You Can Use Google Meet With Carplay Now: How To Join Meetings Safely In Your Car

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Google has introduced support for Meet to Apple CarPlay.
• Features are limited, and there's nary video, only audio.
• Support for Android Auto is coming "soon."

If you usage Google Meet for work, you'll soon beryllium capable to easy subordinate your meetings connected nan roadworthy -- astatine slightest if you're successful nan Apple ecosystem.

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Google has announced that support for Meet is officially present for Apple CarPlay, letting you subordinate a gathering consecutive from your car's dashboard. You tin already perceive Meet audio done your car if you unfastened nan app done your connected phone, but accessing it this measurement is importantly easier and a batch little distracting.

What tin Meet do successful CarPlay?

You tin subordinate meetings while you're connected nan go, Google explains, and spot your upcoming gathering schedule. This type of Meet is limited, though. You will person controls to shut up aliases unmute, but galore different features, for illustration Hand Raise, Chat, aliases Polls, won't beryllium available.

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When you subordinate a Meet telephone done your car, your camera will beryllium off, and you won't spot immoderate video contented connected your dashboard. Calls will beryllium audio only to make judge you enactment focused connected driving, and you won't beryllium capable to create a caller gathering from your car, only subordinate an existing one. Also, if you're nan big of a meeting, you can't judge aliases cull immoderate participants from your car.

This characteristic will beryllium connected by default if you person Google Meet connected your iPhone. To get started, link to a CarPlay-compatible vehicle.

How to subordinate a Meet from your car

To subordinate a gathering from your car, you will request Meet connected your phone. From there: 

1. Connect your telephone to your conveyance via Bluetooth aliases USB.
2. Tap nan Meet app connected your Apple CarPlay display.
3. The interface will show your schedule meetings. Select a gathering to join.

If there's a waiting room, you'll spot a position connection connected your screen. 

Your audio will move automatically to play from your telephone aliases earbuds to nan car's speakers, but erstwhile you disconnect your telephone from CarPlay, your audio will returns to nan antecedently utilized output device.

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While successful a meeting, you tin usage nan controls connected your car's show to mute/unmute aliases extremity nan call.

Android Auto support coming 'soon'

It's not needfully a immense astonishment that you tin usage Meet done CarPlay, but it is astonishing that Google prioritized Apple complete its ain platform. Support for Android Auto is coming "soon," Google added, but it didn't adhd a timeframe.