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Quick launch summary 
To help limit distractions during meetings, you can now blur the background of your video in Google Meet. When it’s turned on, Meet will intelligently separate you from the background, blurring your surroundings while keeping you clear and in focus. 

We recently also launched the ability to filter out disruptive background noise in Google Meet. Together, these features reduce audio and visual distractions, and help ensure more productive meetings. 

Background blur works directly within your browser and does not require an extension or any additional software. At launch, it will work on the Chrome browser on Windows and Mac desktop devices. Support for ChromeOS and Meet mobile apps will be coming soon, we’ll announce on the G Suite Updates blog when it’s available on those devices. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature is OFF by default. Visit our Help Center to learn more about how to blur your background on Google Meet. 
Rollout pace 
  • Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout to eligible devices (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on September 15, 2020 
  • Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout to eligible devices (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on September 28, 2020 
Availability 
  • Available to all G Suite customers and users with personal Google accounts. 
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What’s changing 
Starting October 13, 2020, we’re changing the retention policies for items in the Trash in Google Drive. With this new policy, any file that is put into a Google Drive trash will be automatically deleted after 30 days. Previously, trashed items would be retained indefinitely until the trash was emptied by the user. 

Any files already in a user’s trash on October 13, 2020 will remain there for 30 days. After the 30-day period, files that have been in the trash for longer than 30 days will begin to be automatically deleted. 


Who’s impacted 
End users 


Why it’s important 
This change matches the policies of other G Suite products and services, such as Gmail. This will help ensure behavior is consistent and predictable for users across G Suite products, and will help make sure that items users trash are actually deleted as expected. 


Additional details 
Policy change notes 
  • Admins can still restore items deleted from a user’s trash for up to 25 days for active users. 
  • Retention policies set by admins in Google Vault are not affected by this change, unless they become obsolete as they are now redundant. Learn more about retention rules for Drive. 
  • These changes affect items that are trashed from any device and any platform. 
  • Files deleted via Drive File Stream will be purged from the system trash after 30 days. There is no impact to Backup and Sync behavior. 
  • Files in shared drives trash are already automatically deleted after 30 days. 
  • Items in trash will still continue to consume quota. 

In-app notification for users 
As this policy takes effect, we will show a banner to users with details of the change. The policy change will take effect regardless of whether a user sees or acknowledges the banner. We will be showing in-app notifications in Drive starting today and in our Editors products (e.g., Google Docs and Google Forms) starting September 29. 


Getting started 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Applicable to all G Suite customers 
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What’s changing
We just announced the next generation of meeting room hardware—Series One room kits for Google Meet.

Our new Series One room kits for Google Meet

Who’s impacted
Admins and end users

Why you’d use it
Employees are holding more video meetings than ever these days. We’ve developed the Series One kits to help your organization stay even more connected with features like:
  • Onboard AI with Google Edge TPUs in the smart audio bar and Meet compute system.
  • TrueVoice® proprietary voice isolation and multi-channel noise cancellation.
  • Power-over-ethernet for single cable installation.
  • New 4K smart cameras, equipped with high-resolution and large image sensors that can zoom in on and automatically frame meeting participants for better visibility.
  • Chrome OS for easy setup, along with automatic security and feature upgrades.

Additional details
Check out our announcement on the Cloud Blog to learn more about Series One and the research and technology that went into its development.

These kits will be available in the coming months. Contact Lenovo for purchasing information.

Getting started

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What's changing
We’re giving hosts (meeting creators and calendar owners) of G Suite for Education meetings new meeting safety controls to manage who can join their meetings.

Who's impacted
End users

Additional details
Manage meeting attendees 
To control access to their meetings, hosts can turn "Quick access" on or off. By default, this setting will be on.

When "Quick access" is on:
  • Participants in the same domain as the host do not need to knock to request to join the meeting. 
  • Participants joining by phone do not need to knock to request to join the meeting.
  • Participants can dial-out from within the meeting.

When "Quick access" is turned off:
  • All users, including those in the same domain as the host, must knock to request to join the meeting unless they're on the calendar invite. This includes any users who are dialing in to the meeting by phone.
  • Any participants invited from within the meeting by anyone other than the host need to knock to request to join.
  • Only the host can dial-out from within the meeting.

Hosts can turn "Quick access" on or off as often as they wish from Google Meet on the web once the meeting has started. Note: Hosts will not see the option to change this setting on mobile devices.

If you're unable to turn the features on or off, it's possible that you have a Chrome extension for Meet which is preventing the features from working. To fix the issue, try turning your Meet Chrome extensions off.

Soon we'll be adding additional functionality to the "Quick access" setting. Stay tuned to the G Suite Updates blog for the rollout timeline for those additional features:
  • When "Quick access" is off, the host must join the meeting first. Until the host joins, participants on the web will see the message: "Waiting for the Host to Join: The meeting will start as soon as the host has joined." 
  • Hosts can turn "Quick access" on or off for meetings created in Google Calendar in addition to those created from Google Meet.

Getting started
Admins: There are no admin controls for these features.

End users: "Quick access" will be on by default and can be turned on or off by the host during each meeting. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning these features on or off in your meetings. 

Rollout pace
Availability
  • Available to all G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers
  • Not available to G Suite Essentials, G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise, and G Suite for Nonprofits customers
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Quick launch summary 
We’re adding two new APIs to the Admin SDK Directory API: 


Sign user out of all sessions 
This new endpoint allows an admin to programmatically sign a user out of all web and device sessions. This can help manage account access when users leave an organization, if a device is lost or misplaced, or if a user forgot to sign out of a shared device. We do not recommend using this to sign users out and force a sign-in periodically; you can explore the Google web session control feature for that use case. 


Turn off 2-Step Verification 
This new endpoint allows an admin to turn 2-Step Verification (2SV) off programmatically. This action also removes all 2SV methods on the account. Note that in some cases, 2SV cannot be turned off for a user due to other policies that may be in effect. For example, a user may be enrolled in the Advanced Protection Program, or “2SV enforced” is turned on; in such cases the API will fail with an appropriate error code and message. 

Note that both of these actions can already be performed via the Admin console. The current launch makes them accessible via API as well so they can be integrated into automated offboarding workflows. 


Getting started 
  • Admins and developers: This feature will be available via the Admin SDK Directory API. Use the API documentation to learn more about the new endpoints to sign users out or turn off 2-Step Verification. 
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. 
Rollout pace  
Availability 
  • Available to all G Suite customers 
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Quick launch summary
We’re updating the user interface (UI) of the Google Meet mobile apps for Android and iOS. The new mobile UI will have the same look and feel as that of the meeting experience in the Gmail app.

A new look and feel for Google Meet mobile apps

In addition to the revamped design, you’ll now see a New Meeting button. When you tap on this button, you’ll see three options:
  • Get meeting joining info to share with others.
  • Start a Meet call instantly.
  • Schedule a new meeting in Google Calendar.

New options for new meetings in Google Meet mobile apps

This new UI is rolling out on iOS now; check back for an update on this post when the rollout to Android begins.

Getting started
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This new UI will appear by default once you’ve upgraded your Meet iOS app to version 45 or above.

Rollout pace
iOS
Android

Availability
  • Available to all G Suite customers and users with personal Google Accounts

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What’s changing 
Earlier this year, we made the new Google Groups generally available. Since then, it’s been the default version of Groups, but admins could turn off the new interface for their users via an Admin console setting. 

Starting on September 15, 2020, we will make new Groups the default for all users. When this happens:
Visit our Help Center for more information on new Groups and the transition from classic Groups. 


Who’s impacted 
Admins and end users 


Why it’s important 
New Groups has a more efficient and streamlined user interface, which makes it easier for users to create and manage groups. See our previous announcement for a full overview of the new Groups experience. In that announcement, we noted that some features in classic Groups were not yet available in new Groups. Since then, we’ve listened to your feedback and recently launched several highly requested features, including: 
We’re working to add more soon. See the Help Center for the full list of features we’re planning to launch, and follow the G Suite Updates blog for launch announcements. 


Additional details 
Planning for a complete migration to new Groups 

We’re planning to migrate all users to new Groups at a future date. At that time, classic Groups will no longer be available. We’ll announce this change on the G Suite Updates blog at least three weeks before it takes place. Note that you can use the Help Center to see a list of the features that we don’t plan to add to new Groups before this migration. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: The Admin console setting to turn off new Groups for your users will be removed. There will no longer be a way for you to require your users to use classic Groups. Visit the Help Center to learn more about new Groups and the transition from classic Groups. 
  • End users: End users will see new Groups by default when they go to groups.google.com, but can revert to classic Groups at any time. Visit the Help Center to learn how to go back to classic Groups. If users were already using new Groups there will be no change to their experience with this change. 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to all G Suite customers
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Quick launch summary 
You can now filter audit logs and usage reports by specific groups. When you add a new or existing group to an allow list, you can then filter to see log events or usage reports by that specific group. 

This can make it more efficient to find log entries, and allow you to more quickly and easily focus in on a specific target audience to better understand user account information, apps usage, and security. 


Getting started 

Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to all G Suite customers
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Quick launch summary 
We’re making Office editing available on Android. This feature brings the collaborative and assistive features of G Suite to your Microsoft Office files when you’re using your Android device. Already available on the web, it: 
  • Allows you to edit, comment, and collaborate on Microsoft Office files using Google Docs’, Sheets’, and Slides’ powerful real-time collaboration tools. 
  • Improves sharing options, improves sharing controls, and reduces the need to download and email file attachments. 
  • Streamlines workflows by reducing the need to convert file types. 
Office editing will replace QuickOffice (sometimes known as Office Compatibility Mode), which has more limited functionality and collaboration capabilities. See more about Office editing in our announcement for the feature on the web. 


Getting started 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to all G Suite customers and users with personal Google Accounts 
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Quick launch summary 
We will now adjust line spacing in Google Docs based on the font used. Previously, line spacing was based only on the font size and line spacing you chose. Now, the font you choose will also be a factor in the spacing. 

This will increase consistency in document length between Google Docs and other word processing programs, and help make sure converted Microsoft Word documents retain a similar length. It will be particularly useful for education and enterprise users, who may have documents with specific length requirements based on specific formatting combinations. 
Line spacing will adjust based on the font used 

Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature will be ON by default for new documents only. Existing documents will not be affected. Use our Help Center to learn more about formatting in Google Docs. 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to all G Suite customers and users with personal accounts. 
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