Learn well-nigh Google Duo

Yous can use Google Duo to make video calls to your family, friends, and anyone else. Your calls are encrypted, which ways they're private to you lot and the person yous're calling.

Fix Google Duo

Google Duo is available to anyone at no accuse. Before you set up and use Google Duo y'all need:

  • A phone number

  • Access to a telephone that tin can receive SMS letters

To apply Duo across multiple devices and platforms, you lot need a Google Account.

Tip: If you apply Family unit Link, your kid tin can also utilize Google Duo with their Google Account. To protect your child'southward privacy, child accounts tin receive calls and messages merely from people in their contacts. Learn more nearly Family Link.

Make video calls to your contacts

You lot can make video calls to all your friends with Duo, even if you don't have the aforementioned device as they do.

Get bang-up video and audio quality

To make sure you lot're looking and sounding your all-time for a video phone call:

  • Check your lighting. If you're in depression lighting, Duo will adapt the brightness of your video. If you want to turn the setting off in a call, tap the screen and turn off Low Light way. Or, you can turn information technology off in Settings.
    Of import: This feature isn't compatible with all Android devices and may not exist available on your device.
  • You can switch camera views to show yourself or what you're looking at in front of you lot. If the camera points to your face, agree your device at eye level to assistance others see your face.
  • Make sure null (ex: your finger) is blocking your device's camera or microphone.

  • Connect to Wi-Fi earlier calling. Using Wi-Fi volition salvage your data usage and also could be a amend video connection. If y'all tin can't, turn on your data.

  • Proceed yourself centered on Duo video calls using Auto-framing. To turn the setting on in a telephone call, tap the screen and turn on Auto-framing style. Or, you tin turn it on/off in Settings.

  • To stand out from your background, employ Portrait mode to blur your background. To plough the setting on in a telephone call, tap the screen and turn on Portrait mode.

    • Of import: Machine-framing and Portrait fashion are currently only available on select Pixel and Samsung devices.

  • If your web browser is Google Chrome M86+ or Microsoft Edge v79+, tap Show narrow video or Show wide video to alter your video from landscape to portrait.

Run into a video preview with Knock Knock

When you call a contact using Duo, the other person can see live video of yous while the device rings if they take y'all as a contact. You won't exist able to run into the person you're calling until they answer.

You can also turn Knock Knock off.

Move your picture during a video call

When you lot make a Duo call, your face shows up in a small rectangle on the screen. To move it, touch and hold the rectangle, and then swipe your finger across the screen to another corner. To show your face up on the entire screen, tap your picture.

Utilize less information

If you can't connect to a Wi-Fi network, Duo automatically lowers your connection to 1Mbps. If you have plenty of data on your mobile program and don't want to limit the quality, you can plough off Limit mobile information usage in Settings.

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