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Quick summary 
In April 2021, we announced a new and improved Google Meet experience to help make meetings more immersive, inclusive, and productive. We have revised the rollout for the new Google Meet experience: 

  • Rapid Release domains: A gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) began on May 24, 2021. 
  • Scheduled Release domains: A gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) will begin on June 1, 2021. 
  • Users using Google Meet with a personal Google account: rollout began on May 24, 2021. 

Additionally, users will have the option to revert to legacy Google Meet experience until June 10, 2021. On June 11, 2021, the new Google Meet experience will become the standard experience for all users. 

You can follow the Google Meet Help Community for more updates on rollout progress and support. 

Additional details 
Use of 3rd party Chrome extensions (including the Grid View extension) could impact your experience — disabling any extensions that interact with Google Meet could resolve this. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: No action required. To revert to the legacy Google Meet experience, select “Use the legacy experience for this call” from the banner. You can also disable any Chrome extensions that interact with Meet if you notice issues. 

Rollout pace 
Google Workspace Customers 

Users with personal Google accounts 
  • Rollout began on May 24, 2021 

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers 
  • Available to users using Google Meet with a personal Google account 

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What’s changing 
To help Workspace admins monitor and analyze their organizations’ Keep activity, starting today, admins will see audit logs for user activity in Google Keep in the Admin console under Reports > Audit log > Keep. Here, admins can monitor when domain users: 
  • Take action on a note, 
  • Add or remove a collaborator, 
  • Upload or delete an attachment. 

Admins who have enabled Keep for their users will see Keep audit events from May 1, 2021 onward. These audit logs are also available in the Reports API, where admins can expand their automated reporting to include Keep. The event log and Reports API do not include information about the content of notes or attachments, only that an internal user has taken a particular action on a note. 


Next, in the coming days, the rollout of a new API for Keep will begin. The API will allow admins and admin-enabled apps to manage Keep access controls for an organization, enabling support for cases such as enterprise data protection. For example, an admin could use the API to create Keep notes, or use an app to monitor Keep usage and help ensure that notes with sensitive information are not shared too widely. 

Note: These features are only available for Google Workspace customers, and are not available for users with personal Google accounts.


Who’s impacted
Admins and developers

Why it matters
Audit events for Keep allow administrators to better understand domain activity on Keep and monitor compliance with organizational guidelines. The Keep API gives admins more ways to manage how Keep data is accessed.

Together, we hope these features make it easier for admins to add a layer of security and compliance around Keep data in their organization.


Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers
  • Not available to users with personal Google accounts.

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What’s changing
Now when you get a photo attachment in a Gmail message, you can save it directly to Google Photos with a new "Save to Photos" button. You’ll see it next to the existing “Add to Drive” button on the attachment and while previewing the image attachment. Currently, this is only available for JPEG images.



Save to Photos Button from a Gmail attachment



Use the Save to Photos option while previewing an image in Gmail


Who’s impacted

End users

Why you’d use it

This new feature frees you from having to download photo attachments from Gmail messages in order to then manually back them up to Google Photos.


Getting started
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This feature will be ON by default. For an eligible photo, you can choose the "Save to Photos" button which is alongside a similar option to "Add to Drive." Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to upload files and folders to Google Drive.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on May 26, 2021


Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers. Also available to users with personal Google Accounts.

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Quick summary 
We’re renaming the “Master” view in Google Slides to “Theme Builder”. This change better communicates the benefits: to help users quickly customize the font, color, and layout customization for their current theme, ensuring a consistent experience throughout the presentation. 


Further, it eliminates a non-inclusive term from our products, helping us build toward our goal of having inclusive language throughout Google Workspace products.

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers 

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Quick launch summary 
You can now position an image in front of or behind text in Google Docs. Additionally, this formatting will be preserved when importing or exporting documents from Microsoft Word. We hope this feature helps you better customize your documents and share them with confidence, no matter the application you use. 


You’ll see the new option for positioning an image above or below text within the image options sidebar and in the image toolbar when clicking directly on an image. New options for positioning images in front of and behind text in Google Docs. 

New options for positioning images in front of and behind text in Google Docs

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 inserting and deleting images in Docs. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers 
  • Available to users with personal Google Accounts 

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Quick Summary
Now when you create Gmail exports in Google Vault, you will get a new CSV-formatted file of the export metadata in addition to the XML file you currently receive. This can make export processing and review easier and may save legal costs. This change improves interoperability with third-party applications.


Getting started
  • Admins: This feature will be ON by default. Admins automatically receive the XML file when they create a Gmail export.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace

Availability
Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, available as an add-on to Frontline, available to domain-verified Enterprise Essentials, GSuite Business.


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What’s changing 
Cloud Search now supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR) based text extraction for PDFs that contain images, such as: 
  • Physical contract documents 
  • Engineering documents that contain annotations or labels 
  • Physical customer invoices, and more 

This makes PDFs with images containing text, such as scanned documents, easily searchable by users and improving discoverability of such PDFs. 


Who’s impacted 
Admins and end users 


Why it’s important 
Many critical business documents are either in physical form or as scanned versions of those physical documents. With OCR support, admins can now easily index these documents for Cloud Search, making it easier for users to quickly find relevant scanned documents. 

In addition, this feature eliminates the need to extract the text offline from PDFs containing images before indexing these documents on Cloud Search. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: The feature is ON by default. Use this guide to learn more about how to use enhanced search for PDFs containing images.  Important Note: PDFs must be submitted using the Asynchronous Indexing mode and must contain only images. 
  • End Users: No user action is required 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus and Google Cloud Search customers 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers

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Quick launch summary 
You can now restrict the use of Google Drive for desktop to company owned devices. This functionality was previously available in beta. 

Drive for desktop (formerly known as Drive File Stream) is a simple and efficient way for users to access Drive data on Windows and Mac devices. This launch more fully integrates it with Google endpoint management, and enables admins to restrict use to company-owned devices only. This helps admins to ensure users can access the files they need safely and efficiently whether they’re online or offline, while helping to protect corporate data on devices. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: This feature will be off by default. To turn it on for your organization or specific OUs, go to Admin console > Apps > Google Workspace > Drive and Docs > Features and Applications. Visit our Help Center to learn more about using Drive for desktop with Google endpoint management. 
  • End users: No end user impact unless configured by an administrator. If personal (not company-owned) devices already have Drive for desktop when the admin restricts usage for your account, devices will lose access after they're restarted or Drive for desktop checks the device's compliance (a maximum of 3 hours), whichever comes first. 

Rollout pace 
  • This feature is available now for all users. 
Availability 
  • Available to Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Frontline, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers. 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, and Enterprise Essentials, and Nonprofits customers. 
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What’s changing 
We’re adding a new admin setting which restricts data and content sharing between Google Workspace accounts and personal Google accounts in Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides on iOS. 

When the data protection setting is enabled, users can only share or save content–such as files, emails, or copied & pasted content—within Workspace accounts. This will protect users from sharing a file with their personal Google accounts or saving a file to their personal Google Drive. 



Who’s impacted 
Admins and end users 


Why it’s important 
Google applications on iOS support multi-user logins, allowing users to access Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides with their personal and Google Workspace accounts. Giving admins the ability to control how data is shared across user accounts helps minimize accidental data sharing. Together with the previously released copy and paste and drag and drop restrictions, these security measures help increase the security of your corporate data on iOS. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the OU and domain level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about applying settings for iOS devices. 

  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. When enabled by your admin, you will be able to securely share enterprise Google Workspace content between your Google Workspace apps. 

Rollout pace 
  • Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: This feature is available now for all users. 

Availability 
  • Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Education Plus customers 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers 

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Quick launch summary 
To provide more control over your calendar, we’re adding a new option to choose which holidays to display. Previously, we showed all holidays for regions you select, including official public holidays (such as thanksgiving in the US, or the summer bank holiday in the UK), as well as unofficial other holidays (such as Valentine's Day and Mother’s Day). Now, you can choose if you want to see: 
  • Public holidays and other holidays: Will continue to display all holidays, as it does today. 
  • Public holidays only: Will only show official public holidays for your region. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: This new option will be available to users by default. The default will remain to show all holidays, so there will be no change unless a user specifically changes it. 
  • End users: To manage holidays on your calendar, go to Google Calendar on the web and go to Settings > Add Calendar > Browse Calendars of Interest > Regional holidays, or on Mobile go to Settings > Holidays > Regional holidays. Use our Help Center to learn more about managing holidays in Google Calendar. 

Rollout pace 
Google Calendar on the web and Android 

Google Calendar in iOS 

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers, as well as users with personal Google accounts. 

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