Google Meet now adds screenshots of the displayed slides and tables to its automatically generated meeting notes. Those who previously took their own screenshots during a presentation to find important graphics later no longer need to do so. The feature has been rolling out since August 3, 2026, but is only available for paid Google Workspace accounts.
Google Meet now creates notes with images
Until now, the “Notes for me” feature in Google Meet provided a pure text log: a summary of the conversation, recognized decisions, and next steps. Anyone wanting to see an important table or chart from a presentation again had to take a screenshot themselves or watch the recording later. That is now changing. The AI Gemini automatically recognizes when someone shares a slide, document, or table. It then inserts a screenshot of it directly at the matching place in the notes document. Participants see a notice that Gemini is enhancing the notes with images. The screenshots are not placed randomly in the document, but next to the section of the conversation in which the slide was shown. Anyone opening the finished notes document later finds text and image in the same context. The underlying note feature has been around for some time. According to Google Help, it works in German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish – but only in one language per meeting.
An example shows the time saved on follow-up
A typical case from office life: in a one-hour budget meeting, a colleague from controlling shows several tables with cost overviews. Until now, only the text log remained after the meeting. The exact numbers from the tables were lost if no one had taken their own photo in time. With the new feature, a single Google Doc now results that contains both the conversation and the shown tables as images. Anyone wanting to check later what number was on slide four does not need to replay the recording or ask colleagues. This saves time especially in meetings with many slides or tables, such as budget meetings, status rounds, or client presentations. Until now, many employees resorted to their own screenshot tool in such cases or asked colleagues via chat for the slide. That extra step now falls away, because the finished document automatically contains everything shown during the conversation. The Recap feature in Microsoft Teams already works in a similar way. It automatically turns meetings into minutes with open tasks, but does not yet automatically embed shown slides as images.
Paid account only – rollout since August 3
The screenshot feature is not intended for personal Google accounts. According to Google Help, it is only available with a paid Workspace account: Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, or Google AI Pro for Education. The rollout began on August 3, 2026, and takes up to 15 days per company according to Google’s announcement; full availability is planned for the current quarter. Anyone wanting to try the feature at their own company can follow these steps:
- Schedule or start a meeting with Google Meet as usual.
- Click “Notes for me” in the calendar entry, in the green room, or during the live call.
- In the notes panel, turn on “Include screenshots of presented content.”
- Present as usual – the screenshots are created automatically in the background.
- After the meeting, open the finished Google Doc with text and images in Drive.
Whether the option is even visible also depends on the IT department. It centrally decides in the admin console whether screenshots are allowed by default or only when recording is turned on.
What matters most is how reliably Gemini recognizes the right moments for a screenshot. If someone switches quickly between windows during a presentation, an important image can be missed. It also remains unclear when free Google accounts will get the feature; Google has not named a date for that yet. Anyone showing sensitive customer or company data should check with the IT department beforehand whether internal rules allow automatic screenshots in meetings. The screenshots, like the rest of the notes text, end up in the company’s Google Workspace account.
