Start and stop recordings
IMPORTANT: Recordings are only available on the desktop version of Google Meet. Mobile app users are notified when recording starts or stops, but cannot control the recording.
Recordings are not available if you are joining the meeting just to show content, i. e. from a laptop when you are already in a video conference room. Join the video call first, start the presentation and start recording.
- Open Google Meet and create or join a meeting.
- Click More options
and then click Record the meeting
. - Wait for the recording to start: when the recording starts or stops, the other participants are notified.
- When you are done, click More options and then click Stop recording
. It will also stop recording a meeting if all meeting participants leave the meeting. - Click Stop Recording to confirm the action.
- Wait for the recording file to be generated and saved to the meeting organiser's Google Meet recordings folder in My Drive.
- The meeting organiser and the user who recorded the meeting will receive a link to the recording by email.
The following editions of Google Workspace can record video calls:
- G Suite for Schools
- G Suite Enterprise for Education
- Essentials
- Business Standard
- Business Plus
- Enterprise Essentials
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Plus Editions
- !! If you are a Google Workspace administrator and manage Google Meet in your organisation, you must first enable meeting recording.
Who can record?
You can record video calls for others to watch later. To record a meeting, a Google Workspace administrator must enable recordings in your account.
- You can record if:
- You are the organiser of the meeting.
- You belong to the same organisation as the organiser.
- You are a member of the theaching staff, not a student, and you are signed in to your Google Workspace account.
They will be notified when the recording starts or stops, but they will not be able to control it:
- People who do not belong to your organisation
- Mobile application users
- People accessing via phone call
What is recorded?
- The recordings include the active speaker and the content being displayed.
- The recordings are saved in the organiser's Meet recordings folder in My Drive.
- The meeting organiser and the user who recorded the meeting will receive a link to the recording by email.
- Notifications and other windows are NOT included. Recordings do not take into account fixed participants.
- Chats are recorded for the duration of the video.
- The chats are saved as an .SBV file on the meeting organiser's Drive.
- The playback functions of the transcripts depend on the media player you use. The chat content is displayed as subtitles when the files are downloaded in a media player such as VLC.
