View or participate in a live stream
Important:
- To view a live stream, you must be in the same organization as the meeting organizer or identified by the Workspace Admin as a Trusted Workspace sub-domain. Reach out to your Workspace Admins to set up Cross Domain live streaming.
- As a live stream viewer, you can’t turn on or enable your camera or microphone on the live stream.
Tip: To watch the event later, ask the meeting organizer if a recording is available. The live stream can only be watched while being aired live.
Watch a live stream event
To watch a live stream event, you can:
- Click the live stream link from an email or in the event details on the Google Calendar app 👁 Calendar
. - Click the meeting link in the Google Meet app 👁 Image
. In the green room and under “Other joining options,” select Watch the live stream 👁 Image
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When you watch a live stream event on mobile, you can:
- Add captions.
- Switch to full-screen mode.
- Use Reactions in Google Meet.
- Conduct polls in Google Meet.
- Ask participants questions in Google Meet.
Switch from viewing a live stream & join as a contributor
If you’re watching a live stream for an adaptive meeting, you can quickly switch roles yourself. This applies if the host invited you as a contributor. As a contributor, you can use your camera and microphone to participate.
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Meet app 👁 Image
. - Join a live stream.
- To open the call details page, tap the meeting title 👁 and then
Information 👁 Image
.- Or, you can:
- Tap livestream indicator 👁 Image
👁 and then
Information 👁 Image
. - Tap More controls 👁 Image
👁 and then
Information 👁 Image
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- Tap livestream indicator 👁 Image
- Or, you can:
- In the "Info" tab, tap Leave and join the call.
- On the confirmation message, tap Leave.
- In the main call's green room, tap Join.
Enable captions on your live stream
The language of the live stream captions is predetermined by the host.
To display captions: On the live-stream viewer, at the bottom, click Turn on captions 👁 Image
or Turn off captions 👁 Image
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