Pin or mute Google Meet participants

Select a participant from the "People" tab to mute or pin them.

Pin up to 6 tiles or presentations in Google Meet

To pin:

• Other meeting participants or presentations:
  1. Hover over a tile you want to pin.
  2. From the icons that appear, click Pin 👁 Image
     .
     • To pin for yourself, click For myself only.
     • To pin for everyone, click For everyone.
• Participants or presentations not on the layout:
  1. At the bottom right of the meeting, click People 👁 People Tab
     .
  2. Next to the meeting participant or presentation, click More actions 👁 Image
     👁 and then
     Pin to the screen 👁 Image
     .
     • To pin for your screen only, click For myself only.
     • To pin for everyone’s screen, click For everyone.
       • Tip: Only meeting hosts and co-hosts can pin for everyone.

When you pin the maximum number of participants and presentations, a prompt appears to notify you.

To unpin a participant or presentation that was pinned for your screen only:

1. Hover over the tile you want to unpin.
2. Click Unpin.

To unpin a tile or a presentation that was pinned for everyone:

1. Hover over a tile you want to unpin.
2. Click Unpin for everyone.
3. From the dialogue box that shows, click Unpin.

Learn how Moderated Pinning works

A Moderated Pin is any tile or presentation that a host pins for others in the meeting.

• Only hosts and co-hosts can pin for everyone within the meeting.
• Hosts and co-hosts can pin up to 3 tiles for other participants.
• If a pinned participant leaves and rejoins the meeting, the hosts have to pin them again.
• Hosts and co-hosts can only pin for others if they join the meeting via a desktop or laptop.
  • For participants who join a meeting via a desktop, laptop, or a Google Meet meeting room, Moderated Pins will appear.
  • For participants who join a meeting via the Google Meet app on an Android device or iPhone or iPad, Moderated Pins won't appear.
• Hosts and co-hosts can’t pin for everyone when they use Companion mode or Live stream.
• Hosts and co-hosts can’t pin Add Ons for others.
• If a meeting guest already has up to 6 things pinned for themself, then anything pinned by the hosts will replace the tile most recently pinned by the meeting guest.
• After the hosts pin a tile or presentation, participants can manually unpin it.

Pin from Google Meet Hardware

To pin:

Mute a participant’s microphone

If there is feedback or background noise in a meeting, you may want to mute other participant’s microphones.

Tip: For privacy reasons, you cannot unmute another person. Ask the participant to unmute their audio. To mute or unmute yourself, click Mute 👁 Image
.

Mute all participants

Important: Host Management must be turned on to Mute all participants.

Meeting creators and calendar event owners can mute all participants at the same time. Participants can unmute themselves after they’ve been muted.

• At the bottom right, click People 👁 People
   👁 and then
   Mute all 👁 Image
  .

Dial-in participants

For paid Google Workspace editions only.

• Phone participants always press *6 to mute or unmute their phone.
• If someone else mutes you, you can only unmute using *6.

You can focus your meeting display to just the presenter or hide participants with video feeds you find distracting.

Important: This only impacts your display.

Hide meeting participants or presentations

1. Hover over a person's or presentation's tile.
2. Click More options 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Don't watch 👁 Image
   .

Hide participants or presentation not on the layout

1. At the bottom right, select Show everyone 👁 People Tab
   .
2. On a participant, click More actions 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Don't watch 👁 Image
   .

Tip: To turn the video back on, click Start Watching 👁 Camera
.