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title: Planning a meeting
description: "Desktop Mobile Follow these steps to schedule a meeting directly from the desktop app. Create a new meeting 1. Access the **Meetings** tab. 2. Click on the **New Meeting** button. ![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Nouvelle-Reunion-1.png) 3. The **New Meeting** view appears. 4. **Set the meeting…"
url: "https://www.linphone.org/en/docs/schedule-meeting/"
updated: "2026-09-16"
category: Meeting
---

# Planning a meeting

Desktop    Mobile

Follow these steps to schedule a meeting directly from the desktop app.

Create a new meeting

1. Access the **Meetings** tab.
2. Click on the **New Meeting** button. ![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Nouvelle-Reunion-1.png)
3. The **New Meeting** view appears.
4. **Set the meeting topic** :
   - Click on the **meeting topic** to edit it.
5. **Set the meeting date and time** :
   - Click on the date field to choose the day of the meeting.
   - Click on the first time field to set the start time of the meeting.
   - Click on the second time field to set the end time of the meeting.
   - You can select a different time zone by clicking on it, and the list of time zones will appear.
6. **Add a description** :
   - Click on **Add a description **to enter a description.
7. **Add participants** :
   - Click on **Add participants.**
   - Search and click on the contacts you wish to invite to the meeting.
   - The selected contacts will appear above the search box.
   - Once all participants are selected, click on the ******Add****** button.![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Ajouter-participants-1.png)
8. **Send an invitation to participants**
   - If the invitation toggle is enabled: participants will receive an invitation in a conversation with the meeting details, and the meeting will appear in their meeting list.
   - If it is disabled: the meeting will only appear in their meeting list, but they will not be notified.
9. Click the **Create **button to finalize the creation of the meeting.![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Reunion-creer-2.png)

Learn more

Want to invite people? Learn how to join a meeting.

Follow these steps to schedule a meeting directly from the mobile app.

Create a new meeting

1. Go to the **Meetings** tab.
2. Click on the **New Meeting** button.
    ![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mobile-nouvelle-reunion-1.png)
3. The **New Meeting** view appears.
4. **Set the meeting topic** :
   - Click on the **meeting topic** to edit it.
5. **Set the date and time** :
   - Click on the date field to choose the meeting day.
   - Click on the first time field to set the start time.
   - Click on the second time field to set the end time.
   - To change the time zone, click on it to display the list of available time zones.
6. **Add a description** :
   - Click on **Add a description **to enter meeting details.
7. **Add participants** :
   - Click on **Add participants.**
   - Search for and select the contacts you want to invite.
   - Selected contacts will appear above the search bar.
   - Once all participants are selected, click on the **Add button.
      ![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Ajout-des-participants.png)**
8. **Send an invitation to participants**
   - If the invitation toggle is enabled: Participants will receive an invitation in a conversation with the meeting details, and the meeting will appear in their meeting list.
   - If it is disabled: The meeting will only appear in their meeting list, but they will not be notified.
9. Click on the **Create **button to confirm the meeting creation.
    ![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mobile-Creer-reunion-1.png)

Learn more

Want to invite people? Learn how to join a meeting.