Earlier this year we introduced Sheets canvas, which uses Gemini to turn spreadsheet data into interactive mini-apps like dashboards, kanban boards, and calendars. Starting today, you can publish a Sheets canvas directly to its own link, granting others read-only access to interact with the mini-app without sharing the full source spreadsheet. The published link is separate from the spreadsheet URL and has its own audience setting, so you can publish a canvas to your whole organization even if the file itself is shared with a smaller group.

For example:

• An events coordinator can publish a conference agenda as a filterable schedule for hundreds of attendees while only the planning team edits the source sheet.
• A program manager can publish a launch timeline from the team's tracker, giving stakeholders across the company a live view of milestones without edit access to the spreadsheet.
• A learning and development lead can publish a course calendar so anyone in the company can see upcoming sessions, while the training team manages the data source.

You can only publish a Sheets canvas that you have edit access to. To publish, click the  icon in the canvas toolbar, then click the “Publish canvas” option. A user can also choose between automatically republishing the canvas whenever changes are made to the source sheet or publishing a static view based on the current state of the data. From the same  icon, you can copy the link, change the audience, or stop publishing at any time. Publishing is currently available in Sheets on the web.

Publishing a Sheets canvas from the  icon in the canvas toolbar, then opening the published link from an account without access to the spreadsheet

Getting started

• Admins: There is no new admin control for this feature. Canvas publishing uses the existing Publish to the web capability, so the Drive sharing setting that allows users to publish files on the web applies. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing external sharing for your organization.
• End users: This feature is available by default. In a spreadsheet with a canvas tab, click the  icon in the canvas toolbar, then select the “Publish canvas” option. Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating a Sheets canvas and publishing files to the web.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 11, 2026 
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 2, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
• AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Note: Creating and editing Sheets canvases is subject to per-user usage limits. See the Help Center for more information.

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage external sharing for your organization
• Google Docs Editors Help: Create a Sheets canvas
• Google Docs Editors Help: Make Google Docs, Sheets, Slides & Forms public
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Use Sheets canvas to visualize data in custom, interactive mini-apps

You can now use numbered lists and nested lists in your Google Chat messages. Numbered lists work well for step-by-step instructions, rankings, and agendas. Nested lists let you break a main point into smaller details, which helps for meeting notes, project plans, and status updates.

You can mix bulleted and numbered lists in the same message and nest items up to five levels deep. Start a numbered list from the formatting toolbar or by typing "1." at the start of a line. Lists can be created in Google Chat on the web and will display for everyone in the conversation on web, Android, and iOS. Support for creating lists on Android and iOS will follow.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about formatting messages in Google Chat.
• Developers: Chat apps can send numbered and nested lists using standard Markdown syntax through the Google Chat API. Visit the Google Chat API documentation to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 10, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

• Google Help: Add formatting to your Google Chat messages
• Google Chat API Developers: Format messages

We’re expanding the availability of some Gemini in Gmail features to more Google Workspace users aged 18 and older. Previously available to consumer accounts and specific Workspace editions, these tools are now being brought to the core Workspace experience by expanding availability to all Workspace users 18 years and older to help users with a school or work account manage their communications more efficiently.

Specifically, eligible users will now have access to:

• AI Overview conversation summaries: AI Overview at the top of long email threads synthesize key points and replies in the conversation.
• Help me write (non-personalized): Generate complete email drafts or refine existing text based on simple prompts, such as "Draft a professional follow-up and thank-you for the interview.

Managing an overflowing inbox and composing refined replies can be a significant hurdle for educators, students, and professionals. These features act as an intelligent assistant, removing the friction of manual sorting and drafting.

Getting started

• Admins: As an admin, you can choose to disable Gemini features in Gmail. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing access to Gemini features in Workspace services.
• End users: These features will be ON by default and can be disabled by the user. Visit the Help Center to learn more about drafting emails with Gemini in Gmail and catching up on email threads with AI Overview conversation summaries

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 10, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts who are 18 years or older and have smart features in Gmail enabled.

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage access to Gemini features in Workspace services
• Keyword: Gmail is entering the Gemini era
• Google Help: Learn about smart features & controls for Google Workspace & other Google products 
• Google Help: Draft emails with Gemini in Gmail

With help from Gemini, we’re making it easier than ever to schedule meetings directly from conversations in Google Chat.

When someone in a Chat conversation with up to five members suggests finding a time to meet, using a phrase such as “Are you free tomorrow afternoon to go over the proposal?” or “Let’s grab 15 minutes to discuss this in person”, Gemini automatically detects the intent to schedule a meeting, and underlines the relevant text. Hovering over the underlined text reveals a scheduling card that includes:

• Suggested times: Up to three meeting times based on Google Calendar availability, with any conflicts clearly flagged.
• Attendees: Guests are filled in from the conversation, including people mentioned by name.
• Suggested meeting title: A suggested title based on the context of the conversation, which you can edit directly in the card.

Simply select a time and and click Schedule to create the meeting in a single click. A confirmation appears in the conversation, so everyone knows the meeting is booked. If you need to configure additional details, click Open in Calendar to finish scheduling the meeting.

Hover over the underlined text in a message to see suggested times, attendees, and a meeting title, then schedule the meeting in one click.

By helping you schedule meetings without breaking the flow of conversation, this feature enhances team collaboration and reduces context switching while streamlining one of the most common tasks in Google Chat. Some things to note:

• At launch, this feature is available in Google Chat on the web (chat.google.com and Chat in Gmail) in English.
• Suggestions appear in direct messages and in small group conversations with up to 5 participants.
• To avoid being disruptive, Gemini only underlines messages with a clear request to set up a new meeting. 

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be ON by default for eligible users. To use it, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. There is no separate admin control for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn how to manage access to Gemini features in Workspace services and how to turn Gmail, Chat, and Meet smart features and personalization on or off.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Smart Actions in Google Chat.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started on November 9, 2026

Availability

Resources

• Google Help: Learn how to use Smart Actions in Google Chat
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn on or off Gmail, Chat, and Meet smart features and personalization 
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage access to Gemini features in Workspace services
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Use Help me schedule to easily set up a meeting time over email

To give teams greater control over the timing and pacing of their automated workflows, we are introducing a new “Wait until” step in Google Workspace Studio flows. With this new flow control step, users can pause a flow at any point in its execution—including inside conditional branches (Check if) and loops (Repeat for each)—and automatically resume it at a specified future date and time or after a set duration (up to 14 days). 

Previously, multi-stage workflows that required time delays—such as sending a follow-up email a few days after a customer meeting, spacing out onboarding reminders, or waiting until Monday morning to post a team digest in Google Chat—had to be split across separate scheduled flows. The Wait until step lets you build and manage these end-to-end sequences within a single flow without writing code.

When adding a Wait until step to a flow, you can configure how long the flow should pause with several modes:

• Specific day next week: Continue next Monday at 8AM—ideal for deferring non-urgent notifications or weekly follow-ups until the start of the next workweek.
• Specific day and time: Wait 3 days before following-up at 5PM—making it easy to schedule multi-day email sequences, task reminders, and deadline check-ins.
• After a set duration: Pause the flow for 30 minutes—or any combo of hours, minutes, and seconds (up to 14 days total) before automatically continuing to the next step.

While a flow is paused, you can monitor its real-time progress in the Workspace Studio Activity tab, which logs the scheduled resume timestamp and time zone (for example, “Waiting until {datetime}” and “Flow resumed on {datetime}”).

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Try the feature in Google Workspace Studio. Visit the Help Center to learn more about this step. 

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on November 9, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Workspace Studio
• Workspace Studio Help: Get Started with Workspace Studio
• YouTube: Workspace Studio Playlist
• Discord: Workspace Studio Channel