How To Use Emoji Reactions In Google Meet

Google has just rolled out a new emoji reaction feature to the app, Meet. (photo: doc. google)

JAKARTA - Last week Google just rolled out a new emoji reaction feature to its video conferencing app, Meet. And for those of you who want to use this feature but don't know how, keep reading this article.

In fact, Google is quite late in presenting the emoji reaction feature, because many employees have started working from the office and abandoned their hybrid work habits, who still need a video conferencing application to organize a meeting.

This feature has also been planned since 2021, but was only released in January 2023. Also, the company also released it for iOS first and promises this feature will be available for Android soon, whether you use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Windows Explorer as your browser. default.

The emoji reactions include, heart, thumbs up, party poppers, applause, joy, amazement, thinking, crying, and thumbs down emoji.

No need to linger, here's how to use emoji reactions on Google Meet, quoted from various sources, Monday, January 16.

1. Open Google Meet and start joining your meeting

2. Look at the bottom of the screen, right next to the raise hand button.

3. Click the emoji reaction button to open a row of available emoji.

4. Select the desired emoji reaction.

5. Note that while this emoji reaction option is available by default when Google Meet starts, the meeting organizer can disable this option.

6. After selecting an emoji reaction, it will be displayed in the upper left corner of your icon. If everyone reacted at the same time, all reactions would show.

7. You can also adjust the hand skin tone in the emoji reactions section. To do this, move your mouse over the skin color icon. To adjust the skin tone of the emoji reaction, click the emoji reaction button again.

8. The skin tone button is placed on the right side of the box. Clicking on it will make other skin tones appear, and you can choose the skin tone you want.