Onboarding
Google Meet’s tooltip introduces better user experience
Google Meet announces background noise filtering in an illustrated tooltip pointing at the call's options menu, with Learn more and Got it buttons.
At the time of the screenshot, Google Meet used a feature announcement tooltip during a call to explain that it now filters out background sound picked up by the user's microphone. The tooltip points at the call's More options button, where settings live. It has an illustration of a person working on a laptop surrounded by noisy objects, the headline "People can hear you better", two sentences of copy (including how to turn it off in Settings) and Google's usual Learn more and Got it buttons.
Why it works
✅ The right UX element: the change is useful but not urgent, so a tooltip fits better than a full-screen message. It also points at the menu where the setting can be changed.
✅ Illustration: an alarm clock, a megaphone and a drum around a calm figure show the value of noise filtering at a glance, so even users who don't read the copy get a sense of what's new.
✅ Good copy: the headline states the benefit to the user, not the feature's name, and the body says what to do if you want the old behaviour back.
More on this pattern: new feature onboarding and tooltips.
