Supported editions for this feature: Business Standard and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Plus; Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus. Compare your edition
Note: If you're not an IT admin, go to Record a video meeting instead.
Record meetings to share them with people who couldn't attend or to remember what happened at a meeting a few months ago. As an IT administrator, you can let meeting organizers and participants in your organization record and download Google Meet meetings and calls.
Troubleshoot Meet recording: Why can't a user record?
Data storage issues:
- Drive is off for the organization and can't store meeting data.
- For details, go to Turn Drive on or off for users.
- Drive is on but doesn't have enough available space.
- Both your organization and the person starting the recording must have enough available Drive space to record. For details, go to Review storage use across your organization.
Recording is off:
- Recording is off for the meeting owner.
- Recording is off for specific people.
- For example, out-of-domain participants in non-moderated meetings and participants who aren't hosts in moderated meetings can't record meetings.
Recording is unavailable:
- Recording is unavailable for participants from outside the host's organization.
- Recording is unavailable when Host Management is turned on and the host doesn't let people record.
- Recording is unavailable in breakout rooms.
Google Classroom & Education edition extra issues:
- Teachers aren't signed in to their Google Workspace account.
- Students can only record if the meeting organizer is a teacher or co-teacher.
- For details, go to Learn who can record a meeting.
Turn recording on or off for Meet
By default, recordings are saved for three months.
Before you begin: If needed, learn how to apply the setting to a department or group.
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In the Google Admin console, go to Menu
Apps Google Workspace Google Meet.Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.
- Click Meet video settings.
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(Optional) To apply the setting only to some users, at the side, select an organizational unit (often used for departments) or configuration group (advanced).
Group settings override organizational units. Learn more
- Click Recording and check or uncheck the Let people record their meetings box.
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Click Save. Or, you might click Override for an organizational unit.
To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit (or Unset for a group).
Control recording quality limits
Supported editions for this feature: Business Standard and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus. Compare your editionFor instructions, go to Set recording quality limits for Google Meet.