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 meetings you create, check when meeting codes expire. Learn about meeting codes in Google Meet.

Get the Google Meet app

1. On your Android device, open the Google Play Store App .
2. Install the Google Meet app .
3. To open the app on your device, tap the Google Meet app .

Tip: Calls are synchronized. You can start a video meeting on one device and continue on another.

Create a meeting in the Google Meet app

Important: For optimal performance, install the latest version of the Meet app.

Learn to create or join instant meetings in Google Meet

1. On your Android device, 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. On your Android device, open the Google Meet app .
2. At the bottom right, tap New .
3. Tap Schedule .
   • If 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. To return to the Google Meet app , tap Back.
6. Access the meeting through the:
   • Meet app home screen
   • Meeting link in your calendar event

Schedule a video meeting from the Google Calendar app

1. On your Android device, open the Google Calendar app .
2. Tap Add Event.
3. Add guests.
4. Tap Done Save.

Start a meeting from Google Chat

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

1. On your Android device, open the Chat app or Gmail app .
   • If inside Gmail: At the bottom, tap Chat .
2. Open a conversation with a user or chat group.
   • If in a 1:1 message:
     • At the top right, tap Call options .
       • To call someone directly, from the options that appear, tap Call .
       • To send someone a Meet link, from the options that appear, tap Send a Meet link .
       • To start an audio huddle with someone, from the options that appear, tap Start a Huddle .
     • If in a group conversation:
       • At the top right, tap Call options .
         • To share a Meet link with others, 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

To manage who can join your meetings, use host controls.

1. On your Android device, open the Google Calendar app .
2. Enable host controls.
   • When you create a meeting:
     1. In your Google Calendar, create a new Google Calendar event.
        • At the bottom right, tap Create Event Add video conferencing .
     2. Tap Save.
     3. Select an event.
     4. 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."
3. Select 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.
4. Tap Save.
   • Or, you can close the "Host controls" panel.

Tips:

• If you need to join a meeting before the participants, in the "Host controls" panel, turn on Host must join before anyone else.
• Settings are applied 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 by default, your guests can join before you.
• 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 by default, your guests can join before you.
• Consumer users: All new meetings are set to "Trusted" and by default, your guests can join before you. 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.

Enable Waiting room in a meeting

To turn on Waiting room:

1. Scroll to “Waiting room.”
2. Toggle “Waiting room” on or off.

Use Waiting room in a meeting

1. Start a video meeting from the Gmail app or the Google Meet app .
   • Make sure the Waiting room is enabled.
   • Participants who want to join the meeting are listed under “in the Waiting room.”
2. To admit a participant into the meeting, next to their name, tap Bring in.
3. To send a participant to the waiting room, next to their name, tap More actions Send to the waiting room.

Learn about waiting rooms in Google Meet.

Turn on "Everyone is a viewer"

1. On your Android device, open the Google Calendar app .
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.
   • If their email doesn't display, make sure they're first added to the invite.

Learn how to assign View only roles in Google Meet.

Handle camera & content in live streams

In a live stream, Meet can show:

• The most relevant info to live stream viewers. This means that the:
  • Content differs from what's usually displayed when you join a video meeting.
  • 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, inactive speakers don't display after a period of silence.

When you present screen-shared content:

• After 15 seconds, the video of an inactive speaker is hidden.
• 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:

• After 30 seconds, the video of inactive speakers is hidden.
• The most recent speaker remains visible without a timeout.
• At least one video tile displays.
• If available from the speaker's device, Meet can use the available space 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. 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 conversation. No slides are 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