Add or remove people from a Google Meet meeting or 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. For meetings organized through a Google Workspace account, only someone from within the organization can admit a participant who isn't in the same organization.

Open the Meet app and join a video meeting.

On the top left, tap the meeting name.

On the "People" tab, to send the meeting details to other participants, tap Share invite .

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

Share the invite if no one has joined yet

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Meet app .
Join a meeting.
If no one else is in the meeting, the message "You’re the only one here" shows.
To send the meeting details to other participants, tap Share invite .

Ring someone to join into an ongoing meeting or call

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Meet app .
Join a meeting or call.
To find the controls, tap the screen.
At the top left, tap the Header Add people .
Select a contact or enter a phone number.
Tap Call.

The "Add people" icon is not available in certain situations:

If "Host management" is turned on in a meeting and you aren’t the host.
If client-side encryption or additional encryption is in use.
If you join as a guest and aren’t logged in.
If you can’t call because of meeting restrictions.

Remove people during a video meeting

Important: For meetings with Host Management on, only a meeting host or co-host can remove another participant from an ongoing meeting. If Host Management is off, anyone from the meeting organizers' domain can remove a participant.

At the top left, tap the meeting name or meeting code.
Next to the participant you want to remove, tap Actions .
Tap Remove .
On the box that opens, select one or more of the following options:

To just remove a participant, select Remove.
To remove and mark a participant as abusive, select Fill out an abuse report.
To make sure a participant doesn’t rejoin the same meeting, select Block.
- Important: If you block a user, they are only blocked from the current meeting or concurrent meetings which use the same meeting code. They can still join other meetings you host. To allow users to rejoin a meeting they are blocked from, they must be manually re-invited from within the meeting.

Google Workspace for Education users: 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.

End meeting for all

Important: To use the “End meeting for all” feature, turn on Host management.

Meeting organizers and moderators on an iOS device can end the meeting for everyone on a video meeting. End meeting for all ends the meeting and automatically removes all participants from the meeting, so you don't have to remove participants manually.

Best practices

Participants can access the meeting link for a meeting that has ended, but can't join until the meeting host restarts the meeting. The meeting will automatically restart once the host re-joins.
To make sure students can't access the end-meeting feature to start or end meetings, admins can turn off the "Create a meeting" setting for students.
Some Workspace admins on certain Workspace editions can end a meeting with the Security Investigation Tool. Learn how to use the investigation tool.
Create a new meeting each time you want to meet with a different group of participants. When you restart an ended meeting, all previous participants can join.

To End a meeting for all:

On the bottom of your screen, tap Leave call .
On the menu that appears, tap End the call.

Optional: To leave the meeting but not end it for everyone, tap Just leave the call.