Google Meet now lets you transfer between Android, iOS, and the web ‘without hanging up’

If you happen to’ve ever began a name on a cellular gadget and wished to proceed in your pc once you obtained dwelling, you understand the painstaking strategy of leaping from one to the opposite. Google is hoping to handle that with an update to its Google Meet video conferencing instrument.

Beginning this week, Google Meet customers can begin a name on one gadget and proceed on one other gadget “with out hanging up and rejoining.” Google envisions a state of affairs during which you began a name in your smartphone or pill and wished to modify to your pc. In that case, you may solely want to decide on the “Change right here” button to maneuver to the pc. The function can also be accessible in the other way: if you wish to transfer out of your pc to your cellular gadget.

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So simple as the function might sound, it is a decidedly vital one for customers who are sometimes on video calls with colleagues. Previous to the replace, Google Meet customers would want to finish a name on one gadget after which reconnect to the decision on one other. With this replace, the method must be seamless and keep away from the opportunity of lacking out on important name particulars.

The transfer additionally helps Google catch as much as Zoom, which already presents the flexibility to modify between units throughout a gathering. As with Google Meet’s function, customers can merely faucet the Change button inside Zoom to seamlessly transfer between units.

In a guide on learn how to swap from one gadget to a different, Google says that by default, the connection to the assembly will finish once you swap to a brand new gadget. If you wish to keep related to each units directly, as a substitute of selecting “Change right here,” you’ll be able to hit “Different becoming a member of choices” and choose “Be part of right here too.” On this state of affairs, you may keep related to the decision on each units.

Google Meet’s new function is rolling out now to Google Meet customers who use the video conferencing service in Google’s enterprise productiveness platform Workspace. Google stated that corporations in its fast launch program will begin seeing the function over the subsequent couple of weeks. Different Workspace prospects will get the function on Might 9.