Start or schedule a Google Meet video meeting

You can set up or start a new Google Meet video meeting from:

• Meet
• Gmail
• Google Calendar
• Google Chat (Mobile only)
• Another scheduling system

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 meeting codes in Google Meet.

Get the Google Meet app

1. Go to the Play Store.
2. Download and install the Google Meet app .
3. To open the app on your device, tap the Google Meet app .

Calls are synchronized so you can start a video meeting on one device and continue on another.

Create a meeting in the Google Meet app

Make sure you have the latest version of the Meet app.

Learn to create or join instant meetings in Google Meet

1. Open the Google Meet app .
2. At the bottom right, tap New .
3. Tap Create link .
   • To share a meeting link, select an option:
     • Copy
       • You can email or text the link.
     • Share
   • To join a meeting you created, tap Join meeting .

Schedule a meeting in the Google Meet app

Schedule and join meetings with Google Meet

1. Open the Google Meet app .
2. At the bottom right, tap New .
3. Tap Schedule .
   • When you tap this option, the Google Calendar app opens an event where you can edit details such as the event’s title, time, and guest list. Learn how to create an event in Google Calendar.
4. At the top right, tap Save.
5. Use the back button to return to the Google Meet app .
6. Access the meeting:
   • In the Meet app home screen
   • Through the meeting link in your calendar event

Schedule a video meeting from the Google Calendar app

1. Open the Google Calendar app .
2. Tap  Event.
3. Add guests.
4. Tap Done  Save.

Start a meeting from Google Chat

If you use Meet with a personal account, Google One or Workspace Individual subscription, or a school account:

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chat app or Gmail app .
   • If inside Gmail: At the bottom, tap Chat .
2. Open a conversation with a user or a chat group.
3. If in a 1:1 message with another user:
   • To directly ring them with a video on, at the top right, tap Start video call .
   • To directly ring them with a video off, at the top right, tap Start voice call .
4. If in a group conversation, you can only send a meeting link. To send a meeting link, at the bottom, tap Plus Meet link Send .

If you use Meet with a Workspace for Business or Workspace for Enterprise account:

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chat app or Gmail app .
   • If inside Gmail: At the bottom, tap Chat .
2. Open a conversation with a user or a chat group.
3. If in a 1:1 message, at the top right, tap Call options .
   • To directly ring them, from the options that appear, tap Call .
   • To send them a meet link, from the options that appear, tap Send a Meet link .
   • To start an audio huddle with them, from the options that appear, tap Start a Huddle .
4. If in a group conversation, at the top right, tap Call options .
   • To share a meeting link with others so they can join when ready, tap Send a Meet link .
   • To start an audio huddle, tap Start a huddle . Learn more about huddles in Google Chat.

Control Meeting access with host controls

Use host controls to manage who can join your meetings.

1. Enable Host controls.
   • When you plan a meeting:
     1. In your Google Calendar, create a new Google Calendar event.
     2. At the bottom right, tap Create Event Add video conferencing .
     3. Tap Save.
     4. Select an event.
     5. Tap Join with Google Meet Join .
   • When you’re in a meeting:
     1. At the bottom, tap More controls Settings .
     2. Under “General,” tap Host controls .
     3. Scroll to “Meeting access.”
2. Choose a meeting access type:
   • Open: Anyone with a meeting link can join your meetings. No one has to knock.
   • Trusted: Anyone within the host’s organization can join without knocking. Anyone outside the organization, but invited through a Google Calendar event, can join without knocking. Everybody else must knock.
   • Restricted: Anyone invited through a Google Calendar event or from within the meeting by a host can join. Everyone else must knock.
     • Not available for consumer users.
3. Optional:
   • To let only participants who authenticate with their invited Google Accounts join:
     • For Trusted access: Uncheck the box next to “Anyone with the meeting link can ask to join.”
       • If the box is unchecked, all internal-domain participants can join in addition to explicitly invited external-domain participants. They have to be logged in with a Google Account.
     • For Restricted access: Uncheck the box next to “Anyone can ask to join, including people who dial in.”

     Tip: This turns off "knocking" for the entire meeting. Anonymous users or third-party bots, like note takers, that attempt to use “Ask to join” are automatically denied access without actions required by the host.

   • If you need to join a meeting before the participants, turn on Host must join before anyone else.
4. Tap Save.
   • Or, you can close the "Host controls" panel.

Tip: Settings are at the meeting level, so different meetings can have different meeting access options. Recurring meetings keep the same settings as the first meeting.

Learn about default settings

• Enterprise users: All new meetings are set to “Trusted” and your guests can join before you by default.
• Education users: New meetings created through Google Classroom are set to “Restricted” and your guests can’t join before you. All other new meetings are set to “Trusted” and your guests can join before you by default.
• Consumer users: All new meetings are set to “Trusted” and your guests can join before you by default. Anyone invited through Google Calendar invite is considered "Trusted.”

Start a video meeting directly from Gmail or Chat

Start a video meeting directly from Gmail or Chat.

Turn on Everyone is a viewer:

1. On your Android device, open Google Calendar.
2. Create a new meeting and add guests.
3. In the Google Calendar meeting invite, open Host controls .
4. Turn on Host management.
5. In the "Guests" tab, turn on Everyone is a viewer by default.
6. Optional: Add contributors.
   • To add contributors, add guests to the invite.
   • Tip: If their email doesn't display, make sure they're first added to the invite.

Learn how to assign view only role in Google Meet.

Handle camera & content in live streams

In a live stream, Meet can show:

• The most relevant information to live stream viewers. This means that the content differs from what’s usually displayed when you join a video meeting. The live streams automatically manage camera feeds and content.
• Any screen-shared information.
• Zero to two additional video tiles.
  • Video tiles display based on speaker activity. Inactive speakers don’t display after a period of silence.

In a meeting:

• Meet shows as many video feeds as possible, up to the amount of video tiles the layout you select supports.
• The tiles show the participants who spoke most recently.
• To accommodate more recently active speakers, participants who are silent for an extended period don’t display.

When you present screen-shared content:

• The video of an inactive speaker is hidden after 15 seconds.
• If all speakers are inactive, the presentation automatically becomes the only content to display.
• The viewer’s display or window size may increase the shared content’s resolution, up to the shared resolution.

When no screen-shared content is presented:

• The video of inactive speakers is hidden after 30 seconds.
• The most recent speaker remains visible without a timeout.
• There’s always at least one video tile that displays.
• If available from the speaker’s device, Meet can use the additional space available to show speakers in higher resolution.

Examples:

• A speaker talks over slides that are presented. One slide contains a video with its own audio track. The speaker starts the video and remains silent. After 15 seconds, the video uses all of the available space and is displayed as large as possible to viewers. After the video plays, the speaker starts to talk again and their video automatically displays.
• A host introduces a guest speaker while in a brief dialogue with no slides shared. Both speakers are visible throughout the introduction as they both talk. When the guest speaker takes over, after 30 seconds, the host’s video no longer displays. Only the guest speaker is visible in the entire viewer window.

Related resources

• Troubleshoot issues with Google Meet
• Learn how to create an event in Google Calendar
• Start or join a video call from Gmail
• Google Meet Security & Privacy for users