Google Chat’s new huddles make it even more like Teams and Slack
Google Chat is launching huddles, a Google Meet-powered addition that lets you start a quick call with your coworkers. Google said it would add huddles to Google Chat in customer preview over a year ago, but we haven’t heard about it since then. The company says the feature has started rolling out and should reach all Workspace users by January 6th.
Google’s Chat app is gaining an audio-centric feature powered by one of its other core apps, Meet. Described as a “fast and flexible way to connect,” huddles allow Google Chat users to start an audio-first meeting.
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The new feature comes with some customization options, such as the ability to resize or drag the window once the huddle has started, as well as the option to share your screen for a full meeting experience while multitasking in Chat, as well as the ability to add video.
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How To Start A Huddle In Google Chat?
For end users, Huddles are available in direct messages, group messages, and spaces. To start a Huddle, users can click on the Video icon in the top right corner of the chat message and then select “Start a huddle.” When a user is requested to join a huddle, they’ll see a chat chip in their message thread that says [user] has started the huddle.
They’ll also see the huddles toggle in the Chat header for that conversation. However, if Meet is turned OFF for users in a domain, they’ll not be able to create Huddles. Even so, they can still join Huddles.