Select a participant from the 'People' tab to mute or pin them.
Pin up to three things in Google Meet
Important: If you use a sign language interpreter, pin the presentation and interpreter at the same time.
You can pin a participant, presentation or up to three items in Google Meet.
To pin meeting participants or presentations:
- Tap the participant or presentation tile.
- At the bottom right of the tile, tap Menu
.
- From the pop-up menu, tap the pin
.
.Tip: You can also double-tap a participant or a presentation's tile to pin it.
To pin a participant or presentation not on the layout:
- Tap the screen.
- At the top right, tap the meeting ID or meeting name.
- Next to the participant or presentation, tap Pin
Optional: To unpin someone, at the bottom right-hand corner of their tile, tap Unpin 
Mute a participant's microphone
If there is feedback or background noise in a meeting, you may want to mute other participants' microphones.
For meetings organised through a personal account, only the meeting moderator can mute other participants.
For meetings organised through a Google Workspace account, a participant from the domain that organised the meeting can mute another participant, if necessary.
For meetings organised through an education account, only meeting creators, calendar event owners or people who set up a meeting on an in-room hardware device can mute other participants.Once in a meeting, to mute a participant:
- At the top left, tap the meeting name.
- On the 'People' tab, next to a participant, tap Menu
Mute
.
Tip: For privacy reasons, you cannot unmute another person. Ask the participant to unmute their audio. To mute or unmute yourself, tap Mute .
Dial-in participants
For paid Google Workspace editions only.
- Phone participants can press *6 to mute or unmute their phone.
- If someone else mutes you, you can only unmute if you press *6.
Turn off video feed from other participants
EligibilityAvailable to all Google Workspace editions, as well as G Suite Basic and Business.
- Business Starter
- Business Standard
- Business Plus
- Education Fundamentals
- Education Standard
- Enterprise Starter
- Enterprise Essentials
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Plus
- Essentials Starter
- Essentials
- Google One subscribers with 2 TB or more storage space
- Teaching and learning upgrade
- Workspace Individual
You can focus your meeting display to just the presenter or hide participants with video feeds that you find distracting.
Important: This only impacts your display.
- On your Google Meet meeting, tap the participant or presentation tile.
- In the bottom right of the tile, tap Menu
.
- From the pop-up menu, tap Don't watch
.
.Tips:
- To turn the video back on, select Start watching
.
- Mobile also has the audio-only setting option, which turns off all video feeds instead of each individual video. To show audio only:
- Click Settings
.
- Under 'Video settings', tap Don't show video in tiles.
