Important:
- We recommend that you turn off noise cancellation in Meet if you use an electrolarynx. Accessibility improvements are in progress in Meet.
- Noise cancellation is on by default for Pexip devices. To disable noise cancellation, refer to Pexip technical documentation.
- If noise cancellation is on for your organisation, it's also on for participants who dial in or use a phone for audio. Learn how to use a phone for audio in a video meeting.
- It's not available when you dial out to add a phone participant to a meeting in progress.
To help limit distractions in your meeting, you can filter out background noise. Meet can remove background noises such as typing, closing a door, room echo or the sounds of a nearby construction site.
- Audio capture from screen sharing won't be affected by noise cancellation.
- Meet filters out noises that don't sound like voices. Voices from TV or people talking at the same time won't be filtered out.
- If non-speech is an important part of your meeting, like playing musical instruments, turn off noise cancellation.
- Meet adjusts the audio so that everyone is heard at a comfortable volume.
Requirements to use device-based noise cancellation
Important: Device-based noise cancellation is available for all Workspace and non-Workspace users on most Android phones.
You can use device-based noise cancellation with these Android phones:- Pixel 4 and up
- Samsung S series: S10 and up
- Samsung A series: A02 and up
- Xiaomi Redmi 8 and up
- Xiaomi Note 5 and up
- Oneplus Nord AC2001 and up
- Realme 5 Pro, 6 and up
- Vivo Y15 and up
Noise cancellation in Google Meet may switch between device and cloud to optimise performance.
Tip: For Apple users, consult their website for your device's capabilities.
Requirements to use cloud-based noise cancellation
Cloud-based noise cancellation is available on desktop/laptop, Android and iOS for certain Google Workspace editions.
You can use cloud-based noise cancellation with these Workspace editions:- Business Standard
- Business Plus
- Enterprise Essentials
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Plus
- Education Standard
- Education Plus
- Teaching and Learning Upgrade
- Frontline
- Workspace Individual subscriber
- Google One subscribers with 2 TB or more storage space
Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline, Workspace Individual subscriber and Google One subscribers with 2 TB or more storage space: Noise cancellation is on by default.
Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Education Standard and Teaching and Learning Upgrade accounts: Noise cancellation is off by default.
For all Workspace accounts: If the setting is on by default for your organisation in a meeting with other people from outside your organisation, they can also use this feature during that meeting.
Turn on noise cancellation
Noise cancellation can be turned on or off during a meeting.
In a meeting
- Tap the screen
tap More
- Tap Settings
.
- Tap Noise cancellation.
tap More 
.