Manage waiting room settings for your users

This feature is currently rolling out to Google Workspace customers according to scheduled and rapid release tracks. If you can't access the feature, it might not be available to your track.  Learn about feature and service rollouts .

Supported editions for this feature: Business Standard and Business Plus;  Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus ;  Teaching and Learning Upgrade; Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus.  Compare your edition

With Google Meet waiting rooms, you can allow your users to control who joins their meetings. Meeting hosts in your organization can move people who've joined to a waiting room. This lets your users manage the flow of meeting participants and communicate important information.

About waiting rooms

• Queue management—Waiting rooms helps manage the queue of people trying to join a meeting, making sure they're admitted in a timely manner.
• Communicate with participants—Meeting hosts in your organization can send messages to everyone in the waiting room.
• Share important information—Users in the waiting room can access information about the meeting, such as meeting attachments.

Select default settings for waiting rooms

1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

2. Go to Menu  Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet .

   Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege .

3. Click Meet safety settings.
4. (Optional) To apply the setting only to some users, at the side, select an organizational unit(often used for departments) or configuration  group(advanced). Show me how 

   Group settings override organizational units.  Learn more

5. Click Waiting Rooms.
6. Check the Waiting roombox.
7. (Optional) If you want to bring meeting participants into the call from the waiting room as soon as a host joins, check the Bring in automaticallybox.
8. Click Save.Or, you might click Overridefor an organizational unit  .

   To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit(or Unset for a group).