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2255 updates to Google tracked so far. Most recent: 2026-11-10 — Skills in Google Workspace are rolling out across Workspace Studio and Workspace apps, letting teams create, test, share, and invoke reusable custom AI instructions in Gmail, Docs, Slides, Drive, and Chat.
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2026-11-10Other
Skills in Google Workspace are rolling out across Workspace Studio and Workspace apps, letting teams create, test, share, and invoke reusable custom AI instructions in Gmail, Docs, Slides, Drive, and Chat.
Google Workspace is rolling out skills—reusable, custom instructions that guide Gemini to apply team rules, templates, and reference files—across Workspace Studio and Workspace apps. Users can build skills from scratch or templates in Workspace Studio, draft them in Google Docs, create and edit them in context within Gmail, Docs, Slides, Drive, and Chat, and invoke them automatically or via @mention. Skills can also trigger Workspace Studio flows. The rollout begins November 9, 2026 for Rapid Release domains and November 30, 2026 for Scheduled Release domains, with gradual visibility over up to 15 days for each track.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-11-09 • Scheduled: 2026-11-30 -
2026-11-09Content & Collaboration
Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides now display Accept and Edit buttons in the top banner to quickly confirm single system-applied classification labels.
Google is 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; now, when a single label is automatically applied, users with permission to modify it see Accept and Edit buttons directly in the banner. Accept confirms the label in one click, while Edit opens the Labels side panel. A new Accept label button is also available in the side panel. If multiple labels are automatically applied, the banner continues to show Review. The feature is ON by default for eligible editions and begins gradual rollout on November 9, 2026, for both Rapid and Scheduled Release domains.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-11-09 • Scheduled: 2026-11-09 -
2026-11-05Content & Collaboration
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash now in Google Vids with 15-second generations and improved quality
Users now have access to Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash directly within Google Vids. Omni 1.2 provides longer duration videos up to 15 seconds and improved quality resulting in higher character consistency and vocal realism. Users can customize clip duration from 3-15 seconds, benefit from improved reference consistency for characters or products, and enjoy greater speaker variety with wider dynamic ranges.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-11-05 • Scheduled: 2026-11-05 -
2026-11-05Content & Collaboration
Gemini-powered actionable insights in Google Forms analyze responses, uncover trends, and recommend next steps.
Google Forms is introducing actionable insights powered by Gemini, allowing users to generate insights directly from the Responses tab. Gemini analyzes responses by writing and running Python code to ground findings like counts, percentages, and comparisons in actual response data, spots patterns and cross-question correlations, summarizes key takeaways, and suggests recommended next steps for use cases such as event and product feedback, research surveys, and registration or application forms.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-11-02 • Scheduled: 2026-11-19 -
2026-11-05Content & Collaboration
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Administrators can automatically apply client-side encryption (CSE) to confidential Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive files using Policy-Based Enforcement, now available in beta.
Google Workspace administrators can automatically enforce client-side encryption (CSE) on sensitive files across their organization using Policy-Based Enforcement, now available in beta. Integrated with the Google Workspace Rules Engine, the feature applies encryption in place while preserving original file URLs across My Drive and shared drives, supporting Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Microsoft Office files, PDFs, and images. End users receive in-product contextual notifications when opening encrypted files, and administrators can monitor encryption activity in the security investigation tool with alert center notifications for external Key Access Control List Service (KACLS) issues. The feature requires Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus licenses and beta enrollment, and is off by default.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-11-05 • Scheduled: 2026-11-05 -
2026-11-04Education
Educators can now add Guided Learning to Google Classroom assignments, providing students with step-by-step AI guidance and extra support while giving teachers visibility into student progress.
A new Google Classroom integration lets teachers add Guided Learning—a Gemini app mode designed to deepen understanding with step-by-step guidance rather than giving answers—to any assignment, rolling out globally in all Gemini-supported languages. Educators can embed structured, curriculum-informed AI-guided sessions into lesson plans by selecting specific Classroom sources as context, grounded in Google's LearnLM research. The feature provides actionable AI-generated insight summaries at both class and individual student levels, access to individual student chat transcripts, a focused student view that hides the Gemini side navigation and disables new chats, and seamless integration with Class Tools on Chromebooks for a secure, locked-down environment. It is available for Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus editions.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-11-03 • Scheduled: 2026-11-03 -
2026-11-03Comms & Meetings
Admins can display custom policy text in the Google Meet Green Room before users join calls, optionally including a URL and conditionally showing it only during recording, transcription, or Gemini notes.
To help ensure end users are familiar with organizational policies for handling meeting artifacts like recordings, transcriptions, and notes by Gemini, Google is introducing the ability to set custom policy text from the admin console that is displayed prior to users joining Google Meet calls. Admins can display a custom short message in the Green Room prior to users joining a Meet call and include a URL to a webpage with more information about company policies. The policy can be set to always display or only when the meeting is being recorded, transcribed, or notes are being taken by Gemini. The feature is OFF by default and can be enabled at the OU level under Meet Safety Settings.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-11-02 • Scheduled: 2026-11-02 -
2026-11-02Content & Collaboration
Users can now upload images to create custom avatars directly within Google Vids.
Google Vids users can upload images from their local computer, Drive, or Photos to create custom avatars, refine them within Vids to clean up backgrounds, lighting, or add festive decorations, and save them for reuse in projects, enabling greater customization and precise creative control alongside building avatars from scratch.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-10-30 • Scheduled: 2026-11-20 -
2026-10-30Content & Collaboration
Gemini in Google Slides can now edit multiple slides or an entire presentation at once with a single prompt.
Users can now use Gemini in Google Slides to edit multiple slides or an entire presentation at once via a single prompt in the side panel. The feature supports refreshing visual styles, updating content throughout the deck using Google Drive files, combining or expanding slides, and making styling consistent across all slides. Gemini applies edits directly to native, editable slides and provides a summary of changes, with full undo and version history control. The feature launches in English only, with extended rollout to Rapid and Scheduled Release domains starting October 29, 2026, and promotional higher usage limits through at least December 1, 2026.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-10-29 • Scheduled: 2026-10-29 -
2026-10-28Content & Collaboration
Fill with Gemini in Google Sheets now provides cell-level web source citations and supports larger requests up to 3,000 cells.
Fill with Gemini in Google Sheets now provides cell-level citations for web sources, giving users full visibility to audit, verify, and cross-reference AI-generated data directly within each individual cell. The update also delivers upgraded processing with faster response times, improved cell-over-cell consistency, and expanded capacity supporting up to 3,000 cells per request, performing up to 55 times faster than manual entry for 500-cell tasks.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-10-20 • Scheduled: 2026-10-20 -
2026-10-28Content & Collaboration
Google Sheets adds compact form layout for pivot tables with improved Microsoft Excel import/export compatibility.
Google Sheets now supports compact form layout for pivot tables, keeping multi-level pivot tables readable while reducing excessive horizontal scrolling. Users can choose between Outline form and Compact form directly from the pivot table editor. The update also preserves compact form pivot table structure when importing from and exporting back to Microsoft Excel.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-10-22 • Scheduled: 2026-11-06 -
2026-10-23Content & Collaboration
Adjust video clip playback speed directly in Google Vids
We are introducing the ability to adjust the playback speed of individual video clips directly within Google Vids. This update gives creators precise control over pacing and scene timing, streamlining video editing so teams can optimize storytelling, improve audience engagement, and deliver polished messages without relying on third-party editing software.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-10-16 • Scheduled: 2026-10-16 -
2026-10-23Content & Collaboration
Extract audio tracks from video clips in Google Vids
We are introducing the ability to decouple and extract the audio track from video clips directly within Google Vids. By separating audio from video, creators gain granular control over multimedia editing, making it simple to custom-tailor voiceovers, remove distracting background noise, and align tracks across scenes.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-10-19 • Scheduled: 2026-10-19 -
2026-10-22Admin & Security
Google Vault now supports filtered eDiscovery exports for Gemini in Workspace conversations across Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet.
Google Vault now supports eDiscovery filtered exports for Gemini in Workspace, allowing administrators to filter and export users' Gemini conversations across integrated Workspace apps. Admins can define export scopes by specific user accounts or organizational units (up to 5,000 users), filter by a specific date range with time zone selection, and export matching conversation histories in JSON format via the Vault UI or API. Exports include user prompts, AI responses, generated attachments such as images, links to referenced Workspace files, and citations.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-10-22 • Scheduled: 2026-10-22 -
2026-10-22Content & Collaboration
Google Sheets now natively supports box and whisker charts with enhanced Microsoft Excel import and export compatibility.
Google Sheets now natively supports box and whisker charts, a statistical chart type that shows how a dataset is distributed. Users can select a range of raw numeric values and Sheets automatically calculates the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, maximum, mean, and outliers with no helper formulas needed. Options include inclusive or exclusive quartile calculation and the ability to show or hide inner points, outliers, mean markers, and mean lines. The update also adds enhanced Microsoft Excel import compatibility: box and whisker charts imported from Excel are preserved with their data references, calculations, and formatting intact, and charts created in Sheets export back to Excel as editable box and whisker charts.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2026-10-22 • Scheduled: 2026-11-06