Gemini Notebook now gives you more creative control over Slide Decks and Video Overviews. Instead of jumping straight to a final output, Gemini Notebook can now walk you through a step-by-step creation flow so you can steer the content further and guide the visual style and format. Get started by asking for a presentation or video in chat or by tapping on "Slide Deck" or "Video" in the Studio panel.

• Guided customization: In chat, Gemini Notebook suggests relevant focus topics, formats, and visual styles based on your sources. If you already know what you want, you can share specific instructions in your prompt and Gemini Notebook will pre-fill your selections without asking you to repeat yourself.
• Outline and producer notes review: If you turn on the Review toggle, you can preview the slide deck outline or video producer notes in the Studio panel and give written feedback before generating the final output. 
• Quick first pass: If you prefer a quick output, you can still have Gemini Notebook generate a Slide Deck or Video Overview right away without the extra review step.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Gemini Notebook on or off for users.
• End users: End users can turn on “Review outline” or “Review producer notes” to use this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about generating Video Overviews and Slide Decks in Gemini Notebook.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on October 16, 2026

Availability

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

Resources

• News from Google blog: How to shape your slides and videos with Gemini Notebook
• Gemini Notebook Help: Generate a Slide Deck in Gemini Notebook
• Gemini Notebook Help: Generate Video Overviews in Gemini Notebook

Following our original feature announcement for the web, we are excited to expand video tile pairing in Google Meet to both iOS and Android mobile devices. This update allows users to pair their video tile with another meeting participant, ensuring both tiles are displayed side-by-side for other attendees.

Tile pairing is particularly valuable for accessibility, giving participants who are Deaf or hard of hearing (HoH) the capability to pair their video tile with a sign language interpreter. By empowering users to keep both tiles visible in the same frame, regardless of who is speaking, video calls can be a more inclusive experience for all participants.

Whether you are co-presenting a session or requiring interpretation services, this mobile expansion ensures that important visual connections remain intact, even when you are on the go. Once paired, meeting participants will see both video tiles highlighted and positioned together in the meeting layout, with live captions displayed and attributed to both speakers.

Video tile pairing offers a side-by-side viewing experience for linked speakers on a mobile interface

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be ON by default and can be turned off at the OU level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing Meet settings and accessibility in Google Meet.
• End users: This feature will be ON by default and can be enabled by the user. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Android Devices
• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on October 12, 2026
• iOS Devices
• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 2, 2026

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Google Workspace admin guide to accessibility
• Google Help: Pair tiles in Google Meet
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Pair your video tile in Google Meet to improve accessibility for users with language interpreters

We’ve introduced a centralized ”customize” hub in the Gemini app, providing a single place to tailor how Gemini responds and connects with your tools. Users can discover apps and add skills to automate repetitive workflows such as adapting to your personal writing style or adhering to specific formatting guidelines. 

Bringing custom skills and connected apps together into a unified space makes it easy to discover and manage how you customize your experience when using Gemini.

The new hub includes:

• Skills: Configure custom skills and prompt preferences to tackle repetitive tasks, preserve tone and voice, or enforce specific response structures.
• Connected apps: Add more than 40 external services, as well as Google apps. You choose which apps to connect, and permissions can be audited or disconnected at any time.

Platform & regional availability:

• The ”customize” menu is rolling out globally across web, mobile, and the Gemini desktop app on Windows and macOS for all user tiers.
• Most connected apps are currently available in English in the U.S., with select apps available in additional English-speaking regions, Brazil, and India.

Getting started

• Admins: Connected apps and third-party tool integrations for Gemini can be reviewed and managed in the Admin console under Apps > Additional Google services > Gemini.
• End users: In Gemini (web, mobile, or desktop app), open the left navigation menu and select Customize to add skills, explore apps, and manage connected services.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on October 13, 2026

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Help: Customize how Gemini works and manage connected apps
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Control Gemini App access to Workspace services
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage the Marketplace app allowlist for your organization

Following the launch of teacher-led Gemini Notebook in Google Classroom, we are introducing insight summaries for educators. This update provides teachers with greater visibility into how students interact with assigned notebooks, helping gauge instructional value and inform lesson planning.

Teachers now have access to actionable insight summaries, powered by Gemini, based on student conversations with teacher-assigned notebooks. Teachers can see:

• An overall summary of how students engaged with the assigned notebook
• A sample of common themes to help inform instruction, such as common questions, areas of strength and suggested areas to support.
• Individual student chat transcripts for assigned notebooks for additional context and to confirm the accuracy of AI provided insights.

This functionality is only available for Gemini Notebooks assigned through Google Classroom, and students will see a notification in the assigned notebook informing them that their conversations in their assigned notebook are visible to their teacher.

Additionally, Google Workspace administrators can now enable external sharing for Gemini Notebook using granular controls in the Admin console, including Trusted Domains. For example, this now allows Classroom users to create and assign notebooks if teachers and students are in different domains that are designated as trusted domains, if sharing with trusted domains is enabled by admins.

Getting started

• Admins:
• Teachers must be in a group or OU with Gemini Notebook set to On in order to create and assign a notebook, and view insight summaries. Students must be in a group or OU with Gemini Notebook set to On in order to interact with an assigned notebook. Use our Help Center to learn more about turning Gemini Notebook on or off for users. 
• Gemini Notebook external sharing is OFF by default and can be controlled at the domain, OU, and group level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing Gemini Notebook sharing settings, including Trusted Domains.
• End users:
• Gemini Notebook insight summaries will be available if Gemini Notebook is enabled by your admin, and if students have interacted with an assigned Gemini Notebook.
• Use our Help Center to learn more about using Gemini Notebook in Classroom:
• For teachers: Create and assign Gemini Notebook in Google Classroom
• For students: Use Gemini Notebook in Google Classroom (for students)
• Insight summaries are rolling out for Google Workspace for Education users. This feature will be made available for Gemini LTI™ users in the coming weeks.

Rollout pace

• Insight summaries: Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on October 19, 2026
• External sharing for Gemini Notebook using granular controls in the Admin console: Available now 

Availability

• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

Resources

• News from Google: Building AI tailored for education, with educators in the lead
• Google Classroom Help: Create and assign Gemini Notebooks in Google Classroom
• Google Classroom Help: Use Gemini Notebook in Google Classroom (for students)

We’re introducing a new way to analyze BigQuery data in Google Sheets. After connecting to BigQuery data with Connected Sheets, you can use Gemini to interact and analyze that data conversationally, right in Google Sheets. Gemini queries run against the full dataset in BigQuery, not just what’s visible in your spreadsheet. This means users can now ask questions on, analyze, and create views over super large data sets. Key use cases include:

• Ask questions in natural language: Ask something like “What were total sales in the Northeast last quarter?” and get an answer based on your complete BigQuery data.
• Dig deeper with follow-ups: Keep the conversation going with questions like “How does that compare to the same quarter last year?” or “Which products drove the increase?”

Ask Gemini to analyze and pull insights from your largest datasets in BigQuery

• Go from analysis to dashboard: Describe what you need, such as “Build a quarterly sales review with revenue by region, a monthly trend, and our top 10 products.” Gemini will share its plan for you to review, then build a new spreadsheet tab with native, connected, refreshable objects like database formulas, pivot tables, and charts.

Gemini can create connected charts, pivot tables, and dashboards that are always up to date with scheduled refreshes

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources