How to stop Read AI joining your meetings

How it got into your call

• One person in the meeting — the organiser or a guest — connected their calendar to Read and left auto-join on.
• It can also join meetings that were never on a calendar, if that person left the switch for unscheduled meetings on.

If it is yours: stop it joining

1. In Read go to Account Settings → Meeting Recording → Auto-Join Preferences and switch Auto-join meetings off.
2. To keep it out of one meeting only, open the Read AI Calendar, find the meeting and switch Add Read? off, a few minutes before it starts.
3. Switch off auto-join for unscheduled meetings as well, or it still turns up in calls nobody put on a calendar.

Get it out of a call that is running

1. Anybody in the call can type Read Stop in the chat. It leaves, and still writes a report from what it heard up to then.
2. Anybody can type Opt Out instead. It leaves, deletes what it measured, and writes no report. For a sensitive call this is the one to type.
3. If Read posted an opt-out link in the chat, press the link. Read says the typed command does not work when a link was given.
4. The host can also remove it from the list of people, like any guest.

What it keeps

It depends which way it left. After Read Stop there is a report from the part it heard. After Opt Out, Read says nothing is kept. Removed by the host, the part it heard stays with the person who sent it.

In Read AI's own words

Read on 9 November 2026 from Read AI's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.

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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.

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