Google Meet on Android and iOS rolls out a touch-up tool to help you look your best in meetings

Google Meet on Android and iOS rolls out a touch-up tool to help you look your best in meetings،

Google Meet users with Workspace accounts will benefit from a much-requested new feature on its mobile app. A new Portrait Editing feature starts rolling out today that slightly improves your appearance during video calls.

As announced via the Workspace Updates Blog, Google will start gradually rolling out this feature to mobile devices and eventually integrate it into the web version as well by the end of the year. The purpose of this tool is to allow meeting participants to slightly touch up their appearance from the green room.

Portrait editing can be enabled in the meeting settings of the Google Meet app on Android or iOS. Once you start a video call, you can tap the three dots in the bottom right corner of the screen and select “Settings”. From there, scroll down and enable “Portrait Retouch” in the “Video” section.

You can also adjust the portrait retouching level as you wish. The options are no retouch, “Subtle” and “Smoothing”, which are each represented by a face icon that you can tap to select. “Subtle” applies very light skin tone, brightening and whitening to the eyes, while “Smoothing” applies a greater level of these same adjustments.

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Unfortunately, this feature is not available for personal Google accounts and it is unclear if it will eventually be applied to all users. At this time, only users in the following tiers will benefit: Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, Teaching & Learning Upgrade, Google One, and Google Workspace Individual.

Portrait editing seems like a great tool to help users look their best during video calls. Whether you’re working from home or participating in a virtual meeting, it’s good to know that there are built-in options to help you feel more comfortable on camera.