Google Meet updates: guest invites, calendar sync and narrower access
Invite outside guests to Google Meet, sync meetings to your company calendar, keep cancellations in step with Google Calendar, and use your company's time zone.
Google Meet meetings are now easier to share with clients, kept in step with your calendar, and set to the right time.
Invite guests and sync meetings to Google Calendar
Invite people outside your company by email
Google Meet meetings can now include guests from outside your team. In the meeting form, type an email address under External Attendee Email and click Add. Guests receive the Google Calendar invitation, and email addresses are checked when you save, so an invalid one is rejected with a message.
Sync meetings to your company's Google Calendar
Turn on Sync to Google Calendar when you create a Google Meet meeting, and it is added to your company's Google Calendar. The option appears when the Calendar feature is active and Google Calendar sync is switched on in its settings. Changes to a meeting's title, time or description update the same calendar entry. Switching the sync off when you edit a meeting removes the calendar entry.
Deleting a meeting removes its calendar entry
Deleting a meeting removes its calendar entry too. If that entry cannot be removed, the meeting is kept and you are asked to try again, so the two never fall out of step.
Keep meetings in step with Google Calendar
Cancellations reach Google Calendar
Cancel a meeting here and it is removed from Google Calendar, and attendees receive the update.
Changes made in Google Calendar show here
If someone cancels or deletes the meeting directly in Google Calendar, it shows as Cancelled here within about 15 minutes.
The original Meet link is kept
Editing a meeting keeps its original Meet link, so people who already have it do not get a new link each time.
Status updates automatically
Meetings show as Started or Ended automatically, based on their start time and length. The only status you set yourself is cancelling.
Meeting times use your company's time zone
New meetings start at the right time
New meetings used to open with the wrong clock time for many time zones. They now start from your company's current time.
Editing shows your company's time zone
When you open a meeting to edit it, the start time is shown in your company's time zone.
Saved meetings appear correctly in Google Calendar
The meeting is saved at the time you chose, so it appears at the right time on Google Calendar.
Narrower Google access when you connect
When you connect Google Meet, Google now shows a smaller set of permissions to approve.
No full access to all your calendars
The connection no longer asks for full access to all of your calendars.
Create, change and delete meeting events
It asks to create, change and delete the calendar events for your meetings.
See your calendar list
It asks to see the list of calendars on your account, so you can pick one for your meetings.
See the connected email address
It asks to see the email address of the Google account you connect, so the settings page can show which account is linked.