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How to stop Grain joining your meetings

Grain records the meetings its user set it to, and afterwards can email a recap that lets the other people in the meeting open the recording too.

Read on 9 November 2026

How it got into your call

If it is yours: stop it joining

  1. In Grain's settings, set Auto Record Meetings to Do not auto record any meetings.
  2. To keep it out of other people's meetings but in your own, tick Only auto record if I am the event organizer.

Get it out of a call that is running

  1. Grain's page on these settings does not say how to make it leave a call that is running.
  2. The host of the call can remove it from the list of people, as with any guest.

What it keeps

After the meeting Grain can email a recap to the people who were in it. Grain says that gives them the recording, the transcript and basic notes, even without a Grain account. Its page does not say what is kept when a recording is cut short.

In Grain's own words

The choice that stops it
Grain“Do not auto record any meetings”intercom.help/usegrain/en/articles/9126947-configure-your-auto-record-and-auto-share-settings
Keeping it to your own meetings
Grain“Only auto record if I am the event organizer”intercom.help/usegrain/en/articles/9126947-configure-your-auto-record-and-auto-share-settings

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