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We have certified additional Lightware peripheral switchers, so that you and your team can bring your own devices (BYOD) to Google Meet on ChromeOS touch controller rooms. The new devices bring improvements for video processing, networking, connectivity and security.

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 extended with the following peripheral switchers:

  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x2 HC60
  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x3 HC60
  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x2 HC60D
  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x3 HC60 BD

This offers the following benefits:

  • Seamless transition: Rooms will automatically enter BYOD mode as soon as a user connects their laptop via a certified cable, enabling immediate use of the room's display and high-quality audio and video equipment.
  • Meeting continuity: If a Google Meet call is already in progress, connecting a laptop will not interrupt the call or activate BYOD mode. The same cable for BYOD mode can be used during a Google Meet meeting for sharing your screen to the meeting, ensuring a unified meeting experience.
  • Enhanced admin control: Administrators will gain new visibility within the Google admin console, allowing them to see when BYOD mode is active in a room and preventing erroneous missing peripheral alerts when a third-party device is in control.

Getting started

  • Admins: Visit the Lightware website to learn more.
  • End users: Once the integration is installed, use a USB-C cable to use the room displays, audio devices, and camera.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet ChromeOS hardware devices

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Following our recent general availability launch for web, we are excited to announce that speech translation is now rolling out to the Meet Android and iOS apps. The feature allows audio to be translated to other languages in near-real-time, helping global teams communicate more naturally and removing language barriers.


More details
  • Language support: The feature supports bidirectional translation between English and Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian.
  • Single language pair per meeting: Currently, only one language pair (e.g., English <-> Spanish) can be active in a meeting at a time. 
  • Meeting room hardware: Users in conference rooms can hear translations but their own speech will not be translated. 
  • Ongoing improvements: Users can expect visual updates to the user interface, as well as refinements to translation accuracy and nuance.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability 

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • AI Add-ons: AI Ultra Access, Google AI Pro for Education

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We’re excited to announce Google Meet for Apple CarPlay, allowing on-the-go professionals to stay connected hands-free and join meetings safely while on the road.

With this update, users can now access Google Meet directly from their car's dashboard. This feature is designed to provide a seamless transition from your mobile iOS device to your vehicle, ensuring you never miss an important discussion. Whether you are commuting or traveling between appointments, you can now join meetings with a single tap, view your upcoming schedule, and participate in audio-only calls to maintain focus on driving.

Please note that when you join a meeting, your camera is turned off and you won’t see the incoming video content. You will hear the audio from the meeting and have audio input access from your microphone.

Android Auto users can expect a version of Meet for Android Auto soon.

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This feature will be ON by default for users with the Google Meet app installed on their iPhone. To use it, simply connect your iPhone to a CarPlay-compatible vehicle. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

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Currently, Google Meet video recordings do not allow viewers to download or copy them by default unless the recording owner explicitly allows it. As a result, the "Ask Gemini" functionality within the Drive viewer is also disabled by default for viewers who aren’t file owners.

Starting April 30, 2026, we will change this default for new recordings. From that date forward, recording owners will need to manually restrict this setting for individual recordings if they do not want viewers to be able to download or copy them. This change applies only to future recordings and will not impact existing files.

If you want to keep downloads disabled by default, you must uncheck "Let Users download and copy Meet Recordings" in the Admin console before April 30, 2026. As a reminder, this will restrict Ask Gemini for viewers unless the recording owner takes action to allow downloads.

Getting started

  • Admins: Admins can manage this via the new "Meet video settings > Let Users download and copy Meet Recordings" control at the domain, OU, or group level. The new default is to allow users to download and copy Meet Recordings. Admins can change this default at any time. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
  • End users: Recording owners retain the ability to manually restrict downloading and copying for individual recordings through the file sharing settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Plus and Business Standard
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Starter
  • Education: Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade

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We’re introducing automatic language detection in Google Meet to help ensure your meeting transcripts, summarized notes, and recorded captions are as accurate as possible.

Meet now intelligently detects the language being spoken during a session one time per-meeting. If the detected language does not match the current meeting language setting, a nudge will appear on-screen for the user. This prompt allows a quick switch to the correct language, restarting the generation of meeting artifacts in the appropriate tongue to maintain record integrity.

Why it matters
As organizations become more global, meetings may be initiated with incorrect default settings. Inaccurate language settings lead to poor quality transcripts and notes that don't reflect the actual conversation. This feature ensures that even if a meeting starts with the wrong language configuration, users can course-correct within seconds to capture every detail accurately.

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This feature will be ON by default. When a mismatch is detected, a nudge will appear after approximately 30 seconds of continued speech in the secondary language. Users can select Change language to update the setting or Ignore to dismiss the prompt. The following languages are supported: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus
  • Education: Google AI Pro for Education
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra

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The new safeguarded guest admit flow assists hosts in meetings when they respond to users who ask to join meetings (also known as ”knocking”). This makes it easier for hosts to handle large volumes of requests and helps reduce the attention and time needed.

Meeting hosts will now get those requests presented in two separate queues. A new second queue now shows requests from connections where the host is more likely to need a closer look before deciding to approve them into the meeting. The default action for entries in this queue is to deny entry.

Hosts/co-hosts still remain in control and are always free to take another action than the default suggested.

New notifications and people panel updates for the improved admit flow

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

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We’re introducing a dedicated Meetings section in Google Chat—a new way to organize your conversation list and keep your meeting conversations in one place.

Previously, meeting conversations lived in your direct messages, often making it difficult to find specific project discussions or meeting notes.

You can now group all past and future meeting chats into a single, dedicated section in your conversation list. Once a meeting concludes, the meeting conversation (if used) seamlessly moves into this section, providing a persistent home for ongoing follow-ups.

When the feature becomes available, users may see a promotional in-app banner or tooltip highlighting the new Meetings section and inviting them to enable it to better organize their conversation list.

Image depicts a user selecting "Try it" from the promotional prompt to initiate the new Meetings section

Once created, the new Meetings section appears as a distinct category in the conversation list, located under Direct Messages and Spaces. It acts as a smart folder that automatically aggregates any continuous meeting conversation in one place. This section can be moved, deleted, or reordered at any time.

Image depicts the newly created Meeting section under Direct Messages and Spaces in the conversation list

Key benefits include:

  • Organization: Keeps all meeting related conversations in one place.
  • Discoverability: Easily find details from a meeting days after the call has ended.
  • Control: This is an optional feature. You decide where the section sits in your conversation list, and you can move individual meeting threads to any custom section you’ve created.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be configured to “Default on” with “Hosts can modify” by default. You can adjust this setting by organizational units (OU), configuration groups, or individual users. Please note that Google Chat must be enabled for your organization to configure continuous meeting chat. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
  • End users: This feature is off by default and requires user opt-in. To activate this feature, users must go to the three-dot overflow menu found on any section of their conversation list. From the resulting dropdown, they should choose "Create a meeting section" and then click "Create." Once enabled, the section will appear in the conversation list  beneath Direct Messages and Spaces, and can be moved or removed at any time. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
Image depicts a user going to the 3 dot overflow to manually create the meeting section.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

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[Update - March 24, 2026] This setting is currently available to administrators with the Super Admin role only. It will roll out to admins with the Manage Meet Settings privilege (including the Services Admin role) in the coming days; we expect it to be available to all Services Admins by the end of the week.

Last year, we launched the ability to continue your Meet conversations in Chat. That rollout will continue this month, with the release to Scheduled Release domains planned to start the week of March 23. In the meantime, we’re excited to introduce a new admin control for this feature In the Workspace Admin console, under Meet Safety Settings, you’ll now see a continuous meeting chat setting that allows you to configure continuous meeting chat behavior for your organization. You can do the following:

  • Set the default state: Choose whether continuous meeting chat is "Default on" or "Default off" for organizational units (OU), configuration groups, or individual users.
  • Control host modifications: Choose whether meeting hosts can change this setting ("Hosts can modify") for their individual meetings, or if the default state is locked ("Hosts cannot modify").

Set the continuous meeting chat policy for your organization


This feature gives admins more control to set policy and security preferences in their organization. Now, you can easily:

  • Manage feature training at your organization's pace, or address compliance concerns regarding external message retention and data sprawl.
  • Ensure all in-meeting messages are retained in Google Chat for a specific period of time to meet legal or internal compliance requirements.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be configured to “Default on” with “Hosts can modify” by default. You can adjust this setting by organizational units (OU), configuration groups, or individual users. Please note that Google Chat must be enabled for your organization to configure continuous meeting chat. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
  • End users: Depending on your admin's configuration, meeting hosts can turn continuous meeting chat on or off in the Calendar event video call options before a meeting starts. If your admin chooses "Hosts cannot modify" this host control will not be visible.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus; Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits

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For each video call, Meet attempts to connect the right Calendar event to determine:

Reusing the same meeting code across multiple events can sometimes lead to ambiguity and unexpected behavior such as meeting artifacts being shared with the wrong guests (or no guests at all). We recently announced a change to reduce this ambiguity by stopping automatically copying Meet codes when duplicating Calendar events.

We are now fixing this ambiguity by having each Meet video call be tied to the initial Calendar event where it was created. This gives predictability and transparency about which guests receive notes, messages in Google Chat, recordings and other details from the meeting.

When users manually paste an old meeting code into a new Calendar event, they’ll see a dialog highlighting that the Meet code is still tied to the initial event. Codes created outside of Calendar (like instant meetings from meet.google.com) will remain unlinked.

For example:

  • If you reuse the meeting code from an old Calendar (Event A) on a new Calendar (Event B), meeting artifacts will only be shared with the host, co-hosts, and guests of the old Calendar event (Event A), and not guests of the new Calendar event (Event B).
  • If you reuse a meeting code created from meet.google.com on a new Calendar event, meeting artifacts will only be shared with the meetings host and co-hosts, and not guests of the new Calendar event.

Warnings shown when reusing a meet code

Additional details
If you use Apple Calendar to create Google Calendar events with a Google Meet meeting code, the code will be updated automatically. This change ensures that each event uses a unique meeting code. Users receive an email informing them about the update.

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Changes to behavior when creating Google Calendar event with meeting code in Apple Calendar
Changes to behavior when reusing meeting code in Google Calendar

Availability

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

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Google Meet Audit event logging for endpoints will now also include the permission type used to grant access to join a meeting.

For some endpoint types, additional information will be logged in addition to the join permission type:

  • For users who asked to join a meeting, the audit event will show which of the other meeting participants admitted them
  • For meeting room hardware devices that joined a client-side encrypted meeting, the audit event will show which user logged in to grant the room access through delegated authentication

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers

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*Note: This update only applies to customers who participate in the Gemini Alpha program for Workspace.

To help users remember to get notes for meetings where it is most valuable, we are developing new settings for ‘Take notes for me’ that lets users and admins pre-configure AI note taking. For organizations in the Gemini Alpha, we will soon begin testing a new setting in Google Meet that will automatically enable Take notes for me for meetings with three or more participants.

This setting will be on by default for organizations in the Gemini Alpha program. Admins can disable it at any time, as soon as they see the new setting in their admin console.




This setting may be visible to customers broadly, but it will only be functional for customers participating in the Gemini Alpha program.

In addition to this test, we are also introducing more ways hosts and participants can control Take notes for me. Soon, all customers—regardless of whether they are in the Gemini Alpha program—will see the ability to turn off "Take notes for me" directly from the green room before joining a call. See this post for more details on the new controls



Getting started

  • Admins: This new setting will be on by default for organizations in the Gemini Alpha starting no sooner than March 11th. Admins can opt out of this experience starting now by going to the Google Meet Admin Console, going to Gemini settings, and adjusting the value under “Automatic note-taking” to “OFF”.
  • End users: End users in the Gemini Alpha program can opt out of this experience when they see the new setting (no sooner than March 11) by visiting their user settings in Meet (gear icon in top right), clicking “Meeting Records” and adjusting the drop-down to “OFF”. If an admin enables the setting for their organization but a user disables the setting, any meeting set by the individual user will have Take notes for me OFF by default.

Rollout pace

  • Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains:
    • Admin setting: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 18, 2026
    • New functionality to Gemini Alpha customers: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting no sooner than March 11, 2026

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on
  • Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus
*Note: This setting may be visible to customers broadly, but it will only be functional for customers participating in the Gemini Alpha program.

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Update (March 17, 2026): The rollout to Rapid Release domains now complete and the rollout to Scheduled Release domains has begun. We expect it to be complete within the next few days.

We are introducing more ways meeting hosts and participants can view and control “Take notes for me” in Google Meet.

When participants join a call in Google Meet, they are first directed to a green room. In the green room, participants now see a more prominent notice when “Take notes for me” is enabled for a meeting they are about to join.

Additionally, eligible users can now turn off "Take notes for me" and transcription directly from the green room before joining a call that has yet to start. If the call has started, users can still stop or start notes at any time during the call.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education
  • Frontline Plus

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Update (March 30, 2026): We've resumed this rollout. The feature should be available to all domains on both the Rapid and Scheduled Release tracks in the coming days.

We’re introducing the ability for meeting participants to move screen shared content into a standalone window with the “Open in new window” option. 

This update gives viewers more flexibility in how they view content during a meeting. By undocking screen shared content—whether it is a presentation, a spreadsheet, or a document—you can move it to a secondary screen or resize it independently. This makes it easier to simultaneously view the screen shared content and participants in the video meeting, helping you stay connected and collaborate more easily.

GIF moving shared content in Google Meet to a separate window with the “Open in new window” new option

This feature works for all screen share content types.

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature will be ON by default. When viewing shared content in a meeting, select the "Open in new window" option to move the presentation to a new window. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

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As of January 27, 2026, speech translation in Google Meet is no longer restricted to businesses in a limited alpha program; it is now available for Google Workspace customers with select plans. This feature utilizes the technology detailed in our research on real-time speech-to-speech translation to translate spoken language in near-real-time, helping global teams communicate more naturally and reducing the friction of language barriers. Speech translation is already available to users with personal accounts subscribed to Google AI plans.

This launch follows our recent announcement regarding new admin controls, ensuring organizations can configure this capability to best suit their needs.

How it works

Speech translation allows participants to speak in their native language while others hear the translation in theirs. Unlike translated captions, which only display text, speech translation preserves the flow of conversation by creating an audio translation dubbed over the original speech that mimics the speaker’s tone and speaking cadence.

Why it matters

Speech translation is designed to make meetings more inclusive and effective. By preserving the speaker's tone of voice, it makes it easier for participants to distinguish who is speaking, even in group settings. This helps maintain the emotional context and expressiveness of the conversation without the need to constantly read subtitles.



More details

  • Language support: At launch, the feature supports bidirectional translation between English and Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian.
  • Single language pair per meeting: Currently, only one language pair (e.g., English <-> Spanish) can be active in a meeting at a time.
  • Meeting room hardware: Users in conference rooms can hear translations but their own speech will not be translated.
  • Mobile support: Speech translation will roll out to the Meet Android and iOS apps in the coming months.
  • Ongoing improvements: In the coming months, users can expect visual updates to the user interface, as well as refinements to translation accuracy and nuance.

Limits

Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher usage limits of speech translation for at least 60 days, allowing users to experiment with these features. Per-user usage limits will apply afterward; we’ll provide more information in a future update prior to any changes.

Getting started

Rollout pace

  • Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started on January 27, 2026
  • Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 18, 2026

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Frontline Plus
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Google AI Ultra for Business add-on
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on

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We are introducing two new admin settings to give you more control over how meeting notes generated by "Take notes for me" are shared within your organization. These settings allow you to:

  • Set a default sharing value: Choose who should receive access to the Take notes for me document and the recap email by default.
  • Restrict host overrides: Decide whether meeting hosts and co-hosts have the ability to change these sharing settings during a meeting.
Previously, sharing settings for Take notes for me were primarily managed by meeting hosts in-call. These updates allow administrators to set defaults and restrictions based on company policies.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Frontline Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education

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In September 2025, we launched Ask Gemini in Meet, which brings the power of Gemini into your organization’s meetings. Today, we’re excited to announce we’re making the feature more broadly available to:

  • Workspace Business Standard customers - Ask Gemini in Meet is currently available to Enterprise customers, and starting in late January, the experience will become available to Business Standard domains as well.
  • An additional seven languages - Ask Gemini in Meet is currently available in English only. Beginning in early February, it will become available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. The feature supports one language at a time; multiple languages spoken in the same meeting aren't currently supported. More languages will become available in the future.
  • Users on mobile - Also starting in February, Ask Gemini in Meet will become available on the Google Meet mobile app. To access it, tap on the Gemini icon in the top right corner during a meeting.
As a reminder, you use Ask Gemini in Meet to:

  • Get a quick brief on the goals and topics for the meeting you’re in
  • List key takeaways, decisions, and action items mentioned in the meeting
  • Catch up on what you missed if you joined late (as long as Take Notes for Me was enabled)

Getting started

Rollout pace

  • Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains
    • Expansion to Business Standard: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 26, 2026
    • Additional seven languages: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 2, 2026
    • Meet mobile app: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 9, 2026
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Admins can now access usage metrics for Google Meet within the organization-level Gemini reports dashboard, in the “Gemini usage per interaction” section. This update gives you visibility into the value your organization derives from Gemini in Meet.

Specifically, the reported metrics include:

  • Usage: The number of times where Gemini was actively used in meetings, such as usage for features like “Take notes for me” or “Ask Gemini in Meet”
  • Users: The number of unique users who actively used Gemini in meetings
Visit the Help Center for more information on active usage.


This update also ensures greater accuracy in active usage metrics for Google Meet. Given this, you may see updated metrics reported for 28D active users and overall usage of Meet. 

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Gemini reports.
  • End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Individual
Also available to: 

  • Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Google AI Ultra for Business add-on
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on
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Update [February 4, 2026]: This rollout is currently paused. We'll post an update here when it resumes.

To simplify the process of joining meetings for those using companion mode on a phone or tablet within a conference room, we're introducing automatic room check-in via ultrasound proximity detection. To automatically check you in, the green room uses your phone or tablet’s microphone to detect an ultrasound signal from the conference room hardware, streamlining the process and eliminating unnecessary steps. This feature is available on Android and iOS devices.


The "Use Companion mode" button is highlighted, prompting the user to tap it to join the call.

Why it’s important

To simplify joining meetings from a conference room and prevent disruptive audio feedback, Google Meet now intelligently guides you to the best joining option.

Meet intelligently knows when you are in a room using an ultrasonic signal, and highlights the “Use Companion mode” button before you even join the call. This wayfinding feature helps ensure a seamless, echo-free start to your meeting. When you join using the highlighted “Companion mode” button, you will also be automatically checked into the correct room.

Additional details 

  • Minimum Android build required: 
    • Meet: 345.0. (Android Settings > Apps > Meet > [App Info > Version])
    • Gmail: 2026.01.26. (Android Settings > Apps > Gmail > [App Info > Version])
  • Minimum iOS build required: 
    • Meet: 336.0. (Meet > Settings -> About, terms, and privacy > Version)
    • Gmail:  6.0.251201. (Settings > About Gmail > Version)

Getting started

  • Admins: Proximity detection is on by default and can be enabled or disabled at the room level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning proximity detection on or off.
  • End users: The Companion mode entry point will be highlighted in the greenroom when the proximity detection signal is detected. After joining a meeting in Companion mode, the user will be automatically checked into the room. If proximity check-in isn’t working, visit the Help Center for troubleshooting tips. Users can still check in manually after joining the call.

Rollout pace

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Android

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, and Workspace Individual subscribers

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We’re introducing a new toggle that lets users choose whether they want to have “Take notes for me” start automatically any time they are hosting a meeting. 

Previously, meeting hosts had to manually enable “Take notes for me” when they scheduled a call. Hosts and select participants could also enable the experience during a call. With this update, users can choose to enable this feature any time they host meetings.

This new toggle is OFF by default. Users can choose to enable or disable it at any time. There are also no changes for hosts or select participants to turn meeting notes off at any time during a meeting. 

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education
  • Frontline Plus

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Google Meet Speech Translation allows translation in near-real time, bridging language barriers across users and organizations. The feature is currently available in alpha but will launch to general availability on January 27, 2026.

Starting today, admins will see a setting to control this feature in the Admin console under Meet service settings > Gemini settings. It will be ON by default and can be disabled at the OU level.

A few important things to note:

  • The feature is only available if the Gemini for Meet admin setting has been enabled.
  • If a user turns on translation, everyone in that meeting will see that translation is being used.
  • Users cannot force other users to be translated or to hear translations.
  • See our blog post to learn more about the translation technology behind the feature.

Speech translation admin setting with box checked to let users enable Speech translation

Speech translation admin setting

A demonstration of users enablinging speech translation

Enabling Speech translation in Meet

Note that these admin settings do not affect users participating in the current alpha program.

Rollout pace

Admin setting
End user feature

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Frontline Plus
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Google AI Ultra for Business add-on
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on

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