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The Workspace Policy API provides a centralized, comprehensive view of your security settings, eliminating the need to navigate to numerous pages in the Admin console.

With our latest update, we are introducing mutate endpoints (Create, Update, Delete) alongside existing read-only capabilities (Get, List) for data loss prevention (DLP) rules and detectors. This allows super admins to programmatically manage and fully automate the entire lifecycle of their DLP policies, from initial creation to real-time activation and deactivation.

Note this is an API-only launch for capabilities currently supported in the Admin console.

About DLP

DLP lets Workspace admins control external file sharing to prevent sensitive information leaks. It scans files for violations, triggering incidents and protective actions like content blocking.

How DLP works:

  • Admins define rules for sensitive content across Drive, Gmail, Chat, and Chrome.
  • DLP scans content for DLP rule violations that trigger DLP incidents.
  • DLP enforces the rules you defined and violations trigger actions, such as alerts.
  • Admins are alerted for DLP rule violations.
Summary of capabilities supported by mutate endpoints for DLP

Getting started

  • Admins: You must be a super admin to use the Policy API. See our developer documentation to learn more about the Policy API. You can also use GAM, an open source tool for managing Workspace, which now supports the Policy API.
  • End users: This is an admin-only capability.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and Workspace Individual subscribers

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Building on our October launch, Gemini in Google Classroom can now help educators more easily convert rubric files and images into Google Classroom rubrics, right within the assignment creation workflow. Educators can now upload more file types, such as .jpeg and .png files. For example, by uploading a photo of a physical rubric or using existing files, Gemini in Classroom can help educators quickly generate structured, interactive rubrics within the Classroom interface. They can then make edits to the converted rubric before saving it. This Gemini-powered automation reduces manual data entry and helps educators maintain consistent grading standards across their assignments.

With this launch, rubric conversion will be controlled by the Gemini in Classroom setting in the Admin console. If Gemini in Classroom is disabled for your organization, you’ll no longer be able to convert rubrics from documents or images.

This feature is only available in English for users over age 18.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

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Google Drive is introducing alignment approvals, a lightweight mechanism that allows teams to request and record document sign-offs without file changes resetting the approval flow. When a document is in a partially approved state, collaborators can continue making edits without resetting any recorded approver decisions.

Alignment approvals can be initiated via a new checkbox within the standard request dialog across web clients.


When checked, "Require all approvers to review the same content" resets pending approvals if the file content changes. This is the default behavior.


When unchecked, changes to the file content don't reset pending approvals.

This feature serves use cases where strict content locking is unnecessary, making it easier for teams to maintain momentum on fluid projects. While an approval remains pending, individual approvers retain the flexibility to manually reset their approved status back to pending if subsequent content edits no longer match their expectations.

This update follows a series of recent enhancements to the Drive approvals ecosystem, including programmatic approval management with the Drive API.

Getting started

  • Admins: Approval requests are enabled by default and can be disabled at the domain, OU, and group level. There is no admin setting that controls alignment approvals specifically; users can access them if they have access to the broader approval request feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing Drive approvals.
  • End users: Alignment approvals will be off by default and can be enabled by the user. Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting approvals in Drive.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Plus
  • Other Editions: Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits
  • Education Add-ons: Teaching and Learning

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Organize My Files in Drive now generally available

In October 2025, we launched a beta for Organize My Files in Drive. This feature is now generally available and has started rolling out to eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans. | Learn more about how Organize My Files in Drive is now generally available.

Introducing the ability to loop over a list of items in Workspace Studio

We are introducing the ability to loop over a list of items in Google Workspace Studio flows, bringing more power and flexibility to your everyday workflows. | Learn more about the ability to loop over a list of items in Workspace Studio.

Enhanced data protection for managed third-party apps

With this release, users are now able to maintain efficient workflows and securely move data between corporate Workspace accounts and other authorized, managed third-party applications without being blocked. | Learn more about enhanced data protection for managed third-party apps.

Quickly scan multiple pages in Google Drive on Android

Tired of scanning one page at a time? With the new Document Scanner in Google Drive on Android, you can now scan multiple pages at the same time. | Learn more about how to Quickly scan multiple pages in Google Drive on Android.

New data loss prevention capabilities for file attachments and proximity conditions are generally available 

Data loss prevention (DLP) rules for non-Workspace file attachments and associated proximity conditions are now generally available. These new capabilities enable organizations to target files with specific parameters, such as blocking the sharing of sensitive file formats or identifying files that contain specific strings in their titles. | Learn more about the new data loss prevention capabilities for file attachments and proximity conditions are generally available.

Data loss prevention policies for Google Calendar now available in GA

Data loss prevention (DLP) for Google Calendar is now generally available to protect sensitive information shared within event details. | Learn more about data loss prevention policies for Google Calendar now available in GA.

Gmail as a source in Ask Gemini in Drive now generally available

Gmail sources in Ask Gemini in Drive is now generally available and has started rolling out to eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans. Ask Gemini in Drive offers a dedicated, immersive workspace designed for deep focus. Users can engage in high-context, multi-turn conversations to efficiently explore and understand content. | Learn more about Gmail as a source in Ask Gemini in Drive now generally available.
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We’re introducing an expanded set of native Apple Mobile Device Management (MDM) settings to Google Endpoint Management, providing administrators with more granular control over how iOS devices are configured and secured. These new settings—spanning categories such as Apps and Services, Device Features, Data Sharing, and Backup & iCloud Sync, etc—allow admins to manage critical device behaviors directly from the Google Workspace Admin console. This update allows organizations to efficiently harden their security posture for both corporate-owned and BYOD iOS devices. With this launch, these settings will become generally available.

See below for a detailed list of the new settings by category.

Apps and Services - Writing tools, App clips, App installation from web, App installation from alternative marketplaces, Apps to be hidden, Locking apps, In app purchases


Safari - Safari history clearing, Safari private browsing

Device Features - Auto unlock, Call recording, Auto dim, Default browser modification, Personalized advertising, eSIM outgoing transfers, OTA PKI updates, iPhone mirroring, Satellite connection, RCS messaging, Unpaired external boot to recovery, Untrusted TLS prompt, Limit ad tracking, AirPlay outgoing requests pairing password, Preserve eSIM on erase

Backup and iCloud Sync - Enterprise book backup

Authentication - Fingerprint for unlock

Data Sharing - Managed pasteboard

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Endpoint Management

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