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Present in a meeting

Present during a video meeting

Calling is available in the new Meet app. Get started with calling in Google Meet to stay connected with friends and family .

If you want to share audio from your presentation, you must present a tab and have “Also share tab audio” toggled on.
Sharing your screen may be disabled for you due to admin settings (if you're part of a Workspace organization) or meeting host controls.
On your computer, when you click Present in the greenroom before you join a meeting, you join in Companion mode. When you use this option, your mic and speaker are unavailable.
You can use picture-in-picture mode to concurrently present and find your audience. Learn how to use picture-in-picture mode .

Learn more about Google Meet settings for admins .

If you've recently updated to macOS Sequoia, you’ll receive a cautionary prompt when you first attempt to record a meeting or share your screen.

Here’s what you can do:

When you start a presentation or recording in a meeting, in the dialog, click Allow .
To add Google Chrome, give control access to screen and system audio recording on Mac .

Alternatively, to test the new frictionless experience:

Update Chrome to version 129 or up.
On your Mac, open the Terminal.
Enter: open -b com.google.Chrome --args --enable-features=UseSCContentSharingPicker .
To execute the command, on your keyboard, press Enter .
In the address bar, enter: chrome://flags .
Search for the flag “Use ScreenCaptureKit picker for stream selection.”

Restart Chrome.

Tip: To avoid this issue, you can delay the update to macOS Sequoia until macOS 15.1 releases.

Join a Meet video meeting . At the bottom, click Present now . Select A tab , A window , or Your entire screen . If you present a Chrome tab, it shares that tab's audio by default. To present a different tab: Select the tab that you want to present. On the banner, click Share this tab instead . If you present a Slides presentation through a tab, you can control it in Meet . Click Share. Optional: To unpin your presentation and show it as a tile, click Unpin . See how to un-pin a presentation in Google Meet using Google Workspace for business You can now find more participants while you present.

If your camera is turned on, your video is active while you're presenting.
For better presentations and to prevent mirroring, share a new window or a specific tab instead of the meeting window.
To share your audio, you must select Share a Chrome tab or Share this tab.

Scroll & zoom while you present

When you start to present, you can scroll and zoom within the presentation tile.

Existing presets: 25%, 33%, 50%, 66%, 75%, 80%, 90%, 100%, 110%, 125%, 150%, 175%, 200%, 250%, 300%, 400%, 500%.

Stop presenting

In the Meet window, click Stop Presenting .

Present if someone else is already presenting

At the bottom, click Present now .
Select Your entire screen , A window, or Chrome Tab.
Select Present instead .

Present to Google Meet from Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides

Share files you present.

As you present, you can share access to the file when someone needs it. You can only share Docs, Sheets, or Slides files.

Important: To check share suggestions, you must use the Chrome or Edge browser and not be in Incognito mode.

A sharing suggestion only appears if you select “Present a tab” as the sharing mode.
You can grant access to the file and attach the file to the meeting’s Calendar event.
You shared the file.
The link is shared in the meeting’s chat.

Share during the presentation

If all participants have access to the file, the link is shared in the Meet chat and attached to the Calendar event.
If a participant doesn’t have access to the file, you’re notified with a pop-up. Click Share in Meet chat .
The file is shared in the Meet chat and attached to the Calendar event.

Tip: To not attach a file to an event, in the pop-up, uncheck “Attach the file to the Calendar event.”

Share in Meet chat

If all participants have access to the file, the link appears in the Meet chat.

The file is shared in the Meet chat.

Use premium features in Google Meet

Use annotations in google meet.

To highlight and make annotations in Google Meet, presenters and appointed co-annotators can use annotation tools. Learn how to use Annotations in Google Meet .

Co-present slides in Google Meet

When you use Google Meet on an eligible work or school account, you can control Google Slides presentations from within a video meeting. You can also make other people in the video meeting co-presenters. Learn how to co-present slides in Google Meet .

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how to enable presentation audio in google meet

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