
If you saved your file locally, you can potentially recover it by heading to the Recycle Bin and clicking Restore on the file of your choice. If you’re trying to figure out how to access Zoom meeting recordings that have already expired, you can check the following two options depending on where you saved the recording. How to Access Expired Zoom Meeting Recordings There are settings that can change this, so if you are a user but not the account holder, it may be that you have a different time period for the retention of Zoom recordings. On the paid plan, so long as you are the account holder, you can store your files on the Zoom cloud for as long as you are a paid subscriber. Do Zoom Recordings Expire on a Paid Plan?

Unfortunately, if you’re on a Zoom free plan, your recordings have a 30 day deadline. Do Zoom Recordings Expire on the Free Plan? It’s also worth noting that educational bodies and other big organizations that use Zoom often set their own expiration date to cut back on unnecessary use of storage space. If you move a Zoom recording to Trash, you will be able to redeem it for a total of 30 days (unless you empty the Trash) before it is gone forever.If you save the file locally, there is no expiration date as the file is on your personal storage and not Zoom’s cloud storage.

For those on any of the paid plans, you can store Zoom recordings on the cloud indefinitely – however, this can be adjusted in the account settings so that the recordings expire after a given period.


To capture calls, share presentations or revisit tutorials, the Zoom ‘record’ feature is a handy tool – but do Zoom recordings expire? And if so, how much time have you got with your precious recordings before they slip into the abyss? Just about everybody is using Zoom these days.
