Google Workspace Changes

Meet audit events for live stream viewers now include extended quality metrics.

Meet audit events for live stream viewers have been enhanced to include an extended set of quality metrics. These new metrics offer administrators deeper insights into the perceived quality of live streams by viewers, aiding in the identification of potential network configuration issues. This enhancement aims to improve the overall live streaming experience by providing actionable data for network adjustments.

New Google Meet links are now generated when changing the recurrence or start time of recurring Google Calendar events for 'This and following events'.

Previously, when users modified the start time or recurrence of recurring Google Calendar events and applied the change to 'This and following events,' the remaining events used the original Google Meet link. Moving forward, when users make such modifications, the remaining events will automatically generate a new, unique Meet link. The original event series will keep the original Meet link. This change ensures each new recurring event series gets its own distinct and secure Meet link, preventing the unintentional reuse of meeting links across separate Calendar events and enhancing meeting privacy.

Google Meet users now have access to the full emoji library for reactions.

Google Meet users now have access to the full emoji library for reactions in Google Meet. Reactions allow users to engage with meeting content, share meaningful feedback or praise, and celebrate company culture using a wider range of emojis.

Google Meet in-meeting messages will now be powered by and available in Google Chat, enabling continued conversations after meetings.

Starting November 10, 2025, Google Meet in-meeting messages will be integrated with Google Chat. This enhancement allows meeting attendees to continue discussions, share emojis, images, and files directly within Google Meet, with all content consolidated into Google Chat for easy post-meeting access to resources and conversation history. This aims to improve post-meeting follow-through and team productivity.

Google Meet introduces waiting rooms for hosts to control participant entry and manage meetings more effectively.

Google Meet is introducing a new waiting room feature that provides hosts and co-hosts with greater control over meeting entry. This feature allows participants to join a waiting room before entering the main call, enabling hosts to admit or deny entry, send one-way announcements, and even move existing participants back to the waiting room. This is designed to prevent interruptions, allow hosts to prepare, and ensure smoother, more productive discussions, especially useful for scenarios like board meetings or interviews.

Ask Gemini in Google Meet is rolling out to Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus domains, providing AI assistance for meeting summaries, key takeaways, and catching up on discussions.

The 'Ask Gemini in Meet' feature is now rolling out to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus domains. This update brings the power of Gemini directly into Google Meet, acting as a personal assistant to enhance meeting productivity. Users can leverage Ask Gemini to summarize ongoing discussions, get recaps of what was said, identify key takeaways, decisions, and action items, and even catch up on missed content if they joined late and Gemini-powered note-taking was enabled. Interactions with Ask Gemini are private to the user, and it generates answers by referring to meeting captions, user-permitted Google Workspace resources, and public web content. Caption data is not stored post-meeting, and it does not generate meeting recordings or transcripts. Currently, only English meetings are supported, with more languages to follow. Ask Gemini in Meet is on by default but can be managed by meeting hosts and admins.

Google Meet introduces 12 new AI-powered makeup looks.

Google Meet is expanding its video touch-up feature with 12 new AI-powered studio makeup looks. These options range from professional to expressive, and the AI ensures the makeup remains seamless and natural-looking during movements like sipping coffee or touching the face, allowing users to better express their personal style during video calls.

Google Meet live captions now support Cantonese.

Google Meet is adding support for Cantonese to its live caption feature, allowing users to view real-time text of what is being spoken in meetings. This enhancement improves accessibility and inclusion for Cantonese-speaking users by ensuring discussions, presentations, and training sessions are fully understood, regardless of hearing ability or connectivity.

Ability to set timers in Google Meet on the web.

Google Meet is introducing a new feature that allows users to set timers during web meetings. This tool, managed by hosts/co-hosts (or anyone if host controls are off), will be visible to all participants and can be paused or canceled. Timers aim to enhance meeting focus, time management, and equitable participation by providing a shared visual time reference, ultimately structuring meetings and boosting productivity.

Event organizers can now enable the Gemini-powered "Take notes for me" feature directly from Google Calendar when scheduling or preparing a meeting in Google Meet.

Google Workspace is introducing an enhancement to the Gemini-powered "Take notes for me" feature, allowing event organizers to activate it directly within Google Calendar. This integration simplifies the process of ensuring that meeting notes are automatically generated and shared in Google Meet, freeing participants to fully engage in discussions. The feature aims to provide comprehensive notes for critical meetings without requiring manual activation once the meeting starts.

Meet Quality Tool now shows viewers with 'Testing peering policy'.

The Meet Quality Tool's eCDN table will now represent viewers utilizing the 'Testing peering policy'. Previously, this table only displayed viewers per configured network when the 'Custom Rules' peering policy was in use, improving visibility for administrators using the testing policy.

Google Meet eCDN's 'Random peering policy' renamed to 'Testing peering policy'.

The 'Random peering policy' in Google Meet eCDN has been renamed to 'Testing peering policy'. This policy is intended primarily for testing purposes and is not designed for full performance in production environments.

Google Meet eCDN now supports multiple private IP addresses for matching.

Google Meet eCDN clients can now detect and use all private IP addresses configured on a device's interfaces for matching against custom rules. Previously, only a single IP (prioritizing IPv4) was used. This ensures that the first rule matching any detected private IP addresses will be applied.

Improvements to Google Meet eCDN custom rules for overlapping IP ranges.

Google Meet eCDN is updating how 'Custom Rules' peering policy works, specifically for overlapping IP ranges. The priority for blocking changes is being removed to simplify match determination, where the first matching rule (top-to-bottom) will be applied. This change affects administrators who have defined overlapping IP ranges in their custom rules.

The 'Manage Google Meet hardware and calendars' privilege will no longer grant broad access to all organizational calendars.

To enhance security and clarity, the 'Manage Google Meet hardware and calendars' privilege will cease to provide full read/write access to all Google Calendars across the organization, effective October 15, 2025. This update ensures that administrators solely responsible for Meet hardware management will not automatically have access to sensitive calendar data. While the privilege will still enable assigning calendars to Meet hardware devices, any admins requiring the previous level of calendar control must be separately granted the 'Manage Calendars' privilege before the specified date.