUTION, ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER — You agree to resolve certain disputes with Zoom through binding arbitration”

— Zoom Terms of Service, read on 11 August 2026.

Cases on the public record

Each of these was matched on case name in the federal docket on 11 August 2026, and each links to its own record so you can read it yourself. Docket numbers repeat across districts, so a number on its own proves nothing — the case name is what identifies a case.

Where the status comes from. These are read from each docket’s own entries, not from a summary elsewhere. Two limits are worth knowing. The public docket mirror does not carry the text of every entry, so where an entry has no description this page says what it can date rather than invent what it said. And a case with no termination date on file is unknown, not open — a blank field is not a finding.

What we removed, and why. An earlier version of this page listed an “AI-feature data-training class action”, a “K-12 education-tier COPPA case” and an “auto-renewal disclosure case”. Not one carried a case name, a court or a docket number, and none could be matched to a federal docket. They are gone. A claim you cannot check is worth less than no claim at all.

What you can actually do

1. Stop waiting for the $85M settlement. The claim deadline was 5 March 2022 and the administrator records the payment selection period as closed since 28 September 2023. If you did not file then, there is nothing left to collect, and any site suggesting otherwise is wrong.

2. Check which settlement you actually mean. The 2025 Zoom settlement was a securities case — it pays people who bought Zoom stock in the class period, through a plan of allocation approved on 10 November 2025. Using Zoom does not make you a member of it.

3. Read the dispute-resolution section of Zoom's terms before assuming a future class action is possible. It is headed “Dispute Resolution, Arbitration Agreement, and Class Action Waiver”, and it applies to disputes about your account and your use of the service.

4. Ignore anyone charging to “sign you up”. Joining a class costs nothing and filing in a real settlement is free.

How we checked this page

Verified on 11 August 2026. Cases were found by searching the federal docket for Zoom’s corporate name, then each docket was opened and its entries read for the events that decide a class action — certification, dismissal, settlement approval, remand. The class period, the fund, the claim deadline and the date payment selection closed were read from the settlement administrator’s own site, zoommeetingsclassaction.com, on the date above. We publish what the record shows and say plainly where it stops.

Class Action Buddy is a self-service tool: it fills in claim forms for settlements that have reached the claims stage so you can review, sign and submit them yourself. We do not file on anyone’s behalf, and we are not lawyers — nothing here is legal advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

When is the Zoom settlement payout date?

There is not an upcoming one. Claims in the $85 million privacy settlement closed on 5 March 2022, and the administrator’s site records that the digital payment selection period ended on 28 September 2023. Anything promising a 2026 Zoom payout is describing something that does not exist.

Was I in the $85 million Zoom settlement?

The class covered people in the United States who used the Zoom Meetings app between 30 March 2016 and 30 July 2021. Being in the class is not the same as being paid, though — only those who filed a claim by 5 March 2022 received anything.

What was the Zoom settlement actually about?

Three things, as the administrator states them: that Zoom shared certain information with third parties, that it should have done more to prevent unwanted meeting disruptions, and that it advertised the app as end-to-end encrypted when the plaintiffs contended it was not. Zoom denied all of it; the court did not decide who was right.

There was a Zoom settlement in 2025 — can I claim from that one?

Only if you bought Zoom shares. Drieu v. Zoom Video Communications, Inc. is a securities case, and Judge James Donato approved its plan of allocation and entered final judgment on 10 November 2025. It pays investors, not users.

Can I bring a new class action against Zoom?

Zoom’s Terms of Service contain a section headed “Dispute Resolution, Arbitration Agreement, and Class Action Waiver” under which you agree to resolve certain disputes through binding arbitration. That is the first obstacle any new claim meets.

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