You do not need a Gmail account if you only want to join someone else’s meeting on Google Meet. But to start a meeting, you absolutely need one. If you don’t have one, you can create it for free.
You’ll need a Google account to use Google Meet. A Google Workspace administrator needs to turn on Meet for your organization. If you cannot open Meet, contact your admin. You’ll need to be signed into a Google Workspace account to create a video meeting. Anyone inside or outside your organization can join with a link.
Why can’t I join Google meet without a Google account?
If someone with a free Google account invites you to a Google Meet meeting, you will be asked to sign in to your Google account. If you do not have a Google account and fail to log in, you will not be able to join. The first step to joining a Google Meet meeting is getting an invite from a Google GSuite account holder.
Why can’t I join a Google meeting?
For many people, they will stop there and say that they can’t join the meeting, because they don’t want or they don’t know how to create a Google account. The only thing they wanted is to join the meeting and see friends or family. Next time, they will use Zoom for a meeting where everybody can join without having to create an online account.
How do I invite someone to a meeting without a Google account?
For G Suite customers, once you’ve created a meeting, you can invite anyone to join even if they don’t have a Google Account. Just share the link or meeting ID with all meeting participants. Our automated system analyzes replies to choose the one that’s most likely to answer the question.
How do I invite someone to a meeting without Gmail?
When sending an invite or meeting link to a person’s email account that is not a gmail account or texting them the same, when they click on the link and it opens in their web browser which is Chrome, it asks them to join meeting for a brief 2 to 3 seconds and then immediately redirects them to Google sign in page.
One of the next things we asked ourselves was; can You host a meeting without a G Suite account?
Now, they’ve scaled up the free services to even include the ability to host/start a meeting without a G Suite account. Anyone with a Google account can now use Google Meet to create meetings.
How do I join a video call on Google Meet?
You can join a video call from Google Meet, Google Calendar, Gmail etc. You can also dial-in to a meeting from a phone or a meeting room or you can use Google Meet without a Google account. You are a personal account user if you use Google Meet through Gmail or another free account.