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

Following our initial announcement and recent rollout update, skills in Google Workspace — reusable, custom instructions that guide Gemini to apply your team’s rules, templates, and reference files — are now rolling out across Google Workspace Studio and Workspace apps. Here’s how to get started:

• Create, test, and share skills in Google Workspace Studio and Google Docs: Build skills from scratch, start from new turnkey templates, or edit Markdown-native (SKILL.md) files directly in Google Workspace Studio, and test how they generate email drafts, documents, or presentations before turning them on. You can also draft and collaborate on skills in Google Docs, and share copies of your skills from Workspace Studio so teammates can customize and enable them for their own workflows.
• Create and edit skills in context across Workspace apps: You can prompt Gemini directly in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat to create, refine, and test skills without leaving the app you’re working in.
• Use skills automatically or with an @, and connect them to Studio flows: Once you turn on a skill, Gemini in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat can automatically recognize when that skill is relevant and apply it to your prompt, or you can invoke one or more skills explicitly at any time with an @mention (including combining multiple skills in a single request). Skills can also trigger Workspace Studio flows configured with a “Start manually” or “On a schedule” starter step.

These capabilities unlock powerful ways to standardize everyday work across your team. For example:

• A marketing or sales team can maintain approved brand voice, tone, and structure across email drafts in Gmail, proposals in Docs, and pitch decks in Slides.
• A finance or legal specialist can standardize recurring contract, proposal, or invoice reviews against reference guidelines stored in Google Drive.
• A project lead can generate recurring status updates grounded in living meeting notes, Chat conversations, and Drive files without re-typing formatting instructions each week.

Create, test, and invoke skills across Google Workspace Studio and Workspace apps

A few things to know for end users:

• Supported surfaces, mobile access, and language: Creating, editing, testing, and sharing skills are available on the web. Invoking skills is supported on the web in Workspace Studio, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat, as well as in the Google Chat mobile app on Android and iOS. Skills in Workspace are not yet available in Google Sheets or Google Meet, and currently support English prompts and instructions only.
• How skill sharing and Drive file permissions work in Workspace Studio: Sharing a skill from Workspace Studio gives recipients an independent copy that they can review, customize, and turn on in their own skills library (subsequent edits you make to your skill won’t overwrite copies others have already saved). If your skill references Google Drive files, you’ll also need to share access to those files with recipients.
• Skills in Workspace are separate from skills and Gems in the Gemini app: Skills created in Workspace do not sync automatically with skills or Gems in the Gemini app, and the upcoming automated migration of remaining Gems in 2027 will convert Gems to draft skills exclusively in the Gemini app — not in Workspace Studio or Workspace apps. Because both environments use the open SKILL.md format, you can manually copy instructions between the Gemini app and Workspace if you want to use a skill in both places. 
• Impact on automated Workspace Studio flows and transitioning off “Ask a Gem”: As previously announced, you can no longer add new Ask a Gem steps to flows in Workspace Studio. Visit the Help Center to learn more about replacing Gems with skills in Workspace Studio flows.

Getting started

• Admins:
• Skills in Workspace Studio and Gemini in Workspace are ON by default for eligible Google Workspace editions and can be disabled at the domain, organizational unit (OU), or group level in the Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more about allowing people to use skills in Studio and Gemini in Workspace. 
• External sharing of skills from Workspace Studio follows your organization’s Studio sharing controls in the Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more about allowing people to share skills externally.
• New with general availability, admins can monitor and audit skill activity in the Admin console using Workspace Studio log events.
• Review the Help Center guide on preparing your organization for the transition from Gems to skills.
• End users:
• Skills in Workspace are available by default (unless disabled by your admin). Create and manage skills in Google Workspace Studio, using Skill Builder in Google Docs, or by prompting Gemini directly in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat.
• Visit the Help Center to learn more about how skills work in Google Workspace Studio, using skills in Gmail, Docs, Slides, Drive, and Chat, and how the transition from Gems to skills impacts Workspace Studio flows.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 9, 2026 
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 30, 2026

Availability

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

Note that skills in Google Workspace are available only to users age 18 and older.

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Allow people to use skills in Studio and Gemini in Workspace
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Allow people to share skills externally
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Workspace Studio log events
• Google Workspace Admin Help: About the transition from Gems to skills
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Prepare for the transition to skills
• Workspace Studio Help: Learn how skills work in Google Workspace Studio
• Workspace Studio Help: How the Gems transition to skills impacts Workspace Studio flows
• Google Help: Using skills in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Chat
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Introducing skills in the Gemini app and Workspace, plus what’s next for Gems
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: An update on the launch of skills in the Gemini app and Workspace 
• Google Workspace Blog: Teach Gemini your team’s know-hows with skills in Google Workspace
• AI skills 101: Customizing AI from Google for your role
• Education Guide: Gemini Gems and Skills Transition

We’re making it faster to confirm automatically applied classification labels in Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Previously, files labeled by AI classification or default classification rules only showed a Review button in the top banner. Now, when a single label is automatically applied, users with permission to modify it see Accept and Edit buttons directly in the banner.

Selecting Accept confirms the label in a single click, while Edit opens the Labels side panel to make changes. Users can also confirm the classification from the side panel using the new Accept label button. If multiple labels are automatically applied, the banner continues to show Review so users can check them in the side panel.

Eliminating extra steps removes friction for users, making it easier to confirm automated classifications and maintain accurate label metadata across your organization.

Users can click Accept directly in the banner to confirm a single automatically applied classification label, or click Edit to review it in the Labels side panel.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no new admin control for this feature; it will be ON by default for organizations using default classification or AI classification with Drive labels. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing classification labels.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. When a single classification label is automatically applied to a file you can edit, click Accept in the banner at the top of the file (or Accept label in the Labels side panel) to confirm it, or click Edit to modify the label value. Visit the Help Center to learn more about applying and reviewing classification labels on files in Google Drive.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 9, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Education: Education Standard and Plus
• Other Editions: Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus; Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits

Note: Default classification is available on all editions listed above. AI classification is available on Enterprise Plus, Frontline Plus, and with the AI Security, or Google AI Pro for Education add-ons. 

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Apply classification labels to new files automatically
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Automatically classify files in Google Drive with AI
• Google Drive Help: Apply classification labels to files in Google Drive