Join a meeting

As a personal account user, you can join:

• All meetings you’re invited to by personal accounts users, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and Google One Subscribers.
• Some meetings you're invited to by other Google Workspace Account users.
  • Tip: Admins of certain Workspace users can restrict you from joining meetings.

As a Google One Subscriber, you can join:

• All meetings you’re invited to by personal accounts users, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and Google One Subscribers.
• Some meetings you're invited to by other Google Workspace Account users.
  • Tip: Admins of certain Workspace users can restrict you from joining meetings.

As a Workspace Individual Subscriber, you can join:

• All meetings you're invited to by personal account users, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and Google One Subscribers.
• Some meetings you're invited to by other Google Workspace Account users.
  • Tip: Admins of certain Workspace users can restrict you from joining meetings.

As a Google Workspace for Education user, your Google Workspace admin controls what meetings you can join. By default, you can join any meeting a Google Workspace user who isn't a Workspace Individual Subscriber organizes, but your admin can change it to one of the following:

• Only join meetings organized by someone in your organization.
• Join meetings organized by all users.

As a Google Workspace user, your Google Workspace admin controls what meetings you can join. By default, you can join any meeting a Google Workspace user, personal account user, Workspace Individual Subscriber, or a Google One Subscriber organizes, unless your admin restricts it to one of the following:

• Only join meetings organized by someone in your organization.
• Only join meetings organized by Google Workspace users.
  • Tip: This does not include Workspace Individual Subscribers.

As a personal account user, anyone can join your meetings. This includes anyone:

• Signed into a personal, Google One, or Workspace Individual Account.
• In a chat room where the meeting link was created.
• In a Google Workspace organization whose admins allow them.
  • Tip: Some Workspace admins might restrict their users from joining meetings organized by you.
• Not signed into a Google Account.
  • Tip: They must knock to be let into the meeting.

As a Google One Subscriber, anyone can join your meetings. This includes anyone:

• Signed into a personal, Google One, or Workspace Individual Account.
• In a chat room where the meeting link was created.
• In a Google Workspace organization whose admins allow them.
  • Tip: Some Workspace admins might restrict their users from joining meetings organized by you.
• Not signed into a Google Account.
  • Tip: They must knock to be let into the meeting.

As a Workspace Individual user, anyone can join your meetings. This includes anyone:

• Signed into a personal, Google One, or Workspace Individual Account.
• In a chat room where the meeting link was created.
• Who dials in by phone.
• In a Google Workspace organization whose admins allow them.
  • Tip: Some Workspace admins might restrict their users from joining meetings organized by you.
• Not signed into a Google Account.
  • Tip: They must knock to be let into the meeting.

Important: By default, only users in your organization or anyone who dials in with a phone can join your meetings.

Your Google Workspace admin can change who joins your meetings to one of the following:

• [Default] Only users in your organization or anyone who dials in with a phone.
• Anyone signed in with a Google Account or anyone who dials in with a phone.
• Everyone, even users not signed in with a Google Account.

Important: By default, all users can join your meetings. This includes users not signed into a Google Account.

Your Google Workspace admin can change who joins your meetings to one of the following:

• Only users in your organization or anyone who dials in with a phone.
• Anyone signed in with a Google Account or anyone who dials in with a phone.
• [Default] Everyone, even users not signed in with a Google Account.

Find your scheduled meetings in Calendar and quickly join a video meeting.

1. In the Google Calendar app, open the event.
2. Tap Join with Google Meet.

If your Google Workspace administrator allows it, you can also join from other video conferencing systems. Learn more about setting up interoperability.

You can join a video meeting using the Google Meet app. You can use the Google Meet app with any Google account, such as a Google Workspace account or an @gmail.com account.

Tip: A chime sounds as the first 5 people join. After that, new participants are muted.

1. Open the Google Meet app .
   • Tip: Meetings scheduled through Google Calendar appear on Google Meet under "Meetings".
2. Tap a meeting from the list Join.

Every Google Meet video meeting has a code that you can use to join the meeting. The meeting code is a series of characters, such as abc-defg-hjk. You can get the meeting code from the joining information that was sent to you or at the end of the meeting link.

For Google Workspace users: A nickname is a meaningful phrase, such as our-meeting. You can pick any nickname and share it with other people in your organization as a quick way to all join the same meeting.

1. Open the Google Meet app .
2. Tap the search bar  Enter a Meet Code.
3. Enter the meeting code or nickname.

   Tip: The hyphens in the meeting code are optional.

4. Tap Join.
5. (Optional) Depending on whether you're joining from a different organization or signed in to a Google Workspace account, choose an option:
   • Select Ask to Join.
   • Enter your name and tap Ask to Join.

Sometimes there isn’t enough time to schedule a meeting and book a room. With Google Meet, you can join an impromptu video meeting by clicking the meeting link URL sent to you in a text or email.

1. Tap the meeting link sent to you via text or email.
2. Follow the onscreen prompts to join.

Important: You can only dial into meetings with a phone if the meeting is organized by a Google Workspace user.

A phone number is added only if administrators turn on the dial-in feature.

If your Google Workspace administrator allows, you can dial in for audio-only access to a Meet video meeting up to 15 minutes before the meeting starts until it ends. If someone is already in the meeting and grants access, you can join sooner.

You can be in a different organization or have a different Google Workspace edition from the event organizer. If you’re in the organizer's corporate directory, participants find your name in the meeting if not they find only a partial phone number.

• Other participants should always verify that the person who dials in is the correct participant.
• Anyone who dials in counts toward the maximum limit.
• Regular call charges apply.

Tip:  If you try to dial in to a meeting before it starts you might get an error that the PIN is not recognized.

You can dial in during the scheduled meeting time using one of the following methods:

• Enter the phone number that’s in the Google Calendar event or meeting invitation.
  Then, enter the PIN and #.
• From the Meet or Calendar app, tap the phone number.
  The PIN is automatically entered.

All Google Workspace editions include a US phone number. G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, Google Workspace Essentials, Enterprise, and Education Plus editions also support international numbers in Meet video meetings. 

If your organization turns on Meet Global Dialing, more international numbers are available. Long distance and usage charges from your phone carrier may apply. 

You're muted if another meeting participant mutes you or if you:

• Press *6.
• Have your phone's volume at the lowest level.
• Join after the 5th participant.

Press *6 again or increase the volume to unmute.

For a complete list of countries, read Supported countries for dialing in.

If your organization allows it, you can join meetings from third-party devices.

For administrator setup details, see Allow 3rd party devices to join Meet calls.

Zoom Rooms devices

To join a Google Meet call from a Zoom Rooms device, choose an option:

• Tap the event on your device’s calendar if the meeting was scheduled ahead of time.
• Tap the Google Meet icon and enter the meeting code.

Cisco Webex devices

To join a Google Meet call from a Cisco Webex device, choose an option:

• Tap the event on your device’s calendar if the meeting was scheduled ahead of time.
• Tap the Google Meet icon and enter the meeting code.

Other third-party systems using Pexip

Tip: To join video meetings from third-party video conferencing systems, your Google Workspace administrator needs to have interoperability turned on.

1. In the Calendar app, open the event or meeting invite.
2. Follow the instructions to join from the third party conferencing system.

If you join from a third-party system, you can’t use Meet to control functions, such as your camera or microphone. Instead, use the third-party controls. For example, you can’t take the following actions from your third-party system:

• See or write in-meeting chat.
• Start or stop Meet recordings.
• Admit or block other participants.
• Mute or unmute other participants.

Other Meet participants cannot mute your room.

You don't need a Google Account to participate in Meet video meetings. However, if you don’t have a Google Account, the meeting organizer or someone from the organization must grant you access to the meeting.

Join a video meeting with a meeting link

Join a video meeting from Google Meet