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Remove Read AI from a Google Meet meeting

On Google Meet, the host or a co-host can remove Read AI from the participant list, and everyone else has another way. Here is each, and how to keep it out of the next meeting.

Leaves when somebody types Read Stop · Opt OutRead on 10 November 2026

Remove it from a Google Meet call now

  1. When Read has joined as a participant, only the host or a co-host can remove it in Meet: the People panel, the three dots next to Read, Remove from the call.
  2. Everyone else uses the chat: read stop (it leaves and writes a report) or opt out (it leaves and deletes what it recorded), or the opt-out link if Read posted one.

If you are not the host

  1. If Read is recording through Google Meet’s own recording instead, it is not in the people list and does not read the chat. Then any participant can stop it from the add-on: Meeting tools (the grid icon, bottom right) → Add-ons → Read AI → the Read AI logo → Stop recording, and choose Delete recording or Generate report.

What you will see on Google Meet

On Google Meet in particular

On Google Meet, Read can also record without joining as a participant at all, through a Meet add-on and Meet’s own recording. So if you cannot see it in the people list, look under Meeting tools.

Keep it out of the next Google Meet meeting

A guest who has to ask to join can be refused at the door. Once a notetaker is in, the host or a co-host removes it from the people list — and is offered the choice to block it from coming back.

To stop it being sent at all, its owner changes Read AI's own settings — how to stop Read AI joining.

In Read AI's own words

On Meet, who
Read AI“Only the meeting host or co-host can remove Read as a meeting participant.”support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-meeting
The add-on route
Read AI“With native recording, Read doesn't join as a participant or post a chat message, so chat commands don't work.”support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-meeting
Anyone can stop the add-on
Read AI“Instead, any meeting participant can stop the recording from the Read AI add-on”support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-meeting
Deleting it
Read AI“"Opt out" (or the opt-out link, if one is posted in the chat): Read leaves the meeting and deletes everything it recorded.”support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20116170396691-How-to-remove-Read-from-an-ongoing-meeting

What Google Meet says about the host's controls

Removing someone
Google“Next to the participant you want to remove, click More actions .”support.google.com/a/users/answer/9303069
The menu item
Google“Select Remove from the call .”support.google.com/a/users/answer/9303069
Blocking a return
Google“Now, when a host or co-host removes a participant from a call, they will be prompted with additional actions.”workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/06/improvements-for-removing-users-from-a-google-meet-call.html

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

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