New Google Meet Interface

Google is introducing a new and improved Google Meet experience for the web. The new interface has updates to the video feeds, the viewing and presenting experience, and the bottom bar.

Video feeds

• Hover over your video feed for options between a tile in the grid or a floating picture. You can also resize, reposition, and hide it to concentrate on the call.
• Your self-view appears in the bottom right of the grid to put more video feeds at eye-level as you look into the camera.

Viewing and presenting experience

• See what you are presenting while in Google Meet.
• Unpin the content you or others share to see more and larger video feeds.
• Participant names are always visible regardless of meeting size.

Bottom bar

• Meeting dial-in codes, attachments, the participants list, chat, and other activities are at the bottom right to create more vertical space for seeing people and content.
• Controls are consolidated in one place with descriptions available upon hover.
• Leave call button is moved away from the microphone and camera buttons to prevent accidental call hang-ups.
• Bottom bar is always visible, while not covering cover captions and bottom video feeds.

Other visual updates include

• When someone speaks, their tile is outlined in blue.
• Mute indicators are subdued to reduce visual distraction.
• When there are more participants than can be shown on the grid, a tile is added so you always remember who’s on the call.

Please note you will need use of third party Chrome extensions (including the Grid View extension) could impact your experience — disabling (external link)  any extensions that interact with Google Meet could resolve this. You will have the option to revert to legacy Google Meet experience until June 10, 2021. 

Get to know the new Google Meet interface on the Google Workspace Learning Centre. (external link)