View a live stream

Important:

•  To view a live stream, you must be in the same organization as the meeting organizer or identified by the Workspace Admin as a Trusted Workspace sub-domain. Reach out to your Workspace Admins to set up Cross Domain live streaming.
• As a live stream viewer, you can’t turn on or enable your camera or microphone on the live stream.

Tip: To watch the event later, ask the meeting organizer if a recording is available. The live stream can only be watched while being aired live.

Watch a live stream event

To watch a live stream event, you can:

• Click the live stream link from an email or in the event details on the Google Calendar app .
• Click the meeting link in the Google Meet app . In the green room and under “Other joining options,” select Watch the live stream .

When you watch a live stream event on mobile, you can:

• Add captions.
• Switch to full-screen mode.
• Use Reactions in Google Meet.
• Conduct polls in Google Meet.
• Ask participants questions in Google Meet.

Enable captions on your live stream

The language of the live stream captions are predetermined by the host.

To display captions:

• On the live stream viewer, at the bottom, click Turn on captions or Turn off captions .

Related resources

• Live stream a video meeting for hosts
• Fix live stream issues