During a meeting, the meeting toolbar is at the bottom of your screen.
Desktop
Mobile
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Mute. Mute your voice, enable noise suppression, and change the microphone and speaker.
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Camera. Select the Camera icon to send or stop your video.
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On the desktop app, click the arrow to choose a background or blur on the fly, or preview your own video feed before enabling camera.
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On the mobile app, during a meeting you can switch to a blurred background but cannot switch to another background image, for example from forest to ocean.
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Share. Share your screen. See Share Your Screen.
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Whiteboard. Collaborate on a whiteboard session. See Whiteboard (Desktop).
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Participants. See who is in the meeting, plus host controls.
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Chat. Exchange messages with participants.
- Reactions. Share emoji reactions such as a thumbs up and heart. Other participants see the icon in your video tile for a few seconds.
- Record. Appears only for the meeting host using the desktop app. See Record a Meeting (Desktop).
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Turn Off Incoming Video. Stop receiving video of other participants when you have a limited cellular data plan or when you are on an unstable network connection. Turning off incoming video conserves battery life and data consumption. In the meeting toolbar, select
More then enable Turn Off Incoming Video.
Incoming Calls during a Meeting
Incoming calls won't ring while you are attending a meeting. However, on your mobile phone, you might receive a native call during a meeting. To answer a native call, you must first leave the meeting and then re-join after the call ends.
Switching Devices during a Meeting
It's easy to change devices without leaving a meeting. For example, you started a meeting in the office on your laptop, but you need to leave. Join the ongoing meeting from your phone, then you can transfer the live meeting to your phone with one click.
Layout of your Meeting Screen
Desktop participants can change layout of video feed between Gallery and Speaker. On the mobile app, the video feed is always displayed in grid.
- The Gallery view shows tiles of equal size in grid.
- The Speaker view shows one big tile along with a carousel of small tiles at the top or on the right. The big tile displays screenshare, or each user can choose a participant to show in the big tile by using the Highlight for Me menu.
To change layout, select View in the top right corner, and select the style. This does not affect what other participants see.
Self View
- Hide Self View. If you don't want to look at yourself during a meeting, select View > Hide Self View.
Pin or Highlight
Choose a participant to show in your meeting screen. To pin or highlight a participant, hover over the person's tile to reveal the three dots icon, then select the action you want. This does not affect what other participants see.
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Pin for Me. Pinned person appears in the first tile in the Gallery view on the top left corner. In the Speaker view, pinned participant appears in the second small tile of the carousel, with the first small tile being the presenter sharing their screen. Only one participant can be pinned at a time.
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Highlight for Me. Highlighted person appears in the big tile of the Speaker view and the shared screen moves to the first small tile in the carousel. You can also double click on a participant tile to highlight instead of selecting the menu. To display the shared screen in the big tile again, double click on the screenshare tile in the carousel, or hover over the participant in the big tile then select the three dots icon > Remove Highlight.
Carousel in the Speaker View
In the Speaker view, each participant has choices to hide or move the carousel of small video tiles as well as the self view tile.
- Move the carousel and the self view to the right side instead of at the top. Select View > Move to Side.
- Move your self view tile to a corner of the meeting screen. If the carousel is horizontally displayed, the self view tile can be placed in either top left or top right corner. If the carousel is vertically displayed, the self view can be at the top or bottom of the right side. To move the self view, select the three dots icon on the self view tile, and then select Move to Right/Left Side or Move to Top/Bottom.
- Hide the carousel and the self view completely. Select View > Hide Participants, or hover over the carousel area and click the arrow to hide it. To show it again, select View > Show Participants.
Shared Screen
When someone starts sharing their screen, your meeting screen switches to the Speaker view, and the big tile shows the shared screen. Zoom in on the shared screen if it's too small. Desktop participants can pop out the shared screen into a separate window.
- To zoom in/out on the desktop app, use a mouse/trackpad, or use the on-screen +/-/Reset buttons next to the presenter's name.
- To zoom in/out on the mobile app, use two fingers to pinch the screen apart. Drag your finger to move it around. Double tap the screen to reset the view.
- To move the shared screen into a separate window, select View > Pop Out Screenshare. On the pop-up window, you can zoom in/out and reset. To move back, either close the pop-up window, or select View > Restore Screenshare.
Chat
During a meeting, you can send messages to all the participants and add emoji reactions to messages. All chat messages will be visible to participants even when they join late. However, the chat messages will not be available after the meeting ends. The chat history cannot be exported, but participants can copy each message during a meeting.
Notification. You will see a red dot on the Chat button for new messages. On the desktop app and web browsers, new messages pop up on the bottom right corner of the meeting screen. They disappear after a few seconds, but you can mute them completely by clicking the arrow beside the Chat button.
Reactions
Engage in a meeting using emoji reactions such as thumbs up and heart. Other participants see the icon in your video tile for a few seconds.
On the desktop app, click Reactions in the meeting toolbar. On the mobile app, tap More > Reactions.
Meeting reactions appear in both the Gallery and Speaker layouts; however they are not included in recordings.