Google Meet Release Notes

Automatic room check-in via ultrasound proximity detection

To simplify the process of joining meetings for those using companion mode on a phone or tablet within a conference room, we're introducing automatic room check-in via ultrasound proximity detection. To automatically check you in, the green room uses your phone or tablet’s microphone to detect an...

New toggle for auto-start of “Take notes for me”

We’re introducing a new toggle that lets users choose whether they want to have “Take notes for me” start automatically any time they are hosting a meeting. Previously, meeting hosts had to manually enable “Take notes for me” when they scheduled a call. Hosts and select participants could also...

Google Meet Speech Translation

Google Meet Speech Translation allows translation in near-real time, bridging language barriers across users and organizations. The feature is currently available in alpha but will launch more broadly in beta on January 27, 2026. Starting today, admins will see a setting to control this feature in...

Feature

Meet API

Developer Preview: Subscriptions are now available for the following smartNotes events:

• google.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.started
• google.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.ended
• google.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.fileGenerated

For details, see Subscribe to Google Meet events in the Google Workspace Events API documentation.

For information on how to receive Google Meet events from Google Cloud Pub/Sub, see Respond to events from Google Meet.

What’s happening

Sharing your screen is an essential part of collaborating and presenting in Google Meet. Often, you may also want to share audio as part of your presentation. We’re excited to announce that you can now share your device audio when presenting a specific window or your entire screen....

What’s changing

What’s changing We are introducing Silent Test mode, a new offering that lets you run a large-scale eCDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Network) test with your users and devices, across your entire network, while minimizing any risk of impacting the viewer experience.Google Meet eCDN provides...

What’s changing

Presenters will now be able to share stereo sound when presenting content with stereo audio in Google Meet. During virtual meetings, presenters often share content with audio, such as music before a meeting starts, videos for review or discussion during the meeting, and more. Now,...

Feature

Meet API

Developer Preview: Available as part of the Developer Preview Program, which grants early access to certain features.

You can now retrieve smart notes files in a conference record using the get and list methods on the smartNotes resource.

For details, see Work with artifacts.

What’s happening

In order to help organizations, particularly those in the financial services industry, meet strict regulatory archiving requirements, today we are introducing Google Meet Compliance Recording, a new feature that can be enabled by administrators to automatically record meetings and...

What’s changing

Google Meet now supports automatically opening picture-in-picture when starting a screen share. This will allow you to see your audience while focusing on your presentation content. This feature is an enhancement to picture-in-picture opening automatically when you switch tabs. In...