How to Add Participants to a Google Meet Session

Quick and easy-to-follow guide for Google Meet users

How to add people to a Google Meet session step-by-step with images

Step 1

Share the Google Meet session’s joining info

As soon as you start a meeting in Google Meet https://meet.google.com, the joining info appears.

You can click the Copy joining info icon on the right to copy it. You can then send it to others by pasting it into a chat, email, document, or web page.

Click More phone numbers to get other phone numbers for different countries.

Add others lets you send a direct invite to people to join the meeting.

Step 2

Invite people to join by email

If the meeting has already started, you can click the Show everyone icon at the bottom right.

Step 3

Invite people by entering their names or email addresses.

You can only search by name and get suggestions for people in your Google Contacts at https://contacts.google.com.

Step 4

Click to select them and then click Send email to send them an invitation by email.

This is how the email invitation looks. It includes a button to join the meeting and its web address and dial-in numbers below.

Step 5

Dial their phone number

Alternatively, you can dial someone’s phone number so they can join the session on their phone.

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