Access to certain Meet features may depend on your Google Workspace edition. Google Workspace editions include access to more business-grade services, such as more Meet features. Learn more about premium Meet features.
Consumer or non-Google Workspace editions don't include access to all available Meet features. If you want access to the feature, learn how to get started with Google Workspace.
Learn what basic Meet features are available
Whether you have the consumer or Workspace edition, these basic Meet features are available:
- Start or schedule a video meeting: Create meetings for now or later.
- Join Meet meetings: Take part in meetings created by others.
- Meet in Docs editors and Jamboard on web: Join a Google Meet call from Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Jamboard.
- Meeting participant limit: You can have a maximum of 100 participants in a meeting. Certain Workspace editions may have a higher meeting participant limit.
- Meeting length limits:
- If your meeting is one on one, it has a time limit of 24 hours.
- If your meeting has three or more participants, it has a time limit of one hour.
- Certain Workspace editions can have longer meetings.
- Whiteboarding: During a call, you can leverage the whiteboard feature through Jamboard.
- Join breakout rooms: You can enter a breakout room. However, breakout rooms can only be created by certain Workspace editions.
- Hand raising: You can get the moderator's attention.
- Reactions: You can send emoji reactions.
- Safety controls: Hosts have the ability to end a call and turn off the chat, screen sharing, camera and microphone features for participants.
- On-the-Go mode: You can join meetings while you drive or are on the go.
Troubleshoot feature access
Find features that you should have access to with your Google Workspace editionImportant: Make sure that you sign in with the correct Google Account that can access the feature.
If you can't find a Meet feature that your Google Workspace edition includes, the feature may only have been released to selected users as part of the launch plan. To see if you've received access, check again in a few weeks. Learn what's new in Google Meet.
Some feature access can be turned off in the admin settings. To get access, check with your organisation's admin.
Hosts can also control access to certain features for their meetings.
To indicate that you haven't lost access to the feature, Meet sometimes displays a feature button as disabled. This may be because of your organisation's admin settings or because the use of the feature is unsuitable for certain situations.
