Start a video meeting

You can start a video meeting from Google Chat.

Important: If your organization allows external users to join rooms or group conversations, anyone in the room or group can join a video meeting without permission.

Tip: To make sure you don't join a meeting with an expired code and to better plan for the future meetings you create, check when meeting codes expire. Learn about Google Meet meeting codes.

Start a video meeting from Chat or Gmail

1. Sign in to Google Chator your Gmail account.
2. Open a chat message.
3. In the reply area, click Add video meeting   Send .
4. To join a video meeting, click Join video meeting Join now.

Tip: To learn more about Meet video meetings, go to the Meet Help Center.