Google began rolling out post-quantum cryptography for Google Meet’s web clients and meeting-room hardware on October 12, 2026. A separate rollout of Gemini-powered post-meeting routines began October 5: eligible Google Workspace plans can turn meeting notes into a Gmail follow-up draft or Google Tasks items. The routines require “Take notes for me” to be enabled during the meeting; the encryption update requires no action from users or administrators. (Google’s post-quantum announcement; Google’s routines announcement)
| Google Meet update | Purpose | Accounts or plans | Initial rollout | User action |
| Gemini routines | Draft a Gmail follow-up or add meeting action items to Google Tasks | Business Standard and Plus; Enterprise Standard and Plus; Google AI Pro for Education add-on | Began October 5, 2026; visibility could take longer than 15 days | Enable “Take notes for me” during the meeting |
| Post-quantum cryptography | Protect against a possible future “store now, decrypt later” threat | Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and personal Google-account users | Began October 12, 2026, for web clients and meeting-room hardware; Google described a gradual rollout of up to 15 days | No user or administrator action |
What Gemini routines do after a meeting
With “Take notes for me” on during a meeting, the routines can draft a follow-up email in Gmail or add the meeting’s action items to Google Tasks. You can choose a routine for one meeting or a recurring meeting, and apply a selected next step to meetings where note-taking is enabled.
Google Workspace productivity advisor Laura May Martin demonstrates how to start “Take notes for me” in Meet:
Who can use and manage the routines?
Google lists Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, and the Google AI Pro for Education add-on as eligible plans. Meet access by itself does not qualify an account for these routines.
The feature is on by default for administrators. They can disable it for a domain, organizational unit, or group through Workspace Studio Admin settings or the “Take Notes for Me” setting. After first enabling a routine in Meet, users can manage it in the Workspace Studio Flows library as well as from the post-meeting screen. Google said routine visibility could take longer than 15 days after the rollout began.
What Meet’s post-quantum rollout covers
Post-quantum cryptography, or PQC, is designed to protect data against decryption by a sufficiently capable quantum computer. Google framed the update as protection against a theoretical “store now, decrypt later” risk: an attacker could retain encrypted traffic in hopes of decrypting it with future technology. Google said no quantum computer capable of breaking today’s cryptography exists.
The rollout began with web clients and meeting-room hardware. Google said mobile support was coming soon, and that the change applies to Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and people using personal Google accounts. Meet had already used quantum-safe encryption for client-side encrypted calls; this rollout expands PQC to Meet calls more broadly. Google said the change is automatic, with no administrator control or end-user setting.
Meet also supports notes for in-person meetings
Google separately announced a way to start note-taking for an in-person meeting from the Meet home screen on web or mobile. Gemini creates a summary, action items, and a transcript in a Google Doc saved to Drive, then emails the user a link to the document. (Google’s announcement about in-person notes)
