TL;DR
- Google Meet on Android will soon let eligible live-stream viewers join the main meeting directly.
- The switch works without reopening invite links or leaving the app, as long as the viewer was invited to both the stream and the meeting.
- The rollout starts October 19 and will be available to Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and personal Google accounts.
Google Meet has picked up a surprising number of useful upgrades lately. Google has added Microsoft Teams interoperability, expanded its meeting note-taking tools, and even started preparing for a post-quantum future. Its latest improvement is much simpler, but anyone who regularly sits through large company meetings may appreciate it.
Google has announced that Meet users on Android will soon be able to move directly from watching a livestream into the main meeting with their camera and microphone.