{"id":481652,"date":"2022-08-05T22:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/google-duos-join-links-are-changing-in-meet-takeover\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T22:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:45:13","slug":"google-duos-join-links-are-changing-in-meet-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-duos-join-links-are-changing-in-meet-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"#Google Duo\u2019s Join Links Are Changing in Meet Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2910a080716\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2910a080716\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-duos-join-links-are-changing-in-meet-takeover\/#%E2%80%9CGoogle_Duos_Join_Links_Are_Changing_in_Meet_Takeover%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Google Duo\u2019s Join Links Are Changing in Meet Takeover&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-duos-join-links-are-changing-in-meet-takeover\/#Time_Limits_in_Duo_and_old_Meet\" >Time Limits in Duo and (old) Meet<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CGoogle_Duos_Join_Links_Are_Changing_in_Meet_Takeover%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Google Duo\u2019s Join Links Are Changing in Meet Takeover&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage alignnone size-full wp-image-823222\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Google-Meet-and-Duo.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"Google Meet and Duo logos\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google announced last month that it was merging its two video call <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>s, Google Meet and Google Duo, and the transition officially started a few days ago. However, the switch does have at least one downside.<\/p>\n<p>Google states in a support article that direct calls with contacts or a group of people is free with no time limits, just like before with Duo, but the rules around generating links to join meetings have changed. If you set up a meeting that can be joined with a link, and you only have a free Google account (instead of Google One Premium), the meeting will have a time limit of 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Time_Limits_in_Duo_and_old_Meet\"><\/span>Time Limits in Duo and (old) Meet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Google Duo has never had a maximum limit on the length of calls, for both audio-only and video calls. The main limit was just on the number of people you could have on a single call \u2014 Duo maxed out at eight participants before the COVID-19 pandemic, which was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/38640\/google-duo-bumps-its-video-chat-limit-up-to-12-callers\/\">raised to 12 in March 2020<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/47390\/google-duo-for-android-now-allows-32-callers\/\">raised again to 32 people a few months later<\/a>. Duo didn\u2019t even have group video calls on the web <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/42165\/google-duo-adds-group-calls-on-the-web-a-family-mode-and-link-invites\/\">until May 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google Meet, in contrast, was built from the start for large companies and organizations to have online video meetings. Google Workspace accounts (the ones set up by organizations) can have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/workspaceupdates.googleblog.com\/2021\/11\/host-meetings-with-500-participants.html\">500 participants on the same call<\/a>, though <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/meet\/answer\/7317473#zippy=%2Cparticipant-limits\">the limit for most Google accounts is 100<\/a>. There\u2019s no time limit with Meet calls for paid Workspace accounts, which was also true when Meet was rolled out to free Google accounts in the early days of the pandemic, but <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/75883\/google-meet-extends-free-unlimited-video-calls-until-june-30th\/\">that ended in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom forces free calls to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=204a528a336ede4177fff0d84a044482&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.zoom.us%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F202460676-Time-limits-for-Zoom-Meetings\">end after 40 minutes<\/a>, and free Microsoft Teams meetings are <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?id=2QzUaswX1as&amp;mid=24542&amp;u1=htg\/823891&amp;murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fmicrosoft-teams%2Fcompare-microsoft-teams-options%3Factivetab%3Dpivot%253aprimaryr1\">limited to 60 minutes in groups or 30 hours in 1-to-1 calls<\/a>. However, there are still some services that offer free calls with no time limit, such as Microsoft Skype and Apple FaceTime.<\/p>\n<p><small>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/duo\/answer\/12128482\">Google<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> This article previously stated that \u201cstarting a Meet call from a phone or tablet won\u2019t have a maximum time limit, but calls started from the Meet desktop web app will be limited to 60 minutes for free Google accounts.\u201d The actual distinction is direct calls vs. meetings \u2014 calling a specific contact or a group of people is still free with no time limits, but generating a link for anyone to join at any time is limited to 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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