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Two new functions in Google Sheets

We are adding two new functions to Google Sheets, =SHEET and =SHEETS. These additions help users manage and reference spreadsheets with multiple tabs more effectively. | Learn more about two new functions in Google Sheets.

New internal and external membership classifications for Google Groups

To ensure better data security, starting in Q2 2026, Google Groups will launch stricter internal and external classifications on group memberships. | Learn more about internal and external membership classifications for Google Groups.

Save PDFs to your Google Drive

On Chrome on your computer, you can now save PDFs directly to Drive without leaving the page, and easily get back to them later in the “Saved from Chrome” folder. | Learn more about saving PDFs to your Google Drive.

Get quantitative insights from text responses with Gemini in Google Forms

Last year, we announced proactive Gemini-generated insights in Forms for short answer and paragraph questions helping form creators summarize responses to longer questions and quickly understand sentiment and feedback. | Learn more about quantitative insights from text responses with Gemini in Google Forms.

New cartoon avatars in Google Vids

AI avatars in Google Vids provide a fast, cost-effective way to generate high-quality digital speakers. While photorealistic avatars are ideal for formal business, we are introducing new 2D and 3D cartoon-styled avatars that utilize expressive, stylized features.| Learn more about new cartoon avatars in Google Vids.

AI avatars and AI voiceovers in Google Vids now available in seven new languages

Google Vids is thrilled to announce that AI avatars and voiceovers now support more than just English. Users can now provide input in seven additional languages: French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese. | Learn more about AI avatars and AI voiceovers in Google Vids, available in seven new languages.

Sending larger attachments in Gmail: New 50MB limits for Enterprise Plus customers

We are introducing a significant enhancement to Gmail’s storage and delivery capabilities for Enterprise Plus customers. To support seamless collaboration and high-fidelity file sharing, we are increasing the file size limits for both sending and receiving emails. | Learn more about the new limits for Enterprise Plus customers in Gmail.

Google Chat now available as a data source in Gemini app

We’re excited to announce that Google Chat is now available as a data source in the Gemini app for Workspace customers, joining Gmail, Google Drive, and other Workspace apps. | Learn more about Google Chat as a data source in Gemini app.

Expanded duration limits in Google Vids

We are increasing the duration limits for Google Vids projects, recordings and imported media clips, giving you more flexibility to create comprehensive video content. | Learn more about expanded duration limits in Google Vids.

Introducing a new video player experience in Google Drive on iOS devices

Last year, we announced a smoother, more modern video player in the Google Drive Android app. This updated look and feel is now available when watching Drive videos on your iOS devices. | Learn more about the video player experience in Google Drive on iOS devices.

Gemini conversation history is coming to the side panel in Google Workspace

Conversation history is coming to the Gemini side panel in Google Workspace apps. This feature will enable users to resume their conversations with Gemini across sessions. | Learn more about Gemini conversation history in the side panel.

Introducing Nano Banana 2 in the Gemini app

Starting today, we’re rolling out Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), our best image model yet, to Workspace customers in the Gemini app. | Learn more about Nano Banana 2 in the Gemini app.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.
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Update (March 31, 2026): We updated this article to reflect that image generation with Nano Banana 2 is now also available to users who are under 18 years of age. Image editing with Nano Banana 2 is still currently only available to users who are 18 years or older.

Starting today, we’re rolling out Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), our best image model yet, to Workspace customers in the Gemini app.

Nano Banana 2, which replaces our previous Nano Banana model, brings the high-speed intelligence of Gemini Flash to visual generation, making once-exclusive Pro features accessible to a wider audience, including:

  • Advanced world knowledge: Nano Banana 2 pulls from the Gemini model’s real-world knowledge base and is powered by real-time information and images from web search to more accurately render specific subjects. This deep understanding also empowers you to create infographics, turn notes into diagrams, and generate data visualizations.
  • Production-ready specs: Make attention-grabbing assets with full control over aspect ratios and resolutions—ranging from 1K for free and 2K for paid users. Your visuals will stay sharp and perfectly sized, whether you are generating a vertical social media Story or a wide-screen presentation backdrop.
  • Precision text rendering and translation: Generate accurate, legible text for infographics or marketing mockups. Users can even translate and localize text within an image to share your ideas globally.
Nano Banana 2 also dramatically closes the gap between speed and beauty, delivering high-fidelity, photorealistic imagery. Here’s what our newest model offers and has improved on from the original Nano Banana:

  • Subject consistency: Maintain character resemblance of up to five characters and the fidelity of up to ten objects in a single workflow in the Gemini app, allowing you to storyboard and build narratives without altering the appearance of your inputs.
  • Precise instruction following: With enhanced instruction following, the model adheres more strictly to your complex requests, capturing the specific nuances of your idea so the image you get is the image you asked for.
  • Visual fidelity upgrade: Nano Banana 2 delivers vibrant lighting, richer textures, and sharper details, maintaining high-quality aesthetics at the speed expected from Flash.

Getting started

  • Admins: There are no admin controls for this feature.
  • End users: Visit the Help Center for more information on generating images in Gemini.

Rollout pace

Availability

Nano Banana 2 will replace Nano Banana Pro across the Fast, Thinking and Pro models for Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts who are signed in to the Gemini app.

Workspace users who have had access to Nano Banana Pro will keep access to Nano Banana Pro for specialized tasks by regenerating images via the three-dot menu.

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Conversation history is coming to the Gemini side panel in Google Workspace apps. This feature will enable users to resume their conversations with Gemini across sessions. This history will only persist in a single app and conversations will remain private. For example, a conversation in the side panel of Google Docs will not appear in the side panel of Google Sheets, and a conversation in the side panel of a shared file will not be visible to other users with access to that file.

Timeline
  • As of February 25, 2026: Admin controls for conversation history are available. See below for more details and recommended actions.
  • Starting March 3, 2026: Conversation history will start rolling out to end users participating in the Gemini Alpha and Workspace Labs programs, as well as users with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions.
  • No sooner than March 17, 2026: Conversation history will begin rolling out to all other Workspace users. We’ll provide an update on this blog before that rollout begins.
Accessing conversation history in the side panel of Google Drive
Deletion controls
This launch includes two new controls for administrators to ensure conversation data management aligns with organizational policies: the ability to decide if users can manually delete their history and the ability to set automated retention periods to manage the data lifecycle effectively. These settings can be configured at the domain, organizational unit, or group level.

This launch does not include Vault support or the ability for end users to auto-delete conversations; we’ll roll these features out in the future. Stay tuned to the Workspace Updates blog for more details when these features launch.

Getting started

  • Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn how to manage Gemini in Workspace conversation history for your organization using the settings below.
    • Manual deletion: This setting is ON by default, meaning end users can manually delete individual conversations unless the setting is changed.
    • Auto-deletion: Conversations are stored indefinitely by default, unless admins enable auto-deletion. If enabled, admins can choose to delete inactive chats after three months, 18 months, or three years.
  • End users: Once the feature is live, users can access their history within the Gemini side panel of the specific app they are using.
    • History will only begin to populate once the feature is live for a specific user; conversations held prior to the rollout will not be saved.
    • Users must have smart features and personalization turned on to access Gemini in Workspace services.
    • Conversations remain private; users can only view their own individual history.
    • Depending on the admin settings above, users may be able to manually delete individual conversations.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus
  • Education: Education Plus
  • Other Add-ons: Teaching & Learning
  • AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
Note: Gemini in Workspace is currently available to users over the age of 18 with eligible Google Workspace plans.

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Last year, we announced a smoother, more modern video player in the Google Drive Android app. This updated look and feel is now available when watching Drive videos on your iOS devices.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
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We are increasing the duration limits for Google Vids projects, recordings and imported media clips, giving you more flexibility to create comprehensive video content.

  • Vids projects: The maximum length for any Vids project is now 30 minutes, up from 10 minutes previously.
  • Recordings: The maximum length for any video or audio clip created directly in the Vids recording studio is now 30 minutes.
  • Imports: You can now import video or audio clips up to 95 minutes in length (or up to 4 GB in file size). 
Note: While you can import clips up to 95 minutes, you must edit them down to 30 minutes or shorter within Vids to unlock full editing capabilities for that clip.

Why it matters
As video becomes a primary tool for sharing knowledge at work, we want to ensure you have the space to tell your story without technical interruptions. These expanded limits are particularly useful for:

  • Admins: This update reduces the need for users to pre-edit or compress large video files before bringing them into Workspace, ensuring a smoother workflow and better protection for sensitive organizational data within the Vids environment.
  • End users: Whether you are recording a deep-dive training session, a lengthy project post-mortem, or importing a recorded town hall meeting for highlights, these higher limits allow you to capture more context in a single take.

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.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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We’re excited to announce that Google Chat is now available as a data source in the Gemini app (gemini.google.com) for Workspace customers, joining Gmail, Google Drive, and other Workspace apps. Like other Workspace connected apps in Gemini, Google Chat will be default off and can be enabled in your settings. If enabled, Gemini will be able to cross-reference your conversations in Chat to provide more informed, context-aware responses directly within your workflow.

By incorporating Google Chat into Gemini via the existing connection to Workspace apps, you can now ask Gemini to help you retrieve specific project details, summarize missed discussions, and surface information buried in your message history directly within the Gemini app.

Key capabilities include:

  • Information retrieval: Quickly find specific details, such as "Who’s the marketing lead for Project Clover?"
  • Project tracking: Ask Gemini, "What's the latest deadline mentioned for Project X?" to find dates directly from recent team discussions.
  • Quick summaries: Use prompts like "Summarize my unread chat messages from today" to get a high-level overview of what you missed.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the OU or Group level. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
  • End users: Once enabled by an admin, users can connect Google Chat to summarize and find information directly in Gemini. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Frontline Starter and Standard
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits

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We are introducing a significant enhancement to Gmail’s storage and delivery capabilities for Enterprise Plus customers. To support seamless collaboration and high-fidelity file sharing, we are increasing the file size limits for both sending and receiving emails.

  • Sending larger files: Users can now attach files up to 50MB directly to an email (doubling the previous 25MB limit). This allows users to send large presentations, comprehensive spreadsheets, and high-resolution PDFs as direct attachments without needing to upload them to Google Drive first.
  • Receiving larger files: We are increasing the total incoming message size limit to 70MB to also support large messages and attachments. This ensures that your organization can successfully receive larger emails from external senders, improving interoperability with other email platforms.
We know that today's workflows often involve sharing data-rich files. This new update compliments our existing functionality that allows users to upload to Google Drive and share a link. While Drive is excellent for collaboration, sometimes a direct attachment is the preferred method for external partners, clients, or regulatory workflows.

This update directly addresses two key areas of friction by:

  • Streamlining workflow: Users can now simply drag and drop files up to 50MB into their draft window. This reduces context switching and saves time when sharing final versions of documents.
  • Improving interoperability: Users who collaborate with partners who are unable to use Drive can now leverage attachments for these larger files, ensuring these critical communications are available regardless of the recipient.
This feature is admin configurable, giving admins more control over your organization's bandwidth and storage policies.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Google Workspace Enterprise Plus

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Google Vids is thrilled to announce that AI avatars and voiceovers now support more than just English. Users can now provide input in seven additional languages: French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese. The specific details of each feature are outlined below.

AI avatars

AI avatars in Google Vids enable simple generation of high-quality speakers, preferred five times more often than those on other platforms. Today we’re excited to announce that avatars, previously available only in English, can speak seven additional languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Korean, and Japanese.

Anyone can create an avatar video in minutes, saving on both cost and time. Use avatars in scenarios like:

    1. Pitch global clients: Introduce new features to global clients with avatars in their native language.
    2. Educate a global workforce: Update global employees about a new training requirement in Q1.
Avatar generation in Google Vids

AI voiceovers

AI Voiceovers in Google Vids allow users to generate realistic narration for their videos by selecting from a range of different presets. Instead of recording their own voice, users can type a script and the feature will return a high-quality voiceover.

Just like avatars, AI voiceovers are now available in seven new languages (in addition to English): Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Korean, and Japanese.

AI voiceover generation in Google Vids

Note: If the script contains multi-language script input, the feature will return a voiceover in the supported language that’s used most in the script.

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about AI avatars and voiceovers.

Note: Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher usage limits of Veo 3.1 avatars in Vids, allowing users to experiment with these features. Per-user usage limits will apply afterward; we’ll provide more information in a future update prior to any changes.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Starter **, Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Starter **, Standard and Plus
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits**
  • [Voiceovers only] Education Fundamentals and Standard
  • Education Plus and Teaching and Learning add-on**
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on
  • [Voiceovers only] Users with personal Google accounts
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra
**For a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, Nonprofit, Education Plus, and Teaching and Learning add-on accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability.

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AI avatars in Google Vids provide a fast, cost-effective way to generate high-quality digital speakers. While photorealistic avatars are ideal for formal business, we are introducing new 2D and 3D cartoon-styled avatars that utilize expressive, stylized features to enhance emotional resonance and create a more approachable, universally engaging experience.

  New 2D cartoon stylized avatars

  New 3D cartoon stylized avatars

Why use cartoon avatars?

Previously, users in educational or casual settings were limited to professional, photorealistic options. These new styles allow you to:

  • Increase Engagement: Keep students focused on educational assignments, such as explaining complex math concepts.
  • Lighten the Tone: Use "fun recaps" to summarize project results with a more approachable, lighthearted character.
  • Broaden Your Reach: Connect with diverse audiences across different age groups and backgrounds.

Getting started

  • Admins: No action required; there is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: Access these new styles directly in the Vids avatar panel. For more details, visit the Help Center.
Note: Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher usage limits of Veo 3.1 avatars in Vids, allowing users to experiment with these features. Per-user usage limits will apply afterward; we’ll provide more information in a future update prior to any changes.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Starter **, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise Starter **, Standard, and Plus
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits**
  • Education Plus and Teaching and Learning add-on**
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra
**For a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, Nonprofit, Education Plus, and Teaching and Learning add-on accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability.

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Last year, we announced proactive Gemini-generated insights in Forms for short answer and paragraph questions helping form creators summarize responses to longer questions and quickly understand sentiment and feedback.

Today, we are enhancing that experience to show quantitative insights about percentage and count of responses across different themes in text responses. This feature leverages AI function in Sheets to categorize responses to quickly get deeper and more actionable insights.

Gemini shows percentage of different themes in responses to a text question in a market research survey

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: Form editors will see an option to “Show theme percentages” for text responses in their Google Forms. When a user clicks on “Show theme percentages", Gemini will categorize responses into themes. The form editor can view the count of text responses in different themes and view a chart to show the percentage of responses across the different themes. Visit the Help Center to learn more about summarizing and analyzing form responses with Gemini.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus

  • Enterprise Standard and Plus

  • AI Ultra Access

  • AI Expanded Access

  • Google AI Pro for Education

  • Google One AI Pro

  • Google One AI Ultra

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On Chrome on your computer, you can now save PDFs directly to Drive without leaving the page, and easily get back to them later in the “Saved from Chrome” folder. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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To ensure better data security, starting in Q2 2026, Google Groups will launch stricter internal and external classifications on group memberships. Groups with the Allow members outside your organization setting disabled will be limited only to members of your organization.

Currently, groups with the Allow members outside your organization setting disabled can still have external members (added via an admin, via a nested external group, or by changing the group from external to internal, which does not remove existing external members). After this change, this behavior will no longer be supported.

To prevent disruption, existing groups with the Allow members outside your organization setting disabled that currently include external members will be automatically updated to a new configuration. These groups will be reclassified as external, but configured so that only admins can add external users (preventing end users from doing so).

Additionally, this change will impact multiple UI and API areas within Google Workspace, including:

  • Google Groups (and its usage in other apps like Gmail, Chat, and Calendar)
  • Admin console
  • APIs (Cloud Identity, Admin SDK Directory API, Groups Settings API)

Getting started

  • Admins: If you use the Cloud Identity or Admin SDK Directory API to create new groups intended for external members, you may experience script errors if you don’t update your settings. Currently, Groups created via API default to allowExternalMembers=False and admins can add external members to these groups without triggering an error. When this new behavior goes into effect, if you attempt to add external members to a group classified as internal (the default setting), the API will reject the request and your script will return an error. We recommend updating your scripts using the GroupsSettings API now.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • All Google Workspace customers

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We are adding two new functions to Google Sheets, =SHEET and =SHEETS. These additions help users manage and reference spreadsheets with multiple tabs more effectively. 

The new functions operate as follows:

  • =SHEET(value): Returns the sheet number of a specified sheet name or reference. If the argument is omitted, it returns the number of the sheet containing the function.
  • =SHEETS(): Returns the number of all sheets in the spreadsheet.
Please note that the =SHEETS function in Google Sheets does not accept arguments (such as a range of tabs). Formulas containing arguments for this function will result in an error. 

These functions allow you to perform calculations based on the structure of your spreadsheet. Both functions are dynamic and will recalculate when a sheet is added, deleted, moved, or renamed within a document. This ensures your data analysis remains accurate even as the organization of your spreadsheet changes. 

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: Use =SHEET() or =SHEETS() in any Sheets document to get started with the feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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View Gemini feature usage and threshold reports in the Admin console

Today, we’re releasing new adoption and usage metrics to our Gemini reports in the Admin console. These new reports offer administrators comprehensive visibility into AI feature usage and thresholds to help them better manage their Workspace subscription and Gemini adoption. This includes usage data by features, apps, and active users. | Learn more about Gemini feature usage and threshold reports in the Admin console.

Improvements to local administrative access controls on Windows devices

We are updating the administrative privileges setting for Windows device management to give administrators more control over how local administrative access is handled on Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices, managed by Google Endpoint Management. This update simplifies settings and provides greater flexibility for organizations that need to preserve local admin access while managing specific users via Google Workspace. | Learn more about Improvements to local administrative access controls on Windows devices.

Forecast data in Connected Sheets using BigQuery ML and TimesFM

We are introducing a new capability in Connected Sheets for BigQuery that allows users to generate data forecasts directly within Google Sheets using the power of BigQuery ML (BQML) and Google’s state-of-the-art TimesFM model. | Learn more about Forecast data in Connected Sheets using BigQuery ML and TimesFM.

Create custom soundtracks with Lyria 3 in the Gemini app

Using text-based or image prompting, you can now generate custom 30 second soundtracks in Gemini. This new capability is powered by Lyria 3, Google’s most advanced music generation model yet. | Learn more about how to Create custom soundtracks with Lyria 3 in the Gemini app.

New user controls for Take notes for me

We are introducing more ways meeting hosts and participants can view and control “Take notes for me” in Google Meet. | Learn more about New user controls for Take notes for me.

New 'Take notes for me' configuration in the Admin console for select Gemini Alpha customers

To help users remember to get notes for meetings where it is most valuable, we are developing new settings for ‘Take notes for me’ that lets users and admins pre-configure AI note taking. | Learn more about New 'Take notes for me' configuration in the Admin console for select Gemini Alpha customers.

Educators can now get help drafting personalized guidance on written assignments with AI-suggested feedback in Google Classroom

We’re introducing AI-suggested feedback for written assignments in Google Classroom, a new feature designed to help educators provide high-quality, personalized support to their students more efficiently. | Learn more about how Educators can now get help drafting personalized guidance on written assignments with AI-suggested feedback in Google Classroom.

Manage permission to edit group details and changes to groups settings

We’re introducing a new permission in Google Groups: "Who can modify group details." This update allows group owners and managers to grant specific roles the ability to edit a group's name and description. | Learn more about to Manage permission to edit group details and changes to groups settings.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.
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We’re introducing a new permission in Google Groups: "Who can modify group details." This update allows group owners and managers to grant specific roles the ability to edit a group's name and description.

Previously, the ability to edit a group’s name and description was limited to the owner and manager roles. This meant that if an owner wanted a member to be able to update the name or description, they had to grant that member manager status, which included a broader set of additional permissions.

With this launch, "Who can modify group details" is now a standalone, configurable permission. Group owners and managers can now precisely control who can update these details, choosing from owners, managers, or all members of the group.

Additionally, as part of this launch, all group members will be able to see the groups settings page, however the ability to edit it will continue to depend on the groups permissions and the users role.

The new setting: “Who can modify group details”

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This feature will be set to “Group owners and managers” by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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[Update] As of March 30, 2026, this rollout is complete.

We’re introducing AI-suggested feedback for written assignments in Google Classroom, a new feature designed to help educators provide high-quality, personalized support to their students more efficiently. Educators can now generate suggestions from Gemini to draft feedback that is specifically tailored to a student's work, grade level, and any specific focus area designated by the educator.

Educators have shared that personalized feedback is critical for closing learning gaps, yet it is often one of the most time-consuming tasks. By using AI to assist in drafting these comments, teachers can:

  • Manage workloads effectively: Get support in significantly reducing the hours spent giving input on written assignments.
  • Enhance student growth: Deliver the timely, specific feedback students need to build stronger self-reflection and evaluation skills.
  • Prioritize personalization efficiency: Use Gemini’s drafts as a starting point to provide high-level, empathetic guidance that might otherwise be difficult to scale across large classes.
When giving feedback in private comments on assignments in Google Classroom, educators can select “Help me write” to have Gemini suggest written feedback for the assignment. Teachers can then review, edit, and refine before sharing with students, ensuring teachers remain in control of the guidance provided while reducing the time spent on writing manual feedback.

By highlighting a student's strengths and identifying specific areas for improvement, this feature empowers educators to do their best work while ensuring every student feels heard and supported.


Additional details
This feature is a part of Gemini in Google Classroom. Gemini in Classroom is only available in English for education users over the age of 18.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available for Google Workspace for Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning add-on

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*Note: This update only applies to customers who participate in the Gemini Alpha program for Workspace.

To help users remember to get notes for meetings where it is most valuable, we are developing new settings for ‘Take notes for me’ that lets users and admins pre-configure AI note taking. For organizations in the Gemini Alpha, we will soon begin testing a new setting in Google Meet that will automatically enable Take notes for me for meetings with three or more participants.

This setting will be on by default for organizations in the Gemini Alpha program. Admins can disable it at any time, as soon as they see the new setting in their admin console.




This setting may be visible to customers broadly, but it will only be functional for customers participating in the Gemini Alpha program.

In addition to this test, we are also introducing more ways hosts and participants can control Take notes for me. Soon, all customers—regardless of whether they are in the Gemini Alpha program—will see the ability to turn off "Take notes for me" directly from the green room before joining a call. See this post for more details on the new controls



Getting started

  • Admins: This new setting will be on by default for organizations in the Gemini Alpha starting no sooner than March 11th. Admins can opt out of this experience starting now by going to the Google Meet Admin Console, going to Gemini settings, and adjusting the value under “Automatic note-taking” to “OFF”.
  • End users: End users in the Gemini Alpha program can opt out of this experience when they see the new setting (no sooner than March 11) by visiting their user settings in Meet (gear icon in top right), clicking “Meeting Records” and adjusting the drop-down to “OFF”. If an admin enables the setting for their organization but a user disables the setting, any meeting set by the individual user will have Take notes for me OFF by default.

Rollout pace

  • Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains:
    • Admin setting: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 18, 2026
    • New functionality to Gemini Alpha customers: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting no sooner than March 11, 2026

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education add-on
  • Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus
*Note: This setting may be visible to customers broadly, but it will only be functional for customers participating in the Gemini Alpha program.

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Update (March 17, 2026): The rollout to Rapid Release domains now complete and the rollout to Scheduled Release domains has begun. We expect it to be complete within the next few days.

We are introducing more ways meeting hosts and participants can view and control “Take notes for me” in Google Meet.

When participants join a call in Google Meet, they are first directed to a green room. In the green room, participants now see a more prominent notice when “Take notes for me” is enabled for a meeting they are about to join.

Additionally, eligible users can now turn off "Take notes for me" and transcription directly from the green room before joining a call that has yet to start. If the call has started, users can still stop or start notes at any time during the call.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education
  • Frontline Plus

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Using text-based or image prompting, you can now generate custom 30 second soundtracks in Gemini. This new capability is powered by Lyria 3, Google’s most advanced music generation model yet.

The Gemini app facilitates new forms of musical expression by transforming prompts and images into custom soundtracks. A user might, for instance, turn a “welcome to the team” email into a track. Or, a student or educator could generate custom instrumentals for class presentations or projects. From funny jingles to lo-fi beats, just describe what you want to hear and let Gemini handle the rest.


Note: Lyria 3 music generation in Gemini is currently available globally in English, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French for users over the age of 18.

Getting started

  • Admins: The Gemini app and related in-app tools are controlled by the Generative AI settings in the Workspace Admin console. Music generation in Gemini is subject to these existing controls. Visit the Help Center for more information on turning the Gemini app on or off.
  • End users: End users who have access to the Gemini app will receive access to Lyria 3 automatically. To get started, select “Create music” from the tools menu.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts who are 18 years or older and signed in to the Gemini app

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We are introducing a new capability in Connected Sheets for BigQuery that allows users to generate data forecasts directly within Google Sheets using the power of BigQuery ML (BQML) and Google’s state-of-the-art TimesFM model. Users can now predict future sales, demand volume, or other key business metrics without needing to write SQL, use Python, or customize and train their own models.

This feature is designed for simplicity and speed. TimesFM’s powerful foundation model is pre-trained on billions of data points from real-world datasets, enabling business users to generate sophisticated predictions on their data immediately without the complex, time-consuming training pipelines typically associated with machine learning.

Key features include:

  • Simple configuration: Forecasts can be created from any existing BigQuery dataset or custom query using a user-friendly configuration pane in the Sheets UIl.
  • Customizable parameters: Users can adjust forecast parameters, such as the prediction horizon for how far into the future the user wants to predict and confidence intervals, or use our default options to get started.
  • Granular analysis: The feature supports breakouts by any given data dimension, allowing users to run multiple time series forecasts simultaneously (e.g., forecasting sales broken down by region or product category).
  • Visual insights: For single time series forecasts, Sheets automatically generates a helpful chart visualizing the forecast alongside historical data.

Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: Create a Connected Sheet. On the Preview view, click on “Advanced Analytics” and then “Create a Forecast”. 

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Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts 
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We are updating the administrative privileges setting for Windows device management to give administrators more control over how local administrative access is handled on Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices, managed by Google Endpoint Management.

This update simplifies settings and provides greater flexibility for organizations that need to preserve local admin access while managing specific users via Google Workspace. Previously, managing local administrative access used a "Replace" behavior, which removed any existing members from the local administrators group before adding the newly requested ones.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Cloud Identity Premium
  • Education Standard and Plus
  • Endpoint Education add-on

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Today, we’re releasing new adoption and usage metrics to our Gemini reports in the Admin console. These new reports offer administrators comprehensive visibility into AI feature usage and thresholds to help them better manage their Workspace subscription and Gemini adoption. This includes usage data by features, apps, and active users.

With these new metrics, administrators can better understand how users are engaging with Gemini features across Workspace apps. Admins can use this information to make decisions on AI enablement, adoption, and productivity for their organizations. This data also offers insight into when they may need to adjust their Workspace subscriptions and plan for potential upgrades when users have reached their maximum AI usage thresholds.

Gemini usage report in the Admin console that shows per-feature data on active users and users at the limit


User-level Gemini usage report in the Admin console that shows data across apps and overall activity

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and Workspace Individual subscribers

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