Google Meet will stay onscreen when you switch tabs

Google is making it easier to support way of Google Meet calls — which tin easy get buried successful your tabs — portion you’re utilizing desktop Chrome. The institution is present rolling retired a diagnostic that automatically opens a Google Meet telephone successful picture-in-picture mode erstwhile you power tabs successful Chrome, according to a blog post.

As shown by Google successful a GIF, erstwhile you click distant from the Google Meet call, a caller Meet model pops up elsewhere connected the surface truthful that you tin support an oculus connected who’s speaking. Might beryllium useful erstwhile you’re decidedly looking astatine the papers idiosyncratic shared astir and decidedly not checking your Threads feed.

The automatic picture-in-picture diagnostic isn’t gated to paid accounts; Google says that it’s disposable to “all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with idiosyncratic Google accounts.”