At least twice a month, my spouse has to travel for work, and our favorite way to stay connected when he’s on the go is with a Google Meet meeting. It’s one of the easiest video conferencing apps—whether I’m on my phone or my computer—so I use it for personal and work life alike.
But just because it’s easy doesn’t mean it’s obvious—there are actually a few options for how to set up a Google Meet meeting:
How to make a Google Meet meeting via web app
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Open Google Meet at meet.google.com.
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Click New meeting.
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You’ll now see three options.
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Create a meeting for later. This gives you a link that you can copy and share with participants for a future Google Meet meeting. Whenever it’s time to get started, just click on the meeting link.
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Start an instant meeting. This option creates a meeting and adds you to it instantly. When the meeting opens, you’ll get a link that you can share to other participants.
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Schedule in Google Calendar. If you click this, Google Calendar will open with a new blank event. Add the meeting details and guests, and click Save.
Then, when you’re ready to join, open Google Calendar and select the event. Click Join with Google Meet.
If you don’t see the Join with Google Meet button, it means you need to update some settings in your Google Calendar—I’ll show you how to do that below.
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How to set up a Google Meet meeting on mobile
Things work pretty much the same on the mobile app.
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Open the Google Meet app.
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Tap New at the bottom right.
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If you’re creating and joining a new meeting immediately, select Create a new meeting. You’ll then have the option to share it via your normal mobile share options or tap to copy the meeting link.
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If you’re scheduling a meeting for later, select Schedule in Google Calendar. Your Google Calendar app will open. Enter the relevant details, including meeting name, start time and end time, and participants, and click Save.
How to schedule a Google Meet meeting from Google Calendar
Any time you create a Google Calendar event, Google automatically adds a Google Meet meeting to it (unless you change your settings).
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Open Google Calendar at calendar.google.com.
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Click the Create button at the top left, and select Event.
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Edit the meeting details, and add your guests.
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Click Save.
This automatically creates and emails a Google Calendar invitation to all your guests with a link to the Google Meet meeting. They can access it by clicking directly on the link in the email invitation, or by copying and pasting the link in a new browser tab.
If this doesn’t work for you, go to your Google Calendar settings to be sure the Automatically add Google Meet video conferences to events I create box is checked.
Or you can do it on a case-by-case basis by clicking Add Google Meet video conferencing.
How to schedule a Google Meet meeting from Google Calendar on mobile
It works the same in the app.
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Open the Google Calendar app.
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Tap the + at the bottom-right corner, and select Event.
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Edit the meeting details, and add your guests.
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Tap Save.
Same as with the desktop option, this will automatically create and send a Google Meet link to everyone invited to the meeting. Click on the link or copy-paste it to a new browser tab to dial in.
How to set up a Google Meet meeting from Gmail
To start a meeting in Google Meet from Gmail, you first need to turn on Meet in Gmail.
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In Gmail, click Settings (cog icon).
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Click Customize under Chat and Meet.