If you want your future Google Meet calls to go ahead smoothly, it’s a good idea to know when your meeting codes might expire.
Over the last year or so, most of us have become accustomed to setting up Google Meet meetings for work or pleasure. It’s dead simple to schedule your meetings on Calendar, Gmail, Google Chat, and elsewhere.
Just generate a meeting code, share it with others, and join when the time comes.
What you might not know, however, this that this unique meeting code has an expiration, and this expiration is based on the Workspace product that you used to create it.
Most meeting links expire 365 days after they were last used, but there are cases where the link will expire instantly – as soon as the meeting ends.
Beginning May 19, 2021, Google is enforcing these meeting link expirations, and you will definitely need to know about them – if you don’t want any more drama in your life.
Google Meet Code Expirations (as of May 19, 2021)
Take a look below, and make sure your meeting codes are valid – especially if you plan meetings well in advance.
Google Calendar
Meeting codes expire when:
- The meeting code has not been used for 365 days, and
- The meeting code isn’t associated with any future calendar events.
However, if a code is created in another product and then pasted within a Calendar invite, the code will still expire depending on the product it was generated from.
Gmail and Google Meet homepage
Meeting codes expire 365 days after last use.
Google Chat and Google Hangouts
Meeting codes expire 365 days after last use.
Breakout Rooms
These expire instantly once the parent meeting ends.
Jamboard and Meeting room hardware
A meeting code expires instantly once all users leave the meeting.
Nicknamed meetings
This is available to Google Workspace subscribers only, and a meeting code expires instantly once all users leave the meeting.
Google Classroom
A Google Classroom meeting code expires instantly once all users have left the meeting.
Other Third Party Applications
Meeting codes expire 365 days after last use. If someone uses a code within this 365-day window, it will add another 365 days to the expiration date.
Google Nest
Any meeting code generated by speaking into your Nest device and saying “Hey, Google start a meeting” will expire 365 days after it is last used.
For users in the Google Workspace with Google Assistant Beta, any meeting generated using meeting nicknames will expire immediately after the last user leaves the meeting.
Google Meet code expirations are enforced on accounts belonging to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers. They are also available to users with personal Google Accounts.