Google meet users can now limit screen sharing, add co-hosts, and even mute meetings for Co-host participants. The virtual meeting app now adds up to 25 co-hosts and toughens some security features for its platform.

Co-hosts can now limit who in a call can share their screens and chat messages; a special feature once reserved for Google’s workspace education customers. These new features will be available on both web and mobile platforms.

Participants in a Google meet call now have a special security shield icon. Google said this feature rollout will start on August 16, 2021. This will happen across web, Android, and iOS platforms.

However, users should have up to 15 days’ visibility frame time in mind.  The previous workspace education customer exclusive is a welcome addition to Google Meet regular customers.

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Google recently ended its Meet’s previous unlimited group video calls to an hour for free accounts, the Alphabet-owned company ended support at the end of last month.

According to its support pages, users with free accounts will no longer have the free 24 hour meeting time, groups Meet video calls are now capped at an hour and nothing more.

Zoom like Google has been offering a lot of freebies for its videoconferencing application, extending its 40 minutes meeting limit during festive periods like New Year’s Eve and Christmas.

Google still allows one-on-one personal infinity duration meet video calls. But in the summer, lengthy calls will attract some extra costs.

The Google Meet free account feature was very popular among people so we are curious to see if more will be encouraged to use it for their video conferencing purposes.

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