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Google Meet suffered a major outage across India on Wednesday, preventing thousands of users from joining meetings. Downdetector logged over 1,700 complaints, with most reporting website and server issues. Users flooded X with concerns and jokes as Google awaited to issue a statement.

Companion Mode allows users to participate in a Meet call using an in-room audio/video conferencing system rather than their own PC.

Google has announced that iOS users can now include audio when sharing their screen using Google Meet

This new feature aims to overcome the anonymity that arises when conference rooms are represented as a collective entity during virtual meetings.

Viewers are meeting attendees who cannot share their audio or video into the meeting

Google has added a new feature which will allow users to co-present Slides with support for multiple people in Meet

This feature will only have an effect on users' experiences; other participants will not be notified, and their experiences will not alter.

Users just have to click the new speaker notes button in the Slides controls bar in Meet to display their speaker notes within the call, the tech giant said in a Workspace Updates blogpost.

On all ChromeOS-based Meet devices, Zoom interop will be available, and support for more items will come later.

Tech giant Google has announced a new feature for Meet users to improve visibility by automatically framing the video.

The company said that will make it easier for users to participate in their meetings by quickly unmuting to say something.

The feature has been rolled for Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals and Education Plus domains. It will launch to additional Google Workspace editions in the coming months.

With Chrome OS's latest update, Google Meet will be pre-installed on all Chromebooks, making it easy for the users to launch into the app and get on a video call right from the Launcher.

"The Otter.ai Chrome Extension lets you transcribe and caption Google Meet in real time, and save audio transcripts to your Otter account," the company described in a new update.

According to Downdetector, YouTube, Google, Google Meet, Google Hangouts, Google Play and Gmail were down.

The development comes at a time when collaborations tools have gained unprecedented popularity this year due to the pandemic, allowing meeting platforms.