Join a meeting

Important: Learn how to join a meeting in the new Google Meet app.

You can join a video meeting from Google Meet, Google Calendar or Gmail. You can also dial in to a meeting from a phone or a meeting room.

Tip: You can also use Google Meet without a Google Account.

Learn which meetings you can join

Personal account users

As a personal account user, you can join the following:

• All meetings that you're invited to by personal account users, Workspace Individual subscribers and Google One subscribers.
• Some meetings that you're invited to by other Google Workspace account users.
  • Tip: Admins of certain Workspace users can restrict you from joining meetings.

Google One subscribers

As a Google One subscriber, you can join the following:

• All meetings that you're invited to by personal account users, Workspace Individual subscribers and Google One subscribers.
• Some meetings that you're invited to by other Google Workspace account users.
  • Tip: Admins of certain Workspace users can restrict you from joining meetings.

Google Workspace Individual subscribers

As a Workspace Individual subscriber, you can join the following:

• All meetings that you're invited to by personal account users, Workspace Individual subscribers and Google One subscribers.
• Some meetings that you're invited to by other Google Workspace account users.
  • Tip: Admins of certain Workspace users can restrict you from joining meetings.

Google Workspace for Education users

As a Google Workspace for Education user, your Google Workspace admin controls which meetings you can join. By default, you can join any meeting organised by a Google Workspace user who isn't a Workspace Individual subscriber, but your admin can change it to one of the following:

• Only join meetings organised by someone in your organisation.
• Join meetings organised by all users.

Workspace users

As a Google Workspace user, your Google Workspace admin controls which meetings you can join. By default, you can join any meeting organised by a Google Workspace user, personal account user, Workspace Individual subscriber or Google One subscriber, unless your admin restricts it to one of the following:

• Only join meetings organised by someone in your organisation.
• Only join meetings organised by Google Workspace users.
  • Tip: This does not include Workspace Individual subscribers.

Learn who can join your meetings

Personal account users

As a personal account user, anyone can join your meetings. This includes anyone:

• Signed in to a personal, Google One or Workspace Individual account.
• In a chat room where the meeting link was created.
• In a Google Workspace organisation whose admins allow them.
  • Tip: Some Workspace admins might restrict their users from joining meetings organised by you.
• Not signed in to a Google Account.
  • Tip: They must knock to be let in to the meeting.

Google One subscribers

As a Google One subscriber, anyone can join your meetings. This includes anyone:

• Signed in to a personal, Google One or Workspace Individual account.
• In a chat room where the meeting link was created.
• In a Google Workspace organisation whose admins allow them.
  • Tip: Some Workspace admins might restrict their users from joining meetings organised by you.
• Not signed in to a Google Account.
  • Tip: They must knock to be let in to the meeting.

Google Workspace Individual subscribers

As a Workspace Individual user, anyone can join your meetings. This includes anyone:

• Signed in to a personal, Google One or Workspace Individual account.
• In a chat room where the meeting link was created.
• Who dials in by phone.
• In a Google Workspace organisation whose admins allow them.
  • Tip: Some Workspace admins might restrict their users from joining meetings organised by you.
• Not signed in to a Google Account.
  • Tip: They must knock to be let in to the meeting.

Google Workspace for Education users

Important: By default, only users in your organisation or anyone who dials in with a phone can join your meetings.

Your Google Workspace admin can change who joins your meetings to one of the following:

• [Default] Only users in your organisation or anyone who dials in with a phone.
• Anyone signed in with a Google Account or anyone who dials in with a phone.
• Everyone, even users not signed in with a Google Account.

Workspace users

Important: By default, all users can join your meetings. This includes users not signed in to a Google Account.

Your Google Workspace admin can change who joins your meetings to one of the following:

• Only users in your organisation or anyone who dials in with a phone.
• Anyone signed in with a Google Account or anyone who dials in with a phone.
• [Default] Everyone, even users not signed in with a Google Account.

Join a video meeting from a Google Calendar event

Find your scheduled meetings in Calendar and quickly join a video meeting.

1. In the Google Calendar app, open the event.
2. Tap Join with Google Meet.

If your Google Workspace administrator allows it, you can also join from other video conferencing systems. Learn more about setting up interoperability.

Join a video meeting from Google Meet

You can join a video meeting using the Google Meet app. You can use the Google Meet app with any Google Account, such as a Google Workspace account or an @gmail.com account.

Tip: A chime sounds as the first five people join. After that, new participants are muted.

Join a video meeting from the Google Meet app

1. Open the Google Meet app .
   • Tip: Meetings that are scheduled through Google Calendar appear on Google Meet under 'Meetings'.
2. Tap a meeting from the list Join.

Join a video meeting with a meeting code or nickname

Every Google Meet video meeting has a code that you can use to join the meeting. The meeting code is a series of characters, such as abc-defg-hjk. You can get the meeting code from the joining information that was sent to you or at the end of the meeting link.

For Google Workspace users: A nickname is a meaningful phrase, such as our-meeting. You can pick any nickname and share it with other people in your organisation as a quick way to all join the same meeting.

1. Open the Google Meet app .
2. Tap the search bar  Enter a Meet code.
3. Enter the meeting code or nickname.

   Tip: The hyphens in the meeting code are optional.

4. Tap Join.
5. (Optional) Depending on whether you're joining from a different organisation or signed in to a Google Workspace account, choose an option:
   • Select Ask to Join.
   • Enter your name and tap Ask to join.

Join a video meeting from Gmail

Join meetings from Gmail

Join a video meeting with a meeting link URL

Sometimes there isn’t enough time to schedule a meeting and book a room. With Google Meet, you can join an impromptu video meeting by clicking the meeting link URL sent to you in a text or email.

1. Tap the meeting link sent to you via text or email.
2. Follow the on-screen prompts to join.

Use a phone to dial in to a meeting

Important: You can only dial into meetings with a phone if the meeting is organised by a Google Workspace user.

A phone number is added only if administrators turn on the dial-in feature.

If your Google Workspace administrator allows, you can dial in for audio-only access to a Meet video meeting up to 15 minutes before the meeting starts until it ends. If someone is already in the meeting and grants access, you can join sooner.

You can be in a different organisation or have a different Google Workspace edition from the event organiser. If you're in the organiser's corporate directory, participants find your name in the meeting. If not, they see only a partial phone number.

• Other participants should always verify that the person who dials in is the correct participant.
• Anyone who dials in counts toward the maximum limit.
• Regular call charges apply.

Join a meeting with a phone number

Tip:  If you try to dial in to a meeting before it starts, you might get an error that the PIN is not recognised.

You can dial in during the scheduled meeting time using one of the following methods:

• Enter the phone number that's in the Google Calendar event or meeting invitation.
  Then, enter the PIN and #.
• From the Meet or Calendar app, tap the phone number.
  The PIN is automatically entered.

All Google Workspace editions include a US phone number. G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, Google Workspace Essentials, Enterprise and Education Plus editions also support international numbers in Meet video meetings. 

If your organisation turns on Meet Global Dialling, more international numbers are available. Long-distance and usage charges from your phone operator may apply. 

Mute or unmute your phone

You're muted if another meeting participant mutes you or if you:

• Press *6.
• Set your phone's volume to the lowest level.
• Join after the 5th participant.

Press *6 again or increase the volume to unmute.

List of supported countries for dialing in to a meeting

For a complete list of countries, read Supported countries for dialling in.

Join a video meeting from a third-party system

If your organisation allows it, you can join meetings from third-party devices.

For administrator setup details, see Allow third-party devices to join Meet calls.

Zoom Rooms devices

To join a Google Meet call from a Zoom Rooms device, choose an option:

• Tap the event on your device's calendar, if the meeting was scheduled ahead of time.
• Tap the Google Meet icon and enter the meeting code.

Cisco Webex devices

To join a Google Meet call from a Cisco Webex device, choose an option:

• Tap the event on your device's calendar, if the meeting was scheduled ahead of time.
• Tap the Google Meet icon and enter the meeting code.

Other third-party systems using Pexip

Tip: To join video meetings from third-party video conferencing systems, your Google Workspace administrator needs to have interoperability turned on.

1. In the Calendar app, open the event or meeting invitation.
2. Follow the instructions to join from the third-party conferencing system.

What you can't do

If you join from a third-party system, you can’t use Meet to control functions, such as your camera or microphone. Instead, use the third-party controls. For example, you can’t take the following actions from your third-party system:

• See or write in-meeting chat.
• Start or stop Meet recordings.
• Admit or block other participants.
• Mute or unmute other participants.

Other Meet participants cannot mute your room.

Join a video meeting without a Google Account

You don't need a Google Account to participate in Meet video meetings. However, if you don’t have a Google Account, the meeting organiser or someone from the organisation must grant you access to the meeting.

Tip: You cannot join as a guest on the Meet (original) app .

Join a video meeting with a meeting link

1. Open the chat message or email with the meeting link.
2. Tap the meeting link Ask to join.
3. When someone in the meeting gives you access, you’ll join it.

Join a video meeting from Google Meet

1. Open the Google Meet app .
2. Tap Enter a code.
3. Enter the code.
4. Tap Join Ask to join.
5. When someone in the meeting gives you access, join it.

Join a video meeting on the go

Learn how to use On-the-Go mode for meetings.

Other notes

• When you join a meeting, we share your meeting identifier with the meeting host domain for troubleshooting and audit purposes. A meeting identifier is your email address or your phone number, if you called in to the meeting.

• For users on Google Meet with a personal Google Account: When a user flagged as abusive in a meeting tries to join another meeting, the moderator gets this message: 'This person is suspected of being abusive in the past.'

Related resources

• Troubleshoot issues with Google Meet