- Record a meeting is only available on a computer.
- If you’ve recently updated to macOS Sequoia, make sure to select “Allow” for Google Chrome permissions when prompted.
Why am I seeing a prompt when I try to present or record in meetings on macOS Sequoia?
If you've recently updated to macOS Sequoia, you’ll receive a cautionary prompt when you first attempt to record a meeting or share your screen.
Here’s what you can do:
- To allow Google Chrome to access your screen:
- When you start a presentation or recording in a meeting, in the dialog, click Allow.
- If you missed the initial dialog to allow permissions, you’ll need to update your system settings.
- To add Google Chrome, give control access to screen and system audio recording on Mac.
Alternatively, to test the new frictionless experience:
- Update Chrome to version 129 or up.
- On your Mac, open the Terminal.
- Enter:
open -b com.google.Chrome --args --enable-features=UseSCContentSharingPicker
. - To execute the command, on your keyboard, press Enter.
- Optional: Enable the flag in Chrome.
- In the address bar, enter:
chrome://flags
. - Search for the flag “Use ScreenCaptureKit picker for stream selection.”
- Next to the flag, click the Down arrow Enabled.
- Restart Chrome.
- In the address bar, enter:
Tip: To avoid this issue, you can delay the update to macOS Sequoia until macOS 15.1 releases.
Requirements to record a video meeting
You can record video meetings with these Google Workspace editions:
- Business Plus
- Business Standard
- Essentials
- Education Plus. This is available to users with a "Staff" or "Student" license.
- Enterprise Essentials
- Enterprise Plus
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Starter
- Google One subscribers with 2 TB or more storage space
- Teaching and Learning Upgrade. This is available to users with a “Teaching and Learning Upgrade” license.
- Workspace Individual Subscriber
- On your computer, in Google Meet, click Start or Join.
- At the bottom right, click Activities Recording.
- To record the meeting captions, select a language.
- In some cases, if the recording is played on Google Drive, the recording file might be ready a few hours before the captions are available.
- Click Start recording.
- In the pop-up screen, click Start.
- Wait for the recording to start. Participants get a notification when the recording starts or stops.
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Meetings can only be recorded for a total of 8 hours, then the recording stops automatically.
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- To stop a recording, click Activities Recording Stop recording.
- In the pop-up screen, click Stop recording.
- Tip: The recording stops automatically when everyone leaves the meeting.
An email with the recording link is sent to the meeting organizer and the person who started the recording.
The recording is saved to the meeting organizer’s My Drive > Meet Recordings folder.
For meetings created through:
- Google Calendar: The meeting organizer is the person who creates the meeting event on Google Calendar.
- The Google Meet homepage or another product such as Gmail or Jamboard: The meeting organizer is the person who launches the meeting or generates the code.
To record a meeting, a Google Workspace administrator must turn on recording for your account.
You can record if:
- You’re the meeting host.
- You’re from outside the host's organization and promoted to a co-host.
- You're from the host's organization and Host Management is off.
- You’re a teacher or co-teacher for meetings created through Google Classroom.
Google Workspace for Education accounts:
Recordings include the active speaker and anything presented. You can also choose to record the meeting's captions. Recordings are saved to the organizer’s Meet Recordings folder in My Drive. An email with the recording link is sent to the meeting organizer and the person who started the recording. The link is added to the Calendar event.
Other windows or notifications are not included in the recording. Pinning a participant won’t affect who is shown in the recording.
These people get notified when a recording starts or stops, but can’t control the recording:
- People outside of your organization
- Mobile app users
- People who dial in using a phone
Which part of a Meet chat is recorded?
Chats are recorded for the entire duration of the recorded video.
Where is a Meet chat saved?
Chats are saved as an .SBV file in the meeting organizer's Drive.
How do I play Meet chat recordings?
You can play Meet chat recordings on media players. When recordings play on a media player like VLC Media Player, chat contents display as subtitles.
How do I play recorded captions?
If you record a meeting, select Record captions to embed captions in the clip.
- If you play the recording in Google Drive via the YouTube player, you can click the Closed Caption button to play captions with the recording.
- If you download the recording you can play it and enable subtitles on apps like VLC Media Player or QuickTime Player.
Tips:
- If you record captions, the recording file might be ready before the captions are available if played on Google Drive. The captions may become playable a few hours after the recording file is generated.
- If a screen is shared in a recorded meeting, the video resolution depends on the resolution of the largest screen shared, which is up to 1080p. Admins can opt out of 1080p recordings for their organizations. For more info, go to Set recording quality limits for screen shares.
Recording meetings is useful when you want to review the meeting later, or share it with people who couldn’t attend. For example:
- Team presentations available on-demand for students and new employees
- Conference presentations that you want to share with people later
- Virtual training sessions that people can replay on-demand
In Google Drive
To share a recording:
- Select the file Share .
- Or, click Link paste the link in an email or chat message.
For best results, download the recording and then play it from your computer:
- Select the file and click More Download .
- Double-click the downloaded file to play it.
- In Drive, double-click the recording to play it. “Still processing” appears until the file is ready for online viewing.
To add a recording to My Drive, select the file and click Add to My Drive .
From an email link
- In the email, click the link and wait for the recording to open.
- Select an option:
- To play the recording, click Play .
- To share the recording, click More Share. Enter usernames or email addresses and click Done.
To download the file, click Download
To add the recording to the current folder, click Add to My Drive .
In the Google Calendar event
Google Meet recordings upload to the organizer’s Google Drive. Make sure there’s enough space on your Drive to record your meeting.
To record a meeting, make sure:
- You haven’t met your personal Drive quota.
- Your organization hasn’t met its Drive quota.
If you have space in your Drive, but your organization doesn’t have space, you can’t record the meeting.
Important: Once you meet your storage quota, you get an alert on Meet. We recommend you keep track of your available storage space through Google Drive or Google storage page.
For Workspace editions with Admin capabilities: If you meet your storage quota, contact your Google Workspace administrator.
Hosts can enable certain features to start automatically when a meeting begins, like Record the meeting, Transcribe the meeting, and Take notes with Gemini.
- When creating a meeting, click Video call options Meeting records.
- Select Record the meeting.
Tip: Participants who join a meeting where the host has enabled these features get an on-screen warning message.
Important:
- Even if these features are enabled, they won’t start until the host or co-host joins the meeting on web.
- Notes and recordings are automatically shared with the hosts and co-hosts.