Google Meet

If you’re a meeting host or co-host, you can now pin up to three specific tiles for all meeting participants. By doing so, you can help ensure the meeting is focused on key presentations and speakers.

You can now add or start live streaming from any ongoing Meet call, even if it wasn't initially planned to be live streamed.  In addition, you can view the number of attendees on a live stream, and meeting participants can easily switch to live stream view from the main meeting. 

You can now add or start live streaming from any ongoing Meet call, even if it wasn't initially planned to be live streamed.  In addition, you can view the number of attendees on a live stream, and meeting participants can easily switch to live stream view from the main meeting. 

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You can now physically raise your hand in Google Meet when you have a question. Meet will recognise this with gesture detection and turn on your Hand Up button. 

If you pair your tile with another user's tile in a Google Meet, all other meeting attendees will see your video tiles next to each other. 

Both pairing partners will have their borders outlined in blue when speaking, and tile pairing will be indicated in the meeting captions as well. 

The host of a Google Meet meeting can now enable Q&A moderation, which means that questions need to be reviewed and approved before they become visible to everyone in the meeting.  If enabled, meeting participants will see a banner indicating that question moderation is turned on for their meeting.

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When multiple people are presenting in Google Meet, co-presenters can now view speaker notes while they are presenting.

You now have more control of a meeting when you are using picture-in-picture mode in Google Meet, including the ability to resize your view and access different layouts.

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If you are hosting a Meet live stream, you can now enable the Q&A feature to take questions for the audience. You can also enable polls to gather information from all viewers. 

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You can now position the mouse over the centre of your feed to show options to change the background of your meeting, or to reframe your image within the camera feed. 

If someone wants to join your meeting, you will now see a prompt in the bottom-right corner of the screen. If a single person is asking to join, you can admit them from this prompt, but if you have multiple requests, you can view the People pane to admin each person or everyone in a single step. 

If you’re joining a meeting from a conference room, you can use companion mode on your personal device to check in to that specific room. Room check-in allows everyone on the call to easily identify who is in the conference room, rather than simply seeing the conference room name.

It is now possible for multiple people to present slides together in Google Meet. As the primary presenter, you can assign participants to co-present Slides with you. As a co-presenter, you will be able to see the presentation and slide controls, navigate the presentation and start/stop media within the presentation. 

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You can now turn off the video feed from specific participants during a Google Meet call. This can be helpful in situations where you want to focus your meeting view to just the presenter or hide participants with distracting video feeds. 

This will only impact your experience - other participants will not be notified nor will their experience change. 

Users in specific Google Workspace editions can now set their Google Meet video resolution to 1080p, if using a 1080p camera and enough computing power in a meeting with two participants. 

Google Workspace administrators can now provide up to 15 images that all users will be able to set as backgrounds in Google Meet, Admins can also control whether users can choose from any background in Google Meet, or just use the ones provided by the organisation.

In the following screenshot, the background images added by the organisation show the building icon:

As well as setting or uploading a background in Google Meet, you can now apply filters to your camera feed, to show yourself in different ways to your follow participants. 

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In the People pane in Google Meet, you will now be able to see which participants are joining from outside your organisation, by the External label on their profile image. You will also see an external icon in the top-left corner of the Meet screen if your call includes any external participants. 

If you join a Google Meet call from your phone, noise cancellation will automatically be applied to remove any potential disturbing sounds from the meeting. 

If you present Google Slides in a Meet call, you can now show your speaker notes on the same screen so you don't have to switch between windows or tabs while presenting.

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When presenting slides in Google Meet, you can now share the slides quickly with all participants. In addition, when you add a link to a file in the Chat pane in Google Meet, you will be prompted to share the file with all meeting attendees and invitees.

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If you’re using captions in Google Meet, you now have the option to include those captions in a meeting recording. Including captions in your meeting recordings can help make them more useful and accessible for meeting participants.

Note that you can only record a meeting with captions if you are the meeting host or co-host.

You can now use emojis to share in-meeting reactions in Google Meet. These reactions will show as a small badge in the sender’s video tile and will float up the left-hand side of the screen. When multiple people use the same emojis, you will see a burst on the left side of the screen. 

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You can now share Google Slides in Google Meet and control your presentation without having to open different windows in your browser. This feature fosters active collaboration by allowing you to see your Slides content, controls, and audience all in one place. 

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You can now transcribe a Google Meet call into a Google Doc. You can choose when to turn this feature on, and your transcribed file will be saved in the meeting host's Meet Recordings folder in Google Drive by default.  Note that this feature is only supported in English at present.

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If you use the Jamboard app in Google Workspace, you can now join or start a Google Meet directly from your jam. 

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The People pane in Google Meet now shows the working location, out of office status and working hours of each participant, as well as whether they will be joining the meeting virtually or in a meeting room.

In the People pane of Google Meet, you can now see all participants that  were invited to the meeting, including those that have not yet joined the call. You will also see the RSVP status of everyone on the invite, including “optional” attendees and any RSVP notes. 

You will see a chat icon next to each name, which allows you to send a chat message to the attendee directly from the Meet call. 

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In Google Meet, meeting participants will now have the option to ask questions or participate in polls anonymously. 

• Anonymous questions will be allowed by default but can be disallowed by meeting hosts and co-hosts

• Anonymous polls will be turned off by default but can be turned on by meeting hosts and co-hosts.

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This update allows you to see up to 4 video tiles in a floating window on top of all applications on your screen, allowing you to see meeting activity while looking at another application.

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You can now join a Google Meet call directly from Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. From the Google Meet icon, click on Join the call to quickly join and present a document, spreadsheet, or presentation to all attendees, allowing everyone in the meeting to collaborate while having a conversation.

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You can set host options for a Google Meet call ahead of time, when you add the Meet link to your Google Calendar event. You can choose to disable chat or screen sharing in the meeting, for example, and can also assign co-hosts that will have elevated permissions in the meeting. 

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WIth hybrid working being so popular, meetings are often attended by a mix of people in a meeting room and those joining virtually. If you join a meeting in a room, you can use Companion Mode to allow you to easily share your screen, take part in chat and polls, raise your hand and view captions in your own language. 

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In a Google Meet, you can now automatically translate captions from English to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. 

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If you are using a breakout room in Google Meet and you are recalled back to the main meeting room, you will now see a banner showing you when you will return to the main meeting. 

Users on selected Google Workspace plans can now host meetings in Google Meet with up to 500 participants.

This is available to Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Education Plus customers.

If you choose not to select or upload an image as your Meet background, you can still apply some effects to your default background, to make it easier for meeting attendees to focus on you.

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Meeting hosts can now turn off the microphones and/or cameras of other participants in the meeting and prevent them from turning them back on again until they are unlocked. This gives meeting hosts more control over their meetings by letting them decide when they want to allow different levels of participation from attendees.

Microphone and camera lock can be found in the Host Controls pane in the Meet.

New host controls have been introduced in Google Meet to allow hosts to control who can share their screen, send chat messages, mute all users and end the meeting. Hosts can also control who needs to request permission to join the meeting. 

The main host of a meeting can now assign up to 24 co-hosts in a meeting to allow them to access the above host controls.

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If you are in a meeting and your computer or device is causing other users to hear an echo on their own voices, you will be notified by a prompt on screen.  

You can now invite users from other domains to a live stream, provided their domain has been added to your trusted domain list by your Google Administrator. 

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Google Meet has improved the hand-raising experience, with the following enhancements:

• An updated and improved visual icon and animation on the video tile

• Depending on meeting size and participation, the tiles of people with raised hands may be moved to be more visible in the video grid

• An audio notification will sound for all participants when the first hand is raised

• A clickable notification will show the number of raised hands - when clicked, this will show an ordered queue of all participants with raised hands

• A participant’s hand will automatically be lowered after they speak

A new Google Meet interface is now avaiable, providing a modern look and feel with improved layout of options and meeting tools.  

When someone speaks in a meeting, their image or video feed will be outlined in blue, and you will be able to see what you are presenting more clearly in a meeting. 

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When you schedule or create a new Google Meet meeting, a unique meeting code is generated that can be reused for future meetings if required. 

• By default, a meeting code will expire 365 days after the code was last used, unless the meeting code has been added to any future calendar events. 

• Breakout rooms expire instantly once the parent meeting ends and cannot be joined again by any participants. 

• If you start a meeting using Jamboard or meeting room hardware, the meeting code will expire instantly once all participants leave the meeting.

You can now set up Google Meet breakout rooms in advance when you create an event in Google Calendar, making it easier for meeting facilitators to prepare for group discussions in advance. 

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If you join a Meet on an Android or iOS device, you will now see grid view by default, which will show up to 8 video feeds on a phone, or up to 48 on a tablet. 

Before joining a Google Meet, you can join a green room to check how the other attendees will see you in the meet, and test how your devices are working. You can record a video clip to show your quality and view warnings for common issues.

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When you view the Meet home page at meet.google.com, you will have a number of new options when creating a new meeting. You will be able to create a meeting for later, start an instant meeting or schedule a meeting in your Google Calendar.

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When you present your screen in Google Meet, Chrome will automatically hide the content of web pop-up notifications. This includes notifications from Google Chat, email notifications, and other third party websites. When you stop presenting your screen, all muted notifications will be displayed automatically. 

• Click on the ellipses in the bottom-right corner of the screen and choose Captions