Google Meet hosts will have the ability to preserve participant mics and cameras off

Google Meet hosts will quickly have the ability to flip off contributors’ microphones or cameras and stop them from turning them again on, the corporate announced in a Workspace blog. The characteristic may very well be a helpful method for hosts to maintain noisy or rowdy attendees from regularly interrupting conferences even after they’ve already been muted.

The microphone and digital camera lock characteristic can be off by default; hosts should flip it on throughout conferences in the event that they need to use it. If your assembly has breakout rooms, any audio and / or video locks made in the principle will apply in these, too. The reverse isn’t true, although, that means that locks utilized in particular person breakout rooms gained’t apply to different breakout rooms or the principle room.

If you’re utilizing older variations of the apps on iOS and Android that don’t help the characteristic, you’ll be kicked from the assembly if the hosts activates the locks; in the event that they’re turned on forward of the assembly and also you’re on a kind of older apps, you gained’t have the ability to be a part of the assembly in any respect. Google says that turning off the locks will let individuals utilizing older apps take part in a gathering.

All Google Workspace prospects could have entry to the characteristic, which started rolling out for customers on the Rapid Release tracks on Thursday. It will begin rolling out for these on the Scheduled Release monitor on November 1st.