Turn Meet recording on or off for your organization

Note: If you're not an IT admin, go to Record a video meeting instead.

Record meetings to share them with people who couldn't attend or to remember what happened at a meeting a few months ago. As an IT administrator, you can let meeting organizers and participants in your organization record and download Google Meet meetings and calls.  

Turn recording on or off for Meet

Troubleshoot Meet recording: Why can't a user record?

Data storage issues:

• Drive is off for the organization and can't store meeting data.
  • For details, go to Turn Drive on or off for users.
• Drive is on but doesn't have enough available space. 
  • Both your organization and the person starting the recording must have enough available Drive space to record. For details, go to Review storage use across your organization.

Recording is off:

• Recording is off for the meeting owner.
• Recording is off for specific people. 
  • For example, out-of-domain participants in non-moderated meetings and participants who aren’t hosts in moderated meetings can’t record meetings.

Recording is unavailable:

• Recording is unavailable for participants from outside the host's organization.
• Recording is unavailable when Host Management is turned on and the host doesn't let people record.
• Recording is unavailable in breakout rooms.

Google Classroom & Education edition extra issues:

• Teachers aren't signed in to their Google Workspace account.
• Students can only record if the meeting organizer is a teacher or co-teacher.
  • For details, go to Learn who can record a meeting.

Turn recording on or off for Meet

By default, recordings are saved for three months. 

1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

2. Go to Menu  Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet.

   Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.

3. Click Meet video settings.
4. (Optional) To apply the setting only to some users, at the side, select an organizational unit (often used for departments) or configuration group (advanced). Show me how

   Group settings override organizational units. Learn more

5. Click Recording and check or uncheck the Let people record their meetings box.
6. Click Save. Or, you might click Override for an organizational unit.

   To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit (or Unset for a group).

Changes can take up to 24 hours but typically happen more quickly. Learn more

Control recording quality limits 

Supported editions for this feature: Business Standard and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Teaching and Learning Upgrade and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus. Compare your edition

For instructions, go to Set recording quality limits for Google Meet.

Related topics

• Record a video meeting
• Start or schedule a Google Meet video meeting
• Manage files in your Google Drive storage
• Troubleshoot Meet network, audio, and video issues as an admin
• Choose automatic meeting artifact settings for your organization