“Ask Gemini” is on in your Google Meet call: what it can see, and who can switch it off

How it got into your call

• It is part of Google Meet for Workspace accounts that have it, and it turns on by itself once at least two people are in the meeting.
• Everybody in the call sees a banner saying it is on; people who dialled in by phone hear an announcement.

Turn it off

1. The host or a co-host switches it off for everybody: on the Calendar event, or during the meeting from the three-dot menu on the Gemini icon, or Host controls → Gemini.
2. A company's Workspace admin decides whether it is available at all.

Stop it in a call that is running

1. It is not a participant, so there is nothing in the list of people to remove. Ask the host to turn it off if you would rather it was not used.
2. What each person asks it and what it answers is private to that person. It cannot answer about what was said before they joined, unless “Take notes for me” was already running.

What it keeps

Google says Ask Gemini does not create a recording and keeps neither the questions nor the meeting data after the meeting ends. If “Take notes for me” is on as well, those notes are kept — that is a separate feature.

In Google's own words

Read on 10 November 2026 from Google's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.

A meeting with nothing to remove

On Meetful the notes are written by the meeting itself, from each person's own microphone, so no extra guest joins. Anybody can leave themselves out of the notes and stay in the call.

Other notetakers

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