Google Workspace Changes

We’re updating the Google Meet picture-in-picture experience to be more engaging and feature-rich in Chrome.

Directly from the picture-in-picture window, you can now raise your hand, use in-meeting chat, turn captions on and off, more effectively resize the picture-in-picture view, and access flexible layouts.

Google Meet increases maximum meeting capacity to 1,000 attendees for select Enterprise and Education editions.

Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials Plus, and Education Plus customers can now scale their meetings to a maximum of 1,000 attendees, with up to 500 of those attendees being viewers. This represents an increase from the previous limit of 500 contributors for Enterprise Plus and Enterprise Essentials Plus.

Google Meet introduces viewer mode to better control meeting flow for large events.

Google Meet now allows hosts to designate attendees as 'viewers' when creating Calendar invites. Viewers are unable to share their audio or video, which helps reduce distractions during large-scale meetings like webinars or town halls. Hosts can transition viewers to contributors via the people panel. While viewers can use Q&As and polls, support for in-meeting chat and emoji reactions is planned for a future update.

Simplified controls for meeting access in Google Meet are introduced replacing Quick access settings.

We’re introducing simplified controls for meeting access in Google Meet. These will replace the existing Quick access meeting settings and the admin setting to turn Quick access on or off by default will be removed. This update will begin rolling out on July 17, 2023.