Google Meet now lets you disable video of participants

Google Meet has some new filters, backgrounds, and features. For example, from now on it is possible to switch off someone’s video feed – their image. The feature is coming to Android, iOS, and the web version of Google Meet. In this article, we explain how it works and what else is new in Meet.

Turn off someone else’s image

Maybe you know it, you’re in Google Meet in the middle of a video meeting and listen carefully to whoever is speaking. However, you are constantly distracted by someone who is eating without shame, styling his hair or trying to get a pick out of his nose. Of course you can politely ask them to turn off the camera, but you will now also receive a function for this yourself. Google Meet is getting a function in which you can turn off someone’s image. The feature is currently being rolled out.

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How does it work?

To turn off someone’s image, go to the overflow menu, the icon with the two figures on the right. Here you can then select the person whose image you want to disable under the name Do not view. You will then no longer see the image from his or her camera, you will only see the profile picture. Other people will still see his or her image. The person whose image you turn off cannot see that you have turned off the image. The feature is available to both the call host and the other participants.

In addition to this feature, Google Meet comes with some new backgrounds and filters. You can find this in the menu – the three vertical dots next to the hand – below Apply virtual effects. From now on you can transform yourself into Ramadan moon – which looks more like a banana – or dragon, among other things. Like new wallpapers you will find now Castle and dragon, first sunrise of spring and Ramadan street.

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