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Webex App - Administrative Control of Proximity Options - Disable "Connect to nearest device automatically"

In the Webex app, "Connect to nearest device automatically" is enabled by default with no way to change this as an administrator. We are a hospital and this causes issues with staff accidently connecting to devices in conference rooms as well as staff inadvertently connecting to video units in patient rooms. This was something we could disable by default when pushing Jabber out to our users. It would be nice to have this as an option in Control Hub so it can get pushed out to the clients as they connect.

  • Guest
  • Apr 29 2021
  • Already exists
  • Guest commented
    July 22, 2022 13:51

    Customer requesting this as well.

  • Philip Carter commented
    July 14, 2022 13:34

    We have the same situation:


    We want to have it disabled per default and the user should be able to enable it if needed.

  • Joseph Malinao commented
    June 14, 2022 17:31

    Our Customer is a Law Firm.

    We want to have it disabled per default and the user should be able to enable it if needed.

  • Johannes Ebner commented
    September 15, 2021 05:03

    We have the same situation:


    We want to have it disabled per default and the user should be able to enable it if needed.


    We do not want to turn on Proximity on 600 VC Devices as long as the automatic connect is active because also if you would do a communication most of the users would be confused.

  • Randle Rivers commented
    May 13, 2021 14:05

    need to be able to do this per app, webex or webex meetings since we still need them both. (you cant open outlook invites without being forced to download the webex meetings app even when webex is open and ready to join.)

  • Ravi Bansal commented
    May 10, 2021 22:30

    hello, please contact me (ravbansa@cisco.com) although we don't currently have this option available in ControlHub, it is possible for us to disable this for you via toggle

  • Guest commented
    May 10, 2021 19:40

    Combine with