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What’s changing 

With this launch, you can upload an image into Google Vids and input a prompt to convert the image into a high quality eight-second video with sound. This experience uses Veo 3 to create dynamic and engaging content effortlessly by transforming product photography, logos, and more from static shots to engaging short videos based on your instructions. 

Convert a product image into a dynamic video 

Image:

Text prompt used to animate the image: “Camera stays focused on the bag of coffee as a woman walks into frame holding a cup of coffee.” 

Video:


Animate an image to create an intro/outro scene 

Image:


Text prompt used to animate the image: "Panning shot as more workers wearing safety vests walk into the foreground." 

Video:

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Regions: 
  • For now, the ability to generate a video from an image is not available in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom. 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter**, Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter**, Standard and Plus 
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Nonprofits** 
  • Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Customers with a Gemini Business*, Gemini Enterprise* add-on
Also available to: 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 
*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. 
**For a limited time, at least through May 31st, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter and Nonprofit accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability. 

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Starting today, you can deliver a polished and consistent message by writing a script and choosing an AI avatar to deliver your content in Google Vids. 

Simply go to vids.new, click “AI Avatars”, type a script in the AI avatar right side panel, choose a persona, and Vids will generate a video for you to preview within minutes. 

Whether you need a reliable way to present information clearly for a dozen training videos or you don’t have time or budget to film the right spokesperson for your video, AI avatars provide a fast, consistent way to narrate your videos. Here are some examples of how you can use AI avatars to meet your video needs: 

  • Increase engagement in safety and upskilling content through training & development videos. 
  • Explain new policies and procedures for your organization with announcement videos. 
  • Create polished walkthroughs for new feature or product demo videos. 


Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

This new feature provides a fast, consistent way to create polished video content — for onboarding, announcements, product explainers, and more — without the cameras or coordination headache. 

Additional details 

Each week you can generate up to 20 AI avatar generations. Each generation has a maximum length of 30 seconds. The current Vids session must remain open until generation is complete. Limits are subject to change, learn more here. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: Vids will be ON by default and can be disabled at the organizational level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Vids on or off for users. 
  • End users: 
    • You can choose from 12 different preset AI avatars. Each has a different look and built-in voice. When you use these AI avatars, you can add spoken content without the need to record audio. 
    • Vids is currently available in the user’s local language, but the AI features (e.g. Help me create, read-along teleprompter, AI avatars) are only available in English at this time. 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting started with Google Vids and using AI avatars in Google Vids. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter**, Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter**, Standard and Plus 
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Nonprofits** 
  • Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Customers with a Gemini Business*, Gemini Enterprise* add-on
Also available to: 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 
*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. 
**For a limited time, at least through May 31st, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter and Nonprofit accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability. 

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What’s changing 

Following our recent announcement of balance sound in Google Vids, we’re excited to introduce an additional editing feature that effortlessly refines your videos and audio. 

We know it's common for people to record themselves and later discover distracting pauses, and “uhms” and “uhs.” Or, after recording, you could decide you want to cut out an entire sentence to shorten a clip. 

Instead of having to record the entire clip over, Gemini in Vids can now generate a transcript of your recording, and then identify and trim filler words and awkward pauses out of the transcript with one click to help you sound your best and eliminate tedious editing tasks. 

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

With transcript-based trimming, users can remove filler words, pauses, and unnecessary sections with a single click, producing a polished final video in no time. 

Additional details 

This feature is only available in English. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: Vids will be ON by default and can be disabled at the organizational level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Vids on or off for users. 
  • End users: 
    • To get started, go to vids.google.com in your web browser to create a new vid. 
    • Add a video or audio clip that contains speech in English. Or, record yourself using Insert > Recording, or the Record button in the righthand rail. 
    • Click on the video clip or audio track, and click the transcript editing icon and a side panel will open on the right. 
      • If the transcript is not ready, you will see a “Generating transcript…” message. 
    • Once ready, the transcript will be shown in the side panel. 
      • Filler words will be underlined and shown in red, like “uh.” 
      • Silences are denoted in parentheses with ellipses and their duration, like “(...3s).” 
    • Click on a word or silence and select “Remove.” 
    • When you play back your media, that word will be removed. 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about trimming video & audio transcripts in Google Vids. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter**, Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter**, Standard and Plus 
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Nonprofits** 
  • Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Customers with a Gemini Business*, Gemini Enterprise* add-on
Also available to: 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 
*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. 
**For a limited time, at least through May 31st, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter and Nonprofit accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability. 


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What’s changing 

Building on the introduction of intelligent suggestions for table conversion, we’re now using Gemini to make tables in Sheets even more useful. Now, when you accept a “Convert to table” suggestion, Gemini will automatically format your data as a table and create a meaningful table name (e.g., Project_Status).

Tables help organize your data, simplifying common tasks like sorting and filtering. They also enable the use of table references, which use the table's meaningful name in place of cell coordinates. For example, a formula like =SUM(E2:E15) becomes the more descriptive =SUM(Office_Expenses[Amount]). These names are not only easier to read and understand, but they are also easier to write, appearing in formula autocomplete suggestions as you type. 

Crucially, table references are dynamic. The formula's range automatically expands and contracts as you add or remove rows from your table, ensuring your calculations are always up to date and accurate, without you ever needing to manually edit cell ranges again. 


Getting started 


Rollout pace 

  • Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) currently underway 
  • Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on September 12, 2025 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business*
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*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 

We’re bringing a significant update to the Gemini app for Google Workspace users: the introduction of powerful image editing capabilities. The updates will enable you to reimagine photos with prompts. 

You can start with a generated image or upload your own, and then prompt Gemini to combine it with other photos, change the context or location, change details within the image, and more. And with an improved understanding of your instructions, it's easier than ever to bring your ideas to life with Gemini. 

See our Keyword blog post to learn more about the major upgrade to image editing in Gemini. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 

  • This feature is available now. 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace*: 
  • Business Starter, Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard and Plus 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus 
  • Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus 
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Nonprofits 

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons: 
  • Gemini Business** 
  • Gemini Enterprise** 
  • Gemini Education 
  • Gemini Education Premium 
*For now, this feature isn’t available to users under 18. 
**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 

Users have been able to use Gemini in the side panel of Google Drive to summarize one or multiple documents, interact with PDFs, have focused conversations about a specific Drive folder, create files and folders, and more. However, until now, this functionality was text-based only and did not account for images saved in your Drive. 

Similar to the recent video announcement, we’re happy to announce that Gemini can now answer questions or give you summaries about images in Drive. Here are some examples of what you can ask Gemini to: 

  • Summarize this image
  • Extract text from this image
  • Extract information from this receipt/invoice into a table
  • Generate alternate text for this image
  • Write a story about this image

Gemini is extracting information from this receipt into a table 

Additional details 

This feature is currently available in English only and works best for:
  • Scanned documents like contracts, receipts, invoices, etc. 
  • Text-heavy images 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google One AI Premium 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*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 

Admins can now apply Context-Aware Access (CAA) policies to apps which use OpenID Connect (OIDC), which are a subset of OAuth apps that are authenticated using Google sign-in. Admins can use a single setting to apply CAA policies to all OIDC apps by default. We are not providing per app access control for individual apps at this moment. The new OIDC setting can also be applied in monitor mode for admins to gauge potential end user impact before applying in active mode. 

CAA creates granular access control security policies for apps based on attributes, such as user identity, location, device security status, and IP address, and they can be applied to users on personal and managed devices. Expanding CAA to encompass OIDC apps means admins can ensure their users are able to access or are blocked from accessing these apps according to the broader security parameters of their organizations. 

Admins can configure CAA policies for OIDC apps in the Admin console under Security > Context-Aware Access > General settings 

Getting started 

  • Admins: CAA for OIDC apps can be configured at the OU level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about context-aware access, creating context-aware access levels, and assigning access levels to third-party apps. 
  • End users: If enabled by your admin, you can access certain apps when authenticating using your Google sign-in. Or you may see a message letting you know that you cannot use Google sign-in to authenticate with certain apps or you may see remediation messages which will provide some options on how to unblock apps. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Frontline Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Education Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Also available for Cloud Identity Premium 

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What’s changing 

Users now have a quicker way to start editing right from Drive, using Google Vids. With this launch, when a user is previewing their video in Drive, there will be an "Open" button in the upper right that will open the video in Vids. Vids will automatically open the video file, and from there you can further edit as you see fit. For example, you can then trim the clip, add music, add text, and much more. 


Who’s impacted 

End users 

Additional details 

  • This feature works for these file types. Individual clips have limits of 35 minutes and 4 GB. 
  • Once Vids opens the video file, a new Vids file is created. Users will need to go through the regular steps to save/export to a non-Vids editable file. 

Getting started 

Admins: 
  • Vids will be ON by default and can be disabled at the organizational level. However, if Google Docs are turned OFF in your domain, Vids access will be unavailable. 
  • Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Vids on or off for users. 

End users: 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter, Standard, and Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus 
  • Essentials Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Nonprofits 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*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.

Also available to:
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra  

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What’s changing 

Following our recent announcement of the ability to share your Google Calendar appointment booking page directly in your email, we’re excited to introduce a new way to access all your booking pages directly in the Calendar side bar. Plus, users who don’t have an appointment schedule yet will now have a pre-configured booking page. 

With this launch, users who don’t have an appointment schedule set up yet will see a pre-configured booking page entry in the Calendar side bar that makes scheduling 1:1s with external users much easier. The pre-configured booking page is based on your working hours, and will automatically update to avoid conflicts on your calendar.


Users that already have appointment schedules set up can now see all their booking pages in the Calendar sidebar on web and in the mobile Calendar apps. 

To help users with multiple schedules manage their commitments on the Calendar grid better, we’re adding a new setting that allows users to show / hide an individual appointment schedule from the Calendar grid on web and mobile. Learn more here. 

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

By providing users with an easier way to book time with others, this change streamlines the scheduling process, which is particularly useful for customers, partners or people outside an organization who might not have visibility into another’s calendar. 

Additional details 

  • Once a user has seen the pre-configured booking page automatically appear in the web version of Calendar, they will then be able to see it on the mobile version as well. 
  • Sharing a booking page is available on web and mobile apps. 
  • Creating, editing and deleting a booking page is only available on web. 
  • If you change your working hours at a later date, you will need to update the availability of your appointment schedule manually to reflect this change. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: 
    • On web: 
      • To allow others to book time with you, simply click “copy link” on the booking page entry in the Calendar side bar and share it with others. 
      • To edit your booking page, click the three dot menu next to the booking page > “Edit.” 
      • To show or hide the schedule rails from the grid, click the three dot menu next to the booking page > “Show on / Hide from grid” 
    • On mobile: 
      • To allow others to book time with you, tap on the menu top left, then select the booking page entry on the side bar, then “Share”. 
      • To show or hide the schedule rails from the grid, tap on the menu top left, then select the booking page entry on the side bar, then tap the three dot menu > “Show on / Hide from grid”
    • Visit the Help Center to learn about how to edit appointment schedules in Google Calendar 

Rollout pace 

Web: 
Mobile: 
  • Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 21, 2025 

Availability 

  • Appointment schedules are available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts at no additional charge. 
    • Select features within appointment scheduling are only available to those with paid subscriptions. Please refer to this Help Center article to learn more. 

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What’s changing 

Last month, we announced the ability to conduct in-depth two-way conversations with Gemini Live. You can use Live to brainstorm ideas, explore new concepts, and more. You can also engage in these conversations by visually sharing your screen or camera and providing specific context through images, uploaded files, or YouTube videos. 

With this launch, you can reference Calendar, Tasks, and Keep in your conversations with Gemini Live. You can chat with Live about: 
  • What meetings are on your calendar for the week, or when a specific meeting is scheduled. You can also ask Live to search for, add or modify events to your calendar. 
  • Your upcoming tasks or overdue tasks. You can ask Live to add, edit and delete tasks as well. 
  • Specific content and notes in Keep, add or edit content in Keep, or you can ask Live to create notes and lists based on your conversation. 


Additional details 

  • Gemini Live, including sharing your screen with Gemini, is only available for users 18+. 
  • For users with a work or school Google Account and access to the Gemini app, Gemini Apps Activity is on and can’t be turned off and you can’t delete your Gemini Apps activity. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter, Standard, Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus 
  • Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus 
  • Nonprofits 
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
  • Gemini Education 
  • Gemini Education Premium 
*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 

ServiceNow, a platform that helps unite people, processes, and systems with AI-powered products for all of their workflows, is now integrated with Google Chat and Sheets. 

With the ServiceNow and Google Chat integration, users are now able to interact directly with ServiceNow's Virtual Agent within Google Chat. They can use natural language to resolve issues, get things done, get fast and automated help and support, and seamlessly transition to a live support agent without ever leaving the chat window. See more: Conversational Integration with Google Chat app in the ServiceNow Store and ServiceNow Community. 



With the ServiceNow and Google Sheets integration, users can bypass manual file downloads and uploads and export data from ServiceNow directly into Sheets. In addition to streamlining the data export process, this new functionality enhances data accessibility and enables users to leverage Sheets’ powerful data management and visualization features. 


Getting started 

Admins: 

End users: 
  • Google Chat: 
  • Google Sheets: On the ServiceNow platform: 
    • Navigate to any list from the All menu. 
    • In the column menu for the list, click Export > Google Sheets. If you don’t see this option in the list column menu, contact your admin. 
    • Follow the authentication steps to ensure your Google account access. 
      • Note: You’ll only need to follow the authentication steps the first time you export to Google Sheets and after your authentication session has timed out (as set by your administrator). 
    • Visit the ServiceNow Documentation on Exporting table records to Google Sheets for more information. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

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

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What's Changing

Prior to today, when using the arrow keys to move objects in Google Slides, the object would move a great distance. To improve upon this experience, the using the arrow keys to “nudge” an object will now move by 1 pixel. If you want to move the object a larger distance, use “Shift” + arrow key. 


Rollout details

  • Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 19, 2025.  

Availability: 

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

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What’s changing 

For those who prefer to listen to document content, we’re excited to introduce the ability to create audio versions of your documents using Gemini in Google Docs. 

Whether you want to hear your content out loud, absorb information better while reading, or help catch errors in your writing, audio versions of your documents provide you with clear, natural-sounding voices that read your documents aloud. You also have the option to customize your audio experience with a variety of voices and playback speeds to match your personal preferences. 

This new feature includes capabilities for both authors and readers to listen to documents. More specifically:

Readers can access the Listen to this tab option, available in the Tools > Audio menu, to quickly listen to the contents of the current tab. 


Authors can add Audio buttons, available in the Insert > Audio buttons menu, which inserts a play button directly into documents so readers can easily listen to the current tab with a single click. Once added to the document, authors can change the label, color, and size of the button. 


Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 


This new audio feature in Docs helps you engage with your content in fresh ways and can improve accessibility of your documents. Additional details This feature is only available in English and on desktop at this time. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available to Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Customers with the Gemini Business or Gemini Enterprise add-on* 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 
*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 

You can currently use Gemini in Google Chat to summarize unread conversations in the Chat home view and to summarize files shared in conversations. To build upon this, we’re adding the ability to catch up on unread messages in a direct message, group conversation, or space. 

With this launch, when opening a space or group direct message with a significant number of unread messages, you’ll see a card in the conversation pane summarizing recent discussions. When there are a smaller number of unread messages, you can l manually generate a summary by clicking / tapping on the summarize button. 

This new feature will help you more easily catch up on unread messages within conversations so you can quickly get up to speed and respond as needed. 

Initially, this will be available for users on the web. The feature will launch on mobile at a later date. 

Requesting a conversation summary on web 

Who’s impacted 

  • End users 

Getting started 

  • Admins: 
  • End users: 
    • On web, open an unread conversation and click the conversation summary button. If a conversation summary is not proactively shown, click on the summarize button from the unread line to request it manually. 
    • On mobile, open an unread conversation and tap the conversation summary button. If a conversation summary is not proactively shown, tap on the summarize button from the unread line to request it manually. 
    • Users can control whether summaries are proactively shown by toggling the Summaries in conversation setting within Chat settings > Message & Media > Message Features. 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about summarizing conversations in Google Chat. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Frontline Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
  • AI Meetings and Messages* 

*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 

Google AI Ultra for Business is an add-on for Google Workspace that provides the highest access to AI features and models, and includes next-generation AI tools. With this launch, we are increasing the credit limit to use with Whisk and Flow for Google AI Ultra for Business users from 12,500 per user per month to 25,000 per user per month. This means you'll be able to generate twice as many clips and scenes as you build your story in Flow or animations in Whisk. 

Additionally, we’re excited to announce that starting August 19, 2025 we’re expanding availability of Whisk, our experiment that allows you to create images using both text and image prompts, to 77 additional countries. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: 
  • End users: 
    • No action needed. All users with a Google AI Ultra for Business license will see their monthly AI credits limit increase to 25,000. Use our Help Center to learn more about how AI credits in Google AI Ultra for Business work. 
    • Whisk is optimized for English, but supports a number of additional languages. See the Labs FAQ for more detail. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons: 
  • Google AI Ultra for Business 

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What’s changing 

We’re introducing a new approval workflow option for enterprise users to request access to third-party apps that have not been explicitly configured via App Access Control (AAC) by an admin. This only applies to apps which have not been configured. If a user is able to access an app today based on the policies configured by their admin, then there will be no change and they will continue to be able to access the app. 

When end users attempt to access unconfigured third-party apps and get blocked, they will see an error screen with an option to raise a review request to admins. After the user submits a request, admins will be able to review the end user requests in app access control and make a decision. 

This feature gives enterprise users a clear process for requesting access to apps they need, reducing the likelihood of them being completely blocked and improving their productivity. For admins, it provides a centralized and efficient way to manage and configure access for new applications within their organization, while maintaining control over data security. 

An example of the dialog that the end user will see when access is blocked, with an opportunity to request access 


The dialog an end user will see if they choose to request access 


The interface in the Admin console where admins can see and process access requests from users 


The interface admins can use to configure access by OU 


Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users 

Getting started 

  • Admins: 
    • This feature will be ON by default and can be enabled at the organizational unit (OU) level. You can enable the setting for users to request access to unconfigured apps in the Admin console under API Controls Settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more about user requests for unconfigured apps. 
  • End users: 
    • There is no end user setting for this feature. When the approval workflow is enforced, users will see a new screen that allows them to request access to the app from their admin. 

Rollout pace 


Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers 

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What’s changing 

Building upon generative image capabilities across Google Workspace, we’re excited to introduce two AI image editing features in Google Slides and Google Vids. 

To expand on the ability to edit your images, we’re adding the options to modify the background of your image beyond removing the background. Simply select your image, and click on the ‘Generate an image’ icon in the side panel, select ‘Edit’ and select "Replace background." and type in a prompt, such as ‘Minimalist product shot in studio’ and select ‘Create’. This new feature can be useful in numerous scenarios, for example: 
  • Contextualize products: Take a standard product photo (e.g., a chair on a plain background) and instantly place it in a variety of realistic settings like a modern living room, a cozy café, or an outdoor patio to help customers visualize it.
  • Company headshots/team photos: Easily remove distracting backgrounds from employee photos and replace them with a professional, unified backdrop for internal and external presentations (e.g., "Meet the Team" slides, company profiles). 
  • Tailored client presentations: Quickly adapt presentation visuals to resonate with specific clients by changing backgrounds to reflect their industry, location, or company culture. For example, show a software solution being used in a specific office environment or industry setting. 
  • Visually engaging training materials: Create more appealing training slides by replacing generic backgrounds with relevant imagery that helps illustrate concepts (e.g., a customer service representative in a dynamic call center environment). 

Replacing the background of an image in Vids 

Gemini can also now help intelligently expand the background of your images, so you can seamlessly resize and reframe visuals without distortion or compromising quality. For example, if you have a smaller image of an object in your Slides presentation and you’d like to make it bigger to increase its impact, simply open the expand feature using “Generate an image” in the side panel of Slides or the sidebar. From there, you select your desired aspect ratio and can browse different image options to preview before inserting one into your presentation. 

Expanding the background of an image in Slides 


Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

Editing images with Gemini helps those without design skills meet their imagery needs, and unlocks a new level of flexibility and professionalism for Vids and Slides presentations. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 
Anyone who previously purchased these legacy add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*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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