Google Meet▾on macOS Monterey, Big Sur and Catalina▾

Start sharing in Google Meet and stop again straight away. That sounds roundabout, but it is the trick: macOS only lists an application after it has asked once. Before that you will look for it in vain.

Open the Apple menu at the top left and choose System Preferences . Faster: press Command+Space and type " System Preferences ".

Go to Screen Recording .

Lets the application read what is on the screen — which is what the others then see.

System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Screen Recording Copy the click path

Open Settings nowOpens System Settings directly at the right place. If nothing happens, the path beside it gets you there just as well.

There is a padlock at the bottom left: Click the lock to make changes . Click it and enter your login password. While it is closed the switch can be clicked but springs straight back, and macOS does not say why.

Find Google Chrome in the list. Careful: the entry is called Google Chrome , not Google Meet — looking for Google Meet makes people think the application is missing. If it is not there at all, the + below the list is the way in.

Turn on the switch next to Google Chrome .

tccutil reset ScreenCapture com.google.Chrome Copy

Click Present now at the bottom and choose the whole screen. In Safari you have to confirm the share on the page EVERY time — that is normal, not a fault.

Now really quit Google Meet — Command+Q, not just closing the window — and start it again. macOS does not apply a freshly granted permission to a running application, and this is exactly where most people get stuck: everything is set correctly and it still does not work.