In June of 2024, we introduced an improved email notification experience between Google Calendar and third-party calendar services, like Outlook, via beta. Beginning today, this update is now generally available. 

Specifically, this update addresses feedback we’ve heard from our customers regarding the syncing experience from Google Calendar to third-party calendars. The syncing experience is now more reliable and gives recipients an effective way to filter out Calendar emails that may have cluttered their inbox.  

• Google Calendar will send additional emails to improve event sync accuracy when users make updates to recurring events. 
• Email notifications purely intended to sync information will display a banner in the email body with instructions on how to create inbox filters to hide similar emails, which can help to minimize clutter in recipients’ inbox.
• At scale, Outlook system administrators can use Microsoft’s Powershell to implement an email filter rule for these messages for all users.

Last year, we announced that we’ve doubled the calculation speed in Google Sheets, which improves the speed of actions like formulas, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and more, regardless of your file size. 

Today, we’re excited to announce additional improvements available for everyday actions in Sheets:

• Pasting data is now up to 50% faster when you’re pasting from one spreadsheet to another
• Filter conditions can now be set up to 50% faster than before 
• Spreadsheets now load existing data up to 30% faster 

Who’s impacted 

End users 

These changes help various users work faster and more efficiently in a variety of scenarios. For example: 

• A data analyst can paste small or large quantities of data from an existing spreadsheet to a new one in a quicker manner. 
• A campaign manager can add filtering conditions to better understand the performance of a campaign at a certain time faster. 
• A small business owner can quickly see their data load. 

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

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now. 

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

• Google Help: Google Sheets training and help 
• Workspace Blog: Doubling calculation speed and other new innovations in Google Sheets 
• Case Study: Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC

Starting today, Workspace add-ons and Chat app developers can add client-side input validation to Chat apps and add-ons. 

Specifically, the card UI now supports required form field validation on the date-time picker, the multi select menu, the drop down menu and text input widgets via the Action API for add-ons and Chat apps. Additionally, text inputs now support input type and format validation with input length limits via the Validation API for add-ons and Chat apps. 

As a result, developers can ensure data accuracy and improve their app’s user experience by catching errors before information is submitted. 

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To improve access for users with vision disabilities, we are adding several more options for how reactions in Google Meet are experienced through screen readers. You can access and adjust the settings at any time during the meeting by pressing Shift+R or from the Settings menu (Three-dot overflow button > Settings > Reactions > Accessibility). The following settings have been added for in-meeting reactions: 

• Don’t announce reactions: No announcements or sound when a reaction is received. 
• Play a sound for all reactions: Play a sound when a reaction is received. 
• Announce all reactions: Announce only the emoji when a reaction is received, for example “Thumbs up”. 
• Announce all reactions and senders: Announce the emoji and who sent the received reaction, for example “Elisa Beckett and 2 others reacted with thumbs up”. 

We hope that these new settings help you configure the experience to suit your needs.

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