Google Workspace Updates

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - November 7, 2025

2025年11月07日T13:00:00.000-08:00

A summary of announcements from the last week:
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

New to Google Meet: Continue your conversations in Google Chat

GStarting November 10, your Google Meet in-meeting messages will be powered by and available in Google Chat. That means the meaningful feedback that was messaged during the meeting, or key resources and links that were shared are now easily accessible to meeting attendees after the meeting, in a shared Google Chat conversation. | Learn more about continuing conversations between Chat and Meet.

Controls for restricting conversation creation in Google Chat available to more organizations

We are expanding an existing Google Chat feature to more Workspace customers. This feature gives administrators the ability to limit who can create new conversations in Google Chat. When this setting is applied to users (through an organizational unit or a Google Group), those users will be prevented from initiating new conversations, or adding new members to existing conversations. | Learn more about the new Google Chat controls.

Updated Chat header helps you navigate chat more quickly and easily

We are introducing a redesigned Google Chat conversation header on the web. The new header offers a simpler, more consistent layout that makes key tools easier to find and use. It includes a side panel where users can access shared content and manage tasks without leaving the conversation view. | Learn more about the new header in Google Chat.

Set sharing expirations on files and folders in shared drives

We previously introduced the option to set expirations on files that reside in shared drives using the Google Drive API. Today, we are bringing the ability to set expiring access for files and folders in shared drives directly from the sharing dialog. This highly-requested feature brings the ease and security of My Drive access controls into your collaborative shared drives. | Learn more about expiring access in shared drives.

Bringing inline threading to direct messages in Google Chat

We’re excited to announce that inline threading is rolling out for direct messages (DMs) and group direct messages (gDMs) in Google Chat. This has been a highly requested feature, and we're pleased to deliver it as part of our effort to simplify the Chat experience and address top user feedback about conversation consistency. | Learn more about threading in Chat DMs.

Gemini Deep Research now integrates with your Workspace content

We’re expanding the capabilities of Gemini’s Deep Research feature by integrating it with your Google Workspace apps. This update allows Deep Research to seamlessly gather information from your content in Gmail, Chat, and Drive - including Slides, Sheets and Docs files - in addition to the web, to create a more comprehensive and personalized report. | Learn more about using Deep Research with your Workspace content.

Use a wider range of emoji reactions in Google Meet

Google Meet users now have access to the full emoji library for reactions in Google Meet. Reactions let users engage with the content in a meeting, share meaningful feedback or praise, and celebrate company culture all through emoji. | Learn more about additional emoji reactions in Meet.

Use a wider range of emoji reactions in Google Meet

2025年11月07日T10:15:00.000-08:00

What’s changing

A user sending Emoji reactions "Heart on fire" and "Party face" from the extended set

Getting started

Admins: The feature will be ON by default for users. Admins can change the default setting at the domain, OU, and group level.
End users: If enabled by your admin, the feature will be available by default on web and Android. For other platforms, please see the Limitations section. Meeting hosts and co-hosts can turn it off using host controls. It is possible to turn off the full picker but keep the current emoji bar with a more limited selection of reactions. Visit the Help Center to learn more using reactions in Google Meet.

Limitations

Meet Rooms hardware will not have the extended Emoji selections available but will be able to receive and display reactions from the extended Emoji set. The currently existing options will remain available to send reactions. Joining the Meet call with companion mode from your personal device will enable you to send reactions from the extended Emoji set.
Live stream viewers will not have the extended Emoji selections available but will be able to receive and display reactions from the extended Emoji set. The current existing options will remain available to send reactions.
On iOS devices, the capability to send reactions from the extended set will be added at a later point in time. On the initial rollout, iOS users will be able to see reactions from the extended set sent by those on compatible platforms.
Organizational custom Emojis are not supported.

Rollout pace

Admin controls

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 6th 2025.

End user feature availability

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 19th, 2025
Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on December 9th 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Business Standard and Plus
Enterprise Standard and Plus

Resources

Gemini Deep Research now integrates with your Workspace content

2025年11月06日T12:52:00.000-08:00

What’s changing

Previously, users had to manually upload individual files from Drive to supplement their Deep Research. Now, Deep Research can pull securely from your Workspace content, including emails and even chats, informing reports with relevant context.

This update helps end users, including students, educators and those in small businesses, to do their best work by making research more efficient and context-aware. Your users can now integrate information directly from:

Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and PDFs in Drive, including non-Google files
Context from emails in Gmail
Information from Chat messages

Example use cases for end users:

Business planning: Users can ask Deep Research to kickstart analysis for a new product using team documents, build out a competitor report referencing internal strategy memos and communications, or help onboard onto a new project quickly after analyzing documents, emails, and chat history.
Project catch-up: Get quickly caught up on an in-progress project by asking, "Catch me up on my <some project you have docs, chats, emails about. e.g., my remodeling project>. What are some decisions I need to make, and for each, can you research potential options".
Academic research: Students and faculty can ask Deep Research to review their existing notes and research papers on a topic and combine that with web research to pull together an insightful report that includes insights from their own documents.

Getting started

Admins: Gemini access to Workspace apps is controlled by the "Allow access to Workspace apps" setting. Visit the Help Center for more information on turning Workspace apps in Gemini on or off.
End users: If enabled by their admin, users can choose to connect Google Workspace apps in Gemini. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using apps connected to Gemini. Once connected, select "Deep Research" from the Tools menu in Gemini and enter your research question. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using the Gemini web app for in-depth research.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: This feature is available now for desktop and will begin rolling out to mobile users in the coming days.

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Business Starter, Standard, Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus
Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
Frontline Starter and Standard
Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus
Nonprofits

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons:

Gemini Business*
Gemini Enterprise*
Google AI Pro for Education

*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.

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Google apps in Gemini on or off
Help Center: Use Deep Research in Gemini Apps
Keyword: Gemini Deep Research can now connect to your Gmail, Docs, Drive and even Chat

Bringing inline threading to direct messages in Google Chat

2025年11月05日T14:28:00.000-08:00

What’s changing

Until now, inline threading was only available in spaces. With this update, you can now reply in-thread to any message in a direct conversation, just as you do in a space. This helps to keep conversations organized, allowing you and your colleagues to follow specific topics and avoid cluttering the main chat stream.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. This feature will be ON by default as it rolls out.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 5, 2025
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 19, 2025

Availability

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

Resources

Google Help: Use threads in Chat spaces
Google Help: Reply to a message in Google Chat

Set sharing expirations on files and folders in shared drives

2025年11月05日T13:37:00.000-08:00

What’s changing

We previously introduced the option to set expirations on files that reside in shared drives using the Google Drive API. Today, we are bringing the ability to set expiring access for files and folders in shared drives directly from the sharing dialog. This highly-requested feature brings the ease and security of My Drive access controls into your collaborative shared drives.

File expirations

You can now set expirations when sharing files in a shared drive. This lets you add an expiration date right in the sharing dialog for temporary collaborators, ensuring access is automatically revoked and eliminating the need for manual cleanup.

Add expiration while sharing files in shared drives.

Folder expirations

For shared drive folders, you can now apply an expiration date specifically to the Viewer role. This setting is easily accessible in the folder's sharing dialog, helping you automatically remove read-only access when a collaborator's temporary need is finished.

Add expiration for Viewer role while sharing folders in shared drives.

Consistent expiration behavior in My Drive

We're standardizing access expiration for files and folders in My Drive. The experience is now consistent with shared drives, making it more predictable for you to know when access will expire.

Old behavior: If you granted someone temporary Editor access to a file inside a parent folder they could only view, they would lose all access to the file once their Editor permission expired.

New behavior: When their temporary Editor access expires, their permission will revert to the access they have on the parent folder (in this case, Viewer). They will not lose access to the file completely.

Editor access expires, and reverts to Viewer access (user has Viewer access on the parent folder).

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: This feature will be available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to manage expiring access in shared drives.

You can only set sharing expirations on Web and Android phones. Expirations cannot be set on iOS devices in My Drive or shared drives.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 4, 2025
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 18, 2025

Availability

Available to Google Workspace:

Business Starter, Standard, Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus
Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus
Education Standard, Plus
Nonprofits
Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus

Also available to:

Google One AI Premium
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.

Resources

Google Help: Share folders in Google Drive
Google Learning Center: Set an expiration date for file access

Updated Chat header helps you navigate chat more quickly and easily

2025年11月04日T14:02:00.000-08:00

What’s changing

Specifically, the new header has icons which can be used to:

Select "Shared" to access shared files, links and media.
Select "Tasks" to create and manage space tasks.
Select "Threads" to see and respond to active threads.
Select "Board" to see pinned messages, files and shared links.

Navigating between Shared, Tasks, Threads, and Board by clicking on header icons

Side panels can expand into fullscreen with the drag bar

Getting started

Admins: This feature will be on by default. There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: This feature will be on by default for users on the web. To use it, look for the icons in the top right of your Chat window. Use our Help Center to learn how to navigate Google Chat.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on November 4, 2025
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 11, 2025

Availability

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

Resources

Google Help: Navigate Google Chat

Controls for restricting conversation creation in Google Chat available to more organizations

2025年11月04日T07:05:00.000-08:00

What’s changing

We are expanding an existing Google Chat feature, previously only available for Education customers, to more Workspace customers.

This feature gives administrators the ability to limit who can create new conversations in Google Chat. When this setting is applied to users (through an organizational unit or a Google Group), those users will be prevented from initiating new conversations, or adding new members to existing conversations.

Users with this restriction can continue to converse in conversations they are already a member of.

Why it’s important

Similar to how this feature is used for students, it allows organizations to enable Chat for a segment of employees such that they can receive important messages and contribute to existing conversations, while limiting their ability to create new, unmanaged conversations. This helps provide a safer and easier way for organizations to communicate.

Getting started

Admins: This feature will be OFF by default. It can be enabled for specific users by placing them in an Organizational Unit (OU) or a Google Group and applying the setting in the Admin console.
End users: There is no end-user setting for this feature. If this policy is applied to your account by your administrator, you will not be able to start new conversations or create spaces, but you can still reply to conversations you are added to.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on November 3, 2025

Availability

Business Plus
Enterprise Standard and Plus
Business Continuity and Continuity Plus
Frontline Plus and Frontline Standard

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up Chat restrictions
Google Help: Create, send & reply to messages in Google Chat

New to Google Meet: Continue your conversations in Google Chat

2025年11月03日T13:30:00.000-08:00

What’s happening?

Starting November 10, your Google Meet in-meeting messages will be powered by and available in Google Chat.

That means the meaningful feedback that was messaged during the meeting, or key resources and links that were shared are now easily accessible to meeting attendees after the meeting, in a shared Google Chat conversation.

This change brings the power of Google Chat to Meet, creating a richer in-meeting messaging experience. Meeting attendees can now respond to messages with emojis, and share images and files directly in Google Meet. Attendees can send pre-reads and other meeting materials to the group ahead of the meeting in Google Chat, and these resources will be available in Google Meet throughout the call. This launch also consolidates all your messaging and conversations into Google Chat, making it easy to find messages or shared files all in one place.

This change is designed to improve post-meeting follow-through, leading to increased team productivity, and we’re excited for what this will mean for your teams and their collaboration.

Getting started

Admins:

Availability: All end users in your org will have this feature on eligible meetings.
Data retention & DLP: These messages are stored in a Google Chat conversation, and will respect the retention policies and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules you have configured for Google Chat.
If disabled by host: If a host turns off continuous meeting chat for a specific meeting, that meeting will use the existing, unlinked in-call messaging. To retain such messages, you must record the meeting.

End Users:

Eligible meetings: This feature is available for meetings scheduled in Google Calendar. It applies to the meeting host and all other invited attendees who are part of the host's domain.
Host control: Meeting hosts retain full control and can disable this feature for any meeting. This option must be toggled in the Google Calendar event's video call options before the meeting starts and cannot be changed once the meeting is in progress.

External attendees: To ensure security and clarity, external attendees will only have access to the chat during the time they are in the meeting. They will not be able to participate in a conversation before a meeting nor see the conversation history after one. Internal attendees will see clear ‘external’ indicators and banners when guests are present in the conversation.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (up to 30 days for feature visibility) starting no earlier than November 10, 2025
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting no earlier than December 3, 2025

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace business and enterprise customers with the following plans:

Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus
Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus
Frontline Starter, Frontline Standard, Frontline Plus

Resources

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - October 31, 2025

2025年11月01日T15:04:00.000-07:00

A summary of announcements from the last two weeks:
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last two weeks. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Gemini in Google Sheets can now analyze data across multiple tables

Gemini in Sheets can understand and analyze multiple tables within a single tab of a spreadsheet. This new functionality allows you to ask questions and perform analysis that spans multiple data sources, dramatically increasing the power and accuracy of your queries. | Learn more about the upgrades to Gemini in Sheets.

Protecting Gmail users from XS-Search with Cross-Origin Opener Policy (COOP)

Gmail is enhancing user security by enabling the Cross-Origin Opener Policy (COOP). As a result, developers of websites and browser extensions opening or manipulating the Gmail page may have to update their code to ensure continued functionality when enforcement begins on January 20, 2026. There is no action needed from Workspace admins or end users. | Learn more about COOP for Gmail.

AI credit overages admin control and related billing

We previously announced an increased credit limit of 25,000 credits per user per month for Google AI Ultra for Business users. Now, we're adding a new admin control that enables admins to allow users with an Google AI Ultra for Business license to exceed their 25,000 per user per month AI credit limit. | Learn more about the new admin usage and billing controls.

Educators can now convert rubrics in Google Classroom from Drive or local files with help from Gemini

educators can now quickly adapt existing rubrics from Drive or local files for Google Classroom assignments with Gemini's assistance. From the Rubric menu in the assignment creation screen, educators can now select "Convert from file" to instantly turn existing rubrics from various files and use them in Google Classroom, without the need to enter the information manually. | Learn more about adapting rubrics in Google Classroom.

Use emoji reactions in your client-side encrypted documents

We’re excited to announce that client-side encrypted (CSE) files including Google Docs, Sheets and Slides now support emoji reactions. Users can use emojis to react to comments and content, bringing an expressive collaboration feature to CSE files. | Learn more about emoji reactions in CSE docs.

Ask Gemini in Google Meet coming to Workspace enterprise customers

Last month, we announced that Ask Gemini in Meet was starting to roll out for select Workspace customers. Today, the experience is now rolling out to Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus domains. Ask Gemini in Meet brings the power of Gemini into your organization’s meetings. Acting as a personal assistant, it can help make meetings more productive and more efficient. | Learn more about the expansion of Ask Gemini in Meet.

Introducing a new waiting rooms experience in Google Meet

We’re introducing waiting rooms in Google Meet, giving you more control over your meetings. As a meeting host or co-host, you can choose to have participants join a waiting room before they join the call. | Learn more about waiting rooms in Google Meet.

New LaTeX features in the Gemini app

We are introducing improved LaTeX rendering and PDF export capabilities directly within the Gemini app. LaTeX is a document preparation system widely used in academic, scientific, and technical fields to create high-quality documents with complex formatting, such as mathematical equations, tables, and multi-column layouts. | Learn more about LaTeX in Gemini.

Generate presentations in the Gemini app

We are introducing the ability to create slide presentations in the Gemini app through Canvas. Simply provide an idea with a simple text prompt or upload a source, and Gemini will generate a set of slides — complete with a theme and relevant images. Then, export the presentation from the Gemini app directly to Google Slides to continue to refine or collaborate with others. | Learn more about generating presentations with Gemini.

Enhanced admin audit log events

We are updating the schema and event modeling for several Admin audit log events, specifically some of the events related to account security, Gmail, and Drive settings, along with other admin-defined setting audit logs. These improvements aim to make the logs more understandable, detailed, and precise. | Learn more about the enhanced audit logs.

More powerful pivot tables in Connected Sheets

We are rolling out two significant updates to Connected Sheets pivot tables backed by BigQuery, designed to increase analytical capacity and streamline your workflow. First, we’re doubling row capacity for pivot tables backed by BigQuery in Connected Sheets, from 100,000 to 200,000 rows. Second, we’re launching the ability to "drill down" into Connected Sheets pivot tables, allowing you to immediately access the granular data making up any aggregated value. | Learn more about the improved pivot tables in Connected Sheets.

Improve your writing by grounding Gemini in Google Docs in sources

We’re excited to announce source-grounded writing help in Google Docs. Gemini will automatically curate a list of sources linked in your document and you can choose to ask it to only pull details from those sources when providing writing assistance via the side panel. This will keep suggestions focused and grounded in trusted content. | Learn more about source grounding Gemini in Google Docs.

Improving the Workday Google Chat app

The latest update for Workday Google Chat app update makes it easier to manage time off with a single, improved flow to request, view, or cancel time off, along with quick commands to check balances and company holidays. | Learn more about the improvements to the Workday Chat app.

Improving the Workday Google Chat app

2025年10月31日T12:10:00.000-07:00

What’s changing

Getting started

Workday Admins: Workday Admins must activate OAuth and create a new API client for the Google integration setup within Workday. The workday admin must make note of the following details during the API client setup, required for the next step:

Client ID
Secret ID
Workday REST API Endpoint
Workday Token Endpoint
Workday Authorization Endpoint

Workspace Admins: Admins need to allowlist the add-on to ensure end users have access. Visit the Help Center to learn how to manage Google Workspace Marketplace apps. Once allowed, the admin can either install the app to the domain, or install individually. After installation you will be asked to configure authorization in Workday (this requires the information above obtained during API client setup); This authorization will apply to all users of Workday within your domain.
End users: If enabled by your admin, install the add-on by going to the Google Workspace Marketplace listing. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using the Workday app in Google Chat.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Currently available.

Availability

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

Resources

Improve your writing by grounding Gemini in Google Docs in sources

2025年10月30日T13:37:00.000-07:00

What’s changing

Create contextual and reliable output from Gemini
Query available knowledge on a topic, getting accurate answers that are tailored to your needs

Using this trusted and relevant content can help ensure you’re using exactly the context you need — no guesswork or tab switching required.

Additionally, this launch can help save users time. All users have to do is link files in their document, which many users already do today, and then select "Document links" to ground on those files.

Previously, users would have to remember and individually add files in the prompt field to ground Gemini in them. Adding files individually is still available for users that want to ground on files that are not linked in the document. However, this launch will make it quicker and easier for users that have already linked the relevant files in the doc to ground Gemini on that information, and can help ensure important sources are not left out.

Ground Gemini by selecting linked sources in the side panel

Who’s impacted

End users

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: This feature will be available by default and is available in the side panel of Docs. Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to collaborate with Gemini in Google Docs.

The dialog in the side panel where users can choose to ground Gemini in linked files

Rollout pace

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Currently available

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Business Standard, and Plus
Enterprise Standard, and Plus
Gemini Business, Enterprise
Google AI Pro for Education
Google One AI Premium

Resources

Google Help: Collaborate with Gemini in Google Docs

More powerful pivot tables in Connected Sheets

2025年10月30日T07:39:00.000-07:00

What’s happening

We are rolling out two significant updates to Connected Sheets pivot tables backed by BigQuery, designed to increase analytical capacity and streamline your workflow.

First, we’re doubling row capacity for pivot tables backed by BigQuery in Connected Sheets, from 100,000 to 200,000 rows. This change will allow users to bring in substantially larger views of BigQuery datasets in a single pivot table, enabling wider, more comprehensive analyses within the familiar Sheets environment.

Second, we’re launching the ability to "drill down" into Connected Sheets pivot tables, allowing you to immediately access the granular data making up any aggregated value. Users can now double-click on a pivot table cell or use the right-click > Show details menu option to instantly create a pre-configured extract, focusing on the specific records that make up that summary metric.

Automatically create a pre-configured extract to drill down into any pivot table aggregated cell

Getting started

Admins: This feature will only be available to users with appropriate BigQuery permissions. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Connected Sheets in your organization.

End users: This feature will be available by default for users with appropriate BigQuery permissions. Visit the Help Center to learn more about analyzing BigQuery data using Connected Sheets.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 30, 2025

Availability

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

Resources

Enhanced admin audit log events

2025年10月29日T11:57:00.000-07:00

What’s changing

The updates involve changes to event names, event types, and the volume of these affected log events. Some legacy events may be redundant as a part of this change. If you're using any legacy events, some of the updates might require changes to your existing queries, alerts, and reports to get the full benefit of the changes. Both the new and old events will continue to be available for you to make the necessary changes.

Who’s impacted

Admins

Why it matters

Granular audit logs are critical to helping organizations investigate cybersecurity incidents and understand their data usage. The changes announced today expand the depth of analysis that can be performed.

Rollout pace

Rapid and Scheduled release domains: Gradual rollout - up to 15 days for feature visibility starting October 29 2025

Getting started

Admins: As the changes become available, you can get started with your analysis in either the Audit and Investigation tool.
End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

Availability

Available for Google Workspace with Audit Log eligible licenses. To learn more about the Audit Log availability for your license types, please review this article.

Generate presentations in the Gemini app

2025年10月28日T11:52:00.000-07:00

What’s changing

Working professionals can upload a sales brief or information on your company to create an initial pitch deck, leverage a campaign brief/product doc and generate a launch presentation, upload a large research report or document to distill into a summary, and more.
Educators can instantly create a first draft of a lesson presentation with engaging visual aids, saving valuable prep time that can be focused on instructional strategy.
Students can transform their class notes or a document into a structured presentation, helping them quickly organize their ideas for a class project.
Nonprofit Executive Directors can transform their measurement and evaluation results into a structured presentation for their next board meeting.

Simply open the Gemini app, select "Canvas" in the toolbar, and ask Gemini to "create a presentation." You can specify a topic or upload your own source with the prompt.

Generating presentations is available on Gemini web (gemini.google.com) and mobile web, with availability on the Gemini app on Android and iOS coming soon.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Rolling out now; gradual rollout should be complete by November 12, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Business Starter, Standard and Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard and Plus
Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus
Nonprofits

Also available to:

Google AI Pro and Ultra
Google AI Pro for Education

Resources

New LaTeX features in the Gemini app

2025年10月27日T13:15:00.000-07:00

What’s happening

Previously, working with LaTeX required specialized editors and significant technical expertise to find and fix errors. With this update, Gemini makes it much easier for everyone to create professional documents.

Our new LaTeX features include:

PDF generation: Users can now generate a pdf using LaTeX, preview it in gemini and download the pdf, ready for sharing or printing
Easy editing in Canvas documents: You can now add LaTeX to any document in Canvas by clicking the fx button in canvas and edit any LaTeX by clicking on the formula directly in canvas
Copying: Copying LaTeX from any response in Gemini will now copy the unrendered LaTeX code

This update makes Gemini a more powerful tool for students, researchers, engineers, and anyone in your organization who needs to create polished, complex documents like academic papers, problem sets, technical reports, or resumes.

Exporting to PDF is available on web and mobile web with read-only viewing available in the Gemini app on Android and iOS.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

This feature is now available.

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus
Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus
Nonprofits

Also available to:

Google AI Pro and Ultra
Gemini Business, Enterprise*
Google AI Pro for Education

*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.

Resources

Google Help: Create docs, apps & more with Canvas

Introducing a new waiting rooms experience in Google Meet

2025年10月23日T13:36:00.000-07:00

What's happening

This feature is designed to prevent meeting interruptions and give you time to prepare before admitting attendees. From the waiting room, participants will see a message letting them know they're in the right place and will be brought into the call shortly. This ensures that everyone joins the meeting at the right time, leading to smoother, more productive discussions.

With this update, hosts and co-hosts can:

Enable a waiting room before a meeting starts.
Admit or deny entry to participants waiting to join.
Send one-way announcements to participants in the waiting room.
Move existing participants back to the waiting room if needed.

This is particularly useful for scenarios like board meetings, interviews, parent-teacher conferences, or client meetings where you may want to speak with participants privately before they join the main group.

Easily enable the waiting room when creating a Google Calendar event.

The waiting room provides a clear and welcoming experience for attendees waiting to join.

Getting started

Admins: This feature will be OFF by default for end users, but admins can change the default setting at the domain, OU, and group level.
End users: Meeting hosts and co-hosts can enable a waiting room when they create or edit a Google Calendar event. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using waiting rooms in Google Meet.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 23, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace

Business Standard and Plus
Enterprise Standard and Plus
Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning add-on
Workspace Individual subscribers

Resources

Google Help: Use waiting rooms in Google Meet

Ask Gemini in Google Meet coming to Workspace enterprise customers

2025年10月22日T10:11:00.000-07:00

What’s happening

Last month, we announced that Ask Gemini in Meet was starting to roll out for select Workspace customers. Today, the experience is now rolling out to Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus domains.

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 Gemini powered note taking was enabled)

Ask Gemini in Meet brings the power of Gemini into your organization’s meetings. Acting as a personal assistant, it can help make meetings more productive and more efficient.

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. Using Ask Gemini in Meet does not generate a meeting recording or transcript.
Ask Gemini in Meet cannot answer questions about meeting discussions that happen before the user has joined the meeting, unless "take notes for me" is on.
Only meetings in English are currently supported, but support for more languages is coming soon.
Ask Gemini in Meet will be ON by default, but can be turned off by meetings hosts and Admins.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting October 21, 2025
Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting November 3, 2025

Availability

After this rollout completes, Ask Gemini in Meet will be available for the following Google Workspace customers:

Business Plus
Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus

If you’d like immediate access for your organization, you can join the Google Workspace Gemini Alpha.

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Use emoji reactions in your client-side encrypted documents

2025年10月21日T11:14:00.002-07:00

What’s changing

This update brings a core Google Workspace feature into our secure CSE framework, allowing users to provide quick feedback, express agreement, or acknowledge updates. Teams can now work together more efficiently and expressively, while still benefiting from the robust security of client-side encryption.

Emoji reactions are fully integrated in CSE documents. Users can add, resolve, delete, and re-open emoji reactions, and these reactions are also surfaced in a file’s version history. Reactions are preserved during export or when editing a Microsoft Office file in Workspace. They are also preserved when additional encryption is added to or removed from a file.

Emoji reactions to content and comments in a CSE Doc

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about emoji reactions.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on October 21, 2025
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 1, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace

Enterprise Plus
Education Standard and Plus
Frontline Plus

Resources

Google Help: Use comments, action items, & emoji reactions
Google Help: Collaborate on encrypted files in Docs, Sheets & Slides
Google Help: Get started with encrypted files in Drive, Docs, Sheets & Slides

Educators can now convert rubrics in Google Classroom from Drive or local files with help from Gemini

2025年10月21日T11:14:00.001-07:00

What’s happening

This year, we’ve been bringing the capabilities of Gemini into Google Classroom to help educators get help with common tasks. In June, we launched Gemini in Classroom to help educators create first drafts of content and resources, accessed through one central destination in Classroom. Recently, we started to bring Gemini into educator workflows with the ability to generate stories in Read Along in Classroom using Gemini. Starting today, educators can now quickly adapt existing rubrics from Drive or local files for Google Classroom assignments with Gemini's assistance.

From the Rubric menu in the assignment creation screen, educators can now select "Convert from file" to instantly turn existing rubrics from various files and use them in Google Classroom, without the need to enter the information manually.

Additional details

This feature is a part of Gemini in Google Classroom. Gemini in Classroom is only available in English for education users over the age of 18.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on October 20, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

Resources

Google Help: Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment

AI credit overages admin control and related billing

2025年10月21日T11:14:00.000-07:00

What’s changing

We previously announced an increased credit limit of 25,000 credits per user per month for Google AI Ultra for Business users. Now, we're adding a new admin control that enables admins to allow users with an Google AI Ultra for Business license to exceed their 25,000 per user per month AI credit limit. If a customer turns on this setting and has users who exceed their monthly allocation, then we'll send them an invoice at the end of the month to pay for any overages.

We hope this additional control will enable admins to make sure their users have the right amount of access to the tools they need.

Additional details

Pricing depends on your local currency. You can use the Admin console to review specific pricing for credit overages in your region before you enable this feature.
Your organization is billed only for the additional credits they use. You'll see a separate line item on your monthly invoice for any additional credits used during the previous billing cycle.
You can't enable credit overages if your account is managed by a reseller.

Getting started

Admins:

This setting will be OFF by default, which prevents users from exceeding their monthly credit allocation. Admins can turn the setting on or off by OU or group as well as set a maximum limit on how much users are allowed to exceed the limit. Use our Help Center to learn more about Google AI Ultra for Business credits and how they're consumed and how to enable credits overages for Google AI Ultra for Business users.
You can monitor AI credit consumption through admin audit logs.

End users:

If enabled by their admin, users will be able to continue using Flow and Whisk until they reach their monthly maximum AI credit limit as set by their administrator. Learn more about Flow and Whisk.
Users can check their available credits and review past activity in Flow and Whisk at https://workspace.google.com/ai/activity.

Rollout pace

The Admin console setting is available now. Credit overages will begin accruing on November 1, 2025.

Availability

Available for Google AI Ultra for Business

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Protecting Gmail users from XS-Search with Cross-Origin Opener Policy (COOP)

2025年10月20日T14:09:00.000-07:00

What’s happening

COOP background

Cross-Site Search (XS-Search) is a type of Cross-Site Leaks (XS-Leaks) attack that targets query-based search systems, like Gmail. Attackers exploit this vulnerability by gaining control of a Gmail window, either by opening a new popup or accessing an existing one via its window handle. Once they have this access, they can gather information via a side channel to determine if specific search results exist by repeatedly loading different search terms, thereby leaking sensitive user data.

COOP is a web security feature designed to isolate the web applications from untrusted origins. This measure will prevent attackers from accessing Gmail's window handle, thereby protecting users from various Cross-Site Search (XS-Search) attacks that rely on window handles for collecting side-channel information, such as frame counting. This also significantly hinders attacks like cache probing, which rely on timing and other observations for resources that Gmail loads for search results. While these attacks don't directly collect side-channel information through the window handles themselves, COOP prevents repeated searches and thereby increases difficulty and reduces effectiveness, making them far less of a threat.

Who’s impacted

Websites or browser extensions that open Gmail in a pop-up window and interact with that window by accessing its properties (closed, location, length, focus) or invoking its functions (close, postMessage). Also, browser extensions that are injected into Gmail page and access the opener handle which is a reference to the window that opened the current Gmail page.

Additional details

To enforce COOP, the Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy header will be present in the response:

Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin-allow-popups; report-to="gmail-web-coop-coep"

Report-To:{"group":"gmail-web-coop-coep","endpoints":[{"url":"https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/report-to/gmail-web"}]}

Getting started

Developers:

For websites and browser extensions opening Gmail, refactor the offending code to avoid accessing the window properties or functions through the window handle and instead, utilize alternative APIs to achieve the desired functionality (e.g., chrome.tabs, Messaging).
For browser extensions injected into the Gmail page, instead of trying to communicate with or access the opener, the browser extension should be updated so it doesn't need to interact with it at all and the extension's logic should be revised to work independently. If that is not possible, browser extensions can use existing APIs (e.g., chrome.tabs) to implement their logic.

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace

Enforcement will begin on January 20, 2026. Rollout will be extended (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility).

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Gemini in Google Sheets can now analyze data across multiple tables

2025年10月20日T09:03:00.000-07:00

What’s changing

Starting today, Gemini in Sheets can understand and analyze multiple tables within a single tab of a spreadsheet. This new functionality allows you to ask questions and perform analysis that spans multiple data sources, dramatically increasing the power and accuracy of your queries. You can select or deselect tables to focus Gemini’s attention, and you can also directly make a selection within a table to be used as input for your query.

You can use this update while:

Generating formulas: Generate complex formulas that reference and perform calculations across several tables in one go. For example, you can now have Gemini write XLOOKUP functions to look up values from one table to use in another, or aggregate data from multiple tables into a single summary calculation.
Analyzing and generating charts: Ask Gemini to analyze data scattered across multiple tables to uncover insights and create data visualizations. You can get a holistic view of your data, whether you’re identifying top performers by combining sales data from different tables, or creating a single chart that compares sales performance data from separate tables.
Editing your data: Apply changes to multiple tables at once with a single request. For example, you can now use Gemini to apply consistent conditional formatting across all your tables in a spreadsheet or build a single pivot table that summarizes data from multiple tables.
Targeting analysis with selections: You can now make selections within your tables to focus Gemini’s analysis. Ask for summaries of specific data, find outliers in a selected range, or generate formulas based on the data you’ve highlighted. For example, you can select a column and ask, "What are the trends in the selected column?"

Prompt: "Generate a formula that fills the column next to due date that looks up the assigned teammate based on task id"

Getting started

Admins: To access Gemini in Workspace apps, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on the personalization setting for their users in the Admin console.
End users:

This feature will be on by default.
Visit the Help Center to learn more about Gemini in Sheets.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 20, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Business Standard and Plus
Enterprise Standard and Plus
Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on
Google AI Pro and Ultra

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature:

Gemini Business*
Gemini 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.

Resources

Google Help: Collaborate with Gemini in Google Sheets

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - October 17, 2025

2025年10月17日T09:06:00.000-07:00

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

AI-powered makeup in Google Meet

Now you can choose from 12 new studio makeup looks, with a range of options from a polished, professional touch to a more expressive flair. Your AI-powered makeup remains seamless and untouched—even through everyday movements like sipping your coffee or touching your face. | Learn more about using AI makeup in Meet.

The AI function in Google Sheets is now enhanced with Google Search results for more up-to-date answers

Earlier this year, we announced AI function in Sheets to help you generate text, summarize information, categorize data, and analyze sentiment at scale, directly from any cell in your spreadsheet. Last month, we expanded feature availability to seven additional languages. Now, we're making AI function even more powerful by automatically grounding it in results from Google Search, so it can access up-to-the-minute information from the web to answer your prompts. | Learn more about Google Search in the Sheets AI function.

Google Keep reminders now saved to Tasks

As announced last year, Keep reminders will be automatically saved to Tasks. This means that now users can view their Keep reminders as tasks in Calendar, in the Tasks app, and even ask the Gemini app about them (via the Tasks extension). As part of this launch, any existing date/time based Keep reminders will automatically be saved to Google Tasks. | Learn more about the reminders to Tasks migration.

Use Help me schedule to easily set up a meeting time over email

Gmail with Gemini will detect when you’re trying to coordinate a time within an email and will surface a Help me schedule button in the toolbar. After you click on the Help me schedule button, Gemini will automatically suggest ideal slots based on your Google Calendar and the email's context. | Learn more about Help me schedule in Gmail.

Summarize shared files with Gemini in Google Chat, now available on mobile

Simply tap the "Summarize" button on the file preview card in your conversation. Gemini will summarize the file so you can get a quick overview without having to leave Chat. | Learn more about summarizing files in Chat.

Video Overviews in NotebookLM are now available to users of all ages

Google Workspace for Education users of all ages can now use Video Overviews in NotebookLM. Users can now turn documents, slides, charts and more into engaging explainer videos that are narrated by an AI voice. | Learn more about Video Overviews in Notebook LM.

Extract, categorize, and summarize data in AppSheet with the power of Gemini

AppSheet Enterprise Plus users can now add the new AI Task powered by Gemini, directly into their existing AppSheet automations. The AI Task can perform the following functions: Extract, Extract Rows, Categorize, and Summarize. | Learn more about Gemini in AppSheet.

Gemini in Google Sheets now tackles multi-step tasks with expanded editing capabilities

Earlier this year, we introduced powerful new editing options within Gemini in Sheets like creating pivot tables, applying filters, and adding conditional formatting. Building on that momentum, we’re excited to announce that Gemini can now execute multiple actions at once from a single prompt - no need to simplify your instructions or disrupt your workflow by typing multiple different prompts. | Learn more about multi-step actions using Gemini in Sheets.

Your organization's logo will now appear in the Gemini app

Similar to other Google Workspace service pages, your organization’s logo will now appear next to a user’s profile picture in the Gemini app when they are using their business or education account. | Learn more about organizational logos in the Gemini app.

Introducing Business Continuity editions: Support business continuity and resilience for enterprise customers

When your primary systems are compromised, you need a dependable partner to keep your organization operational. Our new Business Continuity editions are designed to serve as a robust backup solution that works in tandem with your primary, non-Google Workspace collaboration platform, providing a secure and familiar environment that can be activated when you need it most. | Learn more about the new Business Continuity editions.

Flashcards in Gemini are now available to users of all ages

Google Workspace for Education users of all ages can now use Flashcards in Gemini. Users can ask Gemini to instantly create flashcards and study guides based on your quiz results or other class materials, providing a simple and effective way to review key concepts and reinforce your learning. | Learn more about creating Flashcards with Gemini.

Flashcards in Gemini are now available to users of all ages

2025年10月17日T08:15:00.000-07:00

What’s changing

Why you’d use it

Flashcards can be a helpful resource for students as they study and learn with Gemini. For example, students under 18 can now:

Get ready for your next test with powerful new study tools
Get personalized study guidance - complete a quiz within Gemini and create flashcards based off of the results to hone in on subject areas that need more attention.

The Gemini app is covered under the Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service for all Workspace for Education users and has enterprise-grade data protection, meaning your data is not human reviewed or otherwise used to train AI models.

Who’s impacted

Admins and end users

Getting started

Admins:
These features are available in the Gemini app by default. There are no admin controls for these features. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Gemini on or off for users.
End users:
Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating quizzes, flashcards, and Teaching responsible use of AI.
100+ ways to use Gemini in education and using learning tools in the Gemini app.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 17, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
Customers with the Google AI Pro for Education add-on*

*On September 2, the Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium add-ons were consolidated into a single add-on called Google AI Pro for Education.

Resources

100+ ways to use Gemini in education

Introducing Business Continuity editions: Support business continuity and resilience for enterprise customers

2025年10月17日T07:35:00.000-07:00

What’s changing

We are introducing two distinct offerings to meet your specific needs:

1. Business Continuity

This edition is a true disaster recovery solution designed for a "cold" standby scenario. It provides a secure, isolated environment to ensure your leadership and critical teams can communicate and collaborate during a crisis.

Core Functionality: Allows for syncing your active directory, ensuring your user directory is available when needed.
Usage: Intended for limited use, with access to Google Workspace and generative AI tools like Gemini and NotebookLM for up to 21 days per year.

2. Business Continuity Plus

This is our full-featured solution for organizations that require a "hot" standby environment with more data readily available to drive immediate adoption and productivity. It is designed to keep your core functions operating with minimal disruption.

Core Functionality: In addition to allowing for syncing directory, this edition allows for data syncing across any product, including but not limited to email, calendar, drive, chat and more. We recommend using a partner-based solution for implementation.
Usage: Provides extended access to Google Workspace and generative AI tools for up to 60 days per year.

Learn more about these new offerings in our main blog post: Break free from Microsoft 365’s lock-in, vulnerabilities, and outages with Google Workspace and partners

Getting started

Admins: These solutions are intended for organizations who do not use Google Workspace for their primary collaboration platform. Contact your Google rep or partner to discuss suitability and purchase options.
End users: No end user impact.

Availability

Available everywhere Google Workspace is sold. These solutions are intended for organizations who do not use Google Workspace for their primary collaboration platform.

Resources

Google Workspace Blog: Break free from Microsoft 365’s lock-in, vulnerabilities, and outages with Google Workspace and partners

Google Workspace Updates

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - November 7, 2025

A summary of announcements from the last week:The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Use a wider range of emoji reactions in Google Meet

What’s changing

Getting started

Limitations

Rollout pace

Admin controls

End user feature availability

Availability

Resources

Gemini Deep Research now integrates with your Workspace content

What’s changing

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

Bringing inline threading to direct messages in Google Chat

What’s changing

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

Set sharing expirations on files and folders in shared drives

What’s changing

File expirations

Folder expirations

Consistent expiration behavior in My Drive

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

Updated Chat header helps you navigate chat more quickly and easily

What’s changing

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

Controls for restricting conversation creation in Google Chat available to more organizations

What’s changing

Why it’s important

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

New to Google Meet: Continue your conversations in Google Chat

What’s happening?

Getting started

Admins:

End Users:

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - October 31, 2025

A summary of announcements from the last two weeks:The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last two weeks. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Improving the Workday Google Chat app

What’s changing

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

Improve your writing by grounding Gemini in Google Docs in sources

What’s changing

Who’s impacted

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

More powerful pivot tables in Connected Sheets

What’s happening

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

Enhanced admin audit log events

What’s changing

Who’s impacted

Why it matters

Rollout pace

A summary of announcements from the last week:
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

A summary of announcements from the last two weeks:
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last two weeks. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

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