Pin, mute, or remove Google Meet participants

Select a participant from the filmstrip to mute, pin, or remove the person.

For education accounts

Pin a participant

In a participant's thumbnail image, click Pin  .

Remove a participant

Meetings organized through a G Suite account: A participant from the domain that organized the video meeting can remove another participant, if necessary. 

Meetings organized through a personal Google account: Only the event moderator can remotely remove another participant. 

In a video meeting, click the Back arrow point to the person, click Remove  . 

Mute a participant’s microphone

If you have feedback or hear background noise while in a video meeting, you might want to mute other people’s microphones. For meetings organized through a personal account, only the meeting moderator can mute other participants. 

To mute others, next to the person’s thumbnail, point to Volume Mute . 

Tip: For privacy reasons, you cannot unmute another person. Ask the participant to unmute their audio. To mute or unmute yourself, at the bottom of the video window click Mute .Phone participants can press *6 to unmute their phone. Any participant can mute. People who dial-in by phone can also mute.

Dial-in participants

Important: Applicable for meetings organized by G Suite users only. 

• Phone participants always press *6 to mute or unmute their phone.
• If someone else mutes you, you can only unmute using *6.