Google Meet removes any user from meeting after seven minutes

Google will gradually roll out an update for its video meeting app Meet from Monday. After the update, the first participant will be automatically removed from the Meet meeting after seven minutes, if the app considers them “not attending”.

If the user is the first participant in the meeting and no one shows up after five minutes, Meet will send him a message asking if he wants to wait for other participants or if he wants to close. If the user does not respond within two minutes, they are automatically removed from the meeting, writes google in a message.

In addition, the last participant present is asked if he or she wants to close the meeting, when all other participants have left the digital room.

Other services have a similar function. Zoom also has a time limit for inactive meetings, but it lasts a maximum of 40 minutes. In Discord, server administrators can set up an afk sound channel, which users who are absent for an extended period of time end up in.

Furthermore, Google is adding a new control panel for the meeting organizer and co-organizer. Now the buttons for the organizer and co-organizer are still separate from each other, but they will be merged after the update under the heading ‘Host controls’. The updated control panel will only be available in the desktop version.

The update will be available April 11 for desktop and iOS. It is not yet known when it will be available for Android devices. The phased rollout will take about 15 days, Google expects.