What’s changing We’ve heard from our users that having backgrounds that match your brand guidelines are important for visual polish during critical meetings. Now, admins can now provide a set of images for the background replace feature in Google …
External label for Google Meet participants
What’s changing “External” labels will be available in Google Meet. Users will see a label in the top-left corner of their meeting screen indicating that participants who are external to the meeting host’s domain have joined the meeting. In the pe…
Introducing new Space Manager capabilities in Google Chat
What’s changingLast year, we announced several improvements to spaces in Google Chat to help you better organize people, topics, and projects, which included introducing the space manager role. Currently, managers can: Remove and add participantsA…
New updates for Google Meet on Poly Android-based appliances
What’s changing We are rolling out updates to Google Meet to support our upcoming launch of Google Meet on Poly Android-based appliances. Within the Google admin console, admins can enroll Poly devices and include reporting of these new appliances…
Refreshed interface for Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides
What’s changing In the coming weeks, you’ll notice a new look and feel for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides on the web. Following the release of Google Material Design 3, the refreshed user interface is purposefully designed to streamline co…
Indicate your Google Voice availability with more options
What’s changing We’re making it easier for you to indicate your availability in Google Voice on web and mobile. Previously, you could only indicate your availability for all of your ring groups. This update gives you greater flexibility to ma…
View speaker notes while presenting Google Slides in Google Meet
What’s changingIn October of 2022, we introduced the ability to present Google Slides directly in Google Meet. To build upon this, you can now view your speaker notes within Google Meet. Simply click the new speaker notes button in the Slides cont…
Introducing simpler conversation creation in Google Chat
What’s changingCurrently, when starting a new Google Chat conversation on the web, you are prompted to select “Start group conversation” before typing the name(s) of who you’d like to chat with. Starting today, the process to create conversations …
New in-meeting reactions for Google Meet
What’s changingYou can now use emojis to share in-meeting reactions in Google Meet on Web, Meet Hardware devices, and iOS, with Android coming soon. These reactions will show as a small badge in the sender’s video tile and floating up the left sid…
Increasing efficiency through better meeting room management with room release
What’s changingIn this hybrid work environment, there’s an increased need to better optimize meeting rooms in order to foster greater collaboration. Room release, an existing feature that releases booked meeting rooms when all but one attendee dec…