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What’s changing 
You can now create meeting timers in the Google Meet sidebar. Host/Co-hosts can manage the timer if host controls are on. If the host controls are off, anyone in the meeting can manage it. Once the timer is started, it will be visible to all meeting participants. You can also pause or cancel the timer once it starts. 

Timers can be a valuable tool in online meetings for improving focus, managing time effectively, and ensuring equitable participation. By providing a visible, shared sense of time, they help structure the meeting and drive productivity. 




Getting started 
  • Admins: This feature will be on by default. There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature will be off by default. Turn it on by clicking Activities > Timer in a meeting. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using timers in Meet. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts 

Resources 

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What’s changing 
You can now create custom background images with Gemini from your Android or iOS device. Meeting backgrounds can help obscure your surroundings during a meeting or they can enhance the meeting itself, and now you can take advantage of this feature whether you’re joining a meeting from Google Meet on the web or on mobile devices. 



Getting started: 

Rollout pace: 

Availability: 
Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Also available with the Google AI Pro for Education add-on and to anyone who previously purchased the Gemini Business, Gemini Enterprise, and AI Meetings and Messages add-on.


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What’s changing 
Taking notes during meetings is crucial for tracking action items and key decisions, but it can be a tedious task. With our Gemini-powered “Take notes for me”, you can stay fully engaged in the conversation while ensuring nothing gets missed. 

We’re making it even easier to have Gemini take notes for you. Event organizers can now enable Take notes for me when scheduling the event or preparing their meeting in Calendar. 

This update gives you peace of mind, ensuring that even for your most critical meetings, you'll have a complete set of notes automatically generated and shared, without needing to think about it once the meeting begins. 






Getting Started
  • Admins: This feature will be available by default for all users with take notes for me available. Visit our help center to learn more about letting Google Meet AI take notes for your users. 
  • End users: This feature will be off by default, but can be enabled for individual meetings as needed. Create a new meeting or open an existing meeting, select the Settings icon next to the Google Meet conferencing information, then go to ‘Meeting records’. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using take notes for me in Google Meet. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
Available for Google Workspace: 

  • Business Standard, and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard, and Plus 
  • Google AI Pro for Education 
  • Frontline Plus 

Also available to: 

  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 
  • Gemini Business, Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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What's changing 
In order to improve the experience of admins managing Google Meet’s Enterprise Content Delivery Network (Meet eCDN) rules, we’re updating how the “Custom Rules” peering policy works in some cases, and how assigned networks are surfaced in the MQT eCDN network table. Understanding these changes will allow customers to make full use of those improvements. 


Overlapping IP ranges 

Please note you will only see this change if you have defined overlapping IP ranges. For example, if you have defined a large range that’s allowed but including some smaller ranges that should be blocked within it. If you have non-overlapping ranges only, you won’t be affected by this change. 

Viewers with the “custom rules” peering policy will be matched against a list of IP ranges and their respective peering configuration (allowed or blocked). This is done by checking all listed ranges in order from top to bottom. Previously, any blocking match would supersede an allowing match, even if the allowing match came first. We’re removing the priority for blocking changes to simplify how matches are determined. 

Example for a viewer with private IP address 10.0.0.30: 

Scenario 1:
Viewer 1 private IP: 10.0.0.30
Viewer 2 private IP: 11.0.0.30

Custom rules list:
  • 10.0.0.0 - 10.0.0.255: allowed
  • 11.0.0.0 - 11.0.0.255: blocked
Fallback policy: blocked

Before:
  • Viewer 1 allowed since one allowed match
  • Viewer 2 blocked since one blocked match

After:
  • Same results, no changes in this scenario, since there are no overlapping IP ranges.

Scenario 2:
Viewer 1 private IP: 10.0.0.30
Viewer 2 private IP: 11.0.0.30

Custom rules list:
  • 10.0.0.0 - 10.0.0.255: allowed
  • 10.0.0.0 - 15.0.0.0: blocked
Fallback policy: blocked

Before:
  • Viewer 1 blocked, since one allowed and one blocked match, and blocked matches have higher priority.
  • Viewer 2 blocked, since one blocked match.

After:
  • Viewer 1 allowed, since the first match encountered (top to bottom) was to allow the IP.
  • Viewer 2 blocked, since the only matching rule was blocking the IP.

Scenario 3:
  • Viewer 1 private IP: 10.0.0.30
  • Viewer 2 private IP: 11.0.0.30

Custom rules list:
  • 10.0.0.0 - 15.0.0.0: blocked
  • 10.0.0.0 - 10.0.0.255: allowed
Fallback policy: blocked

Before:
  • Viewer 1 blocked, since one allowed and one blocked match, and blocked matches have higher priority.
  • Viewer 2 blocked, since one blocked match.

After:
  • Viewer 1 blocked, since the first match encountered (top to bottom) was to block the IP.
  • Viewer 2 blocked, since the only matching rule was blocking the IP.
Please note that smaller IP ranges should be listed before large ranges containing them (top-to-bottom).





Multiple private IP addresses are now supported 
Please note that the following change will only materialize if your viewers’ devices have multiple private IP addresses configured on their network interfaces (typically one IPv4 and one IPv6 address). 

Previously, eCDN clients would detect their private IP address and always prioritize IPv4 over IPv6. Also, only a single IP address could be detected and sent for matching against custom rules. We’re changing this so that all private IPs configured on the device’s interfaces will be used for matching. To ensure top-to-bottom evaluation, the first rule matching any detected private IP addresses will be used. 


Renaming Random peering policy 
The policy previously called Random peering policy is now called Testing peering policy. This policy is primarily intended for test purposes and is not designed to provide full performance in production. 


Meet Quality Tool improvements 
Viewers with the Testing peering policy will now be represented in the Meet Quality Tool eCDN table. Previously this table would only show viewers per configured network if the Custom Rules peering policy was used. 

Rollout pace: 
  • Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 6, 2025. 
  • Scheduled release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 28, 2025. 

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What’s changing Ask Gemini in Meet will soon be available in Google Meet for select Google Workspace customers, offering advanced features to improve your meeting experience. 

You can use Ask Gemini to: 

  • Summarize ongoing discussions, or get a recap of what someone said 
  • Improve meeting outcomes by identifying key takeaways, decisions, and action items 
  • Catch up on what you missed if you joined late (if Take Notes for Me was enabled) 


Additional details 
  • A user’s interactions and responses from Ask Gemini in Meet are private to that user. 
  • Ask Gemini generates answers by referring to meeting captions, Google Workspace resources (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, etc.) that the user has permission to view, and content from Google search and public websites. 
  • No caption data will be stored after the meeting ends. Ask Gemini in Meet does not create a meeting recording.
  • Ask Gemini in Meet cannot answer questions about meeting discussions that happen before the user has joined the meeting, unless Take Notes for Me had already been turned on before they joined. 
  • Only meetings in English are currently supported, but support for more languages is coming soon. 
  • Ask Gemini in Meet is only available on desktop at this time. 
  • Ask Gemini in Meet is not available in breakout rooms at this time. 
  • Gemini in Workspace can make mistakes, including about people, so users should review its output. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: Ask Gemini in Meet will be ON by default. Admins can configure it to be OFF or ON at the domain, OU, and Group level in the Admin console by going to Google Workspace > Google Meet > Gemini Settings. 
  • Meeting hosts and co-hosts: Meeting hosts have the ability to turn Ask Gemini in Meet OFF for all meeting participants. Hosts can do so from the Calendar event, or during the meeting by hovering over the Gemini icon and clicking on the three-dot menu, or by going to Host controls > Gemini. 
  • Meeting participants: All meeting participants in a meeting with Ask Gemini in Meet enabled will be shown a consent banner in the meeting. Participants joining a meeting via dial-in will hear an announcement informing them that Ask Gemini in Meet is enabled. Participants with Smart Features disabled will not be able to use Ask Gemini. 
Meet homepage disclosure in conference rooms

Pre-meeting disclosure on desktop 

In-meeting disclosure shown to all meeting participants on desktop 



Hosts will be able to disable Gemini in the meeting, as well as prior to it 

Rollout pace 
Admin setting 

  • Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Already available for the following plans: Enterprise Plus, Enterprise (Standard), Business Plus, Business Standard, and a few other add-on plans that are no longer supported. 

End user availability 

  • Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on, or after, September 29th, 2025. 
  • Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout will begin in October, with a target to complete the rollout by October 17th. 

Availability 
  • Ask Gemini in Meet is available for Google Workspace Business Plus customers at this time.  It will become available for other Workspace customers in late 2025 or early 2026, once we’ve collected and applied critical user feedback to improve the feature. 
  • If you’d like immediate access for your organization, you can join the Google Workspace Gemini Alpha. 

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What’s changing 
With this launch, the Google Meet link will be added to the location field when a Google Calendar user invites a user of a different calendar app (such as Microsoft Outlook) to a meeting with Google Meet. This helps users of other calendar services such as Outlook to easily find the Meet link when it's time to join by ensuring it doesn't get lost in the event details. 

Additionally, Google Calendar now automatically detects Google Meet links in the description or location fields of invitations sent from other calendar apps. This makes it easier for users to join meetings and collaborate with people on different platforms. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature will be on by default. No action is required, the improved meeting link visibility will happen automatically for new invites. Use our Help Center to learn more about how to invite people to your Calendar event. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts 

Resources 
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What’s changing 
When users copy or duplicate events in Calendar, the Meet conference won’t be copied over. This ensures that Meet access and meeting notes remain tied to the original event and its attendees. If the user intends to participate in the same Meet conference, they can copy over the Meet code separately. 


UI mock showing the journey of duplicating an event and adding a specific Meet conference code 

Why this is important 
This change enhances meeting privacy, security and reliability by keeping the meeting code unique to the original event. This isolates each meeting, ensuring only invited guests can join and that artifacts like recordings and notes are shared exclusively to the correct participants. It reduces the current system ambiguity where a single code shared across multiple events can lead to misdirected information. 

Getting started
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This change will take effect automatically for users. There is no end user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • This update impacts all Google Workspace customers as well as users with personal Google accounts 

Resources 


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What’s changing 
In the coming weeks, we will be introducing an updated user interface for the Mimo Vue HD, Mimo Mist, Logitech Tap, Logitech Tap IP and Lenovo Series One Touch controllers.

To explore this upcoming feature, we encourage Admins to change the feature preview setting to enable Early preview for their devices. This will give admins time to prepare for the change, and end users to become familiar with the new design. See the “Additional details” section below for more information. 

Overall, the design allows users to concentrate on their meetings rather than searching for controls, resulting in a more efficient and aesthetically pleasing experience. Here’s what you can expect: 
  • Simplified Access to Key Controls: the controls you use most frequently, like mute and hand raise, are more prominent and easily accessible, helping you cut down on time searching for features and more time focusing on your meeting. 
  • Intuitively Organized Features: 
    • In-meeting experience: If you need to access more advanced features, like camera controls or the meeting layout, you can find them under the “More actions” menu. This keeps the main interface clean while ensuring less frequently used features are still readily accessible. 
    • Pre-call experience: You’ll also notice a refresh for the pre-call meeting UI, which prominently features the option to enter a meeting code or nickname, and a drop-down menu for Webex or Zoom meetings. 
  • A Familiar Interface: The touch controller UI will now look and feel similar to the Google Meet UI as seen on Laptop & Desktop devices, which will help navigating the menu more intuitively. 
Touch Controller UI Refresh pre-meeting experience


Touch Controller UI Refresh Annotated pre-meeting Experience


Touch Controller UI Refresh In-meeting Experience


Touch Controller UI Refresh Annotated In-meeting Experience


Touch Controller Advanced View


UI refresh pre-meeting experience


We’ll share more information about when the refreshed user interface will become generally available soon. 

Additional details 
More information about Early Preview Rooms 
We highly recommend joining our Early Preview Rooms (EPR), beginning August 18th, 2025, to help your organization get ready for this change. 

Enrolling devices into EPR allows you to: 
  • Test: Experience the new UI firsthand on select devices in your environment 
  • Prepare: Use the preview period (approximately 4-6 weeks) to update your internal training documents, support resources, and end-user communications 
  • Provide feedback: Share your feedback to help us refine the experience before general availability 

How to participate: 

Expanding availability 
We plan to expand support for the new UI to all Google Meet touch controllers, including AOSP devices. We’ll share more information here on the Workspace Updates blog once available. 

Getting started

Rollout pace 
  • Available for Early Preview Rooms starting on August 18th, 2025 

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices 

Resources 

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What’s changing 
Starting today, the full screen action appears when viewing a presentation or sharing your screen. This option increases the size of the presentation by maximizing the Meet UI and reducing the size of meeting participants using sidebar view. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: To use this feature, select the “Enter Full Screen” action at the bottom of an active presentation. Check out this Help Center for details. 

Rollout pace 
  • Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 29th, 2025 
  • Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on August 14th, 2025 

Availability
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
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Earlier this year, we announced that “take notes for me” will capture next steps discussed during the meeting in a new “suggested next steps” section. Powered by AI, these next steps and follow-ups will automatically be identified and organized within the meeting notes document. 

Today, we’re expanding the language availability for “suggested next steps” to include: 
  • French 
  • German 
  • Italian 
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 
  • Portuguese 
  • Spanish 
When discussing next steps, follow up items or action items, they will automatically be captured when speaking these languages. 

Rollout: 
  • Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started in Rapid Release and Scheduled release domains on August 7, 2025

Getting Started:

Availability:
  • “Take notes for me” is available to Business Standard and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; the Gemini Education and Education Premium add-on and those customers who previously purchased a Gemini Business or AI Meetings & Messages add-on.
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What's ChangingWe’re adding an additional data field for Google Meet log events: encryption_type, which will indicate whether standard cloud encryption or client-side encryption was used for a call endpoint. This information can also be called using the Admin Reports SDK API under the values: cloud_encryption and cse_encryption.


Example of a meeting without client-side encryption and a meeting with standard encryption. The encryption type will be captured in Meet log events going forward.
Rollout Pace:

Availability:
Available in the audit and investigation tool for all Google Workspace customers and for select Google Workspace customers in the Security Investigation tool, as well as the Admin Reports SDK API.
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What’s changing 
We’re improving the email notification that includes the notes doc when you use “Take notes for me” in Google Meet. The email will now include a summary of the meeting as well as “suggested next steps” in addition to the link to the notes document. Including this information gives meeting invitees a quick, helpful overview of the meeting in one place.
[Suggested next steps are now included in the notes email]
Suggested next steps are now included in the notes email


Also part of this update, meeting hosts and co-hosts for meetings taken on a web browser can now choose who the meeting notes should be sent to: all invited guests, invited guests in your organization, or hosts and co-hosts only. Note that the default setting is “Invited guests in your organization”.

Once you change the sharing setting, it will persist for that meeting and recurring meetings in that series. You can always change the setting as needed. Sharing is based on the Calendar invitees. 

Before you turn on “Take notes for me”, you can choose who the meeting notes should be sent to.

Getting started
Rollout pace
Availability
Available to Google Workspace
  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Also available with the Gemini Education Premium add-on
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature:
  • Gemini Enterprise*
  • AI Meetings & Messaging*
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

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What’s changing 
Currently, you can join client-side encrypted calls from a computer or mobile device. Starting today, you can join client-side encrypted calls directly from Google Meet hardware devices. Simply select the meeting from the in-room agenda on any hardware device – you’ll be prompted to authenticate from a personal device, such as your phone or laptop, which will grant the room access to this specific meeting.

Joining a client-side encrypted meeting from a hardware device

Google Meet always encrypts call media in transit and at rest, ensuring only meeting participants and Google's data center services can decrypt it. Client-side encryption adds an additional layer of privacy by encrypting all media that is encrypted directly by each participant's browser using keys accessible only to them, meaning Google's servers and other service providers cannot decrypt or access the call content. This gives users greater control and confidentiality over their meeting communications, and this specific update gives users another way to join client-side encrypted calls.

Additional details
Client-side encrypted calls can be joined from meeting rooms in the host's organization or in the organization of an invited participant. A room does not need to be specifically invited to the meeting — access to client-side encrypted calls is determined by the identity of the individual participant. 

Getting started
  • Admins: 
    • In order for end users to use client-side encryptions, admins must connect Google Workspace to an external identity provider and encryption key service (IdP+key service). 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing client-side encryption for your organization. Also see our API documentation. 
    • Note: There is no additional configuration for room hardware if client-side encryption has already been configured.
    • Note: The KACLS server used for key management needs to support the delegate call. This call is used for authorizing a room to join a meeting on behalf of an authenticated user. Check with your KACLS vendor for details. 

  • End users: You can join a client-side encrypted call from a room in the same way you would join a call using regular encryption. Follow the additional instructions displayed on the room unit to authenticate on your personal device. Visit the Help Center to learn more about joining a client-side encrypted meeting from a Google Meet hardware device.
Rollout pace
Availability
Client-side encryption for Google Meet is available for Google Workspace:
  • Enterprise Plus
  • Education Standard and Plus
Joining an encrypted call is available for all Google Meet hardware devices
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What’s changingWe’re introducing updates for the in-meeting chat experience for Google Meet live streams. Specifically, we’re adding the ability for viewers to send in-meeting chat messages, together with a host control for this functionality. The host management setting will be set to ALLOW viewers to send messages by default. 

The ability to read in-meeting chat messages will now be controlled with a new host management control. This setting will be configured as ALLOW viewers to read messages by default as well. 

Note that in order to allow viewers to send messages, reading messages must also be turned on.

These updates give meeting hosts more options to control over when and how live stream viewers can interact with in-meet chat messages.

Host controls > Host Management > “Let live stream viewers…”

Getting started
  • Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning live streaming on or off for your organization. Note that in-call chat messaging for live streams requires chat to be turned on for Meet calls in general – visit the Help Center for more information.

  • End users:
    • Meeting hosts: 
      • Note: The host control for sending chat messages is already rolled out. Hosts that wish to adjust settings for upcoming meetings in advance can do so already.
      • These settings are configured per meeting or per meeting series, with other host management controls. Visit the Help Center to learn more about live streaming for video hosts. 
    • Live stream viewers: Your ability to view and send in-meeting chat messages during a live stream will depend on your meeting host configuration.
Rollout pace
Availability
  • The following Google Workspace editions can initiate a live stream:
    • Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus 
    • Enterprise Essentials Plus
    • Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning upgrade

  • Anyone can view a live stream.
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8 New updates

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.

Providing support for Microsoft Office embedded files in Google Drive 
To ensure users have a seamless experience when working with Microsoft Office files, we’re excited to announce that users can now open Microsoft Office files that contain embedded PDFs in Google Drive. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about working with Microsoft Office files. 

Use Imagen 4 to generate images in Google Docs, Slides and Vids in multiple languages 
Users can now utilize our highest quality image generation model, Imagen 4, which delivers: 
  • Outstanding text rendering and prompt adherence 
  • Higher overall image quality across all styles 
  • Multilingual prompt support in these 20+ languages 
Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to Google Workspace Business and Enterprise users with access to Gemini in Docs and Slides, and users with access to Gemini in Vids. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini Slides, Vids and Docs.
using spanish to generate visual content in Vids
View the most relevant search results in Gmail
Over the years, we’ve implemented updates to help you find exactly what you’re looking for with less effort when searching in Gmail. In March, we announced a smarter search feature powered by AI to quickly show users the most relevant results, and today we’re excited to extend this to businesses. Now, instead of just showing emails in chronological order based on keywords, Gmail search results will factor in elements like recency, most-clicked emails and frequent contacts. With this update, the emails you’re looking for are far more likely to be at the top of your search results — saving you valuable time and helping you find important information more easily. You can also select between “most relevant” and “most recent” results. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available to Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about the search in Gmail.
View the most relevant search results in Gmail

    A search view before and after. Now, search results are sorted by relevance instead of in chronological order to help you find your intended result, faster.

    Automated meeting recording, transcripts and notes available in seven additional languages
    Currently, when an Admin pre-configures meeting recordings, meeting transcripts, or “Take notes for me” in Meet as ON by default for newly created meetings, the artifacts are generated in English. Today, we’re expanding the language availability to include:
    • French
    • German
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish
    The meeting artifacts will automatically be generated in the meeting host’s language if it is supported. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Meeting recordings and transcripts are available to Google Workspace Business Plus; Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus; Enterprise Standard, Plus; Education Plus, and the Teaching and Learning add-on. “Take notes for me” is available to Business Standard and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; the Gemini Education and Education Premium add-on and those customers who previously purchased a Gemini Business, Gemini Enterprise or AI Meetings & Messages add-on. | Admins visit the Help Center to learn more about choosing automatic meeting artifact settings for your organization. | End users visit the Help Center to learn more about recording a meeting, using meeting Transcripts, and taking notes with Gemini in Meet. Meeting hosts and co-hosts can edit these settings in the Calendar invite, as well as turn these artifacts off during the meeting.

    Studio lighting in Google Meet is now available on all devices 
    We’re pleased to announce that studio lighting in Google Meet is now available on all devices. Using machine learning, Gemini in Meet will simulate studio-quality lighting and adjust light position and brightness in your video feed, so you're perfectly lit for your meeting. | Available now. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available for Google Workspace Business Standard and Plus, and Enterprise Standard and Plus. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about improving your video experience. 

    Video file uploads are now available to Google Workspace users in the Gemini mobile app 
    You can now upload videos stored on your mobile device to provide more context to your prompts in the Gemini mobile app. You can ask Gemini to summarize the video, ask Gemini specific questions about the video and more. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available to all Google Workspace users with access to the Gemini app. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to upload and analyze files in the Gemini Apps. 

    Boost productivity with scheduled actions in Gemini 
    You can now use scheduled actions in Gemini to create personalized updates, set reminders, or complete routine tasks in a chat or based on existing prompts. You can set these actions to your preferred frequency, be it a single reminder, or daily or weekly updates. Some ways you can use scheduled actions are: 
    • Daily summaries of your calendar, to-do list, and unread emails for the day ahead. 
    • Daily news briefings: deliver a concise, easy-to-digest summary of the day’s top news stories or a specific topic. 
    • Competitive landscape monitoring: Monitor online news, press releases, social media content, and more based on a specific industry. 
    • Weekly vocabulary builders: Receive a curated list of new vocabulary words, complete with definitions and example sentences, tailored to your learning level. 
    Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available with a qualifying edition of Google Workspace for Gemini on the web and mobile and in all supported languages. This feature is only available for users 18+ at this time. | Admins: For Gemini to access data from apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Drive, Workspace apps in Gemini must be turned ON. | End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about scheduling actions in Gemini.

    Google Drive log events now include search related information 
    We’re expanding Drive log events in the security investigation tool to include search events. This includes information on resources returned from a search, the query the user entered, and more. Admins can use this information to help assess whether there is normal search behavior or whether the behavior was anomalous and indicating potential data exfiltration. This information can also be queried via API – check out our API documentation for more information. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available for Google Workspace Business Starter, Standard, and Plus; Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus; Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus; Frontline Starter and Standard. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about Drive log events and the security investigation tool.
    Google Drive log events now include search related information

    Previous announcements

    The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

    Adding granular control options for who can respond to existing Google Forms 
    In addition to being available on newly created forms, we’re excited to announce that starting today this option is now available on existing forms. As a result, form creators can upgrade existing or old forms to have more granular controls over who can respond to them. | Learn more about controls for existing forms. 

    Google Classroom now supports exporting grades and importing data with STLink SIS 
    Google Classroom teachers can now export and import select information via the new integration with Bubblecon STLink, a South Korean third-party student information system (SIS) that provides an innovative edtech platform. | Learn more about Bubblecon STLink. 

    Changes to "Who can manage" and "Who can view" members in Google Groups starting September 15, 2025 
    There are upcoming changes to permissions in Google Groups which will be implemented starting September 15, 2025. | Learn more about changes to Google Groups.

    Generate data with Gemini in Google Sheets
    Currently, you can utilize Gemini in Google Sheets to generate charts and valuable insights, and this week, we’re excited to bring AI directly into the cells of your spreadsheet with the power of AI function. | Learn more about AI function in Sheets.

    See summaries of even more file types directly in Google Chat
    Earlier this year, we introduced the ability for users to easily summarize Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets files shared within a Google Chat conversation. Today, we’re excited to expand this feature to PDF, Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), CSV, txt, and zip files shared as Drive links in Chat. | Learn more about summaries in Chat.

    Updates to the GitHub app for Google Chat 
    We're announcing additional updates and functionality that improve upon the overall experience using the GitHub app for Google Chat. | Learn more about GitHub app for Google Chat.

    Gemini Add-ons will no longer appear under subscriptions in the Admin console for Workspace Business and Enterprise customers
    In January 2025, we announced our plan to bring premium AI features directly to our Business and Enterprise offerings, helping our customers and their users boost productivity, creativity, and innovation, transforming how they work. We also stopped charging for Gemini add-ons that you may have purchased previously for your Business and Enterprise offerings after January 31, 2025. | Learn more about add-on subscriptions.

    Introducing Google AI Ultra for Business: Providing Access to Advanced AI Features and Next-Gen tools
    We’re pleased to introduce Google AI Ultra for Business, a new Workspace add-on that provides the highest access to AI features and models and access to next-generation AI tools. | Learn more about Google AI Ultra for Business.

    Introducing more granular controls for multi-party approvals for sensitive admin actions
    Last year, we introduced multi-party approval (MPA), a security feature that requires an admin to approve certain sensitive actions initiated by another admin. Today, we’re enhancing this feature by giving admins more granular controls. | Learn more about granular controls for multi-party approvals.

    Completed rollouts

    The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.

    Rapid Release Domains: 
    Scheduled Release Domains: 
    Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains: 
    For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).
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    What’s changing 
    You can now customize the styling of captions in Google Meet, including the font size, font type, color, and background color. This allows for the captions to be customized in a way that works best for you. 

    You can customize captions during the meeting by hovering over them or by going to Settings > Captions > Customize your captions. Your settings will persist across your meetings and can be changed at any time.
    Example of customized captions in Meet

    Getting started
    Google Meet > Settings > Captions > Customize your captions


    Rollout pace

    Availability
    • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as users with personal Google accounts

    Resources

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    What’s changing
    Starting today, you can use companion mode on Apple iPads & Android tablets and foldable devices. Companion mode is a quick, light-weight way to participate in meetings without opening a laptop. This can be particularly useful in meeting spaces where room for a laptop is limited, or as an easy, discreet way to participate during large in-person meetings, such as all hands or town halls. 

    Specifically, you can use companion mode to: 
    • Check-in to the room to be identified by name. 
    • Share an emoji reaction without interrupting the speaker. 
    • Raise your hand to indicate that you’d like to speak. 
    • Turn on captions to view subtitles as everyone speaks during a meeting. 
    • Exchange chat messages with other meeting participants. 
    • View and zoom in on presented content to easily follow along with the presenter on your own device. 
    • Use Meet in the split screen view, helping you multitask.Check-in to the room to be identified by name.
    Check-in to the room to be identified by name.
    Share an emoji reaction without interrupting the speaker
    Share an emoji reaction without interrupting the speaker
    Raise your hand to indicate that you’d like to speak
    Raise your hand to indicate that you’d like to speak
    Turn on captions to view subtitles as everyone speaks during a meeting
    Turn on captions to view subtitles as everyone speaks during a meeting
    Exchange chat messages with other meeting participants
    Exchange chat messages with other meeting participants
    View and zoom in on presented content to easily follow along with the presenter on your own device
    View and zoom in on presented content to easily follow along with the presenter on your own device
    Use Meet in the split screen view, helping you multitask
    Use Meet in the split screen view, helping you multitask



    Companion mode is already available for laptop and desktop devices, as well as Android and iOS mobile devices. 

    Additional details 
    • Minimum Android build required: 
      • Meet: 308.0. (Android Settings > Apps > Meet > [App Info > Version]) 
      • Gmail: 2025.05.25. (Android Settings > Apps > Gmail > [App Info > Version]) 
    • Minimum iOS build required: 
      • Meet: 310.0. (Meet > Settings -> About, terms, and privacy > Version) 
      • Gmail: 6.0.250601. (Settings > About Gmail > Version) 
    Getting started 
    • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
    • End users: 
      • This feature will be available by default. You can join a meeting using companion mode from the green room before your meeting. Use this Help Center article and video guide to learn more about using companion mode in Google Meet. 
      • Note: Your audio and mic will automatically be muted—we recommend using meeting room hardware for audio and video to avoid feedback. 
    Rollout pace 
    Android: 
    iOS: 
    Availability 
    • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts 
    Resources 
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