Google Workspace Changes

Ask Gemini in Meet provides a personal meeting assistant to summarize discussions, identify action items, and catch up on missed content.

Ask Gemini in Meet is being introduced for select Google Workspace customers to enhance the meeting experience. This feature allows users to summarize ongoing discussions, identify key takeaways and action items, and catch up on content if they joined late (provided "Take Notes for Me" was enabled). User interactions with Ask Gemini are private, and it generates insights using meeting captions, Google Workspace resources, and Google search. No meeting data is stored after the meeting ends. The feature is initially available on desktop, supports English, and will not be available in breakout rooms. Admins have controls to manage access, and meeting hosts can disable it for participants.

Google Meet links will now be added to the location field for invitations sent to users of other calendar apps (e.g., Outlook), and Google Calendar will detect Meet links from external invitations.

With this update, Google Meet links will automatically appear in the location field when a Google Calendar user invites someone using a different calendar application, such as Microsoft Outlook. This change aims to simplify joining Meet conferences for external users by ensuring the link is easily visible and not overlooked in event details. Additionally, Google Calendar will now intelligently detect Google Meet links embedded in the description or location fields of invitations received from other calendar apps, further enhancing the ease of joining meetings and fostering seamless collaboration across different platforms.

Audit log changes for Google Meet hardware settings will now be found under "Application setting" instead of "Chromebox for meetings device setting change".

Starting August 7, 2025, audit logs for specific Google Meet hardware settings like 'Release channel' and 'Alert recipients' will transition from being logged under 'Chromebox for meetings device setting change' to 'Change Application Setting,' 'Create Application Setting,' or 'Delete Application Setting.' This update is part of Google's effort to remove outdated product references and streamline the audit log experience. By August 28, 2025, these logs will solely appear under the new 'Application setting' categories.

Google Meet "Take notes for me" now offers granular sharing controls for meeting hosts.

Google Meet has introduced new sharing controls for the "Take notes for me" feature, allowing meeting hosts and co-hosts to specify the recipients of the meeting notes. Users can now choose to send notes to all invited guests, only invited guests within their organization, or exclusively to hosts and co-hosts. The default setting is "Invited guests in your organization." Once configured, this sharing preference will apply to the specific meeting and any recurring meetings in that series, providing greater flexibility in managing sensitive meeting information.

Google Meet "Take notes for me" email notifications now include meeting summaries and suggested next steps.

The email notifications generated by the "Take notes for me" feature in Google Meet have been enhanced. These emails will now provide a summary of the meeting and "suggested next steps" in addition to the direct link to the notes document. This aims to give meeting invitees a quick and helpful overview of the meeting's key takeaways in a single place, improving the utility of automated meeting notes.

Improved Google Meet hardware admin log events now offer more granular details and a new event category for better tracking and troubleshooting.

Google Meet is enhancing its hardware administration log events within the Google Workspace Admin console. The deprecated 'HANGOUTS DEVICE SETTING' event category is being replaced by a new, more precise 'GOOGLE MEET HARDWARE' event type. This update provides administrators with a more comprehensive audit trail, including granular device-specific information like device ID, resource IDs, and device type, for actions such as changing lifecycle state, OU membership, device properties, performing bulk actions, and running commands on Meet devices. This increased visibility aims to improve an organization's security posture and facilitate more effective troubleshooting of Google Meet hardware issues.

Studio lighting in Google Meet, powered by Gemini, is now accessible on all devices.

Google Meet's studio lighting feature, which uses machine learning and Gemini to simulate studio-quality lighting by adjusting light position and brightness in video feeds, is now available across all devices. The rollout to Rapid and Scheduled Release domains is complete. It is available for Google Workspace Business Standard and Plus, and Enterprise Standard and Plus.

Automated meeting recordings, transcripts, and "Take notes for me" in Google Meet now support seven additional languages.

Google Meet's automated meeting recording, transcript generation, and "Take notes for me" features, previously only in English, now support French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Meeting artifacts will automatically be generated in the meeting host’s supported language. This feature is rolling out now to Rapid and Scheduled Release domains, with availability varying by Google Workspace edition.

Meeting hosts can control who requests to join meetings ("knocking").

Meeting hosts gain control over who can request to join meetings when the meeting access type is "Trusted" or "Restricted". This is configured via the Calendar invite (Video call options > Host controls) or during the meeting (Host controls). This feature enhances meeting security and minimizes disruptions.

Users can now present content directly from their camera feed in Google Meet.

Google Meet is introducing a new feature that allows users to present content directly from their camera feed during meetings. This enhancement supports various use cases, including streaming produced video content, sharing live feeds from external video sources like microscopes or cameras, and educators presenting paper content via document cameras. The feature supports up to 1080p/30FPS. Furthermore, improvements to screen sharing include faster initiation, sharper video quality, automatic resumption of presentations when a second presenter stops sharing, and a more intuitive user interface for the screen sharing button.

Users can now view in-meeting chat messages in Google Meet live streams.

The ability to view in-meeting chat messages in Google Meet live streams has been added.

Set preferred language for "Take notes for me", recorded captions, and meeting transcripts in Google Meet.

You can now set your preferred language from the Calendar invite and during the meeting when using Google Meet on Android and iOS devices for "Take notes for me", recorded captions, and meeting transcripts.

Updates for configuring your preferred language for “Take notes for me”, recorded captions, and meeting transcripts

You can now set your preferred language from the Calendar invite and during the meeting when using Google Meet on Android and iOS devices.

Updates for configuring your preferred language for “Take notes for me”, recorded captions, and meeting transcripts

You can now set your preferred language from the Calendar invite and during the meeting when using Google Meet on Android and iOS devices.

Improve communication and representation with Dynamic layouts in Google Meet

The feature to Improve communication and representation with Dynamic layouts in Google Meet has completed rollout to Rapid Release domains