Google Meet (original) - Video calls & meetings

Introducing Google Meet (original)

Google Meet enables you to connect securely, collaborate effectively, and enjoy moments of celebration no matter where you are. With this app, you can create and participate in high-quality video meetings with groups of up to 250 participants, making it an ideal solution for both professional and personal gatherings.

Functions of Google Meet

Ensure Safety

Your video meetings are encrypted during transmission, and Google Meet consistently updates a range of security measures for enhanced protection, ensuring your conversations remain private.

Conduct Large Meetings

Invite up to 250 participants to join your meetings, whether they are team members within your organization or external guests, making it easy to hold large-scale discussions.

Enhance Participation in Meetings

Engage with participants seamlessly through features like Q&A sessions, Polls, and Hand Raise, allowing for interactive and productive meetings without disruptions.

Convenient Access Across All Devices

Share an invitation link for team members to join discussions with just a single click, whether they are using a web browser or the Google Meet mobile application, ensuring easy access from anywhere.

    Screen Sharing

Share documents, presentations, and more during your conference calls, making it simple to collaborate on projects in real-time.

    Stay Connected

Benefit from real-time captions powered by Google's speech-to-text technology, ensuring that everyone can follow the conversation, even in noisy environments.

Tile view for Android tablets will be available soon.

Certain features may not be accessible to non-paying users.

Why Choose Google Meet?

Universal Accessibility Anyone can join a meeting on Google Meet via an invitation, making it an inclusive platform for connecting with people across different locations.

Advanced Features for Google Workspace Clients For Google Workspace users, additional features such as live captions, breakout rooms, and noise cancellation are available, further enhancing meeting efficiency. Workspace clients can also benefit from automatic dial-in phone numbers for participants to join meetings even without Wi-Fi or data, ensuring continuous connectivity.

Seamless Integration with Google Ecosystem Google Meet integrates smoothly with other Google services. You can transition into a video call directly from Google Chat or elevate your document collaboration with video connections, ensuring continuous and context-rich communication.

What's New

Make Group Video Calls

Connect with up to 32 people in group video calls, making it easier to stay in touch with larger teams or groups of friends.

Share and Join Group Calls

Easily share and join group calls with a simple link, streamlining the process of connecting with others.

Fun Effects in Family Mode

Enjoy doodles, masks, and other fun effects during your video calls with Family mode (requires Google account sign-in).

Tips to communicate

Raise your hand to speak

You can virtually raise your hand in a video meeting to:

    Let others know that you have a question.

    Indicate that you want to speak.

    Pin a meeting participant or presentation

You can pin up to three participants and presentations at the same time.

        Important:

        You can't pin in Companion Mode.

        You can only pin when you join with full audio and video.

        If you use a sign language interpreter, pin the presentation and interpreter.

    Pin up to three participants or presentations

If the participants or presentations are on the layout:

        In the meeting, hover over a tile and click Pin .

        Optional: To unpin, hover over the tile and click Unpin .

If the participants aren't on the layout:

        At the bottom right of the meeting, click People .

        Next to the meeting participant or presentation, click Pin .

        Optional: To unpin, hover over the tile and click Unpin .

        Tip: When you pin the maximum number of participants and presentations, you will get a prompt.

Reverse your camera on a mobile device

In the Meet app, in a video meeting, you can reverse the camera on your mobile device. For example, you can show a whiteboard or notes in the room that you're in.

    Reverse your camera on mobile

        On your mobile device, open the Meet app .

        Join a video meeting.

        At the top right, tap Switch camera .

Share meeting info

To give your guests important event info, you can add meeting details, documents, spreadsheets, notes and other files directly to an event.

    Share meeting info

        Join a Meet video meeting.

        At the bottom right, click Meeting details   Copy joining info .

        Paste the meeting details in an event, email, chat or other app.

        Click Send.

    Tip: To open files attached to a calendar event, click Attachments .

Tips for group interactions

Hold a Q&A session

You can use Q&A to submit and upvote questions in a video meeting.

When you use Q&A, you don't disrupt the flow of the meeting or presentation. The moderator gets a report of all the questions after the meeting.

    Ask a question

        In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities   Questions.

        At the bottom right, click Ask a question.

        Enter your question.

        Click Post.

            To ask your question anonymously, select Post anonymously.

    Find, upvote or delete a question

        In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities   Questions. Then:

            To view everyone's questions, click All questions.

            To view only your questions, click My questions.

            To sort questions by popularity or chronologically, next to 'Popular', click Down an option.

            To upvote a question, on the question, click Upvote .

            To delete a question, on the question, click Delete .

    Use a virtual whiteboard to brainstorm

To brainstorm with others on a virtual whiteboard, you can start or open a Jam with Google Jamboard in a video meeting. You can also collaborate with other participants in real time with the Miro add-on. Miro is a third-party whiteboard app.

    Start or open a Jamboard in a meeting

        In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities   Whiteboarding.

        Select an option:

            To create a Jamboard, click Start a new whiteboard.

            To open a Jamboard, click Choose from Drive.

    Tip: The Jamboard opens in a new tab. A link to the Jamboard is shared in the meeting chat.

Create or vote in a poll

Use a poll to:

    Identify topics that need more discussion.

    Get real-time feedback.

The moderator gets an email report with the answers and names of all the participants after the meeting.

    Create a poll (for moderators)

        In a meeting, at the bottom right, click  Activities   Polls.

        Click Start a poll.

        Enter a question and options.

            Tip: To let users respond anonymously, before you save or launch the poll, turn on Responses appear with names .

        Select one:

            To post your poll, click Launch.

            To save your poll to launch later, click Save.

        To vote in your own poll, select an option  Vote.

    Tips:

Polls are saved for the duration of the meeting. Afterwards, polls are deleted.

Moderators get a poll report in their email at the end of the meeting.

    Vote in a poll (for participants)

        In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities   Polls.

        Pick your response.

        Click Vote.

    Tip: After you have voted, you cannot change your response.

Use breakout rooms

If the moderator allows, you can join a breakout room during a meeting and have a discussion in a smaller group.

Tips:

    After non-Google users join the main meeting, you can add them to a breakout room as anonymous users.

    You can't add non-Google users to breakout rooms through Google Calendar.

    You can't live stream or record breakout rooms.

    Add breakout rooms to a calendar event

For a new event:

        Open Google Calendar.

        Create an event.

        Click Add Google Meet video conferencing.

        Add participants.

        Click Change conference settings .

        On the left, click Breakout rooms .

        Select the number of breakout rooms, then either: 

            Drag participants into a different room.

            Enter names directly into a room.

            To randomly mix the groups, click Shuffle .

        Click Save.

For an event that already exists:

        Open Google Calendar.

        Open an event.

        Click Edit event .

        Under 'Event details', click Change conference settings .

        On the left, click Breakout rooms .

        Select the number of breakout rooms, then either:

            Drag participants into a different room.

            Enter names directly into a room.

            To randomly mix the groups, click Shuffle .

        Click Save.

    Create breakout rooms in a meeting

        In a meeting, at the bottom right, click  Activities   Breakout rooms.

            Tip: In a work or school account, admins can control who can create a breakout room.

        Select the number of breakout rooms. You can create up to 100 breakout rooms in a call.

        Participants are distributed across the rooms. To manually move participants into rooms, you can:

            Drag participants into a different room.

            Enter names directly into a room.

            To randomly mix the groups, click Shuffle .

        At the bottom right, click Open rooms.

Live stream a video meeting

    Enterprise Starter

    Enterprise Plus

    Enterprise Standard

    Education Plus

    Teaching and Learning Upgrade

To present to an audience of 250 participants, use Meet or Calendar to create a live stream event. You can also add up to 100,000 view-only guests. You can't display or hear view-only guests in the meeting. They can't present, record or control the stream.

    Create a live stream event

        Open Google Calendar.

        Click Create  Event  More options.

        Add the event details, like date, time and description.

        Add the guests that can fully participate in the video meeting.

            You can add people from other organisations and trusted domains.

            Only people in your organisation can record and control live streaming.

        Next to 'Join with Google Meet', click Down   Add live stream.

        To confirm, click Add live stream.

        Click Save  Send.

    Tip: To start the live stream, during the meeting, at the bottom right, select  Activities    Live streaming  Start streaming.

Track attendance in a video meeting

    Enterprise Starter

    Enterprise Plus

    Enterprise Standard

    Education Plus

    Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Use attendance reports to keep track of who attended your meeting and for how long. The organiser receives the attendance report in their email after the meeting. The attendance report is a Google Sheet with the participant names and emails, along with the length of time that they stayed on the call.

    Track attendance in Google Meet

Inside a meeting:

        At the bottom, click Host controls .

        On the side panel, turn on Attendance tracking.

        Track attendance from your Google Calendar

For a new event:

        Open Google Calendar.

        Create a new event.

        Click Add Google Meet video conferencing.

        On the right, click Change conference settings .

        Select Attendance tracking  Save.

For a meeting that already exists:

        Open Google Calendar.

        Select a meeting  Edit event .

        Under the event details, click Change conference settings .

        Click Attendance tracking  Save.

App Support

For any questions or support, please contact via email: apps-help@google.com

Google Meet is designed to bring people together, providing a secure and user-friendly platform for video meetings, whether for work or social interaction.