How to turn off Google Meet in Gmail on iOS or Android?

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If you've been watching the news, you probably know that Google has decided to make its video calling service, Meet , free for all . The North American company did so with the intention of standing up to Zoom, the real star of video calls while in custody. Obviously, they felt that this was not enough and immediately afterwards they also decided to integrate Meet with gmail , their email client. Of course, this makes many users uncomfortable. Well, we are going to show you how to turn off Gmail Meet on your iPhone or Android very easily.

As we said before, the tech giant is slowly adding a huge Google Meet button to Gmail. And it does it on pretty much every popular platform, from iPhone and iPad to Android. If for any reason you are bothered by this issue, please be aware that there are solutions we can consider. So if you want to get rid of Meet in Gmail, keep reading.

By betting on this deactivation of Google Meet, the first consequence that you will notice is that the new lower toolbar of the screen is hidden. You'll have a little more space at a glance, and the inbox will take up more space. The steps we are going to show you below are indistinct for iOS or Android, so feel free to run them on your own smartphone.

Turn off Google Meet in Gmail step by step

To turn off Google Meet in Gmail on iOS or Android, you need to do the following:

Open the Gmail app as usual
Tap the menu button in the upper left corner
When the new sections open, scroll down to Settings
Enter your account settings by clicking on your own name
Switch to the Meet option, which instead appears at the top and turns off
Exit your Gmail account settings

And how do you use Google Meet then?

Fortunately, we don't need Gmail to use Google Meet on our smartphone. We always have the possibility to download the official application of the service from the App Store ou Google Play Store . Once you've done that, enter your usual Google data and you will be able to video conferencing with Meet without it being associated with Gmail. So easy and so fast.