The new UI now has a more modern pre-call screen. Once in a conversation, you now have new control buttons on the bottom, as well as the ability to access real-time chat for link sharing and texting. Video calls also now have an audio-only mode which was introduced for calls last year.
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Live captions are available in over 70 languages, and screen sharing is also coming to both Android and iOS. You can also react with emojis, and add stacked filters, effects, and others.
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These updates to Google Meet will be rolling out gradually “over the next few months”. With these new features, I think the video-calling experience on Google Meet is going to really get more fun to use. I like that Google is working on making the ‘legacy’ Google Duo experience more similar to the one from Google Meet. After all, these two are now one app. And should look like one app. So, kudos to Google for working on it!
