Google Workspace Changes

Birthday decorations for people cards in Google Contacts and across various Google Workspace products.

In Google Contacts and across various Google Workspace products, you’ll begin to notice birthday decorations when hovering over another user’s people card. Birthday decorations will be displayed on your birthday if you’ve added your birthday to your Google Account profile and you’ve set the information to be visible to others.

Birthday decorations for people cards

Birthday decorations will now appear when hovering over a user's people card in Google Contacts and across various Google Workspace products. These decorations are displayed if the user has added their birthday to their Google Account profile and set the visibility to be shared with others.

Dual display support is now available for Poly Studio X Series devices in Google Meet.

Google Meet now supports dual displays on Poly Studio X50, X52, and X70 devices, allowing users to view meeting participants and shared content simultaneously on separate screens. This update improves meeting engagement by ensuring that shared presentations do not obscure the view of other participants. To use this feature, devices must be updated to Poly OS 4.0.1 or higher.

Introducing dual display support for Google Meet on the Poly Studio X Series.

With dual displays, you can see more meeting participants, presentations, and documents at once, which can help you stay focused and engaged in meetings.

Increased row limits for pivot tables and data extracts in Connected Sheets for BigQuery.

Google has increased the maximum number of rows returned from BigQuery in Connected Sheets. Pivot tables have been expanded from 30,000 to 50,000 rows, and data extracts have been expanded from 25,000 to 50,000 rows. Along with these limit increases, performance improvements have been implemented for creating pivot tables, deleting extracts, and manipulating data within pivot tables.

Expanded language support for captions in Google Meet

Google Meet is expanding its captioning capabilities to support more languages, including several Arabic dialects, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English (UK), Gujarati, Hindi, and various South African languages such as isiXhosa and Zulu.

Expanding streamlined file organization across Google Workspace

The updated visual experience of the Google Drive location picker is being expanded to Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Sites, and Gmail. Users will receive helpful suggestions when moving files, adding shortcuts, or creating copies of files.

Updated zoom in/out capabilities across Google Docs, Slides and Drawings

New zoom keyboard shortcuts are being introduced for Google Docs and Slides on web to allow users to zoom in, zoom out, or scale to 100%. Additionally, Google Slides now supports smooth zooming using a trackpad or mouse wheel combined with a modifier key (cmd/ctrl).

Expanding autocorrect to Google Chat on web

Google Chat on web now automatically corrects misspelled words to reduce typos. Corrected words are indicated with a gray underline, similar to the functionality found in Gmail and Google Docs. This feature is rolling out to all English users.

Guest list visibility now available for Google Workspace Individual users.

Google Workspace Individual users can now view the guest list directly within Google Meet to see who has been invited, their RSVP status, and any RSVP notes.

Meeting transcripts now available for Google Workspace Individual users.

Google Workspace Individual users can now use meeting transcripts to capture discussions and attendee lists, which are saved to Google Drive for easier follow-up and record-keeping.

Q&A feature now available for Google Workspace Individual users.

The Q&A feature is now available for Google Workspace Individual users, providing a structured way to engage with the audience and ensure their questions are answered during meetings.

Ability to assign co-hosts for Google Workspace Individual users.

Google Workspace Individual users can now assign one or more co-hosts to their meetings, enabling them to share the responsibility of managing the meeting flow.

Increased participant limit to 150 for Google Workspace Individual users.

Google Workspace Individual users can now host meetings with up to 150 participants, an increase from the previous limit of 100, allowing for larger collaborations with customers and stakeholders.

Easily lock Google Drive files via the right-click context menu to prevent edits.

Google Drive is introducing a simplified way to lock files by right-clicking a file, selecting 'File information', and clicking 'Lock'. Locking a file ensures that reviewers cannot make edits, add comments, or provide suggestions. This feature streamlines a process that was previously only available through the Google Drive API or file approvals.