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What’s changing 
In November 2024, we launched an open beta for data classification labels in Gmail. Beginning today, data classification labels will be available when using the Gmail app on mobile Android and iOS devices. Expanding data classification labels to mobile enables organizations to protect their data whether their users are sharing and accessing information from desktop devices or from mobile devices in the field or on-the-go.

Classification labels on mobile when composing a message, reading a message, and a message thread.



Additionally, these protections provide an automated way to enhance data security. For more information on data classification labels in Gmail, please refer to our original announcement.

Getting started
  • Admins: 
  • End users: If configured by your admin, you’ll see the “Classification” option when composing a new messaging or replying to or forwarding an existing message on mobile. When you open the menu, you can select labels relevant to your message. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding classification labels in Gmail.

Rollout pace


Availability
The Label Manager and manual classification is available to Google Workspace:
  • Frontline Starter and Standard
  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education Standard and Education Plus
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus

Data loss prevention rules with labels as a condition or labels as an action are available to:
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade
  • Frontline Standard
  • Cloud Identity Premium (in combination with a Workspace Edition eligible for Gmail)

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What’s changing
Last year, we made it easier for you to personalize and differentiate documents with full-bleed cover images that extend from one edge of your document to the other. Since then, many users have added cover images to help set the tone for a document, and today we’re announcing the following updates: 
  • In addition to the “Choose from stock images” and “Upload from computer”, insertion options, users can now add images via: 
    • Searching the web 
    • Uploading from Drive 
    • Importing from Google Photos 
    • Pasting a URL 
insertion options for cover images
  • The addition of 100+ new stock images to provide users with more options. The stock image gallery will also include filtering options for categories like art, food, and abstract 
100+ new stock images

  • When clicking the “Cover image” chip at the top of your Doc, a placeholder image will appear, followed by the menu with options to create with Gemini or insert a different image via the options outlined in #1.
When clicking the “Cover image” chip at the top of your Doc, a placeholder image will appear


Additional details 

Cover images can only be added to documents set to pageless mode, allowing the image to span the entire width of the document. To set up the more immersive experience of pageless mode, go to File > Page setup > Pageless or Format > Switch to Pageless format. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: 
    • A stock cover image is not AI-generated and automatically uploads to your document. You can update or change the image. 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding a cover image to your document.
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts 
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What’s changing
In order to provide users with an easy way to gather feedback directly in their Google Chat conversations, we’re introducing a new Poll app. 

Through a simple creation process, teams and groups can share questions for feedback. This feature can be useful in scenarios in which you need to poll colleagues about an upcoming event, meeting time or team outing. The Poll app provides the ability to see results instantly, along with options to make polls multi-choice or anonymous. Using the Poll app, teams can arrive at faster, more inclusive decisions while keeping the conversation flowing. 

creating a poll
Creating a poll

seeing the results of a poll
Seeing the results of a poll


Additional details 

Some poll questions that ask where to eat, grab coffee, meet may have special icons. 
Some poll questions that ask where to eat, grab coffee, meet may have special icons.


Getting started 

Rollout pace
Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers that have enabled Chat apps in their domain, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts 
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What’s changing 
Instructors using Meet LTI™ to create and host meetings can control how meeting recordings are shared. Previously, everyone in the meeting could access the recording after the meeting. Now, instructors can control when recordings are shared with students.

From Meet LTI, select the “Meet artifacts” tab to toggle the “Share recordings with students” settings




We plan to introduce similar controls for other meeting artifacts, like Meeting transcripts, in the future. We’ll share more here on the Workspace Updates blog when more controls become available. 


Getting started

Rollout pace


Availability
  • Available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching & Learning add-on

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What’s changing 
Google Vault now supports the Gemini app (on web and mobile). Going forward, admins can use Vault for eDiscovery tasks to search Gemini app conversations and create an export of your search results. Specifically, the following actions can be taken around Gemini app data: 

  • Search prompts and responses with a number of filters, such as user and date to quickly refine your search. These searches can be across groups of users or by Organizational Units (OUs) up to 5000 in size. 
  • Export conversations in an XML format for the above searches via the UI or API.

Who’s impacted
Admins

Why it’s important
Vault is an eDiscovery and information governance tool for Google Workspace, which enables customers to retain, hold, search, and export users’ Google Workspace data. With this update, customers can now expand their regulatory and legal eDiscovery needs to include the Gemini app. This integration makes it easier for customers to comply with their eDiscovery obligations surrounding Gemini collaborative data, all from a central tool. 

Additionally, Vault’s integration with Gemini rounds out support for critical Workspace apps such as Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Chat, Calendar and Meet, providing customers with a consistent experience across all products that are managed within Vault for eDiscovery. Additional information governance and hold features, such as preview, retention, and litigation holds will follow in future releases. We’ll share more information on the Workspace updates blog when it’s available.

Additional details
This update is not applicable for Gemini for Google Workspace, as no prompts or responses are retained for those interactions. Visit our Privacy Hub for more information on how we’re protecting your Google Workspace data in the era of generative AI.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability
Available to Google Workspace
  • Business Plus
  • Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus
  • Education Standard and Education Plus customers
  • Also available to customers with the Vault add-on license

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What’s changing
NotebookLM is a powerful AI-powered research assistant that helps users accelerate learning and knowledge sharing. Grounded in data that users in your organization provide, NotebookLM becomes an instant expert in those sources so users can get insights, share knowledge and learn on-to-go with Audio Overviews. 


NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus, previously introduced as additional services, are now included as core services for Workspace Business and Enterprise customers. Covered under your Google Workspace terms of service, these apps offer the same enterprise-grade data protections and level of technical support as other Workspace core services. 


NotebookLM helps users: 
  • Understand a complex topic faster and more in depth. After uploading files, recordings or even research papers, users can ask NotebookLM to explain multifaceted concepts in simple terms, provide real-world examples, and reinforce their understanding. 
  • Create a polished presentation outline, complete with key talking points and supporting evidence. 
  • Identify trends, generate new product ideas, and uncover hidden opportunities. 
  • Get insights and answers from a shared, centralized knowledge hub to maintain consistency and keep teams aligned and informed. 
NotebookLM Plus includes the components mentioned above in addition to enhanced capabilities that enable users to: 
  • Get 5x more Audio Overviews, queries, notebooks, and sources per notebook. 
  • Customize the style and length of their notebooks’s responses.
  • Create shared notebooks for their team and get usage analytics. 
In summary, users have access to a personalized AI research assistant that they can use with confidence knowing their sources, queries and responses stay within their organization. 


Who’s impacted 
Admins and end users (18+) 


Why you’d use it 
Today, businesses of all sizes use it to supercharge their productivity and collaboration. For example, sales teams can add their product roadmap and feature specs, competitor benchmarking analysis, customer audio interviews, and market research to NotebookLM. As a result, NotebookLM can help you prepare for customer meetings by creating an account plan to help your team find information faster and better engage with customers. Marketers can use NotebookLM to help summarize customer trends and purchase behaviors, draft communications, create campaign briefs, and more–all based on market research, customer segmentation analysis, and marketing roadmaps. 


Additional details 
NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus are available in 180+ regions where Gemini API is available and currently supports 35+ languages. For Audio Overviews, while you can upload sources from all supported languages, the spoken audio is currently only available in English. 


Your uploads, queries and the model's responses are not used to train models and are not reviewed by human reviewers or otherwise used for product improvement without permission. Your data remains your data and any files uploaded, queries and responses are not shared outside your organization’s trust boundary. 


Users can only upload sources from Workspace that they have permission to access. Furthermore, they can control who has access to their notebooks and set more granular permissions within each. 


Getting started 

Rollout pace

Availability 
NotebookLM is available as a core service for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter 
  • Frontline Starter and Standard 
  • Essentials Starter, Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits 
NotebookLM Plus is available as a core service for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive NotebookLM Plus as a core service: 
  • 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. 

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What’s changing
In October 2024, we expanded our data migration services to include the ability for Admins to transfer OneDrive data to Google Drive. This functionality is now generally available. You can migrate the files of up to 100 users at a time, including the files corresponding access permissions with shared members. 

With the general availability release, we’ve also added additional settings which admins can use to: 
  • Specify files to migrate within a certain date range.
  • Exclude specific file formats and large files. 
  • Skip uploading an identity map and allow Google to automatically map source and target users instead. 

Now that the tool is generally available, with more customization settings, you can quickly and easily migrate your data to Workspace at scale while minimizing disruption for end users. For more information, please refer to our original beta announcement.

Example of a completed migration.


Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability
Available to Google Workspace 
  • Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching and Learning add-on
  • Essentials Starter and Essentials
  • Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits

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What’s changing 
Users can have one of the following access permissions for shared Google Calendars: 
  • “See only free/busy (hide details)” 
  • “See all event details” 
  • “Make changes to events” 
  • “Make changes and manage sharing” 
The “Make changes to events” permission enables users to create events on shared calendars, but when those events are created, the user does not know which other users the event is shared with. 

To improve upon experience and ensure users are aware of who they are sharing content with, users with the ability to “Make changes to events” can now see the members of the shared calendar, i.e. who their events are shared with. 

users with the ability to “Make changes to events” can now see the members of the shared calendar, i.e. who their events are shared with.

Getting started 
  • Admins: As an admin, you can control how much calendar information people in your organization can share with users external to your organization. You can also set the default level of sharing for users within your organization. Visit the Help Center to learn more about setting Calendar sharing options. 
  • End users: On Calendars with “make changes to events” access permission, you will now see the members of calendars. You can control the access permission of other users for your Calendars only on Calendars with “make changes and manage sharing” access permissions. Visit the Help Center to learn more about sharing your calendar with someone. 
  • Developers: For Calendars where a user has “make changes to events” (aka “writer”) permissions, the Acl.list and Acl.get method will newly return the members of the shared calendar and Acl.watch will notify about changes to members. 

Rollout pace 

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

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What’s changing
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. 

Example of the form validating if the user has populated all the required fields before submitting a form.

Example of the form validating if the user has populated all the required fields before submitting a form.

Example of the form validating the input type for text fields. The supported types are text, integers, decimals, email and emoji.

Example of the form validating the input type for text fields. The supported types are text, integers, decimals, email and emoji.
Example of the form limiting the allowed text input length to a specified length.

Example of the form limiting the allowed text input length to a specified length.


Getting started 

Rollout paceAvailability
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers 
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What’s changing 
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”. 
Press Shift+R or go to Settings menu (Three-dot overflow button) > Settings > Reactions > Accessibility to adjust your settings.



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

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability
  • Available for Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

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What’s changing
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 


Why it matters
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. 

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

Rollout pace 

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

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What’s changing 
In the coming weeks, admins will be able to use their Comeen or StratosMedia digital signage content on their Google Meet hardware devices. We know many of our customers use these tools for general digital signage needs within their organization and this update allows that content to be leveraged as screensavers across your Google Meet hardware fleet.

The Google Meet hardware ‘Screen Saver’  setting is located in the admin console under Devices > Google Meet hardware > Settings > Device settings



Additional details
  • Note that Comeen and StratosMedia are paid services and there may be additional costs associated with registering your devices on their platform. 
  • In some cases, this feature can conflict with the power-saving feature on your Meet hardware devices. To ensure that your custom screen saver is visible, be sure to set displays as active during working hours in the organizational unit you’re targeting. 
  • Screen savers are not interactive—tapping your touch controller or using the remote will cause the screen saver to be dismissed, and the device will return to displaying the agenda on the homepage. 

Getting started
  • Admins: Custom screen savers are opt-in and managed at the OU-level and apply to all devices in that organizational unit (OU). Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to display custom screen saver images.
Rollout pace

Availability
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers

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We’ve been working to expand our customers’ calling networks through interoperability between Google Meet hardware devices, and other third-party video conferencing apps and devices. Beginning today, we’re expanding this interoperability to include support for Cisco Webex and Zoom on Logitech Android-based hardware devices for Google Meet. These include  Logitech Rally Bar, Rally Bar Mini, and Rally Bar Huddle appliances. These Google Meet hardware devices now have the embedded capability to call directly into Cisco Webex and Zoom calls, which allows  users to collaborate with more customers and partners outside their companies. 

This feature is already supported on ChromeOS-based Google Meet hardware devices from Logitech. 

Getting started

  • End users: 
    • When enabled by your admin, you can join a Webex or Zoom meeting from a Logitech Android-based Google Meet hardware device: 
      • Join an ad-hoc call by tapping "Find a meeting" on your touch controller and selecting Webex or Zoom from the dropdown options. 
      • Join a scheduled call by adding a room to an event with Webex or Zoom meeting details.  
        • Note: Calendar events that originate outside of Google Calendar must be duplicated and populated with room details manually.
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about Google Meet interoperability.

Rollout pace


Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices

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What’s changing 
We’re introducing a new log event, Access Evaluation, which will help admins better understand how security policies affect their users' access to OAuth apps. This includes settings and policies such as API controls, endpoint management configurations, domain wide delegation and more. The log contains information on the specific policies applied, when access was granted and the reasoning. Admins can use this information to review their security policies and revise them as needed to protect the sharing of Workspace data with users' apps.

Example of an Access Evaluation log


Getting started
  • Admins: Access Evaluation are available in the audit and investigation tool (Menu > Reporting > Audit and investigation > Access Evaluation log events), and the security investigation tool (Menu > Security > Security center > Investigation tool > Data source > Access Evaluation log events)  for specific Google Workspace editions. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Access Evaluation log events. 
  • End users: There is no end user impact or action required.
Rollout pace

Availability
  • Available in the audit and investigation tool for all Google Workspace customers.
  • Available in the security investigation tool for Google Workspace:
    • Frontline Standard
    • Enterprise Standard and Plus
    • Education Standard and Plus
    • Enterprise Essentials Plus
    • Cloud Identity Premium

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What’s changing
Following the recent announcement of being able to use Gemini in the side panel of Workspace apps in seven additional languages, we’re excited to announce that image generation is now supported in the following languages as well: 
  • French 
  • German 
  • Italian 
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 
  • Portuguese 
  • Spanish 
using gemini to generate an image of coffee in Spanish


Additional details 
  • Although Gemini is generally available in the side panel of Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Gmail in these languages, users with Gemini alpha features enabled may still see the "Alpha" badge as we continue rolling out more alpha features 
  • Image generation of people is not supported at this time in these additional languages. 
  • Gemini in the side panel of Slides is only available in English at this time. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: You can access the side panel by clicking on “Ask Gemini” (spark button) in the top right corner of Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Gmail on the web. Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in the side panel of Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Gmail. Note that for accessing other Gemini for Google Workspace features that are supported in English only, you will need to set your Google Account language to English. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
Image Generation in the side panel of Gmail only is available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter 
  • Enterprise Starter 

Image Generation in the side panel of Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Gmail is available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google One AI Premium 

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. 


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What’s changing

Admins can now customize the Chrome Web Store experience for their users with several new options, including:

  • Branding and custom messaging: Add company logos, custom welcome banners and announcement banners.
  • Curated collections: Organize specific extensions for your users, including recommended and private extensions. We have also introduced a new collection of extensions that displays all items that are allowlisted by IT administrators.
  • Category controls: Hide specific extension categories to help streamline the browsing experience for users.

Additionally, we've enhanced the Chrome Web Store search experience. In the search results. end-users can quickly notice blocked item tags, and they can benefit from more advanced filtering such as a “Private items” filter.  

Example of a customized Chrome Web Store


Who’s impacted
Admins and end users


Why it matters 
Every Google Workspace customer has unique users with unique needs – Chrome extensions can help improve their workflows and increase productivity. However, navigating the numerous available extensions can present challenges for both admins and end users. For admins, it is often a manual and time consuming process to vet which Chrome extensions they want to allow for their users. For end users, it can be frustrating to sift through a vast catalog of extensions to find relevant and admin-approved extensions.

This update significantly improves the Chrome Web Store experience for enterprises. Admins can customize, organize, and control the Chrome Web Store experience for their users. For end users, finding work-relevant and admin approved extensions becomes significantly easier cutting down on guesswork or wasted time searching for extensions that might be blocked.


Getting started
  • Admins: Four new Apps & Extensions settings have been added to the Chrome section of the Admin console. To find the new settings, go to Menu > Chrome Browser > Apps and extensions > Navigate to the “Settings” tab > Chrome Web Store settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more about customizing the Chrome Web Store for your users.



Rollout pace

Availability
  • Available for all Google Workspace customers with access to the Admin console

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What’s changingWe’re expanding interoperability support between Google Meet devices and Zoom Rooms to include support for changing the meeting layout. This gives you the flexibility to choose a layout that is best suited to improve focus and engagement during your meetings.

If you’re joining a Google Meet call from Zoom Rooms, you can change your layout by selecting the “View” option. You can select between the tiled view, speaker spotlight view, or sidebar view.

Selecting your meeting layout on a Google Meet call using Zoom Rooms hardware





If you’re joining Zoom Meetings from a Google Meet hardware device, you can change your layout from the device settings by navigating to the “Change layout” option. You can choose between the gallery or speaker view.

Selecting your meeting layout on a Zoom call using a Meet hardware device



Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability
  • Zoom interop on Google Meet hardware is available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices that have not yet reached their auto-update expiration date.

  • Meet interop on Zoom Rooms is available to all Zoom Rooms customers on a supported Zoom Rooms device or appliance. Note that your device may not fully support the feature until its manufacturer has pushed the latest Zoom Rooms software update to its devices.

  • Please refer to the Zoom Support page to see the most up-to-date list on supported devices and platforms.
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Building data visualizations and identifying trends in data is a critical business function, however it can be time consuming and oftentimes overwhelming. To improve upon this experience, we’re making it easier for Sheets users, ranging from small business owners to marketing analysts, to visualize and analyze data using Gemini in Sheets. 

Starting today, Gemini in Sheets can perform actions or answer questions to address a wide variety of scenarios. Specifically, you can ask Gemini questions about your data and Gemini can provide valuable insights, such as contextual trends, patterns, and correlations between different variables in your data. Gemini will also generate charts based on your data that you can insert as static images over cells in your spreadsheet. For example: 
  • A marketing manager analyzing campaign performance can ask "Provide some insights on my top 3 performing channels by conversion rate" and can receive a detailed breakdown with supporting visualizations. 
  • A small business owner managing cash flow can ask "Predict my net income for the next quarter based on historical data" to proactively identify potential shortfalls. 
  • A financial analyst investigating inventory trends can ask "Identify any anomalies in inventory levels for Product X" to uncover potential supply chain issues or unusual demand patterns. 
Ask Gemini in Sheets to share insights and trends from the data.
Ask Gemini in Sheets to share insights and trends from the data.

Ask Gemini in Sheets to visualize data with a chart or bar graph.
Ask Gemini in Sheets to visualize data with a chart or bar graph.


Who’s impacted 
End users 


Why you’d use it 
This update reflects Gemini in Sheets’ enhanced intelligence as it now yields valuable outputs by transforming your requests into Python code, executing on them and then analyzing the results to perform multi-layered analysis. As a result, you’re able to do things like identify top-performing products and then instantly dive into their sales trends — all without writing a single line of code. 


Additional details 
  • For the most accurate results, ensure your data is in a consistent format, with clear headers and no missing values. 
  • When asking Gemini in Sheets to analyze your data, be as specific as possible in your prompts to ensure Gemini understands your request. 
  • For complex analysis, Gemini in Sheet's performance is most consistent in files below 1 million cells. 
  • For some simpler questions about your data, Gemini in Sheets may still provide answers using formulas instead of Python code. 
  • Charts are generated as static images and can be easily inserted into your sheet. 
  • Charts are not linked to your sheet data, so they won't update automatically if your data changes. 
  • Once inserted, charts cannot be modified. If you need to make changes, you'll need to generate a new chart. 
Getting started 
Rollout pace 
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 One AI Premium 
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. 

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In May 2024, we launched the ability for admins to remotely configure managed iOS apps on end-user devices via Google Mobile Device Management. 

Beginning today, admins can use tokens in the app configurations for managed iOS apps. Tokens act as placeholders for information specific to a user or device that uses the app, such as a user's email address or their device serial number. Previously, configuration data was static, but this update gives admins the flexibility to configure devices dynamically according to various users and devices.

Creating the app configuration using XML information using a token placeholder


Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability
Available for Google Workspace:
  • Business Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Essentials and Essentials Plus
  • Education Standard and Plus
  • Nonprofits
  • Frontline Starter and Standard
  • Cloud Identity Premium 

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Last year, we introduced Read Along in Google Classroom, a new feature that helps students build their independent reading skills by enabling teachers to assign differentiated reading content, based on Lexile® measure, grade level, or phonics skills. 


Read Along in Classroom includes access to a growing library of decodable books from Heggerty that educators can assign to practice specific decoding skills. To improve upon the current analytics dashboard experience and provide teachers with phonics-based performance insights for decodable books, we’re adding a new analysis section. 


With this update, teachers will see details about how a student or class is performing on the individual phonics skills listed in a decodable book and words that need practice. 

phonics analysis in Classroom


Getting started
  • Admins: 
  • End users: The phonics analysis dashboard will only appear for newly created decodable book assignments. This can be accessed by clicking on the assignment name in the “Grades” section of Google Classroom. Existing assignments will keep on showing the data as earlier. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Read Along in Google Classroom. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning add-on 

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