As the epidemic develops, the public’s reliance on video conferencing services has become increasingly heavy. Faced with this situation, Google Meet originally required a paid subscription account to unlock many restrictions. In fact, since last year, we have continued to extend the permissions of free accounts to use advanced functions such as multi-person video. However, it now seems that it is probably because the global epidemic is gradually coming under control, and they also confirmed that it is “(should be considered) unfortunate.”Free measures that have been postponed again and again, the restrictions will finally be added back to free accounts this month. Continue reading the text of the report that Google Meet’s multi-person video feature has been reduced to 1 hour for free accounts.
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Google Meet multi-person video feature drops to 1 hour limit for free accounts
In fact, generally speaking, few people will be happy about taking away free access, but after all, it is because the epidemic is finally under control, so they feel that it is a good thing to finally no longer postpone such measures (I hope that the epidemic of more than a year can really end in the near future!).
Since the peak of the epidemic last year, Google Meet has chosen to lift many restrictions of the free version in order to support the needs of working and studying at home. However, what was hard to predict was that this opening was postponed all the way to June this year (I remember there were at least three postponements…).
Recently, the official confirmed that it should be in response to the epidemic gradually easing. The time limit for multi-person video conferences for non-enterprise user accounts will begin to be added back. If there are more than 3 people in a video conference, they will have 1 hour to go online; a simple 1-to-1 video conference can still reach a maximum of 24 hours.
according toDescription from the official support page, the meeting will notify everyone of the time limit at the 55th minute and will stop at the 60th minute. That said, although for those who rely heavily on Google Meet’s multi-person video conferencing feature, it’s easy to break the time limit and just upgrade to a Google Workspace subscription. But speaking of it, maybe this one-hour limit can help everyone develop the habit of talking about key points in meetings?
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Source: KOCPC Chinese