You can present a tab, a specific window, or entire screen in a meeting. While you present, you can share information such as documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.
Tips:
- If you want to share audio from your presentation, you must present a tab and have “Also share tab audio” toggled on.
- Sharing your screen may be disabled for you due to admin settings (if you're part of a Workspace organization) or meeting host controls.
- On your computer, when you click Present in the greenroom before you join a meeting, you join in Companion mode. When you use this option, your mic and speaker are unavailable.
- You can use picture-in-picture mode to concurrently present and find your audience. Learn how to use picture-in-picture mode.
Important: When you go to Google Meet and click Present in the green room, before you join a meeting, you join in Companion mode. When you use this option, your mic and speaker are unavailable.
Prompt shows up when I present or record in meetings on macOS Sequoia
If you've recently updated to macOS Sequoia, you’ll receive a cautionary prompt when you first attempt to record a meeting or share your screen.
Here’s what you can do:
- To allow Google Chrome to access your screen:
- When you start a presentation or recording in a meeting, in the dialog, click Allow.
- If you missed the initial dialog to allow permissions, you’ll need to update your system settings.
- To add Google Chrome, give control access to screen and system audio recording on Mac.
Alternatively, to test the new frictionless experience:
- Update Chrome to version 129 or up.
- On your Mac, open the Terminal.
- Enter:
open -b com.google.Chrome --args --enable-features=UseSCContentSharingPicker. - To execute the command, on your keyboard, press Enter.
- Optional: Enable the flag in Chrome.
- In the address bar, enter:
chrome://flags. - Search for the flag “Use ScreenCaptureKit picker for stream selection.”
- Next to the flag, click the Down arrow
Enabled.
- Restart Chrome.
- In the address bar, enter:
Enabled.Tip: To avoid this issue, you can delay the update to macOS Sequoia until macOS 15.1 releases.
Present during a video meeting
Tip: There can be a maximum of 10 simultaneous presentations in a meeting at a time.
- Join a Meet video meeting.
- At the bottom, click Present now
.
- Select A tab, A window, or Your entire screen.
- If you present a Chrome tab, it shares that tab's audio by default.
- To present a different tab:
- Select the tab that you want to present.
- On the banner, click Share this tab instead.
- If you present a Slides presentation through a tab, you can control it in Meet.
- Click Share.
- Optional: To unpin your presentation and show it as a tile, click Unpin
. You can now find more participants while you present.
.Tips:
- If your camera is turned on, your video is active while you're presenting.
- For better presentations and to prevent mirroring, share a new window or a specific tab instead of the meeting window.
- To share your audio, you must select Share a Chrome tab or Share this tab.
Scroll & zoom while you present
When you start to present, you can scroll and zoom within the presentation tile.
- To change the preset zoom levels, click Zoom out
or Zoom in
.
- Your screen zooms to 80% within the presentation. You can also use one of the existing presets:
- Existing presets: 25%, 33%, 50%, 66%, 75%, 80%, 90%, 100%, 110%, 125%, 150%, 175%, 200%, 250%, 300%, 400%, 500%.
- Your screen zooms to 80% within the presentation. You can also use one of the existing presets:
.
Stop presenting
- In the Meet window, click Stop Presenting.
- At the bottom right, click You are presenting
Stop presenting.
Stop presenting.Present if someone else is already presenting
- At the bottom, click Present now.
- Select Your entire screen, A window, or Chrome Tab.
- Select Present instead.
Tip: If you start to present during someone else's presentation, their presentation will pause.
Present to Google Meet from Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides
Important: You must use a computer and a Chrome browser to present directly to Google Meet from Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
You can present directly to Google Meet from Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides. This can make it easier to present a document, sheet, or slideshow at a meeting. Before you present, join the meeting to know if it's being recorded. Learn how to use Google Meet with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Jamboard.
Share files you present
As you present, you can share access to the file when someone needs it. You can only share Docs, Sheets, or Slides files.
Important: To check share suggestions, you must use the Chrome or Edge browser and not be in Incognito mode.
- A sharing suggestion only appears if you select “Present a tab” as the sharing mode.
- You can grant access to the file and attach the file to the meeting’s Calendar event.
- Meeting attendees get a notification that:
- You shared the file.
- The link is shared in the meeting’s chat.
Share during the presentation
- Click Share in Meet chat
.
- Select an option:
- If all participants have access to the file, the link is shared in the Meet chat and attached to the Calendar event.
- If a participant doesn’t have access to the file, you’re notified with a pop-up. Click Share in Meet chat.
- The file is shared in the Meet chat and attached to the Calendar event.
Tip: To not attach a file to an event, in the pop-up, uncheck “Attach the file to the Calendar event.”
Share in Meet chat
- During or after the presentation, open Meet chat
.
- Click Share {filename}.
- If all participants have access to the file, the link appears in the Meet chat.
- Click Send
.
- If a participant doesn’t have access to the file, you’re notified with a pop-up. Click Share in Meet chat.
- The file is shared in the Meet chat.
Use premium features in Google Meet
Use Annotations in Google Meet
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Co-present slides in Google Meet
When you use Google Meet on an eligible work or school account, you can control Google Slides presentations from within a video meeting. You can also make other people in the video meeting co-presenters. Learn how to co-present slides in Google Meet.