Start or schedule a Google Meet video meeting

You can set up or start a new Google Meet video meeting from:

Meet
Gmail
Google Calendar
Google Chat (mobile only)
Another scheduling system

Tip: To make sure that you don't join a meeting with an expired code, and to plan better for the future meetings that you create, check when meeting codes will expire. Learn about meeting codes in Google Meet.

Get the Google Meet app

Go to the App Store.
Download and install the Google Meet app .
To open the app on your device, tap the Google Meet app .

Calls are synchronised, so you can start a video meeting on one device and continue on another.

Create a meeting in the Google Meet app

Make sure that you have the latest version of the Meet app.

Learn to create or join instant meetings in Google Meet

Open the Meet app .
In the bottom right-hand corner, tap New .
Tap Create link .
- To share a meeting link, select an option:
  - Copy
    - You can email or text the link.
  - Share
- To join a meeting that you created, tap Join meeting .

Schedule a meeting in the Google Meet app

Schedule and join meetings with Google Meet

Open the Meet app .
In the bottom right-hand corner, tap New .
Tap Schedule .
- When you tap this option, the Google Calendar app opens an event where you can edit details such as the event's title, time and guest list. Learn how to create an event in Google Calendar.
At the top right, tap Save.
Use the back button to return to the Google Meet app .
Access the meeting:
- In the Meet app home screen
- Through the meeting link in your calendar event

Schedule a video meeting from the Google Calendar app

Open the Google Calendar app .
Tap Event.
Add guests.
Tap Done Save.

Control meeting access with host controls

Use host controls to manage who can join your meetings.

In Google Calendar, select an event.
At the bottom, tap More Host controls.
In the 'Host controls' tab, under 'Meeting access', choose a Meeting access type:
- Open: Anyone with a meeting link can join your meetings. No one has to knock.
- Trusted: Anyone within the host's organisation can join without knocking. Anyone outside the organisation, but invited through a Google Calendar event, can join without knocking. Everybody else must knock.
- Restricted: Anyone invited through a Google Calendar event or from within the meeting by a host can join. Everyone else must knock.
  - Not available for consumer users.
Optional: To choose if you must join the meeting before anyone else, turn on 'Host must join before anyone else'.
At the top left, tap Close .

Tip: Settings are at the meeting level, so different meetings can have different meeting access options. Recurring meetings keep the same settings as the first meeting.

Learn about default settings

Enterprise users: All new meetings are set to 'Trusted' and your guests can join before you by default.
Education users: New meetings created through Google Classroom are set to 'Restricted' and your guests can't join before you. All other new meetings are set to 'Trusted' and your guests can join before you by default.
Consumer users: All new meetings are set to 'Trusted' and your guests can join before you by default. Anyone invited through a Google Calendar invitation is considered 'Trusted'.

Start a video meeting directly from Gmail or Chat

Start a video meeting directly from Gmail or Chat.

Turn on Everyone is a viewer:

On your iPhone or iPad, open Google Calendar.
Create a new meeting and add guests.
In the Google Calendar meeting invitation, open Host controls .
Turn on Host management.
In the 'Guests' tab, turn on Everyone is a viewer by default.
Optional: Add contributors.
- To add contributors, add guests to the invite.
- Tip: If their email isn't displayed, make sure that they're first added to the invite.

Learn how to assign view-only role in Google Meet.