Google Meet began in 2017 as Hangouts Meet before Google renamed the service to Google Meet in 2020. Its use exploded during the shift to remote work and online schooling, which turned everyday interface sounds from the app into shared cultural cues. The ringtone spread through screen recordings, classroom memes and short videos where playing it could instantly suggest homework, attendance or an unwanted work call. Because millions heard it daily, the chime remains a shorthand online for the moment a call connects and everyone has to pay attention.
About this sound
The Google Meet ringtone is the short call chime that plays when a meeting starts or someone joins, often used for class and work jokes online.
This sound is the familiar incoming call chime associated with Google Meet, a bright melodic ring that rises and repeats before settling. It is clean and digital rather than harsh, with a friendly corporate tone that instantly signals a video call is starting. Listeners recognise it from school lessons, remote work and online interviews, so hearing it out of context creates an immediate reaction of alertness or dread. Creators use that instant recognition to set up a joke about being summoned, caught off guard or dragged into another meeting no one wanted to join.