Help & how it works

FAMUS Rooms is a private group video-meeting app. Meetings are invite-only or joined with a meeting code — there's no public feed and no stranger matching. This guide walks through everything you can do.

Getting started

Open FAMUS Rooms and choose how to enter:

• Sign in with your email and password to host and manage meetings.
• Create account if you're new — email and a password (at least 8 characters).
• Continue as guest to join a meeting you were invited to, without making an account. Guests can join but can't create meetings.

Start a meeting

1. On the home screen, tap Start a meeting.
2. Pick a type: Quick Meeting (a casual video call) or Podcast Studio (record with multiple guests and a live audience).
3. Give the room a name, and choose whether the Waiting room is on (recommended — new people need your approval to join).
4. Tap Continue to create the room. You'll land on the Room ready screen with your meeting code.
5. Tap Enter meeting to go in.

Invite people

From the Room ready screen (or during the meeting) you can share two ways:

• Invite link — tap Invite to meeting to create a link like rooms.fam-us.com/rooms/invite?token=… and send it by text, email, or AirDrop. The link is reusable, so you can share it with several people.
• Meeting code — tap Copy meeting code to copy a code like ABCD-EFGH and share it however you like. People enter it under "Join with a code."

Join a meeting

• With a link: tap the invite link you were sent. FAMUS Rooms opens to the meeting.
• With a code: on the home screen tap Join, type the meeting code (ABCD-EFGH — hyphens and spaces are optional), and tap Continue.

The first time you create or join a meeting, you'll be asked to agree to the Community Guidelines — a one-time step.

The waiting room

If the host turned the waiting room on, you'll see "You're in the waiting room." Stay on that screen — when the host approves you, you'll join automatically. No need to refresh or retry.

In the meeting

Everyone in a meeting has these controls along the bottom:

• Microphone — mute / unmute yourself.
• Camera — turn your video on / off.
• Switch camera — flip between front and back cameras (available while your camera is on).
• Share screen — start or stop sharing your screen.
• Speaker / earpiece (phones) — change where the audio plays.
• Device settings — choose which microphone, camera, and speaker to use.
• Participants — see everyone in the meeting.
• Leave — leave the meeting (it keeps going for everyone else).

Host controls

If you created the meeting, tap Manage participants for the host panel:

• Admit / Deny people waiting to join.
• Lock room — stop anyone new from joining (people already in stay in; you can still admit from the waiting room).
• Remove a participant (they can rejoin with the code or link) or Ban them (they can't come back).
• Change roles — make someone a co-host, producer, speaker, or attendee.
• End for everyone — end the meeting for all participants (you'll confirm first).

Staying safe

FAMUS Rooms has zero tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behavior. In any meeting:

• Report — open the participants list, tap the ⋮ menu on someone, and choose Report. Pick a reason (harassment, hate speech, sexual content, violence, spam, or other) and add an optional note. Reports go to our safety team.
• Block — from the same menu, block a participant to hide and remove them for you.

Report and block are available to everyone, about anyone — not just the host. See the Community Guidelines for what's allowed.

Your account

Tap the account icon (top-right of the home screen) to:

• Contact support — reach us at support@fam-us.com.
• Open the Terms, Community Guidelines, and Privacy Policy.
• Sign out.
• Delete account — permanently deletes your account and your meeting data. If you're currently hosting a meeting, end it first, then deletion completes.

Troubleshooting

My camera or mic won't turn on

The first time, allow FAMUS Rooms to use your camera and microphone when prompted. If you denied it before, open your device Settings and turn the permissions back on, then tap the camera or mic button again.

My camera went off after I switched apps

On phones, your camera pauses when you leave the app. Come back and tap the camera button to turn it on again.

An invite link isn't working

The link may have expired. Ask the host to share the meeting code instead, and join with that.

I'm stuck in the waiting room

That's normal — the host approves people one by one. You'll join automatically once they admit you. If it's taking a while, message the host.

I can't manage or end the meeting

Only the host (the person who created the meeting) can manage participants, lock the room, and end it for everyone.