diff --git a/react/features/base/participants/actionTypes.ts b/react/features/base/participants/actionTypes.ts
index 50040cf910c7..85d7eb396f11 100644
--- a/react/features/base/participants/actionTypes.ts
+++ b/react/features/base/participants/actionTypes.ts
@@ -203,6 +203,14 @@ export const SET_LOADABLE_AVATAR_URL = 'SET_LOADABLE_AVATAR_URL';
  */
 export const LOCAL_PARTICIPANT_RAISE_HAND = 'LOCAL_PARTICIPANT_RAISE_HAND';
 
+/**
+ * Clear the raise hand queue.
+ * {
+ *     type: RAISE_HAND_CLEAR
+ * }
+ */
+export const RAISE_HAND_CLEAR = 'RAISE_HAND_CLEAR';
+
 /**
  * Updates participant in raise hand queue.
  * {
diff --git a/react/features/base/participants/actions.ts b/react/features/base/participants/actions.ts
index 650db59cda68..42fe6afe13d2 100644
--- a/react/features/base/participants/actions.ts
+++ b/react/features/base/participants/actions.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
     PARTICIPANT_SOURCES_UPDATED,
     PARTICIPANT_UPDATED,
     PIN_PARTICIPANT,
+    RAISE_HAND_CLEAR,
     RAISE_HAND_UPDATED,
     SCREENSHARE_PARTICIPANT_NAME_CHANGED,
     SET_LOADABLE_AVATAR_URL,
@@ -629,6 +630,19 @@ export function raiseHand(enabled: boolean) {
     };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Clear the raise hand queue.
+ *
+ * @returns {{
+*     type: RAISE_HAND_CLEAR
+* }}
+*/
+export function raiseHandClear() {
+    return {
+        type: RAISE_HAND_CLEAR
+    };
+}
+
 /**
  * Update raise hand queue of participants.
  *
diff --git a/react/features/base/participants/reducer.ts b/react/features/base/participants/reducer.ts
index d08cba0b6b5a..92d8fce39909 100644
--- a/react/features/base/participants/reducer.ts
+++ b/react/features/base/participants/reducer.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
     PARTICIPANT_SOURCES_UPDATED,
     PARTICIPANT_UPDATED,
     PIN_PARTICIPANT,
+    RAISE_HAND_CLEAR,
     RAISE_HAND_UPDATED,
     SCREENSHARE_PARTICIPANT_NAME_CHANGED,
     SET_LOADABLE_AVATAR_URL
@@ -465,6 +466,12 @@ ReducerRegistry.register<IParticipantsState>('features/base/participants',
 
         return { ...state };
     }
+    case RAISE_HAND_CLEAR: {
+        return {
+            ...state,
+            raisedHandsQueue: []
+        };
+    }
     case RAISE_HAND_UPDATED: {
         return {
             ...state,
diff --git a/react/features/conference/middleware.any.ts b/react/features/conference/middleware.any.ts
index 9131c39a4324..07a619d286c2 100644
--- a/react/features/conference/middleware.any.ts
+++ b/react/features/conference/middleware.any.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import { getLocalizedDateFormatter } from '../base/i18n/dateUtil';
 import { translateToHTML } from '../base/i18n/functions';
 import i18next from '../base/i18n/i18next';
 import { browser } from '../base/lib-jitsi-meet';
-import { pinParticipant } from '../base/participants/actions';
+import { pinParticipant, raiseHandClear } from '../base/participants/actions';
 import MiddlewareRegistry from '../base/redux/MiddlewareRegistry';
 import StateListenerRegistry from '../base/redux/StateListenerRegistry';
 import { SET_REDUCED_UI } from '../base/responsive-ui/actionTypes';
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ StateListenerRegistry.register(
             // remaining pinned, since it's not destroyed across runs.
             dispatch(pinParticipant(null));
 
+            // Clear raised hands.
+            dispatch(raiseHandClear());
+
             // XXX I wonder if there is a better way to do this. At this stage
             // we do know what dialogs we want to keep but the list of those
             // we want to hide is a lot longer. Thus we take a bit of a shortcut