

Matching up to Zoom’s offerings, Meet has started rolling out the ability to see up to 49 participants in a since screen at once during meetings but we still haven’t seen a glimpse of it yet. In the race for being the best video conferencing and collaboration solution, Zoom has been a leading force ever since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic but Google Meet has closed in on the gap by quite a stretch. If you are keen on using this feature, then you can always drop a feature request with Google regarding the same at this link. There seems to be no workaround to enable all 49 participants in the grid view while someone is presenting.

However, this tiled view will be reduced to 12 viewers when someone is presenting in your meeting regardless of your current settings. These extensions no longer work and the only alternative seems to be the native tiled view within Google. February 20, 2021: Google has now blocked all Meet extensions that helped with the grid view including the ones mentioned below.
