You can start an instant video meeting, or schedule and share a Google Calendar meeting from:
- One-on-one chats
- Group chats
- Spaces
When you schedule a meeting, an event card appears in the chat with the meeting title, date, and time.
Tip: If you remove someone from an event invitation, but they’re still in the chat, they can view the event card.
Start an instant video meeting in Chat & Gmail
- Open the Chat app
or Gmail app
.
- Tap Chat
or Spaces
.
- Open a chat message.
- In the reply area, tap Action menu
Meet link
Send
.
- To join a video meeting, tap Join video meeting
Join now.
Tip: You can call people directly from the Gmail app. Learn how to start a video meeting.
Schedule & share a Calendar meeting in Chat & Gmail
Important:
- If you’re using your mobile device, you must have the Google Calendar app to schedule and share a Calendar meeting in Chat. If you don’t have the Google Calendar app installed, the App Store will open so you can download it.
- You can only share and schedule a meeting in Chat with the Google Calendar app. Other calendar apps don’t work with Google Chat. If you prefer to schedule events in another app on iOS, you shouldn’t use this feature.
- Open the Chat app
or Gmail app
.
- Tap Chat
or Spaces
.
- Open a chat message.
- In the reply area, tap Action menu
Calendar invite
.
- A scheduled meeting in the nearest time slot will appear. You can change event details to a different date or time, or add a room
tap Save & share.