How to Know the Members of a Google Group

Google Group allows emailing a group with a single email address. The group can also be tagged when organizing an event, meeting, or other similar gatherings through Google Calendar. Furthermore, you can tap Google Group to easily send and receive files to Google Drive.

However, the members of the Google Group are not readily displayed. In this article, you can learn how to know the members of a Google Group from:

See the Members of a Google Group in Gmail

When you receive an email sent to a Google group, you would not immediately know the members of it. This is unlike the casual method of group mailing wherein the sender inputs multiple email addresses on the cc field.  In order to see the Google group from Gmail, our add-on can help with it.

Google group in Gmail

With Shared Contacts for Gmail®, you can view not only who is in the group. You can as well know the member’s public information like email addresses and other available contact information. 

1. Open the Shared Contacts Gmail Add-on.

Check your side panel and look for the logo (). If the side panel is hidden, simply click the () “Show Side Panel” icon at the bottom right of the screen. The icon will only be visible if you have installed the Shared Contacts Gmail Add-on. If you haven’t installed the app at all, you have to sign up and then install the add-on.

2. Click the Google Group icon at the bottom.

The detail of the sender is displayed. To find out who else is in the Google Group, click the Google Group icon () at the bottom. Simply hovering over it will just display the group name.

3. You can now see all the members of the Google Group.

The number of people in the group is also displayed.

4. If you happen to click the “VIEW ALL” instead of icon, you can still see the group members by clicking the name of the domain group.

After clicking the domain group name to view group members, you will now finally view all the members as shown in the photo in Step 3.

step 4 how to view google group members in gmail

What else you can do as you see the Google group members from Gmail?

With the Shared Contacts for Gmail® Add-on, you can:

  • Be more knowledgeable about the members of the Google group so that you can be aware of who receives the same message as you did as well as those who can read your email replies and attachments.
  • Add any email recipient as a contact or a shared contact.
  • Update information of contacts directly from Gmail.
  • See notes and other details that your colleagues added regarding the contact.

See the Members of a Google Group in Drive

1. Open the Shared Contacts for Gmail® Google Drive Add-on.

Check your side panel and look for the logo (). If the side panel is hidden, simply click the () “Show Side Panel” icon at the bottom right of the screen. The icon will only be visible if you have installed the Shared Contacts Drive Add-on. If you haven’t installed the app at all, you have to sign up and then install the add-on.

2. Click the Google Group at the bottom.

The prominent profile is the one who created the Drive folder. On the other hand, all those who have access to the Drive folder are displayed in a row. To find out who else is in the Google Group, click the Google Group icon () of the specific group want to know. Hover over first to find the group name you are interested in.

3. Now, you can now see all the members of the Google Group.

4. If you initially cannot find your target Google Group, click the “+ x number” at the end of the collaborator’s row.

In this case, it’s the “+2” as there are two more collaborators in this Google Drive folder.

5. Click your chosen Domain Group.

Now, you can see all the collaborators. Select the Google Group in which you want to know the members.

6. Finally, you can see the members of the Google Group from Drive.

See the Members of a Google Group in Calendar

1. Open the Shared Contacts for Gmail® Google Calendar Add-on.

Check your side panel and look for the logo (). If the side panel is hidden, simply click the () “Show Side Panel” icon at the bottom right of the screen. The icon will only be visible if you have installed the Shared Contacts Calendar Add-on. If you haven’t installed the app at all, you have to sign up and then install the add-on.

2. Click on the Domain Group icon.

Click on the Domain Group icon ( ) and the list of domain groups in the whole directory will appear.

3. Search for the domain group name.

You can either type in the search bar and click “SEARCH” or scroll down to until you find the domain group.

4. Click on the domain group.

Now, you can see all the members of the domain group.

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