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Anyone in the meeting can be the person who plays and shares the YouTube video—it doesn’t have to be the person creating the meeting. [1] X Research source If you were invited to a meeting and are not the one who created it, click the link in the email you received from the creator and then skip to step 7.
If you’d rather schedule the viewing for later, you can select Create a meeting for later, which generates a link that you can share with your friends when you’re ready to watch. Click the Copy button next to the link when it appears (the two overlapping squares) to copy the link to your clipboard, and then paste it into an email or message to the people you want to join. If you’re going to do the meeting later, just follow the link at the time of the meeting to join it, and then skip to step 7.
If you want to invite someone using something other than email, you can just click the two overlapping squares next to the meeting URL instead, and then just paste that link wherever you’d like. Anyone you invite via email will be able to join right away, but if someone joins using the copied link, you’ll need to approve them when they request to join.
To join the meeting, your friends will need to click or tap the link. If they try to join on a phone or tablet and don’t have the Google Meet app, they’ll be prompted to download it.
The “Share audio” box should be checked by default. If it’s not, check the box before you start sharing.
You can click back to the Meet tab at any time to see or chat with your friends without affecting the tab that’s playing. But if you close the tab, the video will stop sharing. Press the f key on your keyboard to make the video full-screen. You can minimize the video again by pressing the esc key.
If it’s your first time using Google Meet, follow the on-screen instructions to give the app permission to use your camera and microphone, and sign in when prompted.
Anyone in the meeting can be the one who shares the YouTube video with others—it doesn’t have to be the person who created the meeting. If someone invited you to a meeting, you can tap the link in the invitation to join, or tap Join with a code at the top-right and enter the meeting code from the email.
If you’d rather schedule the viewing for later, you can select Get a meeting link to share which generates a link that you can share with your friends when you’re ready to watch. Just copy that link so you can access it when you’re ready to watch YouTube with your friends. Another option is to Schedule in Google Calendar, which creates a new invitation in your calendar and allows you to invite participants from there.
Even if you’re starting the meeting later, you can choose this option to send the invitation to friends now.
Keep in mind that when you share YouTube from your phone or tablet, everything that happens on your screen will be visible to everyone in the meeting. This includes notifications.
Tap the outline of a square at the bottom-right corner of the video to make it full-screen. If you navigate away from the YouTube video while you’re presenting, others will see what you’re doing instead of the YouTube video. Keep the YouTube video open while sharing the video.
