Add or remove people from a Google Meet video call

You can add people to a video meeting in Google Meet before or after the meeting starts. You can also remove people during a video meeting. 

Some people need to request permission before they can join the video meeting. For details, go to Join a video meeting.

Add people during a video meeting

While in the meeting, you can invite others to join. For meetings organized through personal Google accounts, only the meeting organizer can admit participants.

• Google Workspace users: To admit someone who isn’t in your organization, someone from within your organization must admit the invited participant.

1. Open the Meet app  and join a video call. 
2. On the top left, tap the meeting name.
3. On the "People" tab, to send the meeting details to other participants, tap Share joining info .

Tip: For meetings organized by Google Workspace users, the joining info includes how to join via a phone.

Remove people during a video meeting

Important: You need to be in the same Google Workspace organization as the meeting organizer to remove someone from a call. For calls organized through your personal Google account, only the meeting organizer can remove participants during a video call.

Once in a video call:

1. On the top left, tap the meeting name.
2. On the "People" tab, next to a participant, tap Menu  Remove .

Tip: To remove a user who called from their phone, next to the number, tap Remove .

Google Workspace for Education users: Participants (both in-domain and out of domain) removed from the meeting can't request access to join the meeting again. If a participant's requests to join a meeting are denied twice, they won't be able to request to join the meeting again. In these cases, the meeting organizer can manually invite them back into the meeting.

Control access to a video meeting with Quick access

Important: 

• Quick access is available with the following Google Workspace editions: G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline, and all Workspace for Education editions.
• Host Management must be turned on to use Quick access.

As the meeting organizer, use Quick access to decide who needs to ask to join the video meeting.

When Quick access is on:

When Quick access is off:

Participants from your domain can automatically join the meeting using their computer or mobile device. Participants who dial into the meeting using their phone can automatically join. Any participant can dial out of the meeting.

Meeting host must join the meeting before anyone else can join. Only participants invited by the host can join the meeting without asking/”knocking”.  Participants from your organization who aren’t invited must ask to join the meeting. This includes people who want to dial into the meeting by phone. People who are invited during the meeting by someone other than you must ask to join. Only meeting hosts can dial out of the meeting.

Quick access is turned on by default for all meetings where host management is turned on. Workspace Admins can set the default to on or off.  After you start a video meeting, you can change the Quick access setting as often as you need.

Tips: 

• If you turn Quick access on or off in recurring meetings or meetings that re-use the same meeting code, the setting will be saved for future meetings. If you turn Quick access on or off in a one-time, nicknamed, or instant meeting, the setting will return to on after the meeting ends. 
• For meetings created from Google Calendar, invited participants can join anytime between 15 minutes before the scheduled time and the end of the meeting. Otherwise, participants will need to knock to join the meeting.

To turn Quick access on or off

1. In a meeting, tap the screen  Menu . 
2. Tap Host controls   turn Quick access On or Off.