You can change your video and audio settings so others can hear you and view your video better.
Tip: Before you join a meeting, you can also instantly check which of your peripheral devices are available and connected. Learn how to check your video and audio in Google Meet.
Change your computer’s camera or video quality
You might also want to decrease the quality of your video if you experience:
- Video or audio delays
- Poor network connection
- Low battery
- Limited data available
- Other quality issues
Change the camera or video resolution
- In a web browser, open meet.google.com/.
- Click Settings
Video.
- Choose a setting you want to change:
- Camera—Select your camera device. If your camera is working, to the right of Video, you’ll see your video feed.
- Send resolution— The image quality from your device that others see.
- Receive resolution— The image quality that you see from other participants.
- Click Done.
Video.Learn how video framing works
Settings 
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.You can use Meet's video framing feature to automatically center or reframe your video. This feature helps others see you clearly, even if you're too close or too far from the camera, or not centered in the frame. Video framing is turned on by default if you’re using a desktop or laptop.
If you use a virtual background, Meet always keeps you framed and centered, even if you move around. When you join a call without a virtual background, Meet frames you initially and doesn’t recenter you again. You can manually reframe anytime if you’ve drifted.
To turn video framing on or off:
- On your computer, open Google Meet.
- Select a video meeting.
- Before you join or during the call, click More
Apply Visual Effects
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- Click Appearance.
- Scroll to "Framing."
- Turn Framing on or off.
Recenter the video
To reduce distractions, Meet doesn't automatically recenter the user after the initial framing (unless you are using a virtual background). There are 2 ways to recenter yourself while in a meeting:
On your self-view tile
- Hover over your self-view tile.
- Click Reframe
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In the More options menu
- Click More options
Apply Visual Effects
- Click Appearance
Apply Visual Effects Turn on automatic video lighting adjustment
Important: This setting is only available on desktop, iPhone, and iPad. If you have access to Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Business, or Google One AI Premium, or if you are a trusted tester through Workspace Labs, use studio lighting instead.
When video lighting adjustment is on, Meet is able to detect if you are underexposed and can automatically enhance brightness to improve your visibility. Meet will prompt you to turn this feature on if you're underexposed and your device supports automatic recommendation. If you don't want Meet to automatically adjust the light, you can turn off video lighting adjustment.
To help devices better run real-time video, you can process background lighting adjustments in the cloud. This feature saves battery and processor power and optimizes video meeting quality.
- On your computer, open meet.google.com.
- Join a video meeting.
- Before you join or during the meeting, click More
- Click Appearance
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.Enabling light adjustment may slow down your device. You may want to turn this feature off to allow other apps to run faster on your computer.
Turn on Portrait touch-up
You can lightly touch-up your appearance before or during a meeting. You can select:
- Subtle: Skin smoothing, eye bag lightening, and eye whitening to a lesser degree.
- Smooth: Skin smoothing, eye bag lightening, and eye whitening to a more obvious degree.
- Before you join a meeting, at the bottom of your self-view, click Apply visual effects
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- During a meeting, hover over your self-view. At the center, click Apply visual effects
- During a meeting, hover over your self-view. At the center, click Apply visual effects
- Click Appearance
- Select an option from the drop down:
- Subtle
- Smooth
- Subtle