Quick summary
Recently, we announced the expansion of the meeting safety features and the ability to add up to 25 co-hosts in Google Meet. We’re now adding two new controls that will allow admins to configure whether the Host Management and Quick access features will be on or off by default in their domain.
In both cases, if the feature is set to OFF by default, meeting hosts can manually enable Quick access or Host Management from inside the meeting. Please see below for detailed information on the default Admin setting for each feature.
Getting started
- Admins:
- Host Management:Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing Meet safety settings and Host Management.
- Quick access: Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing Quick access settings
- End users: When enabled by your Admin, use the Help Center to learn more about adding or removing people from a Google Meet video call and assigning host privileges.
Rollout pace
- Host Management
- This feature is available now.
- Quick Access:
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on September 15, 2021
Availability
Host management is:
- OFF by default for: Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Essentials, and Non-profits customers.
- ON by default for: Google Workspace for Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning upgrade, and Frontline customers
- Not available to Google Workspace Individual customers or users with personal Google Accounts.
Quick access is:
- ON by default for all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers.
- Not available to Google Workspace Individual customers or users with personal Google Accounts.