Google Workspace Changes

Google Slides introduces proportional scaling for objects to maintain visual clarity

When multiple objects are selected in Google Slides, resizing your selection will now scale everything proportionally and maintain visual clarity. This ensures fonts, borders, shadows, and other attributes scale seamlessly and eliminates the hassle of adjusting elements individually.

When multiple objects are selected in Google Slides, resizing your selection will now scale everything proportionally and maintain visual clarity.

When multiple objects are selected in Google Slides, resizing your selection will now scale everything proportionally and maintain visual clarity.

The ability to run Google Drive on Arm-compatible Windows PCs is now generally available.

Compiled for ARM64, this release enables users to easily sync and store files online from Windows PCs powered by Snapdragon processors.

Expanding the language availability for the Google Classroom mobile app on Android and iOS to the following languages: Afrikaans, Assamese, French Canadian, Icelandic, Kazakh and Swahili.

Expanding the language availability for the Google Classroom mobile app on Android and iOS to the following languages: Afrikaans, Assamese, French Canadian, Icelandic, Kazakh and Swahili.

Vids will automatically generate AI voiceovers for each scene of your Vid from the AI suggested scripts.

Vids will automatically generate AI voiceovers for each scene of your Vid from the AI suggested scripts.

Gemini in the side panel of Google Slides is now available in more languages, including Arabic, Chinese, and others.

Users can get help summarizing, brainstorming, and generating content in more languages.

Gemini in Chat can now summarize Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets files shared within a conversation.

Users can click the "Summarize this file" button to get a quick overview of the file's content without leaving Chat.

Gemini in Chat side panel now available in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese, French, and Korean.

Gemini in Chat helps users collaborate more effectively by providing conversation summaries, identifying action items, and searching the web. The feature is now available in more languages.

Admins can now convert their exported client-side encrypted documents to Word files after a Vault or Data export.

This allows organizations to maintain ownership over, access to, and analysis of sensitive data in a portable format.

Introducing a new building block in Google Docs that adds an AI-generated summary to your content using Gemini.

Gemini will provide a summary that you can instantly insert or edit alongside other document collaborators.

Changes to how retention policies are applied to 1:1 direct messages in Google Chat with external participants.

1:1 direct messages with external participants will respect the retention policy of the user who created the conversation.

Starting in March 2025, admins who have Additional Services enabled for users under the age of 18 to re-review them on an annual basis.

Admins are in control of which services their users have access to, and to do so in alignment with both our terms of service and local laws and regulations that determine what services are appropriate for users under 18. Since admins manage which services their students have access to, only they can enable or disable access for their under 18 users.

Starting in March 2025, admins who have Additional Services enabled for users under the age of 18 to re-review them on an annual basis.

Admins are in control of which services their users have access to, and to do so in alignment with both our terms of service and local laws and regulations that determine what services are appropriate for users under 18. Since admins manage which services their students have access to, only they can enable or disable access for their under 18 users.

Consent re-confirmation for under 18 users accessing Additional Services will soon be required

Admins are always in control of which services their users have access to, and this gives admins an opportunity to ensure the right users have access to the right services.

Additional accessibility tags for Tables, Equations, and Checkboxes in PDFs exported from Google Docs

Added structural and accessibility tagging in PDFs exported from Google Docs to improve the ability for users with screen readers and other assistive technology to read and navigate PDFs. Introduced support for tables, equations, and checkboxes.