How to Remove Read AI from Google Meet and Stop It Joining

Read AI joins a meeting because someone invited to it connected a calendar to Read with auto-join on, sometimes by signing up to view another user’s recap. If it is yours, turn off Auto-Join Calendar Events under Account Settings > Meeting Recording. If not, type “Opt out” in the meeting chat: Read leaves and deletes what it recorded.

Read AI does not find meetings by itself. Its help center says it joins only because someone invited to the meeting uses Read and has it set to record. That person connected a Google or Outlook calendar to Read, and from then on Read joins their events according to their auto-join settings, which by default cover every event on the connected calendar. On Google Meet and Microsoft Teams the Read user does not even have to attend: being invited is enough.

Zoom is the exception. Since 2 March 2026, Zoom has required apps that join meetings outside their own account to join on behalf of a user who authorized them, and Zoom’s developer blog says such an app cannot get in until that user is in the meeting. So Read now joins a Zoom meeting only if the person who invited it has connected their Zoom account to Read and is in the meeting, signed in to that account. When Read’s bot joins a Zoom call, the person who brought it is already there.

You can also have a Read account without remembering it. Read explains how: after a meeting, a Read user’s settings may share the summary with every attendee, and people without Read get an invitation to sign up to view it. Signing up creates an account, sometimes with a calendar connected in the same short flow, and onboarding asks whether Read should join every meeting, only meetings you host or only meetings you add it to. Installing Read’s app, add-on or extension for Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Chrome or Edge also creates an account.

Three other causes can make Read seem to keep coming back. A second Read account on another email address keeps its own settings; the Account Lookup tool in Read’s Account & Privacy Center finds it. Read’s browser extension prompts you to add Read when you join a Meet call without it, and adds an Invite Read toggle to Google Calendar events. And switching Read off in your account changes nothing for other invitees, who may have it on in theirs.

The bot’s name and its chat message usually tell you. By default the Read Assistant joins as “read.ai meeting notes”; its owner can switch to “Meeting Analytics from Read”, “[name]’s Assistant” or “[name]’s Notetaker”, paid plans allow a custom name, and a company Workspace can set one name for everyone. When Read joins as a participant it posts a chat message naming whoever invited it (on Zoom, latecomers get it as a direct message), and the recap email names who added Read near the top.

In Google Meet, Read either joins as a participant, like any notetaker bot, or records through Meet’s native recording with no bot in the call, after someone approves a consent pop-up. How you remove it depends on which one you see.

• Anyone in the call: type “Opt out” in the chat (Read leaves and deletes what it recorded) or “Read stop” (it leaves and keeps a report). If Read posted an opt-out link, click the link instead; the command will not work then.
• Host or co-host: click Show everyone, then More actions next to Read, “Remove from the call”, and Block so it cannot rejoin this meeting. With Host management on, only hosts and co-hosts can remove people; with it off, anyone from the organizer’s domain can. Removing Read still leaves its owner a report of what it recorded.
• Before it gets in: Read usually asks to join, so deny the request. Read says that unless meeting access is Open, someone from the host’s Google Workspace has to admit it, and that when a personal Gmail account hosts, only the host can.

Read’s Google Meet native recording uses Google’s Meet Media API, so there is no participant to remove and no chat message, and the commands do nothing. Someone in the meeting first has to confirm, in a pop-up, that everyone agreed to be recorded; in a meeting hosted in Google Workspace, only people from the host’s organization can approve it. Click Cancel and Read records nothing. If it is already recording, any participant can stop it:

1. Click Meeting tools (the grid icon at the bottom right), open the Add-ons tab and click Read AI under Active.
2. In the Read AI panel, click the Read AI logo at the bottom left and select Stop recording.
3. Choose Delete recording to delete it with no report, or Generate report to keep what was recorded so far.

Those labels come from Read’s article edited on 5 November 2026; a few older Read articles still describe Stop sharing and Opt out for the same step. Google’s admin help adds that participants are told when Meet Media API is in use and that each of them can turn it off.

Set meeting access to Trusted or Restricted in Host controls, or in Video call options on the Calendar event, so a bot that is not on the invite has to ask to join, and deny it. Ask the person named in Read’s chat message to turn “Add Read?” off for your meetings. If your organization uses Google Workspace, the admin switch for native recording is in the IT section below. And if the notetaker in your call is Google’s own Take notes for me, not Read, our Google Meet guide covers that switch.

If Read joins from your account, this takes a minute and deletes nothing. On the web:

1. Sign in at app.read.ai and open Account Settings > Meeting Recording > Auto-Join Preferences.
2. Turn off Auto-Join Calendar Events, so Read is off by default for every meeting. To keep it for some meetings, narrow it instead: “Calendar events I’m hosting” under Which Calendar Events, or “Internal participants only” under Who’s Invited.
3. Turn off Auto-Join Unscheduled Meetings if Read joins Meet or Zoom calls you start without a calendar event.
4. Open the Calendar page and make sure “Add Read?” is off on the upcoming meetings you do not want Read in; the toggle works whatever your defaults say. For a recurring meeting, choose “This meeting only” or “This and all future meetings in this series”.

Make changes at least 15 minutes before a meeting so Read has time to sync; Read’s extension article says it joins scheduled meetings 3 to 5 minutes before the start. In a company Workspace, your admins may limit these options. The Read desktop app shows the same “Add Read?” toggle on its Home and Calendar pages.

The extension offers to add Read when you join a Meet call without it (for Zoom and Teams links, only after you grant it extra permissions), and puts an Invite Read toggle and Read Scores into Google Calendar. To hide those, open the extension, click your email address, then Settings > Configuration > Calendar, and turn off “Show Smart Scheduler overlays in Google Calendar”. To remove it from Chrome, open More > Extensions > Manage extensions, select Remove on the Read extension and confirm with Remove.

Auto-join settings keep your calendar synced, so you can still invite Read on purpose. To stop Read seeing your meetings at all:

1. In Read, open Integrations and go to the Calendar & Meetings section.
2. Click each active calendar, click Disconnect and confirm with “Yes, Disconnect Calendar”. If the calendar feeds your Smart Scheduler links, turn those off in the same pop-up first.
3. If Zoom is connected (it is in the same section), click it, click Disconnect and confirm with “Yes, Disconnect”. Read can then record none of your Zoom meetings.
4. Disconnect any other integration you no longer want on the same page. Integrations on the Workspace tab belong to your company’s Read admin.

Do this after the Read steps above, not instead of them: Read’s own Disconnect is what clears your synced meetings, while Google only takes away the app’s access. Then:

1. Open myaccount.google.com/linkedapps, your Google Account’s linked apps page.
2. Choose “Access to your Google Account”, then select Read’s entry.
3. Click “See details”, then “Remove access”, and “Confirm”.

If you sign in to Read with Google, the page also lists Read under “Sign in with Google”; end that link only once you no longer need to sign in, for example after deleting the account. Google notes that removing access does not delete data the app already holds.

Read inside Google Calendar itself comes from two places. The Invite Read toggle, the Read section with a meeting’s Read Score and the scheduling overlays belong to the browser extension (switch them off or remove it, above). A report link in an event’s description comes from a Read user’s Update Calendar Event setting, which can also make guests’ calendars send them an update email; only that user can switch it off, in Account Settings > Report Sharing.

On a work or school Google account, an admin can block Read for the whole organization: in the Admin console, Security > Access and data control > API controls > Manage App Access, then Change access and Blocked. That covers your own organization’s users only; a guest from another company can still bring their own Read.

Disconnect the Outlook calendar in Read first (Integrations, Outlook Calendar, Disconnect), then revoke Read’s permissions on the Microsoft side:

• Work or school account: open the My Apps portal at myapplications.microsoft.com. If Read is listed, hover over its tile, select “...” and “Manage your application”, then “Revoke Permissions” next to what you granted yourself. Permissions your administrator granted for you cannot be revoked there; ask IT.
• Personal Microsoft account (Outlook.com): a Microsoft Q&A moderator points to account.microsoft.com/privacy/app-access, which lists the apps with access to your account. Open Read’s entry there and remove its permissions.
• IT admins: in the Microsoft Entra admin center, go to Entra ID > Enterprise apps > All applications, select Read, then Properties, set “Enabled for users to sign-in?” to No and Save. Read’s help center gives its application ID as 35e7f5d2-9978-464f-8710-c7a05d5b9fdf, shown as Read Meeting Navigator or Read AI; your users then get error AADSTS7000112, which Read’s support cannot lift. Microsoft explains how to disable an app that is missing from the list by its ID with PowerShell.

That stops your own users from signing in to Read with their Microsoft accounts. Microsoft’s page does not say it affects a bot that an outside guest sends to a Teams meeting you host; the meeting settings further down handle that.

Read also sends email, some of it to people who have never used Read. These are the messages its help center describes, and who controls each one:

As a recipient you cannot switch off someone else’s recaps, but two things help: tell the person who added Read, and after the meeting use Delete Report in Read’s Account & Privacy Center, which sends the owner a deletion request. If you use Read yourself and only want fewer emails, change Send to and keep the rest.

You cannot change another person’s Read settings, but Read built exits for exactly this, and none of them needs a Read account:

Advance notice emails only go out when the recording user’s company Workspace has turned on Advance Notice and Opt-Out, and opting out there only stops Read joining on its own: Read says a user can still add it by hand once the meeting has started, and then the in-meeting options apply. If an opt-out link is posted, use it; the chat command will not work then. Type commands without the quotation marks; if you joined late and cannot see Read’s message, they still work. And stopping is not opting out: “Read stop”, or a host simply removing Read from the call, still leaves a report of what was recorded.

Then stop the next one: ask the person named in Read’s message to switch “Add Read?” off for meetings with you, because removing the bot clears today’s meeting only. A Read user who hosts can also turn on Make report private for a meeting, which stops anyone else adding Read to it.

Read’s desktop and mobile apps record audio on the user’s own device. No bot joins, so the commands and opt-out links do not apply, and you may see no sign of it. Read says the person recording is responsible for telling you and collecting consent; its desktop app reminds them before each recording unless they turn the reminder off, and offers a disclosure message with an opt-out link. If you suspect it, ask them or the host directly.

In Zoom and Teams, Read joins as a participant with its own video tile and usually asks to be let in. If nobody admits it within 10 minutes of the start, the meeting lands on its user’s list of incomplete reports, and after 3 failed meetings in a row in a series, Read switches “Add Read?” off for the rest of that series and emails its user. Labels below are quoted from Zoom and Microsoft’s English help pages:

Account-wide blocks for every notetaker bot, not just Read, such as Zoom’s app restrictions, Teams’ external bot policy and Google Workspace app access, are in our guide to blocking AI notetakers.

One limit to know: no meeting setting stops someone recording on their own computer, and Read’s own desktop app does just that. If a meeting must not be recorded, say so at the start.

If your company has a Read Workspace, its settings are the most direct lever. Admins open Workspace Settings from the menu at the bottom left:

• Meeting Auto-Join Preferences: Meeting Role (all meetings, meetings the user hosts, or meetings users select manually), Meeting Types (internal only, or internal and external) and Auto-Join Unscheduled Meetings. Users can only pick your choice or a stricter one, and teams can get their own settings under Configure Team.
• Advance Notice and Opt-Out, in the same section: invitees outside your Workspace get an email with an Opt Out of Recording button, and one opt-out stops Read for everyone in that meeting.
• Distribution: switch off Meeting Recaps and users cannot send recaps for their reports. Most Workspace settings also offer “Do not allow users to update this preference”.
• App Recording: switch off recording with Read’s desktop and mobile apps; reports made earlier stay available.

If your company does not use Read, you cannot reach anyone’s Read account. Block it for your own users (Google Workspace API controls and Microsoft Entra, above, and deny their Outlook consent requests), then control the meetings you host:

• Google Workspace: in the Admin console, Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet > Meet safety settings > Media API, untick “Let third-party apps that join a Meet call use the audio and video of the call through Meet Media API”. Read’s native recording runs on that API. Read also says it cannot record meetings that use Meet watermarking or client-side encryption.
• Microsoft Teams: Read’s own troubleshooting says its bot needs anonymous join. In the Teams admin center, Meetings > Meeting policies, turning off “Anonymous users can join a meeting unverified” stops organizers under that policy from hosting meetings that unverified anonymous users can join. It also keeps out human guests who are not signed in, so apply it where that is acceptable; Microsoft says policy changes can take up to 24 hours. Keep “Manage external bots and their access to meetings” on its default, “When detected, require approval before joining”: Read’s help center suggests that admins pick “Do not detect bots” so its bot is easier to admit.
• Zoom: Zoom’s guide for admins says that prohibiting an automated meeting tool in the Marketplace (Admin App Management > Permissions) stops its use on your account, not tools that outside guests bring. For those, rely on the recording settings and removal above.

Deleting is permanent: reports owned by the account are deleted at once unless you belong to a Workspace, so save what you need first. Before you start, cancel a paid plan (Plan & Billing > Cancel plan > Downgrade to Free). A Workspace owner has to transfer ownership or delete the Workspace first, and if the Delete Account section says “Account deletion is managed by your organization”, only your IT or Workspace admin can do it. Read’s support team cannot delete an account for you. Then, on the web:

1. Sign in to Read with the same method you created the account with, such as Google, Microsoft or Zoom.
2. Open Account Settings, click Advanced in the left-hand menu and scroll to Delete Account.
3. Click “Delete my account”, pick a reason in the pop-up and confirm with “Delete account”.

Read then shows “Successfully deleted account”, and its Account & Privacy Center can confirm it. Remove Read’s Zoom app too if you added it. If Read still turns up, it is someone else’s, named in its chat message, or a second account of yours: search your inboxes for the “Welcome to Read!” email from support@e.read.ai and check which address it went to.

To keep your past reports, deactivate instead: disconnect every calendar and Zoom (above). The account stays, and Read joins nothing unless another Read user invites it.

If the bot is what bothers you, Read has its own answer: its desktop app for Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) and macOS 14 or later records audio from your computer with no bot, on every plan, and Read has mobile apps too. Those recordings are audio only and skip Read’s coaching metrics.

Reline works the same way at the capture step. The desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux (beta) records your microphone and the sound your computer plays; in the browser, Reline records your microphone and hears the other side only while you share a tab or your screen with audio. Nothing joins the call or appears in the participant list. Transcription (60+ languages), AI notes and storage run in the cloud.

1. Before the call, click “Quick note” in the header or on Home: a note opens and recording starts at once. In a note you already have, click “Start” in the bottom pill instead.
2. Join your Meet, Zoom or Teams call as usual. The transcript fills in as people talk, split into Me and Others. Type the points you care about: Reline treats typed lines as the most important points when it writes the notes.
3. When the call ends, click the stop square in the bottom pill, then “Generate notes”. With the desktop app open, a card can also offer to take notes when a Zoom, Teams or browser call starts using your microphone; if the card started the recording, Reline stops a few seconds after the call ends and writes the notes on its own.

Afterwards, ask Reline’s chat about the meeting: the answer quotes the transcript with [m:ss] timestamps, and you can play that clip in place.

The Free plan includes 10 hours of transcription and up to 1 hour of recording per note; Professional is $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly. Read’s Free plan includes 5 meeting reports a month, and its Pro plan is $19.75 a month, or $15 a month billed annually. To be fair to Read: if you like the rest of it, its desktop app drops the bot without switching tools, and it offers mobile apps, which Reline does not. Neither tool removes a bot someone else sends; only the steps above do that. And with no bot on screen, nobody can see that you are recording, so telling people is your job.

Still comparing? Our list of Read AI alternatives covers more tools, and the side-by-side page compares Reline and Read AI in detail:

All pages read on 12 November 2026. Titles are given in English, as published; Read’s help-center dates are each article’s last edit.

• Read AI help center (support.read.ai), last edited in brackets: “How to Turn Off Read AI” (5 November 2026), “How to remove Read from an ongoing meeting” (5 November 2026), “Admitting and Removing Read from a Meeting” (26 October 2026), “How to Stop or Opt Out of a Read AI Recording” (27 October 2026), “Why is Read AI recording my meeting?” (5 November 2026), “Advance Notice and Opt Out of Meeting Recording” (27 October 2026), “Using Read’s Google Meet Native Recording” (22 October 2026)
• Read AI help center: “How can I change which meetings Read joins?” (5 November 2026), “I don’t want Read to join all my meetings, what are my options?” (27 October 2026), “What meetings does Read join when I connect my calendar?” (22 October 2026), “How Did Read AI Get on My Account (and How to Remove It)” (5 November 2026), “Why is Read still joining my meetings after I told it to stop or if I deleted my account?” (5 November 2026), “How do I see who invited or added Read to my meetings?” (25 October 2026), “How can I customize the Read Assistant name that shows during meetings?” (16 October 2026); Internet Archive copy of “I don’t want Read to join all my meetings, what are my options?” captured 17 January 2026, which named the page Account Settings > Meeting Assistant > Join Preferences
• Read AI help center: “How do I connect my calendar to Read?” (5 November 2026), “How do I deactivate my Read account?” (26 October 2026), “How do I delete my account?” (25 October 2026), “How do I cancel my billing plan?” (5 November 2026), “How to install Read’s app for Zoom” (27 October 2026), “Upcoming Changes to Zoom Meetings” (23 October 2026), “Using Read’s browser extension” (23 October 2026), “How do I see meeting scores (Read Scores) in Google Calendar?” (26 October 2026)
• Read AI help center: “How do I control meeting report sharing and distribution?” (26 October 2026), “How do I stop sending meeting recaps to participants?” (25 October 2026), “How do I make my meeting reports private?” (6 November 2026), “What Permissions Does Read AI Need and Why?” (5 November 2026), “How Consent Works on Web Mode vs. Desktop Mode” (5 November 2026), “How to Use Read’s Desktop App for Windows and Mac” (27 October 2026)
• Read AI help center: “Why didn’t Read join my meeting?” (26 October 2026), “Why is Read not joining all my Teams meetings?” (27 October 2026), “Why is Read not joining all of my Meet meetings?” (27 October 2026), “Why is Read not joining my Google meetings after I integrated Google Meet?” (22 October 2026), “How do I enable recording permissions in Zoom?” (27 October 2026)
• Read AI help center: “How do I control which meetings Read joins for my Workspace?”, “How do I control meeting recaps and other report distribution for my Workspace?” and “Can I turn off app recording, Ada, or Ask Read for my Workspace?” (6 November 2026), “Microsoft Outlook Calendar Permission” (6 November 2026), “Why is Read blocked when I sign in? AADSTS7000112, ‘Need admin approval’, ‘Site Blocked’ and similar messages” (6 November 2026), “What are the different paid plans that Read offers?” (5 November 2026); Read AI pricing page: read.ai/plans-pricing
• Zoom Developer blog, “Transitioning to On Behalf Of (OBF) tokens in Meeting SDK apps” (requirement from 2 March 2026); Zoom Support, “Managing participants in a meeting”, “Enabling or disabling computer recording” and “Adding and removing Marketplace Apps for personal use”; Zoom Library, “Administrative Settings for Automated Meeting Tools”
• Google Account Help, “Manage links between your Google Account & apps from other developers” and “Share some access to your Google Account data with apps from other developers”: support.google.com/accounts/answer/13533235 and 3466521; Google Meet Help, “Add or remove people from a Google Meet meeting or call”: support.google.com/meet/answer/9303164; Google Workspace Learning Center, “Tips to set up business meetings”: support.google.com/a/users/answer/12172260
• Google Workspace Admin Help, “Control Media API access in Google Meet” (updated 26 October 2026) and “Control which apps access Google Workspace data”; Chrome Web Store Help, “Install and manage extensions”
• Microsoft Support, “Using the lobby in Microsoft Teams meetings”, “Roles in Microsoft Teams meetings” and “Edit or revoke application permissions in the My Apps portal”; Microsoft Learn, “Manage anonymous participant access to Teams meetings and events (IT admins)”, “Manage external bots and their access to meetings hosted in your organization” and “Disable user sign-in for an application” (updated 15 October 2026); Microsoft Q&A, moderator answer on revoking a third-party app (18 February 2025)