Captions in Google Vids are now fully customizable. Until now, captions came in a set style. You can now change their font and typography, where they sit on screen, and how they animate, so they match your brand or the look of your video.

Captions make videos easier to follow when the sound is off or when viewers prefer to read along. Captions that look good help your video catch people's attention on social feeds and in company channels. They also make it look finished and ready to share.

Increased customization options for captions can help:

• Marketing and social teams: Match captions to brand fonts and colors for social ads and promo videos. 
• Creators: Add animated, eye-catching captions to make short videos more engaging.

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

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, Plus and Base
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Plus and Ultra
• Other Editions: Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus; Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Individual; Nonprofits
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Resources

• Google Help: Make your document, presentation, sheets & videos more accessible
• Google Help: Add captions to a video

We are upgrading the underlying text-to-speech (TTS) engine powering AI voiceovers and avatar narration in Google Vids to the latest Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS model.

High-quality voiceover is essential for compelling video communication. With this model upgrade, Google Vids creators will experience:

• Superior Naturalness & Inflection: Improved sentence flow, lifelike pacing, and context-aware emphasis that reduces robotic cadences.
• Fast Generation Latency: Rapid audio synthesis allows you to iterate on scripts and preview voiceovers in real time.

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

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Education: Education Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Other Editions: Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Individual; Nonprofits
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Resources

• Google Help: Create voiceovers with AI in Google Vids

Use AI to supercharge your financial analysis with Workday for Google Sheets

Use AI to supercharge your financial analysis with Workday for Google Sheets Google Sheets Rapid Release Scheduled Release Workday for Google Sheets is a new add-on available in the Google Workspace Marketplace that connects Workday Adaptive Planning directly to Google Sheets and Slides. Deeply integrated with the AI-powered “Ask Workday” feature in Adaptive Planning, this add-on eliminates the need for manual CSV downloads. | Learn more.

New manual calculation setting in Google Sheets

We’re introducing a new manual calculation setting in Google Sheets to give you precise control over when formulas and other references update. The new manual calculation setting allows editors of complex or data-dense spreadsheets to pause automatic recalculation, batch their edits, and trigger a sheet-wide update at the exact moment they are ready to review the results. | Learn more.

Study notebooks in Gemini are now available for Google Workspace accounts

Now, we’re excited to share that users of all ages who are signed into a school or work-issued Google account will also have access to study notebooks if the Gemini app and Gemini Notebook are enabled by their admin. | Learn more.

Manually reorder and custom sort pivot tables in Google Sheets

Google Sheets now supports custom sorting and manual reordering in pivot tables. Users can now drag and drop rows and columns on a pivot table to match specific presentation needs and custom business hierarchies, rather than being restricted to standard ascending or descending alphanumeric order. | Learn more.

Introducing the new Confluence integration with Google Chat

Confluence by Atlassian is designed  for teams to store and share ideas, docs, and knowledge. Workspace customers can now use Confluence for Google Chat to bring relevant project context and information from Confluence directly into Chat conversations. This integration, which is part of the Atlassian add-on, enables teams to work more effectively by connecting real-time collaboration with source-of-truth documentation. | Learn more.

Quick notes in Take notes for me

Introducing Quick notes – high-level overview of main takeaways from your meetings that empowers you to quickly review essential information without diving into every single detail. Designed specifically for the efficient consumption of knowledge, the content fits onto a single page and is strictly limited to the most important meeting action items, outcomes, and talking points. It is built primarily for executive users, or anyone less involved in the deep details, who needs to extract information as fast as possible. | Learn more.

New Google Meet 'Take notes for me' settings for admins and end users take effect September 29th

Previously, we announced new admin and end user settings for Google Meet ‘Take notes for me’ pre-configuration. These settings will begin to take effect September 29th. | Learn more.

Occupancy counting now available for Google Meet on Logitech room hardware

Occupancy counting is now available for Android-based Logitech Gen 2 room hardware (starting with Logitech Rally Board 65) to help measure how meeting rooms are used. This feature brings the same occupancy counting capabilities found on ChromeOS devices to Android-based hardware. Support for occupancy counting will be added next year for earlier Gen 1 devices later as part of an upcoming CollabOS update. | Learn more.

Seamlessly import your emails from any IMAP server to Google Workspace

We’re excited to announce the GA release of a new, simplified way for Workspace admins to import their past emails from any IMAP-based email provider while setting up Google Workspace. | Learn more.

Ground AI prompts in Google Docs on existing sources from Gemini Notebook

We are introducing the ability to use Gemini Notebook as a context source in Google Docs. Building on our Workspace Intelligence foundation, this feature bridges the gap between deep research and content creation by grounding your drafts in a curated knowledge base – all without the need to switch tabs or copy-paste between tools. | Learn more.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash now in Vids with improved extension quality, 1080p, and duration control

Users now have access to Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash directly within Google Vids. Omni 1.1 provides higher quality video extension with significant improvements in character and audio consistency. Additionally, Vids now supports generating AI videos and upscaling AI videos to 1080p to be publish ready. | Learn more.

Assign temporary administrator roles in the Google Admin console

Admins can now assign administrator roles to users, groups, or service accounts for a defined period of time. Once the expiration time is reached, the access granted by the role is automatically revoked. | Learn more.

Now in beta: Import and convert your PowerPoint files to client-side encrypted Slides

Eligible customers can now import PowerPoint files as client-side encrypted (CSE) Slides, allowing users to access and edit content. This enables interoperability with Microsoft Office, with this launch PowerPoint files are encrypted on the client before the content is imported to Workspace, and then converted to high-fidelity encrypted Slides. | Learn more.

View up to three time zones in Google Calendar on the web

We’re making it easier to schedule and coordinate meetings across global teams by expanding time zone support in Google Calendar on the web. You can now configure and display up to three time zones—a primary, secondary, and new tertiary time zone—directly on your calendar grid. Previously, users could only display a primary and secondary time zone. | Learn more.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Update (October 1, 2026): This post has been updated to reflect a change in rollout schedule:

- Rapid Release domains will now see an extended rollout, expected to complete by October 13 (previously expected to complete October 9)

- Scheduled Release domains will see a full rollout starting on October 18 and expected to complete by October 22 (previously expected to complete by October 15).

We’re making it easier to schedule and coordinate meetings across global teams by expanding time zone support in Google Calendar on the web. You can now configure and display up to three time zones—a primary, secondary, and new tertiary time zone—directly on your calendar grid. Previously, users could only display a primary and secondary time zone.

Whether you’re an executive assistant managing complex calendars for leaders across regions, a project manager coordinating global launches, or a team member working with colleagues in San Francisco, New York, and Zurich, viewing three time zones at once reduces scheduling friction and eliminates manual time conversions.

• Main calendar grid (Day, Week, and Custom multi-day views): View up to three labeled time zone columns side-by-side along the left side of your calendar grid to compare local working hours at a glance.
• Find a Time view while scheduling: When creating or editing events in “Find a Time”, Calendar displays up to three time zones.
• Custom labels: Add custom labels (such as "SFO", "NYC", or "ZRH") to each of your three display time zones in Settings to easily identify them on the grid.

View up to three time zones side-by-side on Google Calendar on the web

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Google Calendar in different time zones.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility)  starting on September 25, expected to complete by October 13
• Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on October 19

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Help: Use Google Calendar in different time zones