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4 New updates 

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.


Insert links in the Google Sheets app on iOS devices 
We’re adding the ability to insert a hyperlink into a cell in the Google Sheets iOS app by selecting a cell > clicking “+” in the top left corner > Insert > Link. If a cell contains a link, you’ll see options to edit or remove the link. | Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about working with links & bookmarks. 
Insert links in the Google Sheets app on iOS devices


Enhanced spam protection through automatic labeling of suspected spam messages in Google Voice 
If you're using Google Voice, you're familiar with our suspected spam caller warnings. We're extending this feature to SMS messages on Android and iOS devices. You'll see these labels within the message, and you can either: 
  • Confirm a suspected spam message, which causes future messages from that number to go directly into the spam folder. 
  • Mark a labeled message as not spam, after which the suspected spam label is never displayed for that number again. 
Available to Voice Starter, Standard, and Premier customers, as well as users with personal accounts in the US. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains at an extended pace (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility). 
Enhanced spam protection through automatic labeling of suspected spam messages in Google Voice



Birthday decorations for people cards 
In Google Contacts and across various Google Workspace products, you’ll begin to notice birthday decorations when hovering over another user’s people card. This small change can have a big impact on building deeper connections with your colleagues and stakeholders. Birthday decorations will be displayed on your birthday if you’ve added your birthday to your Google Account profile and you’ve set the information to be visible to others. | Available now for all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about your Google Account profile and what information others can see.
Birthday decorations for people cards
Add an organizational unit as an attribute in your external directory 
When using Directory Sync, you can now place users from the Azure Active Directory or Active Directory to a specific organizational unit on the Google Workspace side. To do so, you’ll need to add an organizational unit as an attribute in your external directory. This makes it easier to sync users who will be mapped to different organizational units on the Google Workspace side. | Directory Sync is available as an open beta to all Google Workspace customers. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about setting up users to sync based on an organizational unit attribute.
Add an organizational unit as an attribute in your external directory


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.


Dual Display on Poly Studio X Series Makes Video Meetings More Productive 
We are excited to announce dual display support for Google Meet on the Poly Studio X Series to help make video meetings more productive. With dual displays, you can see more meeting participants, presentations, and documents at once, which can help you stay focused and engaged in meetings. | Available to Google Workspace customers with Poly Studio X50, X52, and X70 devices only. | Learn more about Dual Display on Poly Studio X Series.

Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.


Rapid Release Domains:
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What’s changing 
We are excited to announce dual display support for Google Meet on the Poly Studio X Series to help make video meetings more productive. With dual displays, you can see more meeting participants, presentations, and documents at once, which can help you stay focused and engaged in meetings. With a single display, shared content takes over a majority of the screen and minimizes the view of meeting participants. Minimizing the view of participants can affect meeting engagement by limiting conversation between those who are in the room and those who are not. 


During a video meeting with dual displays, the primary and secondary screens will show the view of all the participants in the meeting, including the view of the local room.
  • When a participant presents, the presentation will enlarge onto one screen display and the participant views will reflect on the other screen display. 
  • Where supported, the controller or remote will also provide options like pinning participants, changing the layout of the participant tiles, and showing the meeting's chat history.



Visit the Help Center to learn more about Dual Displays.

Getting Started
  • Admins: 
  • End Users: To use dual displays with the Poly Studio X Series of video bars, simply plug a second display into the device’s display port. The Poly Studio X Series will automatically recognize the second monitor and add it as a secondary display.
Availability
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Poly Studio X50, X52, and X70 devices.
    • Note: Poly Studio X30 only supports a single monitor. Poly Studio X50, X52, and X70 devices support dual display.

Rollout
  • This new feature is available now for compatible Poly Studio X Series devices running Poly OS 4.0.1 or higher.


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5 New updates 

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.


Expanding autocorrect to Google Chat on web 
Google Chat on web will now automatically correct misspelled words, making it easier to send messages without typos. Similar to functionality in Gmail and Google Docs, the corrected words are shown with a gray underline so you know when the auto-correction has occurred. | This feature is rolling out now to all English users.
Expanding autocorrect to Google Chat on web

Expanding streamlined file organization across Google Workspace 
Earlier this year, we introduced streamlined file organization with the new Google Drive location picker. As a follow up, we're expanding this updated visual experience to Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Sites and Gmail. Users will now have access to helpful suggestions when moving files, adding shortcuts to files, or creating copies of files. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains at an extended pace (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility). | Learn more about how to use Google Drive. 

Updated zoom in/out capabilities across Google Docs, Slides and Drawings
We’re introducing new zoom keyboard shortcuts in Google Docs and Slides on web to help you zoom in, zoom out, or scale to 100%. Additionally, you can now smoothly zoom in or out in Slides using the trackpad or mouse wheel with a modifier key (cmd/ctrl), making it easier to control your view of Slides. | Learn more about keyboard shortcuts for Docs and Slides. 

Expanded language support for captions in Google Meet 
Captions in Google Meet allow you to view captions as everyone speaks during a meeting. Over the course of the next several weeks, you’ll be able to use captions in more languages: 

Arabic (Arab Emirates) (Beta)

Arabic (Egypt) (Beta)

Arabic (Levant) (Beta)

Arabic (Maghrebi) (Beta)

Bengali (Bangladesh) (Beta)

Bulgarian (Bulgaria) (Beta)

Chinese (Simplified) (Beta)

Chinese, Mandarin (Traditional) (Beta)

English (UK) (Beta)

Gujarati (India) (Beta)

Hindi (Beta)

isiXhosa (South Africa) (Beta)

Kannada (India) (Beta)

Khmer (Cambodia) (Beta)

Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) (Beta)

Malayalam (India) (Beta)

Marathi (India) (Beta)

Northern Sotho (South Africa) (Beta)

Sesotho (South Africa) (Beta)

Swati (South Africa) (Beta)

Swedish (Sweden) (Beta)

Tshivenda (South Africa) (Beta)

Tswana (South Africa) (Beta)

Xitsonga (South Africa) (Beta)

Available now to all Google Workspace customers. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about using captions in Google Meet.

Dynamic groups now supports negation queries 
You can now create or edit dynamic groups to use negation in membership queries. For example, you can opt to create a dynamic group that excludes all users from a particular sub organization or specific job title. There are a few limitations, however — any query using the “exists” macro and using the AND (&) operator or queries where the NOT operator is used inside of the “exists” macro will not be supported. | Rolling out to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains at gradual pace (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting September 11, 2023. | Available to Google Workspace Frontline Standard, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus and Cloud Identity Premium customers only. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating membership queries for dynamic groups and our Developer documentation for more information about formulating and testing a membership query. 
Dynamic groups now supports negation queries

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.


Expanding branding and customization capabilities to Google Sites 
You can now easily and quickly create with high-quality, pre-designed themes for Google Sites. | Available to Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus only. | Learn more about changing how your Google Site looks. 

Introducing a new ultra-low latency viewer experience for in-domain live streaming in Google Meet 
We are introducing a new ultra-low latency viewing experience for video meetings that are streamed within an organization. The new experience will be available to the first ten thousand viewers — all additional viewers will have the existing experience. | Learn more about in-domain live streaming in Google Meet. 

More Google Meet features for Google Workspace Individual users 
If you’re a Google Workspace Individual user, you can now take advantage of several new Meet features and enhancements. We hope these updates make it easier for you to connect and collaborate with your customers and stakeholders, continuing to drive your business forward. | Learn more about features for Google Workspace Individual users. 

Lock files more easily in Google Drive 
We’re adding the option to lock Drive files by right-clicking the file, selecting “File information”, and clicking “Lock”. Locking a file makes sure reviewers can’t change a file. Edits, comments and suggestions can't be added to locked documents. | Learn more about locking files in Drive.

Increased row limits in Connected Sheets for BigQuery 
We’re increasing the maximum number of rows of results returned from BigQuery for pivot tables and for data extracts. Pivot tables have been expanded to 50,000 rows (previously 30,000) and data extracts have been expanded to 50,000 rows (previously 25,000). | Learn more about Connected Sheets for BigQuery.


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What’s changing
Connected Sheets provides the power and scale of a BigQuery data warehouse in the familiar context of Google Sheets. Starting today, we’re increasing the maximum number of rows of results returned from BigQuery for pivot tables and for data extracts: 
  • Pivot tables have been expanded to 50,000 rows (previously 30,000) 
  • Data extracts have been expanded to 50,000 rows (previously 25,000) 
With the increase in row limits, you can now analyze even more rows of results in Sheets from the petabytes of data in BigQuery. Additionally, we’ve made performance improvements for pivot tables and extracts in Connected Sheets, including updates to creating a pivot table, deleting an extract, cut/copy/pasting data in a pivot table, inserting a row, deleting a column, and more.
Getting started 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts 
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What’s changing
We’re adding the option to lock Drive files by right-clicking the file, selecting “File information”, and clicking “Lock”. Locking a file makes sure reviewers can’t change a file. Edits, comments and suggestions can't be added to locked documents. 

This update simplifies and streamlines the process of restricting files in Drive, which was previously only available through the Google Drive API or through file approvals. 
Lock files more easily in Google Drive
Getting started
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: 
    • In order to lock a Drive file, you must have edit-access to the Drive file. 
    • When hovering over a file in Drive, right-click into the context menu and choose “File information” > “Lock”> confirm that you actually want to lock the document by selecting “Lock”. 
      • Once locked, no one can make edits to the Doc until it is unlocked. 
      • You can unlock a file through the context menu as well. 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting approvals on files in Google Drive. 

Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers 
Resources 
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What’s changing
If you’re a Google Workspace Individual user, you can now take advantage of several new Meet features and enhancements. We hope these updates make it easier for you to connect and collaborate with your customers and stakeholders, continuing to drive your business forward.


Feature

Description

Default ON / OFF

Participant Limit

We’re increasing the number of meeting participants from 100 to 150.

This feature will be ON by default.

Assign co-hosts

You can assign one or more co-hosts, who can help manage the flow of your meetings.

This feature will be ON by default.

Q&As

You can use the Q&A feature to engage further with your audience, giving them the opportunity to get their questions answered.

This feature will be ON by default.

Meeting Transcripts

You can use transcripts to capture the meeting discussion and meeting attendees, making it easier to follow-up after the meeting, identify action items, or simply serve as a meeting record.

This feature will be ON by default.

Guest List

Directly from Google Meet, you can see everyone invited to the meeting but have yet to join the call. You can also see their RSVP status, including “optional” attendees and RSVP notes.

This feature will be ON by default.



Getting started 
Rollout pace
  • Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on September 5, 2023

Availability
  • This update is specific to Google Workspace Individual subscribers 

Resources


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What’s changing 
We are introducing a new ultra-low latency viewing experience for video meetings that are streamed within an organisation. The new experience will be available to the first ten thousand viewers — all additional viewers will have the existing experience. This update is only available on the web, mobile users will be redirected to a web link, where they’ll have the existing livestream experience. 


With this release, you’ll notice several functional and quality improvements, such as: A virtually lag-free streaming experience. 
  • Significantly increased speaker video resolution (up to 720p per speaker). 
  • Shared content and presentations shown up to 2880x1800. 
  • Up to two speaker video feeds can be shown side by side together with presented material. 
  • A new layout engine supports any window aspect with dynamic resolution management. 
  • Improved automatic camera cuts that focus on the most relevant speakers & content. 
  • Audience interaction through emoji reactions, polls and Q&A. Support for captions and translated captions is coming in a later update.


Additional details
These updates will be available for Google Meet on web and Android devices. We plan to introduce support for Meet mobile apps by the end of 2023, which will introduce an immersive, full-screen live streaming experience for both iOS and Android devices.  We’ll share an update on the blog when that becomes available.


Getting started
  • Admins: Visit our Help Center for more information turning live streaming on or off for Meet.
  • End users: When enabled by your admin, use the Help Center to learn more about live streaming a video meeting. 
    • Viewers: You can join streams as before. Reactions, polls and live Q&A work like in a regular Meet video meeting.
    • Live stream hosts: Live streams are scheduled and managed just like before. Reactions, polls and live Q&A are integrated with the Meet call and managed like usual. Automatic camera cuts are triggered by speaker activity without any host action required.
Rollout pace
Note: For some customers, these changes may roll out at a slower rate — this means some customers may not receive this update until Q4 2023, with the latest being December 2023.


Availability
  • Live streaming is available for Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus customers.

  • Live streamed meetings can be viewed by Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning. Upgrade, Education Plus, Essentials Starter, and Essentials users.
  • Not available to users with personal Google accounts.

Resources

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What’s changing
Last month, we introduced the expanded branding and customization capabilities in Google Slides and Google Forms. Today, we’re excited to announce that you can now easily and quickly create with high-quality, pre-designed themes for Google Sites as well. 

Once an admin distributes branded materials to users in their organization, they will have access to a consistent set of design elements that align with your company branding. This includes fonts, branded colors, logo(s), a header image, and other theme settings like custom site width and page frames that users can employ when creating a new site or editing an existing site. 
Expanding branding and customization capabilities to Google Sites
Who’s impacted 
Admins and end users 


Why you’d use it 
These features enhance brand consistency across an organization. Additional details Admins have the ability to assign a domain template to all users in the organization, or specify particular templates for certain workgroups. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: These features will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the domain, OU, or group level. In the Admin console, go to Apps > Google Workspace > Setting for Drive and Docs > Templates > Default themes and templates > Sites default theme. Visit the Help Center to learn more about default templates & themes.
  • End users: If enabled by your admin, access the domain theme in Sites by clicking on Themes in the right panel > select the configured domain theme that is displayed at the top of the themes sidebar to apply it to the site. Visit the Help Center to learn more about changing how your site looks. 

Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus 
Resources 
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New updates 

There are no new updates to share this week. Please see below for a recap of published announcements. 



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.


Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on is now generally available
Beginning this week, Duet AI for Workspace Enterprise is now generally available. You can preview the power of Duet AI with a no-cost trial. | Learn more about Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on. 

Track the carbon footprint associated with the usage of Google Workspace across your organization
If you’re a Google Workspace admin, you can now track the carbon footprint and gross emissions of using Google Workspace. This means you can track the emissions impact of tools such as Google Meet, Gmail, Google Docs, and more. | Learn more about tracking carbon footprint. 

Turn ideas into action using Google Sheets
You can now use Google Sheets to quickly get started organizing your data in a straightforward, highly-visual manner. | This feature is available as part of the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on only. | Learn more about Help me organize in Sheets. 

Use studio look in Google Meet to look your best 
Studio look enhances the quality of your portrait by reducing noise and increasing sharpness, bringing you into focus more clearly. | This feature is available as part of the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on only. | Learn more about studio look in Meet. 

Create custom, unique meeting backgrounds using generative AI 
You can now use the power of Duet AI to generate completely unique and bespoke meeting backgrounds. | This feature is available as part of the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on only. | Learn more about generative backgrounds in Meet. 

Interoperability between Google Chat and other messaging platforms — powered by Mio 
If your organization uses a mixture of messaging tools, you can now use Mio to enable messaging interoperability between Google Chat and other platforms such as Slack and Teams. This is available now in beta, with general availability expected in early 2024. | Learn more about Mio’s interoperability capabilities with Chat. 

Expanded language availability for translated captions, available with Duet AI 
We’re expanding the number of languages available for the translated captions feature. | This feature is available as part of the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on only. | Learn more about translated captions in Meet. 

Enhance your writing in Google Docs with Proofread, available with Duet AI for Workspace 
Google Docs offers several existing capabilities to help you write faster and with more confidence, such as grammar suggestions, smart compose, and smart reply. This week, we’re introducing the next generation of writing suggestions, powered by AI: Proofread. | This feature is available as part of the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on only. | Learn more about Proofread in Docs. 

Write emails, documents and more with ease and speed using Duet AI in Google Docs and Gmail 
We’re introducing AI-powered writing features that help you quickly refine existing work or get you started with something new in Google Docs and Gmail. | This feature is available as part of the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on only. | Learn more about Help me write in Docs and Gmail. 

Create original images from text within Google Slides 
By simply typing a few words in Help me visualize, you can easily create original images for your presentations. | This feature is available as part of the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on only. | Learn more about Help me visualize in Slides. 

Independent Security Verification badge in the Google Workspace Marketplace 
Beginning this week, you’ll see a new independent security verification badge for select apps in the Google Workspace Marketplace. | Learn more about the Independent Security Verification badge.

Evolving collaboration in Google Chat with smart chips 
We’re excited to announce smart chips in Google Chat on web. When composing a message in Chat, typing “@” will now display a list of suggestions for files to include as smart chips. You can search files by typing the name of the file, and the results will be based on files you’ve used most recently. Once a file is selected, you can insert it directly into your message. | Learn more about smart chips in Google Chat.


Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.


Rapid Release Domains:


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This announcement is part of Google Cloud Next ‘23. Visit the Workspace Blog to learn more about the new Google Chat. 

What’s changing

In 2021, we launched smart canvas to drive the next era of collaboration in Google Workspace. Since then, we’ve added numerous smart chips to Google Docs and Sheets that enable you to preview and access rich, context-setting information and files within your documents and spreadsheets. Today, we’re excited to announce smart chips in Google Chat on web. 


When composing a message in Chat, typing “@” will now display a list of suggestions for files to include as smart chips. You can search files by typing the name of the file, and the results will be based on files you’ve used most recently. Once a file is selected, you can insert it directly into your message. 
Evolving collaboration in Google Chat with smart chips
Who’s impacted 
End users 


Why you’d use it 
Many people take a number of collaborative actions in Chat so they can get work done faster. For example, you may share project files in a direct message or space to gather quick feedback from stakeholders. 


This feature reduces friction for senders by eliminating the need to separately find files within Drive and then copy/paste them into a Chat message. Now, users can send files as smart chips so they are compact and readable in a message, without leaving Chat. 


Additional details 
An in-line preview of the file chip will be shown while composing the message, similar to when pasting the URL of the file into Chat. This can be removed by clicking on the dismiss button before sending the message or at any point when editing the message. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: In Google Chat on web, type “@” followed by a file name to search for a file and insert it directly into a message. Visit the Help Center to learn more about sending & sharing files in Google Chat. 
    • Note: Mobile users can receive and click on smart chips, but cannot insert them on the Chat mobile app at this time. 

Rollout pace 

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

Resources 
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