Local data storage exports your organization’s Workspace data into the geographic location of your choice, launching in beta
What’s changing Today, we’re introducing Google Workspace’s new feature, local data storage. This feature allows admins to export their organization’s Workspace data into the geographic location or locations of their choice. These are the available options for this...
Join meetings as a guest without a Google account on mobile devices
What’s changing You can now quickly join a meeting as a guest without signing into a personal or work Google account or creating a new Google account. This functionality already exists for meetings on the web and, by expanding to mobile, guests now have greater...
Combine multiple video effects, improve lighting and audio in Google Meet
What’s changing We’re launching three new features to personalize your appearance in Google Meet. Specifically, we’re adding: Combine multiple video effects on web and mobile: You can now combine a background effect with a filter effect to create a more dynamic, fun...
Star messages in Google Chat on mobile
What’s changingLast November, we introduced starred on web, an additional shortcut in the redesigned Google Chat navigation panel that helps you stay on top of your most important messages. Today, we’re excited to announce this is now available on Android and iOS...
Managed reported Google Chat content from the new moderation tool in the Admin console
What’s changingWe’re introducing a centralized location for reviewing and taking action on reported Google Chat content in the Admin console under Apps > Google Workspace > Moderation, alongside the email quarantine tool for Gmail. Here can be found an...
For Google Meet Hardware, ‘Auto-Update Expiration (AUE)’ will now be referred to as ‘end of Meet support’
What’s changingWe’re making changes to the terminology that refers to when a Meet hardware device is no longer supported:‘End of Meet support date’ replaces Auto-Update Expiration (AUE) in the Meet hardware Help Center.The Admin console will show ‘end of Meet...
Closed caption support in Google Meet expands to an additional thirty-one languages
What’s changingWe’ve expanded support for closed captioning to include the following additional languages:-Afrikaans-Albanian -Amharic -Armenian-Australian English-Basque-Burmese-Catalan-English (India)-English...
Improving space creation in Google Chat
What’s changingWe are making two improvements to the space creation flow in Google Chat: preventing duplicate space names and providing a method to configure spaces for specific use cases. In order to prevent duplicate space names in Google Chat, you will no longer be...
Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – January 26, 2024
2 New updatesUnless 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...
Use comments & action items on your client-side encrypted Google Docs
What’s changing You can now collaborate with others on client-side encrypted Google Docs to add, edit, reply, filter, or delete comments. You can also assign action items to yourself or others. This added functionality helps bring parity to unencrypted docs while also...