What’s changing
Google Meet is now available in Gmail, which means you can start and join meetings right from your inbox, making it even easier to stay connected.
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| Options to start or join a Google Meet video meeting now in Gmail |
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| Enter a meeting code or nickname to join a Google Meet video meeting |
Who’s impacted
Admins and end users
Why you’d use it
With more and more people working and learning from home, we want to make it easier for you to connect and keep things moving forward. With Meet in Gmail, you can easily start or join a meeting in seconds. Our goal is to help you follow the flow of the day, seamlessly switching between email and video meetings—whichever form of communication you need.
Additional details
When you
start a meeting, a new window pops up with a
secure, unique meet.google.com URL. Choosing to
join a meeting lets you enter a meeting code (provided by the organizer) or use a meeting nickname to quickly get everyone into an ad hoc meeting. Simply choose a nickname (ex: “catchup” or “kevin-priya”), share it with anyone inside your domain, and type it into “Join a meeting” to get everyone in your meeting.
Once in the meeting, you can
invite more people to join.
This feature is currently only available in Gmail on the web with mobile coming soon.
Getting started
Admins: This feature will be ON by default for all domains
with video calling enabled. You can disable Meet by
turning off video calling in the Admin console. Alternatively you can turn it off by turning off the Hangouts Meet and Google Hangouts service, but this will turn off classic Hangouts as well.
End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about
starting or joining a video call from Gmail.
Rollout pace
Availability
- Available to all G Suite customers
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