Video meeting participants can now let you know if they have a question or indicate that they would like to speak by raising their hand in Meet. In large meetings, this helps to increase participation while not disrupting the flow of the conversation and helps to prevent people from interrupting one another.

To raise your hand in Meet, click on the “Raise Hand” button on the bottom bar during the meeting. Once the button is pressed, it will change to a “Lower Hand” button, which can be clicked to lower your hand.

When a participant raises their hand, the meeting’s moderator will see a hand icon in their video preview. If the moderator is presenting in another tab, they’ll get a sound notification when someone raises their hand.

The moderator will also be able to see all raised hands in the order they were raised in the meeting participant list panel to help them address questions accordingly. The moderator can lower a specific person’s hand or lower all hands.

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: This feature will be ON by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using hand raising in Meet.

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 17, 2020

• Available to Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus well as G Suite Business, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers
• Not available to Workspace Business Starter as well as G Suite Basic customers. Not available to users with personal Google Accounts

• Google Help: Hand Raising with Google Meet

• This feature was listed as an upcoming release.