Google Workspace Changes

The Google Meet API is now generally available.

You can use the Meet API to programmatically create and configure Meet calls, retrieve information about past meetings, access meeting artifacts and subscribe to real time updates on meetings.

Check in to your meeting room directly from the Google Meet green room.

If you’re using companion mode on the web, you can now check in to your meeting room directly from the green room. Then, when you enter the call, everyone will immediately see your name alongside the conference room you’re joining from.

Google Meet “companion mode” is now supported on your mobile device for great hybrid meetings

Beginning today, you’ll be able to use companion mode with your Android and iOS devices.

Google Meet “companion mode” is now supported on your mobile device for great hybrid meetings

Beginning today, you’ll be able to use companion mode with your Android and iOS devices.

Pin messages to the top of the meeting chat in Google Meet.

Meeting participants can now pin messages to the top of the meeting chat. Pinned messages will appear for all users, even if they join the meeting after the message was initially sent. This makes it easy to ensure that important messages - like links to presentations - are displayed prominently and easily accessible by meeting participants.

Google Meet Hardware AUE is now referred to as 'end of Meet support'.

The terminology for when a Meet hardware device is no longer supported is changing. ‘End of Meet support date’ replaces Auto-Update Expiration (AUE) in the Meet hardware Help Center. The Admin console will show ‘end of Meet support’ instead of ‘EOL (end of life)’ in both device information and fleet overview pages.

Closed caption support in Google Meet expands to an additional thirty-one languages.

Support for closed captioning has been expanded to include additional languages.

Combine multiple video effects, improve lighting and audio in Google Meet.

New features to personalize your appearance in Google Meet are launched. Specifically, combining multiple video effects on web and mobile, studio lighting on web and studio sound.

Join meetings as a guest without a Google account is now available on mobile devices.

You can now quickly join a meeting as a guest without signing into a personal or work Google account or creating a new Google account. This functionality already exists for meetings on the web and, by expanding to mobile, guests now have greater flexibility for joining Meet meetings on the go.

Configurability and activation of peripheral email alerts by issue type.

The ability to configure peripheral email alerts by issue type, including the activation of email alerts for missing display issues, will go into effect starting October 11, 2023. Admins can modify these settings in the Admin console ahead of this date to opt out of specific peripheral issue notifications.

Visibility of missing display issues and peripheral alert settings in the Admin console.

Admins can now monitor missing display issues in the Google Meet hardware Admin console and access a new setting to select which peripheral issue types they wish to be alerted about. This feature began rolling out on September 21, 2023, and may take up to 10 days to become visible on all domains.

New options to fine tune your alerts for Google Meet hardware issues from the Admin console.

Now that ChromeOS M108 has rolled out to Meet hardware devices, we’re sharing an update on the rollout of some of those features, including new options to fine tune your alerts: Missing display issues began rolling out in the Admin console on September 21 and may take up to 10 days to go into effect on all domains. You will be able to select which specific peripheral issue types you want to be alerted about from a new Admin console setting that also began rolling out on September 21 and may take up to 10 days to go into effect on all domains. If you don’t want to receive display alerts (or any other type of peripheral issues), you can opt out using the new setting.

Increased the limit of questions per meeting or livestream from 200 to 500.

Google Meet has increased the maximum capacity for questions in both standard meetings and livestreams, raising the limit from 200 to 500 questions per session.

Meeting hosts can now turn Q&A on or off for livestreams.

Google Meet has introduced the ability for meeting hosts to enable or disable the Q&A feature specifically for livestream viewers, allowing for better control over audience interaction during live broadcasts.

Meeting hosts can turn Q&A on and off for livestreams and increase the question limit.

Meeting hosts can now enable Q&A and poll features for livestreams. We’ve also increased the limit of questions per meeting or livestream from 200 to 500.