How To Cancel Google Meet Event? For Attendees And Yourself!

If due to unavoidable circumstances you have to cancel a meeting on Google Meet or you are invited to a meeting that you are unable to attend, you need to cancel it and inform the other attendees about it. Read the article to learn the procedure.

Google Meet is used by many business professionals, schools, and colleges to organize online real-time meetings. It is a free-to-use service by Google, where you can invite up to 100 participants and host a meeting for up to 60 minutes free of cost.

Google Calendar will be helpful to you if you need to make any changes to the planned event or meeting, such as rescheduling the meeting or canceling it, and also inform everyone about it. In this article, we will be discussing the complete process of canceling a Google Meet event.

How To Cancel A Google Meet Event For Everyone?

When you schedule a meeting on Google Meet and invite the participants, the meeting will be saved to the Google Calendar of every attendee. In case you are unable to host the meeting and wish to cancel or reschedule it, you can do it via Google Calander.

Please follow the below steps to cancel a Google Meet event for everyone, as an organizer on Google Calendar, and inform all the participants.

Open the Google Calendar on your PC or Laptop.

Select the event you wish to cancel.
Click on the trash icon to delete the event.
Select the option to notify all the attendees.

A pop-up window will open, where you can write a message.

All the participants that you have invited will receive an email regarding the cancellation of the meeting with the message that you have written.

How To Cancel A Google Meet Event For Yourself?

If you are invited to a meeting on Google Meet, you have the option to accept or decline the meeting via email. But if you have accepted the invite and still are unable to attend, you can delete the event from your Google calendar.

You need to open the Google Calendar on your laptop, PC, or Phone, and select the event you wish to cancel. When you delete the event from your calendar, it will not be deleted from the calendar of the others.

If you are invited to a recurring meeting, and you wish to delete it. The best way is to open the email and select whether you want to delete this meeting or all the recurring meetings in the future.

Can I Restore A Deleted Google Meet Event?

When you delete a Google Meet event, it will be kept in the trash bin for 30 days. You have 30 days after you delete the event to recover it. If a meeting is cancelled by you, it will delete all the reminders and notifications.

You can restore the event by opening the Google Calendar and navigating to the trash section. Here, you can select the event you want to restore. Click on the restore icon next to the event.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How To Delete A Recurring Meeting From On Google Calendar?

The process is quite simple, navigate to the recurring events section on your Google Calendar and delete the event you wish to cancel.

How To Cancel A Google Meet Event With A Note?

When you cancel an event on Google Meet, you will see an option there to write a note. You can write a message that you want to convey to all the members invited to the meeting.

Conclusion

There is certain business etiquette that you should follow while cancelling any meeting or event. The process to cancel is simple and you will find the steps in this article. Make sure to cancel the event in advance at least 24 hours before and reschedule as soon as possible.