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Get the latest news about Google Workspace from our experts
Google Workspace tools and services are always getting new features and enhancements. In this online session, we announced and explained all the major updates within Google Workspace for Q2 2023.
- Learn about what new Google Workspace features and enhancements are available to your users
- Discover the new features Google Workspace is planning to launch in the future.
Who can join?
Everyone interested in Google Workspace updates can watch the slides of this session.
Full list with updated features
Gmail
Client-side encryption for Gmail is now generally available
Calendar
- Increasing efficiency through better meeting room management with room release
- Check availability across multiple calendars when using appointment schedules on Google Calendar
- Client-side encryption for Google Calendar is now generally available
- Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders will migrate to Google Tasks soon
- Save time with suggested work locations in Google Calendar
Meet
- View speaker notes while presenting Google Slides in Google Meet
- New in-meeting reactions for Google Meet
- New built-in interoperability between Google Meet and Zoom
- Easily share access to presented content in Google Meet with all attendees
- Include captions with a Google Meet video recording
- Use new immersive backgrounds and styles for Google Meet on the web
- Improving accessibility of the “connect device” feature on Google Meet hardware devices
- 360 degree video backgrounds available for Google Meet on mobile
- View your peripheral devices directly in the Google Meet green room
- Expanding noise cancellation in Google Meet to more devices
- New updates for Google Meet on Poly Android-based appliances
- External label for Google Meet participants
- Provide custom Google Meet background images for your users
Chat
- Introducing simpler conversation creation in Google Chat
- Improved membership management for spaces
- Editable widgets now available for Chat app cards
- Improvements to sales and customer service integrations in Google Chat
- All newly created spaces in Google Chat will be in-line threaded beginning March 13, 2023
- Introducing new Space Manager capabilities in Google Chat
- Enabling organizational communication with announcements in Google Chat
Drive & editors
- Improvements to voice features in Google Docs and Slides
- New option to view non-printing characters in Google Docs
- Explore Looker data using Connected Sheets
- Google Sheets adds powerful new functions for advanced analysis
- Expanding the power of Google Sheets with localized formatting and improved CSV imports
- New setting for content managers to modify shared drives now on by default
- Introducing new smart canvas features in Google Sheets and Google Docs
- Improving Filters in Google Sheets
- Refreshed interface for Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides
- Improvements to content organization in Google Docs
- Add or remove client-side encryption from a Google Doc
- Connected Sheets for Looker now available for all Looker-hosted instances
- Find files quicker with search chips in Google Drive
Mobile
- Improved Chat, Meet, and Gmail experience on Android foldable devices and tablets
- Optimized zoom experience for Google Sheets on Android devices
- Google Keep notes now available on home screen of Android devices
- Expanding noise cancellation to phone participants
- Managed Android devices must upgrade to Android Device Policy during March 2023
- Additional details for the updated Gmail experience on Android foldable devices and tablets
- Enhancing the Google Drive mobile experience on Android tablets
- Full mouse support now available for Google Sheets and Slides on Android
- Multi-instance support now available for Google Keep on large screen Android devices
- Use speaker separation for a more dynamic meeting experience on Pixel 7 devices
Google Admin Console
- Control the visibility of warning banners in Gmail with a new admin control
- Adding Trusted Types to Google Workspace
- Programmatically manage and apply Google Drive label taxonomy changes
- Improving your security with shorter Session Length defaults
- Launching in beta: manage working locations with the Calendar API
- Admins can install Chat apps for use in direct messages
