February 20, 2021: Google has now blocked all Meet extensions that helped with grid view, including the ones listed below. These extensions no longer work and the only workaround appears to be the native tiled view within Google. However, this tiled view is reduced to 12 viewers when someone is presenting in your meeting, regardless of your current settings. There does not appear to be a workaround to enable all 49 participants in grid view while someone is presenting. If you would like to use this feature, you can always submit a feature request to Google using this link.

Google Meet lets you view up to 16 participants in a grid format during conference calls. For larger groups, users had to rely on a Google Chrome extension that mimicked a Zoom-like grid view. This extension worked on any Chromium-based browser, including Google Chrome, Brave Browser, Microsoft Edge, and Vivaldi.

However, several users have been facing issues while trying to access the Grid view functionality using the extension we mentioned earlier. If you are one of those who can’t seem to use the grid layout in Google Meets using the extension, then the following post will help you fix the issue.

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