Join a meeting

If you're a personal account user, a Google One Subscriber, and a Google Workspace Individual Subscriber, you can join:

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

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

• Only join meetings started by someone in your organization.
• Join meetings started by anyone.

If you're 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, a personal account user, Google One Subscriber, or a Workspace Individual Subscriber organizes, unless your admin changes it to one of the following:

• Only join meetings started by someone in your organization.
• Only join meetings started by Google Workspace users.
  • Tip: This doesn't include Workspace Individual Subscribers.

If you're a personal account user, a Google One Subscriber, and a Google Workspace Individual 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 stop their users from joining meetings started by you.
• Not signed into a Google Account.
  • Tip: They must knock to be let into the meeting.
• Tip: For Workspace Individual Subscribers, people who call in by phone can also join your meetings.

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

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

• By default, only users in your organization or anyone who calls in with a phone.
• Anyone signed in with a Google Account or anyone who calls 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 calls in with a phone.
• Anyone signed in with a Google Account or anyone who calls in with a phone.
• By default, everyone, even users not signed in with a Google Account.

1. On your computer, go to Google Calendar.
2. Click the event you want to join.
3. Click Join with Google Meet.
4. In the window that opens, click Join Now. 

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

In Google Meet, you can select a scheduled event or you can enter a meeting code or nickname.

1. On your computer, go to meet.google.com.
2. Select the meeting from your list of scheduled events. Only meetings scheduled through Google Calendar show on Google Meet.
3. Click Join now.

Tip: A chime sounds as the first 5 people join. After that, you receive a silent notification for new participants.

1. On your computer, go to meet.google.com.
2. Click Enter a code or link Join.
3. Enter a meeting code or nickname.
   • The meeting code is the string of letters at the end of the meeting link. You don't have to enter the hyphens.
   • You can only use meeting nicknames with people in your organization. This feature is currently available to Google Workspace users only.

   • You can also type the meeting code or nickname into that device, if your organization purchases and installs a Meet hardware device.

   • Leave the field blank to start a new meeting with a new code.

4. Click Join now.

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

1. Click the meeting link sent to you in a chat message or email.
2. Follow the onscreen prompts to join the meeting.

Important: You can only call 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 call 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 lets you in, 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 calls in is the correct participant.
• Anyone who calls in counts toward the maximum limit.
• Regular call charges apply.

Tip: A chime sounds as the first 5 people join. After that, the organizer gets silent notifications when new callers join.​

Important: If you try to call into a meeting before it starts you might get an error that the PIN isn't recognized.

You can call in during the scheduled meeting time with 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.

• Select the meeting from the list of scheduled events with your Google meeting room hardware remote.
• Enter the meeting code or nickname into your Google meeting room hardware device.

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

For administrator setup details, go to 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:

• Click the event on your device’s calendar if the meeting was scheduled ahead of time.
• Click 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:

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

Other third-party systems using Pexip

1. On your computer, go to Google Calendar.
2. Click the event you want to join.
3. Select More joining options.
4. Select Third-party systems.
5. Follow the instructions to join from your system.

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

• See or write in-meeting chat.
• Start or stop Meet recordings.
• Let other participants in or keep them out.
• Mute or unmute other participants.

Other Meet participants can't mute your room.

You don't need a Google Account to join in Meet video meetings. However, if you don’t have a Google Account, the meeting organizer or someone from the group must let you into the meeting.

1. Open the chat message or email with the meeting link.
2. Click the meeting link.
3. Enter your name.
4. Click Ask to join.
5. When someone in the meeting lets you in, you’ll join it.

1. On your computer, go to meet.google.com.
2. Click Use a meeting code.
3. Enter the code and click Join.
4. Enter your name and click Ask to join.
5. When someone in the meeting lets you in, you’ll join it.