Google has announced two new improvements for Meet and Calendar that are coming to all Google Workspace customers, as well as anyone with a personal Google account.
The first improvement is one that users who do not use Google Calendar, like Outlook users, will appreciate. When a Google Calendar user invites you to a meeting with Google Meet, the link will now be added directly to the location field. This means you will not have to go digging through the event details to find the link when it is time to join.
If you need help on how to add people to your event, the process is straightforward on a computer. You open Google Calendar, click an event, and then select to edit it. On the right, under "Guests," you start typing a person"s name to select them from your contacts.
You can also just type in a full email address to invite people who are not in your contacts list. For those who do not use Google Calendar, they will just get an email invitation with links to click Yes, No, or Maybe. When you are done, you click save.
In addition to populating the location field on outgoing invites, Google says that Calendar can now detect Google Meet links from incoming invitations. If someone sends you an invite from a different calendar application, Google Calendar will automatically spot the Meet link in the description or location fields.
The features have started rolling out and could take up to 15 days for you to see them, depending on your domain (Rapid Release or Scheduled Release).
In case you missed it, you can now present content from your camera feed in Google Meet. This is all thanks to a "present from camera" function that lets you share video up to 1080p at 30 FPS. The feature is useful for things like sharing a physical document using a document camera or showing a different angle with a secondary camera.
The "Take notes for me" feature also got an update a while back that puts the AI-generated summary right into the recap email instead of just linking to a document. And if you"re a meeting host or co-host, you now have control over who gets those notes.