Save battery when making video calls with this Google Meet option

Google meet add an option to save battery and data during video calls with this app.

Since the past imprisonment, video calls have become even more important in our lives, making them with our friends and family, as well as in work environments, especially now that many more people are working from home and in meetings. by video call are required.

A lot of these video calls are made from mobile devices or laptops, and we’re not always connected to power. That’s why Google will add battery saving and data restriction options to the Google Meet setup opti ons.

Battery and data saving on Google Meet

This option begins to appear for all Google Meet users. It mainly focuses on mobile devices, because when activating this saver mode, the app applies a restriction of mobile data, so that it slightly reduces the quality of the video call in exchange for saving the videos. data.

At the same time also reduces the use of device resources, which causes the processor to run less and therefore has less impact on battery consumption.

The option, as explained by Google, will be in the Meet side menu, under the configuration option and a “Limit data usage” button will appear. Ready, we’ll just have to keep using Meet video calling as usual, but the app, in the background, will apply these consumption restrictions.

Although more conservative on the quality, this measure can be useful if we have to attend a video call and we do not have the possibility to connect a charger, or even if the device is not too powerful or we have poor internet coverage.