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I don’t want Read to join all my meetings, what are my options?

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Adjust your Join Preferences

You can adjust when Read will join your meetings by going to Account Settings > Meeting Recording > Auto-Join Preferences:

If you have the "Auto-join meetings" option enabled, you'll need to choose between a couple of further options:

  • Under "Which Calendar Events" you can configure Read to join all calendar events, or only calendar events you are hosting
  • Additionally, under "Who's Invited" you can set Read to join meetings with any participants, or meetings with internal meetings only.
    • Internal meetings are ones where all invited participants share the same domain name for their email address.
    • This option is only available if your primary email address with Read is on a non-public email domain (e.g. it is a work email address and not @gmail.com or similar personal email service).

If you have "Auto-join meetings" turned off, then Read will be off by default for all of your meetings. Regardless of the join preferences you have set here, you can always manually turn Read on or off for specific meetings and recurring series from your Calendar page (see below).

In this section, you can also enable or disable the option to have Read auto-join adhoc (unscheduled) meetings on your behalf when you start a meeting on Google Meet or Zoom.

 

Enable or disable Read for specific meetings

If you want to enable or disable Read for select meetings on your calendar, simply:

  1. Go to your Calendar page (there's a link on the left-hand navigation):



     
  2. Toggle the "Add Read?" setting on or off:

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  3. If it's a recurring meeting, you'll have to choose whether to make this change for all future instances or just this specific one:

Please keep in mind that even if you turn "Add Read?" off, others in the meeting could be using Read and have it turned on from their account (check the meeting chat to see who invited Read).

Remove Read manually during a meeting

As part of our strong stance on privacy, any meeting participant can easily disable Read during the meeting.

Please visit this article to learn how to remove Read from an ongoing meeting.

Delete Your Account

While we would hate to see you go, we've made it very easy to delete your Read account, see:

Once you delete your account (or just update your auto-join settings), Read can no longer join meetings from that account. If you're ever in this situation and still have Read joining meetings, it must be coming from another account. In this case, please see:

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