How to hide names on Google meet (And video)


During a meeting on Google meet, every participant’s original name gets exposed and this makes people feel insecure and unsafe. Some participants don’t want to appear on camera during a meeting because of specific reasons.

Google meet does not offer a feature that allows a user to hide their identity.  To hide the participant’s real identity on google meet, install a safe doc extension on a chrome browser and follow the step-by-step guide provided down below.

Participants’ names get to appear on the people’s list and tiles as well. Of course, it is necessary to remove names completely from both places. Let’s go with the example of a colleague’s meeting and the admin of the meeting is commanded to keep every colleague’s name confidential because of some sort of reason. To install a safe doc extension on a chrome browser. Catch up with this article.

How to install a safe doc extension on participants’ chrome browsers? Step by Step

Keeping in mind that setting up a safe doc extension is highly confined to the only super admin role, and if you don’t have a license you will not be able to make it work. If you are assigned to perform this job, you will be installing a safe doc on your colleague’s chrome browsers. It will take place remotely using the extension, it doesn’t need any physical approach to any of your colleague’s devices. There are several steps that you have to follow to:

  • Go to your admin console page and make it to ‘super admin role’.
  • If it is your first time setting up a safe doc extension, I will recommend you to generate a test organization unit at first, it will not mess up the second step i.e. production unit.
  • Now add one or more than one test colleague accounts to the test OU.
  • Change the settings of the user and browser policy to the OU: 
  • Disable developer tools
  • Disable incognito mode.
  • Whitelist license server
  • Once you are done with alternating user and browser settings, you can start installing safe doc extensions on your colleagues’ chrome browsers.

Now that you are done installing a safe doc, you can experience numerous features that the Google admin console doesn’t offer, including hiding participants’ real identities. As the participants’ names are removed one can still own a list of names of participants. 

Using the chrome extension it has become possible to take attendance on google meet during meetings.

  • Addition of participants in google meet during meeting

The meeting host can easily add participants to the meeting by copying the invite link that pops up instantly at the start of the meeting. Once the link is copied, send an invitation through WhatsApp, Facebook, LinkedIn, or any other social app.

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How to appear in a Google Meet meeting without video?

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This one is far easier than the above-mentioned process. You can carry out this one with no sweat. Here’s how you can do it through both computer and mobile:

  • Hide video in meeting through computer

During a meeting on google meet on Desktop, three options in the bottom center of the screen namely, microphone, video, and end call can be seen. To stop sharing the video, click on the video button and a slash will be set on that button which indicates that the video has ended.

hide  video on Google meet
  • Hide video in meeting through mobile

During a meeting on google meet on mobile, four options appear on the screen. Click on the one that shows the video sign and a slash will be put to instantly end the video.

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How to change display name on Google meet?

Interested in knowing how you can change your display name on Google meet? Well, it’s quite easy. Just hold on to this and you will know how to change your display name on Google meet through a computer and mobile app.

Converting real names into something trendy or cool on Google meet is what everyone is into these days. You cannot change your real name on your ID card but at least you can relish doing so on Google meet. So, let’s dive into this.

How to change your display name on Google meet through the computer?

Here’s how you can do it:

  • Go to your browser, and search for the Google meet website. Sign in to your account.
  • Now click on your profile picture in the top right corner and select ‘manage your Google account’.
  • This will take you to another tab with Google account settings. 
  • Click on personal info from the menu list. 
  • As soon as the page appears, click on the option ‘name’.
  • Make required editing and click on save.

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How to change your display name on Google meet on mobile?

  • Open your mobile app and tap on the three-bar button.
  • Click on your profile picture or the icon showing your name’s first letter.
  • Select ‘manage your Google account’, following that Google settings will get opened.
  • Now go for personal info and select a name.
  • Make editing and click on save.
hide names on Google meet
hide names on Google meet

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Emidio Amadebai

Emidio is an IT Engineer, Technology enthusiast, Blogger, and Author who loves to learn and share everything he learns along the way with others.

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