2 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.
Expanding row limits in Connected Sheets for BigQuery
Last yearThis week, we're excited to announce that this has been expanded to 100,000 rows for pivot tables and 500,000 rows for extracts (with a cell limit of 5 million). This week, we're excited to announce this has been expanded to 100,000 rows for pivot tables and 500,000 rows for extracts (with a cell limit of 5 million). This will allow you to analyse even more results in Sheets from the petabytes of data in BigQuery. | Rolling out to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains now. | Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Learn more about analysing & refreshing BigQuery data in Google Sheets using Connected Sheets, Google Sheets limitations, and getting started with BigQuery data in Google Sheets.
Custom text fields are now available for eSignature in Google Docs and Google Drive
You can now input custom text fields when using eSignature. This gives you the flexibility to collect specific information as needed, including a phone number, job title, company name, and more. | Available to Google Workspace Individual users and other eligible Google Workspace customers who are on the eSignature alpha. | Rolling out to Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains | Learn more about sending signature requests & signing documents with eSignature.
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.
Filter, sort, and display your Google Meet hardware devices by product service status
You can currently filter, sort, and display your Google Meet hardware devices by whether they are online, offline, or experiencing an application load-failure. This week, we're expanding these parameters to include whether the Calendar and Jamboard services are turned OFF. | Learn more about filtering, sorting and displaying Meet hardware devices.
Introducing adaptive audio in Google Meet: creating ad-hoc meeting spaces with multiple laptops
With "adaptive audio," you and your team can join Google Meet using multiple laptops in close proximity without awkward echos and audio feedback. | Learn more about adaptive audio in Google Meet.
Send emails to spaces in Google Chat
After a space manager generates an email address for a space, members (or anyone in your domain with the email address) can send or forward any email to that space. This provides a great way for teams to easily triage or discuss email content with stakeholders within the space. The email will appear as a clickable card showing a snippet of the email in the designated space. | Learn more about sending emails to spaces.
Manage spaces at scale with new Chat API functionality
We are pleased to announce the launch for additional features of Chat API via the Developer Preview Programme, enabling space management at scale on behalf of admin users. These new features are available to all users currently enrolled in the Developer Preview Programme. | Learn more about new Chat API functionality.
Introducing Gemini offerings for Google Workspace for Education customers
Beginning May 23, 2024, Google for Education customers will be able to leverage new and powerful ways of working, teaching and learning with Gemini for Google Workspace with two new paid add-ons. | Learn more about Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium add-ons.
Expanding voice typing and automatic captions to additional browsers
We're expanding support for voice typing and captions features to additional browsers, such as Edge and Safari. When a user turns on voice typing or captions, the web browser controls the speech-to-text service, determines how speech is processed, and then sends text data to Google Docs and Google Slides. | Learn more about voice typing features in additional browsers.
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:
Updated keyboard shortcuts and first-letters navigation now available on Google Drive webHide tiles without video during Google Meet callsExpanding Slides recordings to Microsoft Edge
Scheduled Release Domains:
Use annotations to enhance your presentations in Google Meet
Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:
Workspace Data Protection rules are now available for Gmail in BetaBreakout room information is now included in Google Meet attendance report
Paused rollouts
We have paused the rollout for this feature while we evaluate performance and quality. We will provide an update with new rollout information as soon as possible.
For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What's new in Google Workspace (recent releases).
