Google Workspace Updates: Google Meet (original) (raw)

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Implement automated compliance recording and transcripts for selected Google Meet users

What’s happening

In order to help organizations, particularly those in the financial services industry, meet strict regulatory archiving requirements, today we are introducing Google Meet Compliance Recording, a new feature that can be enabled by administrators to automatically record meetings and capture transcripts for specific users or groups requiring regulatory monitoring by a registered organization. This feature helps financial firms comply with communication retention and supervision rules mandated by the SEC, FINRA, and the CFTC. It enables firms to retain, monitor, and store digital communications in the required format to adhere to specific regulations like FINRA Rule 3170 and CFTC 17 CFR 1.31. This solution can also be used for other applications, including other global financial services compliance regimes (MiFID II, etc), and for regulatory requirements in other industries like healthcare, public sector, and more. This solution is available as part of the Assured Controls add-on.

In this article, we will refer to users who benefit from the solution as “regulated users”. This can include any persons who need to be monitored to comply with regulatory requirements; registered broker/dealers, compliance officers, broader employees who communicate with the former groups, and more.

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Why this matters

How compliance recording works

Compliance recording is automatic and cannot be disabled by participants once the recording starts.

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Monday, December 8, 2025

Invite external guests to Google Meet live streams or limit access for targeted internal live streaming

What’s changing

Additional access controls for Google Meet will now let hosts decide who can view their live streams. Live streams can now reach a wider audience with added flexibility for events like town halls, webinars, and large presentations. This allows for mixed internal/external audiences and better granularity for hosting restricted internal broadcasts.

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Available for Google Workspace editions that support live stream hosting:

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Monday, December 8, 2025

Meet now automatically opens picture-in-picture when screen sharing

What’s changing

Google Meet now supports automatically opening picture-in-picture when starting a screen share. This will allow you to see your audience while focusing on your presentation content. This feature is an enhancement to picture-in-picture opening automatically when you switch tabs.

In addition to this change, users can now control when picture-in-picture should open automatically from the General tab in Settings. You can choose to:

Note: Automatic picture-in-picture for tab switching requires you to grant permission in your browser once.

End users can choose when to use automatic picture-in-picture in Meet’s settings.

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Friday, December 5, 2025

BYOD on Google Meet on Chrome OS touch controller rooms

What’s changing

We're launching an integration with Lightware peripheral switchers, so that you and your team can bring your own devices (BYOD) to Google Meet on Chrome OS touch controller rooms. Now, you can plug your laptop into a Meet room with a single USB-C cable and easily use the room's display, speaker, microphone, and camera—along with your laptop—for video conferencing. The integration is available with the following peripheral switcher devices:

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This offers the following benefits:

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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Google Meet translated captions now available in Cantonese

What’s happening

We are enhancing the translated captions feature in Google Meet by adding support for Cantonese. This update makes it easier for users to communicate and collaborate across different languages.

For your end users, this means that if a meeting attendee is speaking in Cantonese, or another supported language, Meet can now display real-time translated captions to the language of their choice. This is particularly helpful in large, global organizations or educational institutions where participants may speak different primary languages. Adding Cantonese support ensures smoother communication, better meeting accessibility, and more inclusive participation for teams working in diverse linguistic environments.

This feature allows teams to connect and collaborate more easily, ensuring all voices are heard and understood regardless of location or native language.

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This feature is available for the following Google Workspace editions:

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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Choose your preferred caption language for Meet live streams on mobile devices

What’s changing

Google Meet live stream viewers can select their own preferred language for translated captions on mobile devices. Individual language selection helps overcome language barriers during presentations and events, maximizing each viewer's potential to understand and engage with the content being shared.

Previously, Meet live streams were broadcast to mobile devices with a single target language set for captions, selected by the host when starting the live stream. Now, viewers independently select their own preferred language for translated captions and can also change this setting while watching the live stream.

Choose your preferred caption language for Meet live streams on mobile devices

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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Fine-tune your network for Meet live streaming with extended quality metrics

What’s changing

Meet audit events logged for live stream viewers now contain an extended set of quality metrics. These metrics can help admins understand their viewers' perceived quality when participating in live streams. The quality metrics can be used to identify potential network configuration adjustments that can improve the live streaming experience.

The audit events contain quality metrics about both direct media delivery from Google's servers and peer-assisted media delivery when eCDN is used.

Some examples of the new quality metric fields
Some examples of the new quality metric fields

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Audit events are logged for live stream viewers of all Google Workspace customers. Hosting live streams is available to organizers with an eligible Workspace license, including:

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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

What’s happening

To create a more consistent and secure meeting experience, we're changing what happens when you edit recurring Google Calendar events. Previously, when users modified the start time or recurrence of recurring events and applied the change to "This and following events," the remaining events used the original Google Meet link.

Moving forward, when users modify the start time or recurrence of a recurring event for "This and following events," the remaining events will automatically generate a new, unique Meet link. The original event series will keep the original Meet link. All properties of the Meet conference (for example the host, cohosts, access restriction, recording) are preserved for both Meet links.

This change ensures each new recurring event series gets its own distinct and secure Meet link, which prevents the unintentional reuse of meeting links across separate Calendar events. This is one of multiple updates we’re making to create a more reliable experience for using Meet with Calendar events.

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Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Option for longer meeting notes with “take notes for me” in Google Meet

What’s happening

Meeting participants can now configure the length of their meeting notes when using the "take notes for me" feature in Google Meet. By selecting the "Longer" option from the "Notes Length" menu, you can generate notes that are roughly twice as long as the standard document to help capture all the important details. Turn on longer notes for technical discussions, complex project meetings, or any session where every detail is critical.

Caption: Longer notes can be enabled by selecting “Longer” in Notes Length settings. Alt text: An animation showing the process of selecting the “Longer” option in the Notes Length settings for the “Take notes for me” feature in Google Meet.
Caption: Longer notes can be enabled by selecting “Longer” in Notes Length settings.Alt text: An animation showing the process of selecting the “Longer” option in the Notes Length settings for the “Take notes for me” feature in Google Meet.

Note: This feature is currently only available in English.

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Friday, November 7, 2025

Use a wider range of emoji reactions in Google Meet

What’s changing

Google Meet users now have access to the full emoji library for reactions in Google Meet. Reactions let users engage with the content in a meeting, share meaningful feedback or praise, and celebrate company culture all through emoji.

A user sending Emoji reactions “Heart on fire” and “Party face” from the extended set

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Monday, November 3, 2025

New to Google Meet: Continue your conversations in Google Chat

Update (Dec 4, 2025): We have updated this post to reflect an updated rollout schedule for the feature. The new rollout schedule is:

What’s happening?

Starting November 10, your Google Meet in-meeting messages will be powered by and available in Google Chat.

That means the meaningful feedback that was messaged during the meeting, or key resources and links that were shared are now easily accessible to meeting attendees after the meeting, in a shared Google Chat conversation.

This change brings the power of Google Chat to Meet, creating a richer in-meeting messaging experience. Meeting attendees can now respond to messages with emojis, and share images and files directly in Google Meet. Attendees can send pre-reads and other meeting materials to the group ahead of the meeting in Google Chat, and these resources will be available in Google Meet throughout the call. This launch also consolidates all your messaging and conversations into Google Chat, making it easy to find messages or shared files all in one place.

This change is designed to improve post-meeting follow-through, leading to increased team productivity, and we’re excited for what this will mean for your teams and their collaboration.

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Availability

Available to all Google Workspace business and enterprise customers with the following plans:

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Introducing a new waiting rooms experience in Google Meet

Update (Nov 10): Rollout for this feature has been delayed. We now expect rollout to complete on or before November 21, 2025. The post below has been updated to reflect this timing.

What's happening

We’re introducing waiting rooms in Google Meet, giving you more control over your meetings. As a meeting host or co-host, you can choose to have participants join a waiting room before they join the call.

This feature is designed to prevent meeting interruptions and give you time to prepare before admitting attendees. From the waiting room, participants will see a message letting them know they're in the right place and will be brought into the call shortly. This ensures that everyone joins the meeting at the right time, leading to smoother, more productive discussions.

With this update, hosts and co-hosts can:

This is particularly useful for scenarios like board meetings, interviews, parent-teacher conferences, or client meetings where you may want to speak with participants privately before they join the main group.

Easily enable the waiting room when creating a Google Calendar event.
Easily enable the waiting room when creating a Google Calendar event.
The waiting room provides a clear and welcoming experience for attendees waiting to join.
The waiting room provides a clear and welcoming experience for attendees waiting to join.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Ask Gemini in Google Meet coming to Workspace enterprise customers

What’s happening

Last month, we announced that Ask Gemini in Meet was starting to roll out for select Workspace customers. Today, the experience is now rolling out to Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus domains.

You can use Ask Gemini to:

Ask Gemini in Meet brings the power of Gemini into your organization’s meetings. Acting as a personal assistant, it can help make meetings more productive and more efficient.

Gemini in Google Meet

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After this rollout completes, Ask Gemini in Meet will be available for the following Google Workspace customers:

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Monday, October 13, 2025

AI-powered makeup in Google Meet

What’s happening

Last year, we introduced Touch-up in Google Meet on the web to give users more control over their appearance in video calls. We’ve been working to help everyone better express their personal style on every call, and we’re excited to expand the feature with AI-powered makeup.

Now you can choose from 12 new studio makeup looks, with a range of options from a polished, professional touch to a more expressive flair. Your AI-powered makeup remains seamless and untouched—even through everyday movements like sipping your coffee or touching your face. Below, you can see the feature’s product lead Daniela demonstrate how AI-powered makeup matches her unique features and remains natural-looking when she moves.

Google Product Manager Daniela uses makeup in Meet on web

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Makeup in Meet on mobile device

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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Google Meet live captions are expanding to Cantonese

What’s happening

We’re adding support for Cantonese to Google Meet’s live caption feature. This allows users to view real-time text of what is being spoken in the meeting, making it easier to follow along and participate.

This update directly enhances accessibility and inclusion for your organization’s users who speak Cantonese, ensuring that important discussions, presentations, and training sessions are fully accessible and understood by all participants, regardless of their hearing ability or connectivity.

When a Cantonese speaker is talking in Google Meet, their words will now appear instantly as captions on the screen.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Set timers in Google Meet on the web

What’s changing

You can now create meeting timers in the Google Meet sidebar. Host/Co-hosts can manage the timer if host controls are on. If the host controls are off, anyone in the meeting can manage it. Once the timer is started, it will be visible to all meeting participants. You can also pause or cancel the timer once it starts.

Timers can be a valuable tool in online meetings for improving focus, managing time effectively, and ensuring equitable participation. By providing a visible, shared sense of time, they help structure the meeting and drive productivity.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Create custom, AI-generated meeting backgrounds on Mobile devices

What’s changing

You can now create custom background images with Gemini from your Android or iOS device. Meeting backgrounds can help obscure your surroundings during a meeting or they can enhance the meeting itself, and now you can take advantage of this feature whether you’re joining a meeting from Google Meet on the web or on mobile devices.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Enable 'take notes for me' in Calendar, ahead of your meeting

What’s changing

Taking notes during meetings is crucial for tracking action items and key decisions, but it can be a tedious task. With our Gemini-powered “Take notes for me”, you can stay fully engaged in the conversation while ensuring nothing gets missed.

We’re making it even easier to have Gemini take notes for you. Event organizers can now enable Take notes for me when scheduling the event or preparing their meeting in Calendar.

This update gives you peace of mind, ensuring that even for your most critical meetings, you'll have a complete set of notes automatically generated and shared, without needing to think about it once the meeting begins.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Meet eCDN custom rules improvements for new and existing configurations

What's changing

In order to improve the experience of admins managing Google Meet’s Enterprise Content Delivery Network (Meet eCDN) rules, we’re updating how the “Custom Rules” peering policy works in some cases, and how assigned networks are surfaced in the MQT eCDN network table. Understanding these changes will allow customers to make full use of those improvements.

Overlapping IP ranges

Please note you will only see this change if you have defined overlapping IP ranges. For example, if you have defined a large range that’s allowed but including some smaller ranges that should be blocked within it. If you have non-overlapping ranges only, you won’t be affected by this change.

Viewers with the “custom rules” peering policy will be matched against a list of IP ranges and their respective peering configuration (allowed or blocked). This is done by checking all listed ranges in order from top to bottom. Previously, any blocking match would supersede an allowing match, even if the allowing match came first. We’re removing the priority for blocking changes to simplify how matches are determined.

Example for a viewer with private IP address 10.0.0.30:

Scenario 1:

Viewer 1 private IP: 10.0.0.30

Viewer 2 private IP: 11.0.0.30

Custom rules list:

Fallback policy: blocked

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Scenario 2:

Viewer 1 private IP: 10.0.0.30

Viewer 2 private IP: 11.0.0.30

Custom rules list:

Fallback policy: blocked

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Scenario 3:

Custom rules list:

Fallback policy: blocked

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Please note that smaller IP ranges should be listed before large ranges containing them (top-to-bottom).

Multiple private IP addresses are now supported

Please note that the following change will only materialize if your viewers’ devices have multiple private IP addresses configured on their network interfaces (typically one IPv4 and one IPv6 address).

Previously, eCDN clients would detect their private IP address and always prioritize IPv4 over IPv6. Also, only a single IP address could be detected and sent for matching against custom rules. We’re changing this so that all private IPs configured on the device’s interfaces will be used for matching. To ensure top-to-bottom evaluation, the first rule matching any detected private IP addresses will be used.

Renaming Random peering policy

The policy previously called Random peering policy is now called Testing peering policy. This policy is primarily intended for test purposes and is not designed to provide full performance in production.

Meet Quality Tool improvements

Viewers with the Testing peering policy will now be represented in the Meet Quality Tool eCDN table. Previously this table would only show viewers per configured network if the Custom Rules peering policy was used.

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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Ask Gemini in Meet: Your Personal Meeting Assistant

What’s changing

Ask Gemini in Meet will soon be available in Google Meet for select Google Workspace customers, offering advanced features to improve your meeting experience.

You can use Ask Gemini to:

Additional details

Getting started

Meet homepage disclosure in conference rooms

Pre-meeting disclosure on desktop

In-meeting disclosure shown to all meeting participants on desktop

Hosts will be able to disable Gemini in the meeting, as well as prior to it

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