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Quick summary 
When using Companion mode in Google Meet, you can now turn your camera on and share your video feed with all other participants. For in-room participants attending a hybrid meeting, this feature helps improve collaboration and representation equity by giving everyone the ability to share their own video with other on-call participants.


Getting started
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: 
    • This feature will be available by default. You can join a meeting on the web using Companion mode from the green room before your meeting. To share your video feed, select “Turn on camera” from the Meet toolbar.
    • Use this Help Center article and video guide to learn more about using Companion mode in Google Meet.
Rollout pace
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What’s changing 
We’re introducing two new enhancements for our flexible, smart canvas for collaboration: dropdown chips and table templates in Google Docs. 


You can use dropdown chips to easily indicate the status of your document or various project milestones outlined in your document. There are two default dropdown options: 
  • Project Status, which includes selections for “Not Started”, “Blocked”, “In Progress” and “Complete” 
  • Review Status, which includes selections for “Not Started”, “In Progress”, “Under Review” and “Approved”. 


Additionally, you can create a dropdown chip with custom options and colors to best suit your needs.




We’re also adding table templates, which allow you to quickly insert building blocks for common workflows such as a:
  • Launch content tracker
  • Project asset
  • Review tracker
  • Product roadmap



The columns within the template include a sample row of content to help guide you on how they can be used and customized.


Who’s impacted
End users


Why you’d use them
We hope these features help you to create highly customized and organized documents in Google Docs, making it easier to collaborate and drive your project forward. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: These features will be available by default. You can insert a dropdown chip by selecting Insert > Dropdown. To insert a table template, select Insert > Table > Table templates. 

Rollout pace 
Dropdown chips


Table templates

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

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New updates 
Updated rollout schedule for additional Calendar statuses in Google Chat 
We’d like to provide updated rollout information for additional Calendar statuses in Google Chat, previously announced on March 14, 2022: 
  • Rollout for Rapid release domains will be complete on Wednesday, May 5, 2022. 
  • Rollout for Scheduled release domains will begin on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 and is expected to be complete by Tuesday, May 24, 2022. 


Previous announcements 
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details. 



Easily manage storage related activity and policies through new storage management tools in the Admin console 
In the Admin console, storage related activities can now be accessed and managed from a single source. | Learn more. 



Quick access to additional actions when composing a message in Google Chat on iOS 
When using Google Chat on iOS, you can now easily take additional actions by hovering over the plus (“+”) icon next to the compose bar. You’ll see a variety of options such as: 
  • Sharing a Google Meet link 
  • Creating a meeting in Calendar 
  • Accessing Google Drive Text formatting options and more. 




Enhanced menus in Google Docs improves findability of key features on desktop 
We’re updating the menus in Google Docs to make it easier to locate the most commonly-used features. In this update you’ll notice: 
  • Shortened menus for better navigation 
  • Reorganization for more intuitive feature location 
  • Prominent icons for faster recognition 



Warning banners alert users of suspicious Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides files on web 
Previously, we announced warning banners for potentially malicious or dangerous files in Google Drive. We’re extending these warnings at the file-level — going forward, if you open a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file on the web, you’ll see these warnings. | Learn more. 


For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).
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Quick summary 
Previously, we announced warning banners for potentially malicious or dangerous files in Google Drive. We’re extending these warnings at the file-level — going forward, if you open a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file on the web, you’ll see these warnings. 


Getting started 

Rollout pace 

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

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What’s changing 

We’re updating the menus in Google Docs to make it easier to locate the most commonly-used features. In this update you’ll notice: 

  • Shortened menus for better navigation 
  • Reorganization for more intuitive feature location 
  • Prominent icons for faster recognition 


Enhanced menus in Google Docs

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why it’s important 

The new design improves findability of key features, making it quicker and easier to use Docs. Note that existing functionality isn't changing with this launch. 

For features that have been reorganized, we hope that their new menu location will be more intuitive and make it easier and faster to navigate the product. In particular, Apps Script-related functionality is now grouped under the new “Extensions” menu. This includes access to the Apps Script IDE as well as management of add-ons. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature will be available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Google Docs 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers Available to users with personal Google Accounts 

 Resources 

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Quick launch summary 
When using Google Chat on iOS, you can now easily take additional actions by hovering over the plus (“+”) icon next to the compose bar. You’ll see a variety of options such as: 
  • Sharing a Google Meet link 
  • Creating a meeting in Calendar 
  • Accessing Google Drive 
  • Text formatting options and more. 




We hope this makes it easier to do your best work and collaborate when using Google Chat on your mobile device. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin action required. 
  • End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to use Google Chat. 

Rollout pace 

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

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What’s changing 
We’re rolling out new storage management tools to give our customers additional visibility, control, and insights into storage usage across users, groups, and their entire organization. 


In the Admin console, storage related activities can now be accessed and managed from a single source. Using these new storage management tools, admins can quickly and easily: 
  • View a storage usage summary for their entire organization 
  • View storage used by specific products like Drive or Gmail 
  • View the top users of storage in their organization 
  • View shared drives with the most storage used in your organization 
  • Manage and delete shared drives based on storage use, including the ability to sort and delete individual or multiple shared drives 
  • View storage limit warnings Access detailed reports on storage usage Apply storage limits for users


See below for more information. 


Who’s impacted 
Admins 


Why it’s important 
Admins can use these new tools to see how much storage is being used across their organization and view how close their organization is to reaching their storage limit. 


In Storage Settings you can manage storage limits in Google Workspace across your organization. You’ll see the storage limit settings for your entire organization, which you can customize for specific organizational units and groups. Please visit the Help Center for more details on how storage is being used—and how you can manage it—across your organization. 


This setting is turned OFF by default - when it’s turned on, you can create individual storage limits.





Easily modify storage privileges 
At launch, only super admins will have access to the storage management tools. Over the coming months, access will expand to delegated, user, and reseller admins. When available, admins can control all previously implemented storage policies, allowing them to control defaults and create custom roles to manage storage policies for their organization or users in specific organizational units or groups.



Getting started 
  • Super Admins: The new storage landing page can be accessed via: 
    • The “Storage” option in the left-hand navigation menu. 
    • A new “Storage” card on the Admin console homepage. 
    • Or by navigating to Account > Settings > Storage. 

  • Google Workspace customers: Visit the Help Center to learn more about storage in Google Workspace and managing shared drive users and their activity. 

  • Google Workspace for Education customers: Visit the Help Center to learn more about Google Workspace for Education storage. 

  • Important Note: At launch, super admins will have access to the storage management tools. We will share an update regarding access for delegated, user, and reseller admins on the Workspace Updates Blog once available.

  • End users: No action required.

Availability 
  • Available for all Google Workspace super admins, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business super admins 

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What’s changing 
Google Workspace admins can now specify how Android apps update, giving them greater control over how Android apps are deployed within their fleet. Specifically, admins can specify whether apps are updated right away or postponed. Further, admins can set these policies on a group level within their organization. See below for more information. 



Who’s impacted 
Admins 

Why it’s important 
Previously, the default behavior for app updates in managed Google Play was contingent on the device being connected to a Wi-Fi network, to be charging, and not being actively used. This behavior is not always suited to the needs of our customers and admins need more granular control over how apps are updated. 

With this update, Admins can now set specific criteria for when Managed Play apps update: 
  • High priority mode: the app is updated immediately after the developer publishes a new version. Note that for high priority, app updates will also still be issued when the default update criteria is met. 
  • Postponed mode: the app will not be automatically updated during the 90 days after a new version is released. After this 90-day period, the newly available version of the app is automatically installed when a device is connected to Wi-Fi, charging, and the app is not in use. Note: users can still manually update the app via the Play Store. 

Additionally, Admins can apply these configurations on a Group level within their organization, giving admins even greater granular control. 

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Education Plus, Frontline, legacy G Suite Business and Basic, and Cloud Identity premium customers.
  • Not available to Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Essentials, Nonprofits customers, and Cloud Identity Free customers 

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Quick summary 
Dynamic groups can now be defined by querying custom user attributes, allowing for more definitive group definitions based on user directory information. Admins can define memberships using a variety of conditions, such as a users: 
  • Country 
  • Domain 
  • Department 
  • Language and more. 

Getting started 
Rollout pace 
  • 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, Education Fundamentals, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 

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Quick summary
In addition to setting up Google Meet breakout rooms in advance in Google Calendar, meeting organizers can also: 
  • Turn meeting safety features on or off, such as chat lock, present lock, and more. 
  • Designate co-hosts before the meeting. 

We hope that by allowing meeting hosts to pre-configure additional settings and assign co-hosts, meetings can flow more smoothly. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing Meet safety settings and Host Management. 
  • End users: To configure host control and co-host options when scheduling a meeting in Google Calendar, select “Add Google Meet video conferencing” > “Video call options” (gear icon) > Host controls or Co-hosts. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
Moderation Settings 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers. 
  • Available to users with a personal Google account 

Co-host settings 
  • Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Business Standard, Business Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, and Teaching and Learning Upgrade customers 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Business Starter, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 

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