Google Workspace Updates: Scheduled Release (original) (raw)

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Gmail data classification update: include header or footer message

What’s changing

Earlier this year, data classification labels for Gmail became generally available. Admins can use this feature to classify and audit email content according to organizational guidelines (“Sensitive,” “Confidential,” etc.) and apply policies, such as data loss prevention (DLP) rules, to protect sensitive information in email messages.

We have expanded this functionality to include the ability to create a DLP rule that adds a header or footer message to email messages. Critically, header and footer messages will be shown to users outside of your domain, which helps ensure external users are aware of the sensitivity of the message and any handling requirements. DLP rules are applied to outbound messages from your domain based on how you have configured the rule scope and conditions. As a reminder, the actual classification label is only visible to recipients in your domain.

Admins can customize the information shown in the header or footer message, including links to further information on handling information. Headers and footers are visible on all device types, both within and outside of your domain.


Selecting “Add footer message” when creating a rule

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Protect sensitive Google Vault actions with multi-party approvals

What’s changing

We are extending multi-party approvals (MPA) to Google Vault. Last year, we launched MPA to protect customers from malicious actors taking sensitive admin actions by requiring that one admin must approve certain actions initiated by another.

Going forward, admins can configure multi-party approvals for the following sensitive Google Vault actions:

Google Vault: create export: Requiring approval before a search query can be exported.

When enabled, if an admin attempts to perform these actions in the Vault interface, they will see a "Multi-party approval required" prompt. The action will not be executed until a separate, authorized administrator reviews and approves the request within the Admin console.

Vault admins have access to highly sensitive actions, including the ability to search and export specific sensitive user data or large amounts of data across an entire domain.

Multi-party approval adds an extra layer of security for these sensitive actions by ensuring no sensitive action happens in a silo and, most importantly, helps prevent unauthorized or accidental changes from being made. This dual-authorization mechanism significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized or malicious actions, such as a bad actor attempting to exfiltrate confidential information or perform unapproved data deletions.

Additional details

Request workflow: Once a request is submitted, approvers (super admins or delegated admins with the multi-party approval role) receive an email notification.
Expiration: Requests expire after three days if not approved.
Granular control: Admins can choose to enable MPA specifically for Vault actions without enforcing it on other settings, or vice versa, via the Multi-party approval settings page.
Delegation: Super admins can delegate the responsibility of approving these requests to other leaders using the "Multi-party approval" system role.
API: Multi-party approval will not be required for exports triggered via the API and should not impact downstream automation via the API.

Getting started

Admins: This feature is available for eligible Workspace customers with two or more super admin accounts. Multi-party approval for Vault exports is OFF by default and can be turned on in the Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

Available to Google Workspace

Enterprise Standard and Plus
Enterprise Essentials Plus
Education Standard and Plus

Resources

Google Vault Help: Getting Started with Vault Search and Export

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Implement automated compliance recording and transcripts for selected Google Meet users

What’s happening

In order to help organizations, particularly those in the financial services industry, meet strict regulatory archiving requirements, today we are introducing Google Meet Compliance Recording, a new feature that can be enabled by administrators to automatically record meetings and capture transcripts for specific users or groups requiring regulatory monitoring by a registered organization. This feature helps financial firms comply with communication retention and supervision rules mandated by the SEC, FINRA, and the CFTC. It enables firms to retain, monitor, and store digital communications in the required format to adhere to specific regulations like FINRA Rule 3170 and CFTC 17 CFR 1.31. This solution can also be used for other applications, including other global financial services compliance regimes (MiFID II, etc), and for regulatory requirements in other industries like healthcare, public sector, and more. This solution is available as part of the Assured Controls add-on.

In this article, we will refer to users who benefit from the solution as “regulated users”. This can include any persons who need to be monitored to comply with regulatory requirements; registered broker/dealers, compliance officers, broader employees who communicate with the former groups, and more.

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Why this matters

Meet regulatory requirements: When compliance recording is turned on for a regulated user, their Meet meetings are automatically recorded, and transcripts are captured. Both the recordings and transcripts are stored in a WORM (write once, read many) compliant Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket with appropriate retention policies, ensuring immutable records for regulatory archiving.
Enable collaboration features: Historically, regulated entities had to disable several valuable collaboration features in Meet (like chat and screen sharing) to comply with SEC rules. This new framework solves that by automatically creating unalterable records of the recording and transcript when a regulated user joins a call, preserving the standard Meet experience for both participants with the feature turned on or off.
User experience: All call participants will have an uninterrupted experience, with the assurance that regulated user communications are automatically archived for regulatory purposes.

How compliance recording works

Compliance recording is automatic and cannot be disabled by participants once the recording starts.

Visibility: All meeting participants will see a Compliance badge displayed when a regulated user is present. This badge cannot be turned off. A notification is also shown on the pre-meeting screen on the web and when the recording starts.
Storage and Sharing: The recordings and transcripts are not automatically shared with attendees, attached to Google Calendar events, or sent via email notifications to users. They are for compliance archiving only.
Limitations:
- Users cannot access these compliance recordings; they must record the meeting themselves if they want a personal copy.
- As with existing Meet recordings, compliance recordings are limited to a maximum of 8 hours, after which regulated users might be removed from the meeting.
- The recording will not capture content in Breakout Rooms when regulated users join them.
Audio/Video Options: Admins can choose to record audio only or audio and video.

Getting started

Admins: The compliance recording setting is off by default. This setting can be applied at the organizational unit (OU) or configuration group level to target only your regulated users. This feature is tied to the license, so only users with an eligible add-on license will be subject to these measures.
End users: No action is required for end users. The recording and transcription process for compliance is automatic and transparent to the user, except for the in-meeting notification and the permanent compliance badge.

Rollout pace

Available now

Availability

Available for users with the Google Workspace Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on license

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up Google Meet compliance recording

Monday, December 8, 2025

Call queuing now available for select Google Voice plans

What’s happening

Google Voice is introducing call queuing for ring groups.

Currently, when all members of a ring group are busy, incoming calls are often sent to voicemail or, in some cases, disconnected by the carrier. With this update, when a caller dials a ring group, they will be automatically placed on hold in a queue to wait for the next available person.

This new feature allows administrators to customize several aspects of the caller experience, including:

Music and periodic announcements to be played while callers are on hold
A maximum number of callers allowed in the queue
A maximum time a caller can wait in the queue before being routed elsewhere
A "wrap-up time" to give agents a brief pause after a call before they receive the next one from the queue

Why it's important

This feature is designed to solve common frustrations for both businesses and their customers. With this update, you can:

Capture more calls: By placing callers in a queue instead of sending them to voicemail, businesses can significantly reduce the number of unanswered calls and ensure more inbound inquiries reach an agent.
Boost sales: For sales-focused teams, call queuing ensures that no potential lead is lost due to a busy line. For support teams, it provides a structured way to handle high call volumes, especially during peak hour
Improve customer experience: Call queuing prevents callers from being abruptly disconnected and reduces their frustration, which is particularly helpful for businesses that experience high call volumes or have customers in regions with carrier-imposed ring time limits.

Getting started

Admins: This feature can be enabled or disabled per ring group. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) on December 8, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace customers with the Voice Standard and Voice Premier add-ons

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up call queuing for a ring group

Friday, December 5, 2025

BYOD on Google Meet on Chrome OS touch controller rooms

What’s changing

We're launching an integration with Lightware peripheral switchers, so that you and your team can bring your own devices (BYOD) to Google Meet on Chrome OS touch controller rooms. Now, you can plug your laptop into a Meet room with a single USB-C cable and easily use the room's display, speaker, microphone, and camera—along with your laptop—for video conferencing. The integration is available with the following peripheral switcher devices:

Lightware Taurus UCX 4x2 HC40
Lightware Taurus UCX 4x3 HC40

Additional details

This offers the following benefits:

Seamless transition: Rooms will automatically enter BYOD mode as soon as a user connects their laptop via a certified cable, enabling immediate use of the room's display and high-quality audio and video equipment.
Meeting continuity: If a Google Meet call is already in progress, connecting a laptop will not interrupt the call or activate BYOD mode. The same cable for BYOD mode can be used during a Google Meet meeting for sharing your screen to the meeting, ensuring a unified meeting experience.
Enhanced admin control: Administrators will gain new visibility within the Google admin console, allowing them to see when BYOD mode is active in a room and preventing erroneous missing peripheral alerts when a third-party device is in control.

Getting started

Admins: Visit the Lightware website for more information.
End users: Once the integration is installed, use a USB-C cable to use the room displays, audio devices, and camera.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on December 1, 2025 with expected completion by December 18, 2025

Availability

Available to all Google Meet on Chrome OS devices

Resources

Lightware site: Lightware landing page for Google Meet solutions

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Seamlessly join meetings on Google Meet hardware with “Connect room”

What’s changing

In the coming weeks, we’ll introduce Connect room, a new way to seamlessly begin your meetings on Google Meet hardware directly from your personal device. This will be available in early preview.

Connect room streamlines how you start meetings in a conference room. Instead of manually typing a meeting code, this feature uses ultrasound proximity detection to identify a nearby, available Google Meet hardware device.

When you open the Google Meet green room on your laptop, it will automatically detect the room and present a simple option to connect to it. With a single click, the meeting starts on the room hardware, and your laptop transitions into Companion mode, getting you checked-in and ready to collaborate without missing a beat.


After clicking Connect room, your meeting is started on the room device while your laptop joins in companion mode and checks you into the room.


Google Meet updates the “Use Companion mode” to “Connect room” when it detects a nearby room to start a meeting.

This feature simplifies the meeting join experience. In particular, you can now:

Take over a booked, but empty conference room: If a conference room is reserved but unoccupied, open your meeting on your laptop, click “Connect room,” and you can immediately start your meeting on the Google Meet hardware.
Join and book an available conference room in one click: If you find an available and bookable conference room and wish to use it, simply open your meeting on your laptop, click “Connect room,” and the Google Meet hardware will instantly join the meeting, simultaneously booking the room for your use.
Join private meetings more easily: Simply open a meeting invite on your device, click “Connect room,” and instantly join the meeting directly on Google Meet hardware.
Join a meeting not listed on the conference room calendar: If you were sent a Google Meet invitation in chat or email, open your meeting on your laptop, click “Connect room,” and you can immediately start your meeting on the Google Meet hardware.

Additional details

Users on the Rapid Release track will start seeing this feature for devices enrolled in our Early Preview Rooms (EPR) program starting on December 2, 2025. We’ll share more details on the Workspace Updates blog when we begin a broader rollout.

Getting started

Admins: To preview this feature, your domain must be on the Rapid Release track and have devices enrolled in our EPR program. In addition, this feature relies on Google Meet hardware’s Proximity Detection device setting, which is ON by default. For this feature to work, you must enable Proximity Detection on your fleet's devices. In-room booking must also be enabled for Connect room to automatically book the room when joining the call.
End users: This feature will be ON by default for users on the Rapid Release track entering a room with enabled hardware. To use the feature, ensure your laptop microphone is selected in the greenroom, then simply click "Connect room" when the prompt appears. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) to EPR rooms only starting on December 2, 2025

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices

Resources

Google Help: Use Connect room feature in Google Meet

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

A refreshed user interface for Google Meet hardware touch controllers

What’s changing

In the coming weeks, we’ll roll out a streamlined user interface for the following Meet Hardware devices: Mimo Vue HD, Mimo Mist, Logitech Tap, Logitech Tap IP, and Lenovo Series One Touch controllers (with Android devices coming soon). This new experience will offer users a more efficient and intuitive way to manage their meetings. It includes:

1.Simplified access to key controls: The controls you use most frequently inside a meeting, like mute and hand raise, are now more prominent and easily accessible. This means less time spent searching for features and more time focusing on your meeting.

2. Intuitively organized features:

In-meeting experience: If you need to access more advanced features, like camera controls or the meeting layout, you can now find them conveniently under the “More actions” menu. This keeps the main interface clean and uncluttered while ensuring less frequently used features are still accessible when you need them.
Pre-call experience: A refreshed pre-call meeting design prominently features the option to enter a meeting code or nickname, and includes a clear drop-down menu for joining Webex or Zoom meetings, streamlining your connection process.

3. A familiar interface: The touch controller UI will look and feel more similar to the Google Meet UI on the web, making your transition more intuitive.

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Getting started

Admins: The new experience will be ON by default. There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: This new experience will be ON by default for eligible Meet Hardware devices in your meeting rooms.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 1, 2025

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices

Resources

Google Help: Try the new Google Meet Hardware touch controller UI

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Google Meet translated captions now available in Cantonese

What’s happening

We are enhancing the translated captions feature in Google Meet by adding support for Cantonese. This update makes it easier for users to communicate and collaborate across different languages.

For your end users, this means that if a meeting attendee is speaking in Cantonese, or another supported language, Meet can now display real-time translated captions to the language of their choice. This is particularly helpful in large, global organizations or educational institutions where participants may speak different primary languages. Adding Cantonese support ensures smoother communication, better meeting accessibility, and more inclusive participation for teams working in diverse linguistic environments.

This feature allows teams to connect and collaborate more easily, ensuring all voices are heard and understood regardless of location or native language.

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 translated captions in Meet.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

This feature is available for the following Google Workspace editions:

Business Standard
Business Plus
Enterprise Standard
Enterprise Plus
Google AI Pro for Education

Resources

Google Help: Use Translated Captions in Google Meet

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Choose your preferred caption language for Meet live streams on mobile devices

What’s changing

Google Meet live stream viewers can select their own preferred language for translated captions on mobile devices. Individual language selection helps overcome language barriers during presentations and events, maximizing each viewer's potential to understand and engage with the content being shared.

Previously, Meet live streams were broadcast to mobile devices with a single target language set for captions, selected by the host when starting the live stream. Now, viewers independently select their own preferred language for translated captions and can also change this setting while watching the live stream.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: End users can turn translated captions on or off and select their preferred language. Visit the Help Center to learn more about translated captions.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 28, 2025

Availability

All Google Workspace customers can select their preferred language for captions. Only users with eligible licenses can host live streams.

Resources

Google Help: Use translated captions in Google Meet

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Educators can now assign public notebooks in Google Classroom

What’s changing

We recently introduced the ability for educators to create and assign NotebookLM in Google Classroom. Now, teachers can attach public notebooks to assignments, in addition to the notebooks they create or own.

This update significantly expands the access to educational content available to educators and students. Educators can now easily integrate publicly shared learning materials — including notebooks available from our partnership with OpenStax.

Getting started

Admins: Educators and students must be in a group or OU with NotebookLM set to On. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning NotebookLM on or off for users.
End users: This feature will be available by default if NotebookLM is enabled by your admin. Use our Help Center to learn more about using NotebookLM in Classroom: Create Assignments with NotebookLM & Gems in Google Classroom

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 1, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

Resources

Google Help: Create and assign NotebookLM & Gems in Google Classroom
Google Help: Use public notebooks and featured notebooks in NotebookLM

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Fine-tune your network for Meet live streaming with extended quality metrics

What’s changing

Meet audit events logged for live stream viewers now contain an extended set of quality metrics. These metrics can help admins understand their viewers' perceived quality when participating in live streams. The quality metrics can be used to identify potential network configuration adjustments that can improve the live streaming experience.

The audit events contain quality metrics about both direct media delivery from Google's servers and peer-assisted media delivery when eCDN is used.


Some examples of the new quality metric fields

Getting started

Admins: Access audit events for Meet through the Admin SDK.

Rollout pace

Available now

Availability

Audit events are logged for live stream viewers of all Google Workspace customers. Hosting live streams is available to organizers with an eligible Workspace license, including:

Enterprise Standard and Plus
Enterprise Essentials Plus
Education Plus and Teaching and Learning add-on

Resources

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Automatically generated captions for videos in Google Drive now available in more languages

What’s changing

Last year, we announced the ability to automatically generate captions for English-language videos in Google Drive. Today, we’re expanding this feature to support 27 additional languages.

This update makes video content stored in Drive more accessible, inclusive, and easier to understand for all users, especially those who are deaf or hard of hearing, are in a noisy environment, or speak a different primary language. Automatically generated captions also save time by eliminating the need for manual caption creation and make it easier to search for video content.

When an eligible user uploads a video to Drive, this feature will automatically detect if the video is in one of the supported languages and generate captions for it.

The new languages supported are:

Arabic
Czech
Dutch
Filipino
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Malay
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese

Support for Chinese is coming soon.

Getting started

Admins: This feature expansion will be ON by default for all eligible organizations and will respect your existing settings for automatically-generated captions. No new admin control is being added. You can control this feature for your organization at the domain, OU, or group level. Admins can choose to:
- Have captions generated automatically when a user uploads a video (default)
- Turn on the feature, but require users to request captions for each video
- Disable automatically-generated captions entirely
End users: For end users at organizations where automatic generation on upload is enabled, captions in these new languages will be generated automatically upon video upload. No action is required. End users who need to request captions (including users with personal Google accounts) can generate captions by doing the following: right-click the video > Manage caption tracks > Add new caption tracks. Visit the Help Center to learn more about automatically generated captions.

Rollout pace

Available now

Availability

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

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning automatically-generated captions for videos in Drive on or off.

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Data classification labels visible in more places across Google Drive

What’s changing

Beginning today, a Drive item’s applied data classification values will appear across all views on Drive on the web, including Home, My Drive, Shared Drives, and Drive search results. Previously, users needed to either navigate to Details or open the file to know a Drive item’s classification state. Now, users will immediately see the applied classification values when navigating throughout the Drive product.

For any particular item, the highest ranked label with a badged list field will display the applied option. For items with more than one label applied, an additional label count icon will appear next to the badged value displaying the number of additional labels applied to the item. For items where only data classification labels without badged lists are applied, the Label name of the highest rank classification label will appear next to the file title with a non-colored badge treatment. It’s important to note that only options from badged lists will display within Workspace surfaces; a label without a badged list will display the label name.

Hovering over either the badged label value or the additional count icon will display additional applied labels in a tooltip. Clicking a label value will immediately open the Labels section of File Details.

Getting started

Admins:
- If you've been using classification labels, there are no changes to your experience beyond improved end user visibility of applied labels.
- There is no admin control for this feature; however, you are able to adjust whether a label contains a badged option list and specify a color scheme within the Label Manager.
End users: No action needed. Labels will start to appear on Drive items across all supported views.

Rollout pace

Available now

Availability

Data classification labels in Drive are available to Google Workspace:

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

Resources

Friday, November 21, 2025

What’s changing

We’re excited to introduce a new way to triage your messages. Now, you can preview the last unread message in conversations directly from the left-hand menu, without marking it as read.

Simply hover over a bolded conversation to peek at the message. When you are ready to engage, click to jump straight into the conversation or thread and take action.

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 and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting November 21, 2025, with expected completion by mid-December 2025

Availability

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

Resources

Google Help: Navigate Google Chat

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Collaborate seamlessly across Google Workspace and Egnyte

What’s changing

Egnyte’s enhanced Google Workspace integration is now generally available to all customers. With this update, users can now securely locate, open, edit, and manage their Google Workspace files in Egnyte’s web UI, mobile app, and desktop client.

This latest update delivers a faster, more intuitive, and more collaborative experience for users who rely on both Egnyte and Google Workspace in their daily workflows, including:

Dual file storage – Files are securely stored in both Egnyte and Google Drive, providing flexibility for users and IT teams while maintaining Egnyte’s data governance and access controls
Egnyte add-ons for Google Workspace – Share Egnyte files directly from Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for faster, more integrated collaboration without switching between apps
Smart canvas and Gemini access – Leverage Google Workspace’s smart canvas capabilities and Gemini features within Egnyte’s updated integration for a more dynamic, interactive editing experience
Additional Improvements – Backend optimizations to enhance overall performance, usability, and reliability

Getting started

Admins:
- The Egnyte Workspace add-on to control file sharing must be enabled by Workspace admins for their domains in the Google Workspace Marketplace Settings menu.
- Egnyte admins must also enable the integration for their domains via “Egnyte Apps & Integration Settings” in the Egnyte Settings menu. Visit the Egnyte Help Center to learn more.
End users: There is no end user setting for this integration. Visit the Egnyte for Google Workspace Landing Page to learn more.

Rollout pace

This integration is available now. New users of the integration will see the upgraded experience by default. Existing users will be migrated to the new version in a phased manner but can contact Egnyte support to migrate sooner.

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, and Plus
Nonprofits
Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus

Resources

Egnyte Helpdesk: Egnyte for Google Workspace
Landing Page: Egnyte for Google Workspace

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Introducing Nano Banana Pro in Slides, Vids, Gemini app, and NotebookLM

What’s changing

We’re excited to introduce Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), our new state-of-the-art image generation and editing model. Starting today, Nano Banana Pro is rolling out to Google Workspace customers in Google Slides, Vids, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM.

Google Slides:

“Help me visualize” in Slides now uses Nano Banana Pro to help anyone create stunning infographics, images, and slides. We also added an all-new experience, “Beautify this slide”, to help people create thoughtfully designed visuals—based on the content of an existing slide—that can be used as individual slides. Here’s what’s coming:

Infographic: Generate detailed, professional infographics directly in Slides, all with just a simple prompt. Nano Banana Pro is connected to Google Search’s vast knowledge base, meaning it does an incredible job at representing real-world objects and places, all while taking into account the details you describe in your prompt.
Images: The same experience you know, now using Nano Banana Pro. Create stunning, realistic images that help add value to any slide deck.
Beautify this slide: In just a click, “Beautify this slide” turns your ideas into a compelling visual with more accurate, legible text while modeling the look and feel of the overall deck. Like what you see? Simply select “insert as new slide” and the visual will be added directly into your deck as an individual slide.

Beautify your slides with Nano Banana Pro in Slides

NotebookLM:

With Nano Banana Pro in NotebookLM, you can now visualize key insights from your sources as high-quality infographics. This allows you to distill complex information and relationships into a single, high-impact visual that makes your data easier to digest. You can also create complete and polished slide decks directly from your sources and share them as a PDF. See it in action.

Google Vids:

In Google Vids, Nano Banana Pro allows you to generate and edit images with greater precision. With new multi-turn prompting, you can refine your visuals iteratively, helping you create custom, production-ready assets to include in your videos.

Gemini app:

Generate high-quality, sophisticated visuals that help bring your creative ideas to life in the Gemini app. Simply select “Create images” and “Thinking” from the model drop down menu to access Nano Banana Pro.

Note: Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher usage limits of Nano Banana Pro in these apps for at least 60 days, allowing users to experiment with these features. Per-user usage limits will apply afterward; we’ll provide more information in a future update prior to any changes. At this time, image generation and editing is only available to users over the age of 18.

Developers and business teams can also access Nano Banana Pro on Vertex AI, and soon in Gemini Enterprise. Learn more.

Getting started

Admins: There are no admin controls for this feature.
End users: Visit the Help Center for more information on generating images in Gemini, NotebookLM, Slides, and Vids.

Rollout pace

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

Availability

Nano Banana Pro in Google Slides, Google Vids, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM is available for:

Google Workspace Business Standard and Plus
Google Workspace Enterprise Standard and Plus
Google AI Pro and AI Ultra
Google AI Ultra for Business
Google AI Pro for Education

Nano Banana Pro in the Gemini app and NotebookLM is also available for Google Workspace:

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

Nano Banana Pro in Google Vids is also available for Google Workspace:

Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus
Business Starter *
Enterprise Starter *
Nonprofits *
Education Plus and Teaching and Learning add-on*

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn the Gemini app on or off for users
Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn NotebookLM on or off for users
Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage access to Gemini features in Workspace services
Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Vids on or off for users

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

New Google Meet links when changing recurrence or start time of recurring Calendar events

What’s happening

To create a more consistent and secure meeting experience, we're changing what happens when you edit recurring Google Calendar events. Previously, when users modified the start time or recurrence of recurring events and applied the change to "This and following events," the remaining events used the original Google Meet link.

Moving forward, when users modify the start time or recurrence of a recurring event for "This and following events," the remaining events will automatically generate a new, unique Meet link. The original event series will keep the original Meet link. All properties of the Meet conference (for example the host, cohosts, access restriction, recording) are preserved for both Meet links.

This change ensures each new recurring event series gets its own distinct and secure Meet link, which prevents the unintentional reuse of meeting links across separate Calendar events. This is one of multiple updates we’re making to create a more reliable experience for using Meet with Calendar events.

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 available now.

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Single-sign on with custom OpenID Connect profiles now generally available

What’s changing

Single-sign on with custom OpenID Connect profiles is now generally available. With this capability, admins have the option to set up a custom OpenID Connect (OIDC) profile for single sign-on (SSO) with Google as their service provider.

OIDC is a modern authentication layer built on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol and verifies a user's identity without exposing their password to the applications they are accessing. OIDC enables secure, seamless authentication across various platforms, including web, mobile, and cloud environments. With this update, admins have more secure options to configure SSO for their organizations. Previously, only OIDC with pre-configured Microsoft Entra ID profile was supported in addition to SAML.

Getting started

Admins: This feature will be OFF by default and SSO profiles can be assigned to user groups or organizational units. Visit the Help Center to learn more about SSO and configuring custom OIDC profiles for SSO via a third party identity provider.
End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace

This feature is available now.

Availability

Available for all Google Workspace customers except Essentials Starter customers and Workspace Individual subscribers
Also available for Cloud Identity and Cloud Identity Premium customers

Resources

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Introducing Gemini 3 Pro for Gemini app

What’s changing

We’re bringing our most intelligent model, Gemini 3, to the Gemini app for Google Workspace customers. This update brings state-of-the-art reasoning to your most complex problems, setting a new bar for AI model performance and delivering a more powerful and helpful experience.

From the first time you use it, you’ll notice that responses are more helpful, delivering high-quality information with easier-to-read formatting. Gemini 3 brings significant improvements to reasoning across text, images, audio and video, and it’s now the best model in the world for multimodal understanding. Whether you're analyzing data or brainstorming creative ideas, this new model can help you tackle your most ambitious projects.

Starting today, you can try our first model of the series, Gemini 3 Pro, by selecting “Thinking” from the model drop down menu in the Gemini app on desktop, mobile app, and mobile web. Gemini 3 is starting to roll out globally to users over the age of 18 in all countries and languages where the Gemini app is available.

We've also updated the Gemini app with a clean, modern interface. The new navigation sidebar includes a "My Stuff" folder that makes it easier to find and interact with images, videos and reports you recently created.

Getting started

Admins: The Gemini app and related in-app tools are controlled by the Generative AI settings in the Workspace Admin console. The Gemini 3 Pro model is subject to these existing controls. Visit the Help Center for more information on turning the Gemini app on or off.
End users: End users who have access to the Gemini app will receive the new 3 Pro model update automatically.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Business Starter, Standard, Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus
Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus
Google AI Pro for Education
Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus
Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus
Nonprofits

Resources

Keyword: Introducing Gemini 3: our most intelligent model that helps you bring any idea to life

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Desk phone support and on-demand call recording now available in the Google Voice Starter plan

What’s changing

We’re expanding the capabilities of our Google Voice Starter plan by adding two highly requested features already available in Voice Standard and Voice Premier plans today:

Desk phone and analog telephone adapter (ATA) support: Organizations using Google Voice Starter can now provision and manage compatible desk phones and adapters. This provides more flexibility, allowing users to make and receive calls on traditional desk hardware if they prefer.
On-demand call recording: End users can now easily record important calls for future reference, training, or compliance. An intuitive record button will be available in the Google Voice interface during active calls.

These features make the Google Voice Starter plan a more complete solution for organizations that need core telephony features combined with the flexibility of Google Workspace.

Getting started

Admins:
- Desk phone support: This feature must be enabled by an administrator.
- Call recording: This feature will be ON by default for Voice Starter add-on subscriptions. It can be disabled at the organizational unit (OU) or group level. Note there is no admin control for Voice Starter standalone subscriptions (with a personal @gmail.com account).
End users:
- Desk phone support: Once enabled by your admin, you can add a new desk phone in your Google Voice settings.
- Call recording: If enabled for your account, you will see a “Record” button during your calls.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting November 12, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Voice Starter, Standard, and Premier

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Compare Voice Subscriptions
Google Workspace Admin Help: Set Up Google Voice Desk phones
Google Workspace Admin Help: Control recorded calls in Voice