Google Workspace Changes

Pin messages to the top of the meeting chat in Google Meet.

Meeting participants can now pin messages to the top of the meeting chat. Pinned messages will appear for all users, even if they join the meeting after the message was initially sent. This makes it easy to ensure that important messages - like links to presentations - are displayed prominently and easily accessible by meeting participants.

Google Meet Hardware AUE is now referred to as 'end of Meet support'.

The terminology for when a Meet hardware device is no longer supported is changing. ‘End of Meet support date’ replaces Auto-Update Expiration (AUE) in the Meet hardware Help Center. The Admin console will show ‘end of Meet support’ instead of ‘EOL (end of life)’ in both device information and fleet overview pages.

Closed caption support in Google Meet expands to an additional thirty-one languages.

Support for closed captioning has been expanded to include additional languages.

Combine multiple video effects, improve lighting and audio in Google Meet.

New features to personalize your appearance in Google Meet are launched. Specifically, combining multiple video effects on web and mobile, studio lighting on web and studio sound.

Join meetings as a guest without a Google account is now available on mobile devices.

You can now quickly join a meeting as a guest without signing into a personal or work Google account or creating a new Google account. This functionality already exists for meetings on the web and, by expanding to mobile, guests now have greater flexibility for joining Meet meetings on the go.