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What’s changing 

In the coming weeks, we will be introducing an updated user interface for the Mimo Vue HD, Mimo Mist, Logitech Tap, Logitech Tap IP and Lenovo Series One Touch controllers.

To explore this upcoming feature, we encourage Admins to change the feature preview setting to enable Early preview for their devices. This will give admins time to prepare for the change, and end users to become familiar with the new design. See the “Additional details” section below for more information. 

Overall, the design allows users to concentrate on their meetings rather than searching for controls, resulting in a more efficient and aesthetically pleasing experience. Here’s what you can expect: 
  • Simplified Access to Key Controls: the controls you use most frequently, like mute and hand raise, are more prominent and easily accessible, helping you cut down on time searching for features and more time focusing on your meeting. 
  • Intuitively Organized Features: 
    • In-meeting experience: If you need to access more advanced features, like camera controls or the meeting layout, you can find them under the “More actions” menu. This keeps the main interface clean while ensuring less frequently used features are still readily accessible. 
    • Pre-call experience: You’ll also notice a refresh for the pre-call meeting UI, which prominently features the option to enter a meeting code or nickname, and a drop-down menu for Webex or Zoom meetings. 
  • A Familiar Interface: The touch controller UI will now look and feel similar to the Google Meet UI as seen on Laptop & Desktop devices, which will help navigating the menu more intuitively. 
Touch Controller UI Refresh pre-meeting experience


Touch Controller UI Refresh Annotated pre-meeting Experience


Touch Controller UI Refresh In-meeting Experience


Touch Controller UI Refresh Annotated In-meeting Experience


Touch Controller Advanced View


UI refresh pre-meeting experience


We’ll share more information about when the refreshed user interface will become generally available soon. 

Additional details 

More information about Early Preview Rooms 
We highly recommend joining our Early Preview Rooms (EPR), beginning August 18th, 2025, to help your organization get ready for this change. 

Enrolling devices into EPR allows you to: 
  • Test: Experience the new UI firsthand on select devices in your environment 
  • Prepare: Use the preview period (approximately 4-6 weeks) to update your internal training documents, support resources, and end-user communications 
  • Provide feedback: Share your feedback to help us refine the experience before general availability 

How to participate: 

Expanding availability 
We plan to expand support for the new UI to all Google Meet touch controllers, including AOSP devices. We’ll share more information here on the Workspace Updates blog once available. 

Getting started


Rollout pace 

  • Available for Early Preview Rooms starting on August 18th, 2025 

Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices 

Resources 


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What’s changing 

Starting today, the full screen action appears when viewing a presentation or sharing your screen. This option increases the size of the presentation by maximizing the Meet UI and reducing the size of meeting participants using sidebar view. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: To use this feature, select the “Enter Full Screen” action at the bottom of an active presentation. Check out this Help Center for details. 

Rollout pace 

  • Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 29th, 2025 
  • Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on August 14th, 2025 

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
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Earlier this year, we announced that “take notes for me” will capture next steps discussed during the meeting in a new “suggested next steps” section. Powered by AI, these next steps and follow-ups will automatically be identified and organized within the meeting notes document. 

Today, we’re expanding the language availability for “suggested next steps” to include: 
  • French 
  • German 
  • Italian 
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 
  • Portuguese 
  • Spanish 
When discussing next steps, follow up items or action items, they will automatically be captured when speaking these languages. 

Rollout: 

  • Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started in Rapid Release and Scheduled release domains on August 7, 2025

Getting Started:


Availability:

  • “Take notes for me” is available to Business Standard and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; the Gemini Education and Education Premium add-on and those customers who previously purchased a Gemini Business or AI Meetings & Messages add-on.
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What's Changing

We’re adding an additional data field for Google Meet log events: encryption_type, which will indicate whether standard cloud encryption or client-side encryption was used for a call endpoint. This information can also be called using the Admin Reports SDK API under the values: cloud_encryption and cse_encryption.


Example of a meeting without client-side encryption and a meeting with standard encryption. The encryption type will be captured in Meet log events going forward.

Rollout Pace:


Availability:

Available in the audit and investigation tool for all Google Workspace customers and for select Google Workspace customers in the Security Investigation tool, as well as the Admin Reports SDK API.
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What’s changing 

We’re improving the email notification that includes the notes doc when you use “Take notes for me” in Google Meet. The email will now include a summary of the meeting as well as “suggested next steps” in addition to the link to the notes document. Including this information gives meeting invitees a quick, helpful overview of the meeting in one place.
[Suggested next steps are now included in the notes email]
Suggested next steps are now included in the notes email


Also part of this update, meeting hosts and co-hosts for meetings taken on a web browser can now choose who the meeting notes should be sent to: all invited guests, invited guests in your organization, or hosts and co-hosts only. Note that the default setting is “Invited guests in your organization”.

Once you change the sharing setting, it will persist for that meeting and recurring meetings in that series. You can always change the setting as needed. Sharing is based on the Calendar invitees. 

Before you turn on “Take notes for me”, you can choose who the meeting notes should be sent to.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available to Google Workspace
  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Also available with the Gemini Education Premium add-on
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature:
  • Gemini Enterprise*
  • AI Meetings & Messaging*
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

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What’s changing 

Currently, you can join client-side encrypted calls from a computer or mobile device. Starting today, you can join client-side encrypted calls directly from Google Meet hardware devices. Simply select the meeting from the in-room agenda on any hardware device – you’ll be prompted to authenticate from a personal device, such as your phone or laptop, which will grant the room access to this specific meeting.

Joining a client-side encrypted meeting from a hardware device

Google Meet always encrypts call media in transit and at rest, ensuring only meeting participants and Google's data center services can decrypt it. Client-side encryption adds an additional layer of privacy by encrypting all media that is encrypted directly by each participant's browser using keys accessible only to them, meaning Google's servers and other service providers cannot decrypt or access the call content. This gives users greater control and confidentiality over their meeting communications, and this specific update gives users another way to join client-side encrypted calls.

Additional details

Client-side encrypted calls can be joined from meeting rooms in the host's organization or in the organization of an invited participant. A room does not need to be specifically invited to the meeting — access to client-side encrypted calls is determined by the identity of the individual participant. 

Getting started

  • Admins: 
    • In order for end users to use client-side encryptions, admins must connect Google Workspace to an external identity provider and encryption key service (IdP+key service). 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing client-side encryption for your organization. Also see our API documentation. 
    • Note: There is no additional configuration for room hardware if client-side encryption has already been configured.
    • Note: The KACLS server used for key management needs to support the delegate call. This call is used for authorizing a room to join a meeting on behalf of an authenticated user. Check with your KACLS vendor for details. 

  • End users: You can join a client-side encrypted call from a room in the same way you would join a call using regular encryption. Follow the additional instructions displayed on the room unit to authenticate on your personal device. Visit the Help Center to learn more about joining a client-side encrypted meeting from a Google Meet hardware device.

Rollout pace

Availability

Client-side encryption for Google Meet is available for Google Workspace:
  • Enterprise Plus
  • Education Standard and Plus
Joining an encrypted call is available for all Google Meet hardware devices

Resources

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What’s changing

We’re introducing updates for the in-meeting chat experience for Google Meet live streams. Specifically, we’re adding the ability for viewers to send in-meeting chat messages, together with a host control for this functionality. The host management setting will be set to ALLOW viewers to send messages by default. 

The ability to read in-meeting chat messages will now be controlled with a new host management control. This setting will be configured as ALLOW viewers to read messages by default as well. 

Note that in order to allow viewers to send messages, reading messages must also be turned on.

These updates give meeting hosts more options to control over when and how live stream viewers can interact with in-meet chat messages.

Host controls > Host Management > “Let live stream viewers…”

Getting started

  • Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning live streaming on or off for your organization. Note that in-call chat messaging for live streams requires chat to be turned on for Meet calls in general – visit the Help Center for more information.

  • End users:
    • Meeting hosts: 
      • Note: The host control for sending chat messages is already rolled out. Hosts that wish to adjust settings for upcoming meetings in advance can do so already.
      • These settings are configured per meeting or per meeting series, with other host management controls. Visit the Help Center to learn more about live streaming for video hosts. 
    • Live stream viewers: Your ability to view and send in-meeting chat messages during a live stream will depend on your meeting host configuration.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • The following Google Workspace editions can initiate a live stream:
    • Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus 
    • Enterprise Essentials Plus
    • Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning upgrade

  • Anyone can view a live stream.

Resources

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8 New updates

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.

Providing support for Microsoft Office embedded files in Google Drive 
To ensure users have a seamless experience when working with Microsoft Office files, we’re excited to announce that users can now open Microsoft Office files that contain embedded PDFs in Google Drive. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about working with Microsoft Office files. 

Use Imagen 4 to generate images in Google Docs, Slides and Vids in multiple languages 
Users can now utilize our highest quality image generation model, Imagen 4, which delivers: 
  • Outstanding text rendering and prompt adherence 
  • Higher overall image quality across all styles 
  • Multilingual prompt support in these 20+ languages 
Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to Google Workspace Business and Enterprise users with access to Gemini in Docs and Slides, and users with access to Gemini in Vids. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini Slides, Vids and Docs.
using spanish to generate visual content in Vids
View the most relevant search results in Gmail
Over the years, we’ve implemented updates to help you find exactly what you’re looking for with less effort when searching in Gmail. In March, we announced a smarter search feature powered by AI to quickly show users the most relevant results, and today we’re excited to extend this to businesses. Now, instead of just showing emails in chronological order based on keywords, Gmail search results will factor in elements like recency, most-clicked emails and frequent contacts. With this update, the emails you’re looking for are far more likely to be at the top of your search results — saving you valuable time and helping you find important information more easily. You can also select between “most relevant” and “most recent” results. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available to Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about the search in Gmail.
View the most relevant search results in Gmail

    A search view before and after. Now, search results are sorted by relevance instead of in chronological order to help you find your intended result, faster.

    Automated meeting recording, transcripts and notes available in seven additional languages
    Currently, when an Admin pre-configures meeting recordings, meeting transcripts, or “Take notes for me” in Meet as ON by default for newly created meetings, the artifacts are generated in English. Today, we’re expanding the language availability to include:
    • French
    • German
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish
    The meeting artifacts will automatically be generated in the meeting host’s language if it is supported. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Meeting recordings and transcripts are available to Google Workspace Business Plus; Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus; Enterprise Standard, Plus; Education Plus, and the Teaching and Learning add-on. “Take notes for me” is available to Business Standard and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; the Gemini Education and Education Premium add-on and those customers who previously purchased a Gemini Business, Gemini Enterprise or AI Meetings & Messages add-on. | Admins visit the Help Center to learn more about choosing automatic meeting artifact settings for your organization. | End users visit the Help Center to learn more about recording a meeting, using meeting Transcripts, and taking notes with Gemini in Meet. Meeting hosts and co-hosts can edit these settings in the Calendar invite, as well as turn these artifacts off during the meeting.

    Studio lighting in Google Meet is now available on all devices 
    We’re pleased to announce that studio lighting in Google Meet is now available on all devices. Using machine learning, Gemini in Meet will simulate studio-quality lighting and adjust light position and brightness in your video feed, so you're perfectly lit for your meeting. | Available now. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available for Google Workspace Business Standard and Plus, and Enterprise Standard and Plus. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about improving your video experience. 

    Video file uploads are now available to Google Workspace users in the Gemini mobile app 
    You can now upload videos stored on your mobile device to provide more context to your prompts in the Gemini mobile app. You can ask Gemini to summarize the video, ask Gemini specific questions about the video and more. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available to all Google Workspace users with access to the Gemini app. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to upload and analyze files in the Gemini Apps. 

    Boost productivity with scheduled actions in Gemini 
    You can now use scheduled actions in Gemini to create personalized updates, set reminders, or complete routine tasks in a chat or based on existing prompts. You can set these actions to your preferred frequency, be it a single reminder, or daily or weekly updates. Some ways you can use scheduled actions are: 
    • Daily summaries of your calendar, to-do list, and unread emails for the day ahead. 
    • Daily news briefings: deliver a concise, easy-to-digest summary of the day’s top news stories or a specific topic. 
    • Competitive landscape monitoring: Monitor online news, press releases, social media content, and more based on a specific industry. 
    • Weekly vocabulary builders: Receive a curated list of new vocabulary words, complete with definitions and example sentences, tailored to your learning level. 
    Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available with a qualifying edition of Google Workspace for Gemini on the web and mobile and in all supported languages. This feature is only available for users 18+ at this time. | Admins: For Gemini to access data from apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Drive, Workspace apps in Gemini must be turned ON. | End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about scheduling actions in Gemini.

    Google Drive log events now include search related information 
    We’re expanding Drive log events in the security investigation tool to include search events. This includes information on resources returned from a search, the query the user entered, and more. Admins can use this information to help assess whether there is normal search behavior or whether the behavior was anomalous and indicating potential data exfiltration. This information can also be queried via API – check out our API documentation for more information. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available for Google Workspace Business Starter, Standard, and Plus; Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus; Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus; Frontline Starter and Standard. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about Drive log events and the security investigation tool.
    Google Drive log events now include search related information

    Previous announcements

    The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

    Adding granular control options for who can respond to existing Google Forms 
    In addition to being available on newly created forms, we’re excited to announce that starting today this option is now available on existing forms. As a result, form creators can upgrade existing or old forms to have more granular controls over who can respond to them. | Learn more about controls for existing forms. 

    Google Classroom now supports exporting grades and importing data with STLink SIS 
    Google Classroom teachers can now export and import select information via the new integration with Bubblecon STLink, a South Korean third-party student information system (SIS) that provides an innovative edtech platform. | Learn more about Bubblecon STLink. 

    Changes to "Who can manage" and "Who can view" members in Google Groups starting September 15, 2025 
    There are upcoming changes to permissions in Google Groups which will be implemented starting September 15, 2025. | Learn more about changes to Google Groups.

    Generate data with Gemini in Google Sheets
    Currently, you can utilize Gemini in Google Sheets to generate charts and valuable insights, and this week, we’re excited to bring AI directly into the cells of your spreadsheet with the power of AI function. | Learn more about AI function in Sheets.

    See summaries of even more file types directly in Google Chat
    Earlier this year, we introduced the ability for users to easily summarize Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets files shared within a Google Chat conversation. Today, we’re excited to expand this feature to PDF, Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), CSV, txt, and zip files shared as Drive links in Chat. | Learn more about summaries in Chat.

    Updates to the GitHub app for Google Chat 
    We're announcing additional updates and functionality that improve upon the overall experience using the GitHub app for Google Chat. | Learn more about GitHub app for Google Chat.

    Gemini Add-ons will no longer appear under subscriptions in the Admin console for Workspace Business and Enterprise customers
    In January 2025, we announced our plan to bring premium AI features directly to our Business and Enterprise offerings, helping our customers and their users boost productivity, creativity, and innovation, transforming how they work. We also stopped charging for Gemini add-ons that you may have purchased previously for your Business and Enterprise offerings after January 31, 2025. | Learn more about add-on subscriptions.

    Introducing Google AI Ultra for Business: Providing Access to Advanced AI Features and Next-Gen tools
    We’re pleased to introduce Google AI Ultra for Business, a new Workspace add-on that provides the highest access to AI features and models and access to next-generation AI tools. | Learn more about Google AI Ultra for Business.

    Introducing more granular controls for multi-party approvals for sensitive admin actions
    Last year, we introduced multi-party approval (MPA), a security feature that requires an admin to approve certain sensitive actions initiated by another admin. Today, we’re enhancing this feature by giving admins more granular controls. | Learn more about granular controls for multi-party approvals.

    Completed rollouts

    The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.

    Rapid Release Domains: 
    Scheduled Release Domains: 
    Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains: 
    For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).
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    What’s changing 

    You can now customize the styling of captions in Google Meet, including the font size, font type, color, and background color. This allows for the captions to be customized in a way that works best for you. 

    You can customize captions during the meeting by hovering over them or by going to Settings > Captions > Customize your captions. Your settings will persist across your meetings and can be changed at any time.

    Example of customized captions in Meet

    Getting started

    Google Meet > Settings > Captions > Customize your captions


    Rollout pace


    Availability

    • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as users with personal Google accounts

    Resources


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    What’s changing

    Starting today, you can use companion mode on Apple iPads & Android tablets and foldable devices. Companion mode is a quick, light-weight way to participate in meetings without opening a laptop. This can be particularly useful in meeting spaces where room for a laptop is limited, or as an easy, discreet way to participate during large in-person meetings, such as all hands or town halls. 

    Specifically, you can use companion mode to: 
    • Check-in to the room to be identified by name. 
    • Share an emoji reaction without interrupting the speaker. 
    • Raise your hand to indicate that you’d like to speak. 
    • Turn on captions to view subtitles as everyone speaks during a meeting. 
    • Exchange chat messages with other meeting participants. 
    • View and zoom in on presented content to easily follow along with the presenter on your own device. 
    • Use Meet in the split screen view, helping you multitask.Check-in to the room to be identified by name.
    Check-in to the room to be identified by name.
    Share an emoji reaction without interrupting the speaker
    Share an emoji reaction without interrupting the speaker
    Raise your hand to indicate that you’d like to speak
    Raise your hand to indicate that you’d like to speak
    Turn on captions to view subtitles as everyone speaks during a meeting
    Turn on captions to view subtitles as everyone speaks during a meeting
    Exchange chat messages with other meeting participants
    Exchange chat messages with other meeting participants
    View and zoom in on presented content to easily follow along with the presenter on your own device
    View and zoom in on presented content to easily follow along with the presenter on your own device
    Use Meet in the split screen view, helping you multitask
    Use Meet in the split screen view, helping you multitask



    Companion mode is already available for laptop and desktop devices, as well as Android and iOS mobile devices. 

    Additional details 

    • Minimum Android build required: 
      • Meet: 308.0. (Android Settings > Apps > Meet > [App Info > Version]) 
      • Gmail: 2025.05.25. (Android Settings > Apps > Gmail > [App Info > Version]) 
    • Minimum iOS build required: 
      • Meet: 310.0. (Meet > Settings -> About, terms, and privacy > Version) 
      • Gmail: 6.0.250601. (Settings > About Gmail > Version) 

    Getting started 

    • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
    • End users: 
      • This feature will be available by default. You can join a meeting using companion mode from the green room before your meeting. Use this Help Center article and video guide to learn more about using companion mode in Google Meet. 
      • Note: Your audio and mic will automatically be muted—we recommend using meeting room hardware for audio and video to avoid feedback. 

    Rollout pace 

    Android: 
    iOS: 

    Availability 

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

    Resources 

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    What’s changing

    Meeting hosts can now control who can request to join a meeting (also known as “knocking”). This option is available when the meeting access type is “Trusted” or “Restricted” and can be configured:

    • From the Calendar invite by going to Video call options (gear icon) > Host controls >  Meeting access type. When “Trusted” or “Restricted” is selected, you can uncheck the “Anyone with the meeting link can ask to join" box.
    • During the meeting by going to Host controls (lock icon) > Meeting access type. As with the Calendar invite, you can uncheck the “Anyone with the meeting link can ask to join” box.

    From the Google Calendar invite, select Video call options (gear icon) > Host controls >  Meeting access type


    The addition of this option helps improve meeting security by ensuring only intended participants can ask to join while reducing disruptions caused by excessive knocking from unintended users.

    Getting started

    Rollout pace

    Availability

    • Available to all Google Workspace customers

    Resources

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    What’s changing

    We’re introducing a new capability that lets users directly present content from their camera feed into a meeting, for example a document camera, video production tool, or an external camera. This is helpful for customers who utilize external production systems or other dedicated cameras to share video content during meetings, including:

    • Streaming produced video content (e.g., for town hall meetings).
    • Professional sharing live feeds from external video source (e.g. microscope, camera)
    • Educators presenting paper content using a document camera.

    Additionally, Presenting content from a camera supports up to 1080p/30FPS.


    Additional details

    We're also introducing several improvements to the overall screen sharing functionality to make presenting smoother and more efficient:
    •  Starting any type of screen sharing (i.e. desktop, window or tab) is faster than before.
    • Additionally, video quality during screen sharing is sharper and provides better handling of dynamic scenes, such as scrolling text or video content.
    • To minimize disruptions, any previous presentation will now automatically resume if a second presenter stops sharing their screen.
    • We've also updated the user interface to make the screen sharing button larger and positioned more intuitively alongside other key controls, making it easier to find when you need it.

    Getting started

    Rollout pace

    Availability

    Available for Google Workspace
    • Business Standard and Plus
    • Enterprise Standard and Plus
    • Frontline Standard
    • Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
    • Education Plus, the Teaching & Learning add-on, as well as the Endopoint Education Upgrade
    • Workspace Individual Subscribers

    Resources


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    What’s changing

    We’re expanding the interoperability between Google Meet and Cisco Webex to include the ability to present content via a wired HDMI connection. This functionality will allow you to:

    • Present HDMI content into Webex meetings from Google Meet hardware devices
    • Present content into Google Meet meetings from supported Cisco devices. Wired presentations using HDMI and USB-C are supported, as well as wireless presentations using Apple AirPlay and Miracast. 

    This is designed to make it even easier for our customers and their users to connect and collaborate with people outside of the Meet ecosystem. To learn more about interoperability between Google Meet and Cisco Webex, check out this previous announcement.

    Presentation via HDMI in a Webex meeting on Google Meet hardware

    Getting started

    Rollout pace

    Availability

    • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices

    Resources


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    [Update - April 25, 2025]: There was a slight delay in the rollout of this feature in Calendar. Rollout will now begin on April 28, 2025 and is expected to take up to 15 days to complete.

    What’s changing

    We recently announced additional language support for “Take notes for me”, recorded captions, and meeting transcripts. You can now set your preferred language for these features: 
    • From the Calendar invite. Your preferred language will apply to every meeting in a series.
    • During the meeting when using Google Meet on Android and iOS devices.
    Choosing your preferred language from the Calendar invite

    Choosing your preferred language during the meeting on a mobile device




    Additional details

    Available on iOS for:
    • Gmail: 6.0.250305.1795546
    • Meet: 298.0.72766

    Available on Android for:
    • Gmail: 2025.04.06.744527406
    • Meet: 301.0.744527189

    Getting started


    Rollout pace

    Mobile availability:

    Calendar availability:


    Availability

    “Take notes for me” is available for Google Workspace:
    • Business Standard and Plus
    • Enterprise Standard and Plus
    • Also available with the Gemini Education Premium add-on
    • Anyone who previously purchased the Gemini Enterprise* and AI Meetings & Messaging* add-ons will also receive this feature.
    *As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

    Transcripts are available for Google Workspace:
    • Business Standard and Plus
    • Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
    • Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning Add-on
    • Workspace Individual Subscribers

    Captions included in a meeting recording are available for Google Workspace:
    • Business Plus and Standard
    • Education Plus for users with a "Staff" or "Student" license, and the Teaching & Learning add-on
    • Enterprise Essentials
    • Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
    • Workspace Individual Subscribers
    • Google One subscribers with 2 TB or more storage space

    Resources


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    [Update - April 4, 2025]: As noted, due to the quantity of features included in this launch, these updates will take some time to fully rollout. We recommend that you subscribe to and regularly check this post in the Google Meet community - here, you'll find the latest rollout statuses for the various features included in this update.

    What’s changing

    We’re thrilled to introduce a brand new, redesigned layout experience for Google Meet that will improve communication and collaboration for all users, but especially for those in hybrid meetings. There are many exciting new features bundled in this extensive launch across Meet for web and rooms. Check out the video overview to see the new features in action and keep reading for more details:


    Dynamic layouts:
    • “Portrait tiles” prioritize faces by cropping out excess background video
    • Optimized tile placement logic to enable much more efficient layouts that minimize unused space
    • Visual design refresh, including color-sampled tile theming for users with their cameras off
    • Larger room tiles in the grid when ‘Dynamic tiles’ is not active
    • More flexibility around how tiles are cropped, including self-view
    • Increased pin limit from 3 to 6 to provide more flexibility to customize your layout


    Portrait tiles and various design improvements in action


    Dynamic tiles:
    • An individual video tile is created for up to 3 meeting participants joining from the same conference room with Google Meet hardware
    • AI-enabled active-speaker detection automatically highlights only the tile of the in-room speaker without any special hardware requirements
    • Other meeting participants can pin these tiles in their layout as they would any other tile

    Individual tiles for up to three meeting participants in a conference room


    Face match:
    • When Dynamic tiles are in use in a room with a Google Meet hardware device, users can associate their name with their face from Companion mode on Web so their tile can be labeled. This creates a consistent experience where everyone can show up in their best light, whether they’re in the room or joining remotely. 

    When using Companion mode, you can associate your name with your Dynamic tile




    Who’s impacted

    Admins and end users


    Why it matters

    These layout enhancements in Google Meet bring a refreshed, modern feel to the meeting grid while also adding the functional benefits of increasing space efficiency and improved representation for hybrid meetings. It allocates available space based on content being presented, tiles pinned by users, and more to address a core hybrid-work challenge  of remote meeting participants not being able to easily see or identify in-room users. 


    Additional details

    Please see below for more important information regarding these features:

    Dynamic layouts
    • Legacy layouts remain available
      • Users who do not wish to see portrait tiles can still do so by switching from Auto (dynamic) to Tiled (legacy) in the layout options selection menu.
    • More flexible self-view options
      • Users now have much more control over the appearance of their self-view tile. When you set your self-view preference, it will carry over across meetings.
    • Framing and new uncropping functionality
    • Prevent your video from being cropped for others
      • Some users may prefer that their video feed never be cropped by other Meet users.  Users can select “Show my full video to others” from the three-dot overflow menu of their self-view tile. This will cause their video to always render as an uncropped tile for other users. We encourage sign-language interpreters especially to consider using this feature to ensure that arms and hands are not unintentionally cropped out.

    Dynamic tiles
    • Dynamic tiles work in meetings with up to 3 in-room participants 
    • Dynamic tiles will automatically fall back to a room view if:
      • More than 3 people are detected
      • Users are sitting too close to give each user their own tile without significant overlap
      • There is too much movement detected in the room and it’s causing distractions

    • Platform support
      • Available for ChromeOS-based room devices at launch
      • AOSP (Android) device support is expected in the future
      • Not available in interop mode


    Face match
    • Face match is available for any Companion mode web user checked into a room using dynamic tiles. Face match supports a maximum of 12 faces. 
    • Face match only associates your name with your face for Dynamic tiles when you are in view of the room camera for the duration of the meeting. A user may have to check in again using Companion Mode if they disappear from view for long enough.


    Getting started

    • Admins: 
      • We recommend thoroughly reviewing the Help Center articles (especially if your organization uses Google Meet hardware) to ensure both you and your end users are prepared for these changes.

      • Dynamic layouts
        • Will be ON by default for all web and room devices.  There is no admin setting for this feature – only layout options for end users.

      • Dynamic tiles
        • You can control whether Dynamic tiles are ON or OFF by default when devices join a call by using the Default camera framing individual device setting. 

    Devices > Google Meet hardware > [Device name] > Device settings > Default camera framing

        • Best practices for rollout:
          • Dynamic tiles work best when used in smaller rooms (capacity of 6 or less) where participants sit less than 10 feet from the camera.
          • Glass walls can sometimes cause people outside the meeting room to be picked up by the camera and given a tile – dynamic tiles should be deployed only after testing in these rooms.

      • Face match 
        • Face match will always be available in companion mode when room check-in and dynamic tiles are active on the associated room device. There is no separate admin or end user setting for this feature.

    • End users:  
      • Dynamic layouts
        • Will be ON by default for all web and room devices.  You can turn Dynamic layouts OFF by switching from Auto (dynamic) to Tiled (legacy) from the layout options selection menu in Meet (or to Sidebar or Spotlight)
      • Dynamic tiles
        • Whether Dynamic tiles are ON or OFF by default depends on the configuration of your admin. It can be turned ON or OFF from the framing section of your Meet hardware device touch controller or TV user interface menu.
      • Face match
        • Available via Companion mode if Dynamic tiles is active on your room device and when you check-in to that room device.

    Rollout pace

    Due to the quantity of features included in this launch, you should expect to see different combinations of the included features gradually become available over the next few weeks. 

    • Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 31, 2025
    • Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 21 days for feature visibility) starting on April 17, 2025
    .

    Availability

    • Dynamic layouts are available for all Google Meet meetings on the web and from meeting rooms via hardware devices. They are available for all Google Workspace customers as well as users with personal Google accounts.
    • Dynamic tiles and Face match require a Google Meet hardware device and associated license.

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