Now, Google Meet is introducing an intuitive hand-raising gesture for Workspace and Education users.

The Google Meet hand-raising gesture is super simple.

You raise a hand to your webcam, and a small progress bar will appear on-screen.

Someone using the hand-raising gesture in Google Meet. A “raising your hand” progress bar appears over their video feed.

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you’re free to’t raise your handaboveyour head, though.

For gesture detection to work, your hand must be within your webcam’s line of sight.

Because this gesture can be triggered by accident, it is disabled by default.

These options can only be accessed while you are actively attending a meeting.

There’s just one problem with this feature.

When you raise your hand in Google Meet, other attendees are shown apermanentnotification, not a temporary one.

You must manually press the “lower your hand” button to wipe the notification from everybody’s screens.

The new hand-raising gesture is currently rolling out to Google Workspace and Education users in Rapid Release domains.

Those in Scheduled Release domains will receive this feature between the dates of November 28th and December 13th.

Unfortunately, Google’s announcement makes no mention of personal accounts.