Google Meet Updates & Release Notes

We're making it simpler to join large Google Meet events. When an adaptive meeting reaches its maximum capacity for meeting contributors (those with camera, microphone, and screen sharing privileges), any additional users attempting to join the main call are automatically redirected to join the live stream instead. In the live stream they can still interact using reactions, chat, polls and Q&A. What interactive features are available depends on what the host allows in the Host controls settings. Users that try to join the main call while only invited to the live stream will also be redirected automatically.

This means a smoother, seamless viewing experience for everyone attending your largest meetings. It doesn't change access settings to meetings or live streams. The host still remains in control over who can take part in meetings and live streams, and which features are available for them to use. The new redirect will be working for any meetings hosts make adaptive under Meeting Access. Participants can still also join the live stream directly by clicking the separate live stream link in calendar events.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: This feature is automatically turned on for any meeting hosts make adaptive in Meet Settings > Host controls > Meeting access. There is no setting for meeting attendees. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adaptive meeting settings.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting May 6, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting May 20, 2026

Availability

• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Education: Education Plus
• Education Add-ons: Teaching and Learning

Resources

• Google Help: Start or schedule a Google Meet meeting - Adaptive meetings
• Google Help: Live stream a video meeting
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Launching a new Adaptive meeting type

We’re introducing a new feature that allows administrators to require explicit consent from meeting participants before automatic note-taking, recording, and/or transcription begins. With this update, admins can ensure that participants on supported devices must actively agree to be recorded, be transcribed, or have notes enabled.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the domain, OU, or group level. You can find these settings in the Admin console Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Dialog showing consent required for meeting attendee

• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on May 5, 2026

Availability

These editions include consent for notes, recordings, and transcripts:

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Other Editions: Frontline Plus
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

These editions include consent for transcripts and recordings:

• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter
• Education: Education Plus
• Education Add-ons: Teaching and Learning

These editions include consent for recording:

• Other Editions: Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage participant consent for Meet features
• Google Help: Take notes for me in Google Meet
• Google Help: Record a video meeting
• Google Help: Use transcripts with Google Meet

We are giving users more control over "Take notes for me" in Google Meet with new customization options and an improved Decisions section.

“Take notes for me” recently introduced customizations for meeting artifacts, such as the option to set your preferred level of detail for your notes. Now, users can tailor their notes to be more actionable and easier to digest by choosing exactly which sections they want to include.

Updates include

• Customizable notes sections: Users can now toggle specific sections on or off via the in-call menu, including Summary, Decisions, Next steps, and Details. These changes only affect your current meeting and will not impact your default view for future calls.
• New “Decisions” section: This section explicitly captures outcomes and tracks their status, such as Aligned, Needs further discussion, Disagreed, or Shelved. Note that the Decisions section will initially be available in English only.
• Improved summary: The summary section has been improved to be more concise and scannable, allowing you to quickly catch up on key points.

These improvements will help make your meeting notes more actionable and scannable, and reduce the need to manually reformat notes after a call.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no specific admin control for this feature. It will be available to all users who have access to "Take notes for me."
• End users: To use this feature, turn on “Take notes for me" in any of your meetings. Within the menu, try customizing which sections are included in your notes. In particular, explore the new summary and decisions sections. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 30, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Other Editions: Frontline Plus
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra

Resources

• Google Help: Take notes for me in Google Meet

We have certified additional Lightware peripheral switchers, so that you and your team can bring your own devices (BYOD) to Google Meet on ChromeOS touch controller rooms. The new devices bring improvements for video processing, networking, connectivity and security.

Plug your laptop into a Meet room with a single USB-C cable and easily use the room's display, speaker, microphone, and camera—along with your laptop—for video conferencing.

The integration is extended with the following peripheral switchers:

• Lightware Taurus UCX 4x2 HC60
• Lightware Taurus UCX 4x3 HC60
• Lightware Taurus UCX 4x2 HC60D
• Lightware Taurus UCX 4x3 HC60 BD

This offers the following benefits:

• Seamless transition: Rooms will automatically enter BYOD mode as soon as a user connects their laptop via a certified cable, enabling immediate use of the room's display and high-quality audio and video equipment.
• Meeting continuity: If a Google Meet call is already in progress, connecting a laptop will not interrupt the call or activate BYOD mode. The same cable for BYOD mode can be used during a Google Meet meeting for sharing your screen to the meeting, ensuring a unified meeting experience.
• Enhanced admin control: Administrators will gain new visibility within the Google admin console, allowing them to see when BYOD mode is active in a room and preventing erroneous missing peripheral alerts when a third-party device is in control.

Getting started

• Admins: Visit the Lightware website to learn more.
• End users: Once the integration is installed, use a USB-C cable to use the room displays, audio devices, and camera.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 13, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet ChromeOS hardware devices

Resources

• Lightware site: Lightware landing page for Google Meet solutions
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: BYOD on Google Meet on Chrome OS touch controller rooms

Following our recent general availability launch for web, we are excited to announce that speech translation is now rolling out to the Meet Android and iOS apps. The feature allows audio to be translated to other languages in near-real-time, helping global teams communicate more naturally and removing language barriers.

More details

• Language support: The feature supports bidirectional translation between English and Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian.
• Single language pair per meeting: Currently, only one language pair (e.g., English <-> Spanish) can be active in a meeting at a time.
• Meeting room hardware: Users in conference rooms can hear translations but their own speech will not be translated.
• Ongoing improvements: Users can expect visual updates to the user interface, as well as refinements to translation accuracy and nuance.

Getting started

• Admins: Speech translation will be ON by default and can be disabled/enabled at the organizational unit (OU) level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Speech translation on or off for Meet.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Speech Translation.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 8, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 23, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Other Editions: Frontline Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• AI Add-ons: AI Ultra Access, Google AI Pro for Education

Resources

• Google Help: Learn about Speech Translation
• Keyword: How AI made Meet’s language translation possible

We’re excited to announce Google Meet for Apple CarPlay, allowing on-the-go professionals to stay connected hands-free and join meetings safely while on the road.

With this update, users can now access Google Meet directly from their car's dashboard. This feature is designed to provide a seamless transition from your mobile iOS device to your vehicle, ensuring you never miss an important discussion. Whether you are commuting or traveling between appointments, you can now join meetings with a single tap, view your upcoming schedule, and participate in audio-only calls to maintain focus on driving.

Please note that when you join a meeting, your camera is turned off and you won’t see the incoming video content. You will hear the audio from the meeting and have audio input access from your microphone.

Android Auto users can expect a version of Meet for Android Auto soon.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: This feature will be ON by default for users with the Google Meet app installed on their iPhone. To use it, simply connect your iPhone to a CarPlay-compatible vehicle. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on March 23, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

• Google Help: Use Google Meet with Apple Carplay

Currently, Google Meet video recordings do not allow viewers to download or copy them by default unless the recording owner explicitly allows it. As a result, the "Ask Gemini" functionality within the Drive viewer is also disabled by default for viewers who aren’t file owners.

Starting April 30, 2026, we will change this default for new recordings. From that date forward, recording owners will need to manually restrict this setting for individual recordings if they do not want viewers to be able to download or copy them. This change applies only to future recordings and will not impact existing files.

If you want to keep downloads disabled by default, you must uncheck "Let Users download and copy Meet Recordings" in the Admin console before April 30, 2026. As a reminder, this will restrict Ask Gemini for viewers unless the recording owner takes action to allow downloads.

Getting started

• Admins: Admins can manage this via the new "Meet video settings > Let Users download and copy Meet Recordings" control at the domain, OU, or group level. The new default is to allow users to download and copy Meet Recordings. Admins can change this default at any time. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
• End users: Recording owners retain the ability to manually restrict downloading and copying for individual recordings through the file sharing settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 30, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Plus and Business Standard
• Enterprise: Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Starter
• Education: Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Meet recording on or off for your organization

We’re introducing automatic language detection in Google Meet to help ensure your meeting transcripts, summarized notes, and recorded captions are as accurate as possible.

Meet now intelligently detects the language being spoken during a session one time per-meeting. If the detected language does not match the current meeting language setting, a nudge will appear on-screen for the user. This prompt allows a quick switch to the correct language, restarting the generation of meeting artifacts in the appropriate tongue to maintain record integrity.

Why it matters

As organizations become more global, meetings may be initiated with incorrect default settings. Inaccurate language settings lead to poor quality transcripts and notes that don't reflect the actual conversation. This feature ensures that even if a meeting starts with the wrong language configuration, users can course-correct within seconds to capture every detail accurately.

Getting started

• Admins:
  There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users:
  This feature will be ON by default. When a mismatch is detected, a nudge will appear after approximately 30 seconds of continued speech in the secondary language. Users can select Change language to update the setting or Ignore to dismiss the prompt. The following languages are supported: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains:
  Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 26, 2026

Availability

• Business:
  Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise:
  Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Other Editions:
  Frontline Plus
• Education:
  Google AI Pro for Education
• Consumer:
  Google AI Pro and Ultra

Resources

• Google Help:
  Take notes for me in Google Meet

The new safeguarded guest admit flow assists hosts in meetings when they respond to users who ask to join meetings (also known as ”knocking”). This makes it easier for hosts to handle large volumes of requests and helps reduce the attention and time needed.

Meeting hosts will now get those requests presented in two separate queues. A new second queue now shows requests from connections where the host is more likely to need a closer look before deciding to approve them into the meeting. The default action for entries in this queue is to deny entry.

Hosts/co-hosts still remain in control and are always free to take another action than the default suggested.

New notifications and people panel updates for the improved admit flow

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 24, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 7, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

• Google Help: Add or remove people from a Google Meet meeting or call

We’re introducing a dedicated Meetings section in Google Chat—a new way to organize your conversation list and keep your meeting conversations in one place.

Previously, meeting conversations lived in your direct messages, often making it difficult to find specific project discussions or meeting notes.

You can now group all past and future meeting chats into a single, dedicated section in your conversation list. Once a meeting concludes, the meeting conversation (if used) seamlessly moves into this section, providing a persistent home for ongoing follow-ups.

When the feature becomes available, users may see a promotional in-app banner or tooltip highlighting the new Meetings section and inviting them to enable it to better organize their conversation list.

Once created, the new Meetings section appears as a distinct category in the conversation list, located under Direct Messages and Spaces. It acts as a smart folder that automatically aggregates any continuous meeting conversation in one place. This section can be moved, deleted, or reordered at any time.

Key benefits include:

• Organization: Keeps all meeting related conversations in one place.
• Discoverability: Easily find details from a meeting days after the call has ended.
• Control: This is an optional feature. You decide where the section sits in your conversation list, and you can move individual meeting threads to any custom section you’ve created.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: This feature is off by default and requires user opt-in. To activate this feature, users must go to the three-dot overflow menu found on any section of their conversation list. From the resulting dropdown, they should choose "Create a meeting section" and then click "Create." Once enabled, the section will appear in the conversation list beneath Direct Messages and Spaces, and can be moved or removed at any time. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on March 19, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 2, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

• Google Workspace Updates Blog: New to Google Meet: Continue your conversations in Google Chat
• Google Help: Learn how to use Chat with Google Meet

Last year, we launched the ability to continue your Meet conversations in Chat. That rollout will continue this month, with the release to Scheduled Release domains planned to start the week of March 23. In the meantime, we’re excited to introduce a new admin control for this feature In the Workspace Admin console, under Meet Safety Settings, you’ll now see a continuous meeting chat setting that allows you to configure continuous meeting chat behavior for your organization. You can do the following:

• Set the default state: Choose whether continuous meeting chat is "Default on" or "Default off" for organizational units (OU), configuration groups, or individual users.
• Control host modifications: Choose whether meeting hosts can change this setting ("Hosts can modify") for their individual meetings, or if the default state is locked ("Hosts cannot modify").

Set the continuous meeting chat policy for your organization

This feature gives admins more control to set policy and security preferences in their organization. Now, you can easily:

• Manage feature training at your organization's pace, or address compliance concerns regarding external message retention and data sprawl.
• Ensure all in-meeting messages are retained in Google Chat for a specific period of time to meet legal or internal compliance requirements.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be configured to “Default on” with “Hosts can modify” by default. You can adjust this setting by organizational units (OU), configuration groups, or individual users. Please note that Google Chat must be enabled for your organization to configure continuous meeting chat. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
• End users: Depending on your admin's configuration, meeting hosts can turn continuous meeting chat on or off in the Calendar event video call options before a meeting starts. If your admin chooses "Hosts cannot modify" this host control will not be visible.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Other Editions: Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus; Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage Meet settings (for admins)
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn chat on or off for your organization
• Google Meet Help: Learn how to use Chat with Google Meet
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: New to Google Meet: Continue your conversations in Google Chat

For each video call, Meet attempts to connect the right Calendar event to determine:

• Who receives meeting records (ex. Gemini notes, recordings)
• Who is included in the continuous meeting chat in Google Chat
• Who can join the meeting without having to be manually admitted by the host

Reusing the same meeting code across multiple events can sometimes lead to ambiguity and unexpected behavior such as meeting artifacts being shared with the wrong guests (or no guests at all). We recently announced a change to reduce this ambiguity by stopping automatically copying Meet codes when duplicating Calendar events.

We are now fixing this ambiguity by having each Meet video call be tied to the initial Calendar event where it was created. This gives predictability and transparency about which guests receive notes, messages in Google Chat, recordings and other details from the meeting.

When users manually paste an old meeting code into a new Calendar event, they’ll see a dialog highlighting that the Meet code is still tied to the initial event. Codes created outside of Calendar (like instant meetings from meet.google.com) will remain unlinked.

For example:

• If you reuse the meeting code from an old Calendar (Event A) on a new Calendar (Event B), meeting artifacts will only be shared with the host, co-hosts, and guests of the old Calendar event (Event A), and not guests of the new Calendar event (Event B).
• If you reuse a meeting code created from meet.google.com on a new Calendar event, meeting artifacts will only be shared with the meetings host and co-hosts, and not guests of the new Calendar event.

Warnings shown when reusing a meet code

Additional details

If you use Apple Calendar to create Google Calendar events with a Google Meet meeting code, the code will be updated automatically. This change ensures that each event uses a unique meeting code. Users receive an email informing them about the update.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Changes to behavior when creating Google Calendar event with meeting code in Apple Calendar

• Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 9, 2026

Changes to behavior when reusing meeting code in Google Calendar

• Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 23, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

• Google Help: Learn about meeting codes in Calendar events
• Google Help: Take notes for me in Google Meet
• Google Help: Start or schedule a Google Meet video meeting
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Enhancing meeting privacy for copied Calendar events
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: New to Google Meet: Continue your conversations in Google Chat