Previously, when converting Excel files, Excel tables did not import as Sheets tables, causing users to miss out on the structural and formatting benefits of tables, and pivot tables linked to tables were replaced with static grids. These updates ensure your data structures remain intact and beautifully formatted upon import. Most importantly, your imported spreadsheets will be ready to use right away, no manual reconstruction needed.

Table with linked pivot table imported into Google Sheets

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for both features.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using tables in Google Sheets or using pivot tables in Google Sheets.

Rollout pace

Table imports

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Linked pivot table imports

• Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 11, 2026 

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Docs Editors Help: Use tables in Google Sheets
• Google Docs Editors Help: Create & use pivot tables

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

Resources 

Use Add a source to Gemini Notebook to automatically keep your notebooks up to date

Getting started

• Admins: This step is available by default if you allow Gemini for Google Workspace steps. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing access to steps and starters in Workspace Studio.
• End users: Try the feature in Google Workspace Studio. Visit the Help Center to learn more about the Add Source to Gemini Notebooks step.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 business days for feature visibility) starting on August 6, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Workspace Studio
• Workspace Studio Help: Get Started with Workspace Studio
• YouTube: Workspace Studio Playlist
• Discord: Workspace Studio Channel

We are introducing timestamped comments for videos in Google Drive on the web. Users can now anchor comments to a specific time mark in a video, making video collaboration more direct, precise, and contextual. | Learn more.

Visual screenshots now included in Google Meet meeting notes

We’re improving the ‘Take notes for me’ feature in Google Meet by giving you the ability to automatically capture and include screenshots of presented content directly in the meeting notes document. | Learn more.

Gemini in Google Classroom is expanding to users of all ages, with contextualized Gemini starter prompts for students

Last year, we launched Gemini in Google Classroom to help educators save time on planning and create more engaging lessons, and later expanded Gemini in Classroom to higher education students 18 years of age and older to help them study and learn. Starting August 10, 2026, Gemini in Classroom will also be made available to K-12 and higher education students of all ages who have already been granted access to Gemini in Classroom, Gemini and Gemini Notebook by their admin, offering a guided space to interact with these tools.  | Learn more.

Streamlining rubric generation in Google Classroom with Gemini

To make it easier to create rubrics and grade in Google Classroom, educators can now instantly generate a new Classroom-ready rubric during their assignment creation workflow, using context from their assignment.  | Learn more.

Automatically add sources to your Gemini Notebooks in Workspace Studio

Historically, keeping Gemini Notebooks up to date would require you to manually add sources one by one. Now, this new integration lets you automate adding sources to your Gemini Notebooks as part of a recurring workflow. You can use the new Add a source to Gemini Notebook step to add text, links to Drive files, or generic Youtube or web URLs as sources to your notebooks to ensure your notebooks are always up to date on the latest content. | Learn more.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

With this update, there will now be multiple ways to create and use rubrics in Classroom:

• [New] Draft relevant Classroom rubrics from the assignment creation page: Within the “Rubrics” section, generate a new Classroom-ready rubric with help from Gemini based on their assignment. Educators can review and edit the proposed rubric criteria before adding it to the assignment, saving valuable prep time. 
• Convert existing rubrics files from the assignment creation page: Within the “Rubrics” section, educators can select an existing rubric they have and instantly convert it to a Classroom-ready rubric.
• Create rubric files from the Gemini tab: When planning their lessons, educators can collaborate with Gemini to draft a rubric based on information that they provide. They can then export the rubric to Sheets or Docs before attaching it to their class.

Note: This feature is only available for users over age 18.

Streamline grading setup by instantly generating custom rubrics directly within the assignment creation workflow.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be available by default if Gemini in Classroom is enabled. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing access to Gemini in Classroom.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating and reusing rubrics for an assignment.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on August 5, 2026

Availability

• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

Resources

• Google Classroom Help: Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage access to Gemini in Classroom

In Classroom, students can access the Gemini tab to transform their class materials into interactive experiences that help them study and learn. For example, students who have access to Gemini can select course materials to create flashcards or practice quizzes with Gemini that are tailored to their class. Students with Gemini Notebook access can also sync the materials provided by their teacher to Gemini Notebook, enabling them to create interactive study guides, audio overviews, infographics, and more.

Additionally, starter prompts on the student Gemini tab can now use context from Classroom to tailor Gemini interactions specifically to students’ schoolwork. This update transforms the existing starter prompts into highly contextualized experiences, eliminating the need to go back and forth between Classroom and Gemini to get support relevant to what they’re learning in the classroom.

When a student clicks on one of these starter prompts, a new box now appears that allows them to select a specific class and assignment. The Gemini prompt will then incorporate the relevant title, assignment instructions, and curriculum materials as context directly from Google Classroom, ensuring that the resulting interaction is grounded in the student’s academic context.

If Gemini in Classroom and the Gemini app are enabled, students will also be able to access “Learn with Gemini” when they hover over any assignment in “Due Soon” on the redesigned Classroom homepage. “Learn with Gemini” helps students get guided help or create study guides, practice quizzes, and flashcards – all based on their class curriculum.

Access to the Gemini tab in Classroom is currently available globally in all Classroom-supported languages in which Gemini is also available.

Getting started

Admins:

• Access to the Gemini tab in Classroom is On by default for teachers and students of all ages, and is controlled using the Gemini in Classroom control. If Gemini in Classroom is currently turned off for students, access will remain off for all students, including students younger than 18.
• As an administrator of your organization's Google Accounts, you can control who is allowed to use Gemini in Google Classroom. The student capabilities are only available to users:
• Whose role is defined as “Student” in Classroom
• Who are in a group or OU with Gemini in Classroom set to On
• Who are in a group or OU with Gemini Notebook set to On and/or Gemini set to On

• If you would like to disable Gemini in Google Classroom for users who are under 18 years old, you can create an OU with only those users and turn off access for that OU only. Visit the Help Center to learn about managing access to Gemini in Classroom, Gemini app, Gemini Notebook, and the option to turn these services on or off for users in your Admin console.
• Ensure roles in Classroom are appropriately assigned to users. Learn more about teacher and student roles.

• Navigate to the Gemini tab in the navigation bar in Google Classroom.
• When using generated content, you should always review the outputs as AI can make mistakes and refine the output so that it fits your context and local policies.
• Visit the Help Center to learn more about Gemini in Classroom and learn more about how to use generative AI for students.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on August 10, 2026, on the web and on August 17, 2026 on mobile

Availability

• Education: Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

Resources

• Workspace Updates Blog: Gemini in Google Classroom is expanding to students in higher education 
• Workspace Updates Blog: Students can now create personal class notebooks with NotebookLM in Google Classroom
• Google Classroom Help: Learn about Gemini in Google Classroom
• Google Classroom Help: Verify teachers and set permissions
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage access to Gemini in Classroom
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Control access to Google services by age

While meeting transcripts capture what is said, they often miss critical visual context, like content that was presented. Without these visuals, notes can lack necessary detail or even be confusing if a speaker refers to a chart or diagram without describing it out loud.

Getting started

• Admins: You can configure this feature in the Admin console to either always allow screenshots of presented content or only allow them when a recording is enabled. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
• End users: When you begin presenting in a meeting where notes are being taken, you will see a notification alerting you that Gemini may capture screenshots of your presentation to add to the notes. This feature can be disabled from the notes panel.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 3, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Education: Google AI Pro for Education

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Let Google Meet AI take notes for my users
• Google Meet Help: Take notes for me in Google Meet (Optional customizable settings)

When reviewing a video file, users can choose between adding a timestamped comment or a general file-level comment using a split button in the commenting interface.  Each timestamped comment generates a visual marker directly on the video player timeline. Clicking a marker automatically jumps to that point in the video and highlights the associated comment, allowing reviewers and video owners to navigate feedback without manually scrubbing through media files. Standard commenting capabilities—such as editing, resolving, replying, and mentioning colleagues with @ notifications—remain fully supported and integrated with time-anchored notes.

This feature streamlines cross-functional workflows by eliminating the need to track timecoded feedback in separate documents, chat threads, or emails. Teams producing demos, training videos, marketing content, or recorded presentations can now conduct precise, asynchronous reviews directly within Drive. While timestamped comments must be created on the web, mobile users viewing videos on iOS or Android will still see these entries formatted as standard file-level comments.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be available by default for all users. There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about commenting on videos.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Help: Store & play video in Google Drive - Comment on a video

Ahead of the general availability rollout, admins can decide whether visual screenshots of presented content are allowed in meeting notes for their users and pre-configure their preferred setting in advance. Admin controls can be configured to either always allow screenshots of presented content (default) or only allow them when a meeting recording is enabled.

We’ll share another update on the Workspace Updates blog with more details when visual screenshots begin rolling out to end users.

Visual Context in Meeting Notes

While meeting transcripts accurately capture what is said during a call, they don’t currently include visual context—such as presented slides, financial charts, or architecture diagrams. Visual screenshots will soon be automatically embedded into the Google Doc created by “Take notes for me”.

Data Protections and Privacy Controls

• Presenter Notifications: When a user begins presenting in a meeting where Take Notes for me is active, an on-screen notification will alert the presenter that Gemini may capture screenshots of the presentation to include in the meeting notes document.
• In-Meeting End-User Control: Presenters and end users can manage or disable visual screenshot capture at any time directly from the Google Meet notes panel.
• Enterprise Data Protections: Visual screenshots captured during meetings are covered by Google Workspace enterprise-grade data protections.

Getting started

• Admins: Admin settings are available starting today. You can configure visual screenshot settings in the Admin console at the domain, Organizational Unit (OU), or group level. Navigate to Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet to choose between allowing screenshots always or only when recording is enabled. 
• End users: There is no end user action required at this time. When the feature officially rolls out, presenters will receive a notification when presenting during a meeting with note-taking enabled and can manage setting preferences from the notes panel.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) in Q3 2026. We’ll share another update on the Workspace Updates blog with more details when visual screenshots begin rolling out to end users.

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Education: Google AI Pro for Education

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Let Google Meet AI take notes for my users

With this new functionality, you can:

• Create rich infographics or diagrams summarizing your docs: Ask Gemini to "Add a diagram providing an overview of the proposal at the top of my doc" or "Create a rich infographic visually summarizing my doc."
• Refine existing visuals: Use natural language to "Change the aspect ratio to 16:9" or "Make the style more aesthetic to match the rest of the document."
• Create or edit multiple visuals at once: Ask Gemini to add infographics in each key section, or update the style of multiple visuals at once.

You can access these capabilities from the bottom bar or the Gemini side panel in Google Docs.

Note: This feature is currently supported on the web only.

Getting started

• Admins: These features are available by default if Gemini for Workspace in Drive is enabled. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing access to Gemini features in Google Workspace.
• End users: You must have Workspace smart features enabled to use these features. Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating personalized documents with Gemini in Google Docs.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 28, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard, and Plus
• Education: Education Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage Gemini for Google Workspace
• Google Docs Editors Help: Create personalized documents with Gemini in Google Docs
• Google Docs Editors Help: Learn how Gemini in Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Docs, Drive, Sheets, Slides, Meet & Vids protects your data

The available information density options now include:

• Responsive to your screen: Your calendar dynamically scales and enlarges events to fill larger monitors, which makes events easier to read.
• Comfortable: Your calendar keeps the standard layout with traditional spacing, regardless of your screen size.
• Compact: Your calendar shows a denser view with tighter spacing, which allows you to see more events at once.

New options in Calendar information density to adjust for large monitors

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Change your density settings from the Appearance settings menu in Calendar on the web. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 29, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 10, 2026

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Calendar Help: Change event color set and density in Google Calendar

Additionally, this feature improves import and export compatibility with Microsoft Excel. Previously, importing Excel files with multiple x-series scatter charts into Google Sheets would drop the extra axes and revert to a single x-axis. Now, these configurations are accurately preserved when moving spreadsheets between platforms.

User creating a scatter chart with multiple x-series in Google Sheets

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding and editing a chart in Google Sheets.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 29, 2026 
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 14, 2026

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Docs Editors Help: Add & edit a chart or graph

With this launch, you can quickly create a quiz by writing a specific prompt for Help me create describing the quiz you want to create. Your prompt can reference Google Drive files like Docs, Slides or PDFs to use as sources for the quiz, should you choose.

Gemini then generates a quiz incorporating details from any files you reference, with appropriate quiz settings, including correct answers for each question. Gemini supports different question types like multiple choice, grid, checkboxes, and grid question types.

You can preview the quiz after it's generated, and adjust the content of the generated quiz after inserting it, as needed.

Getting started

• Admins: To access Gemini in the side panel of Workspace apps, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating a form or quiz with Gemini in Google Form.

Users can create a quiz using a prompt and pdf file with Gemini in Google Forms

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on July 24, 2026 
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 5, 2026 

Availability

• Business: Business Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard, and Plus
• Education: Education Plus
• Consumer: Google AI, Pro, and Ultra
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning

Resources

• Google Help: Create a form or quiz with Gemini in Google Forms
• Google Workspace Updates  Blog: Use Gemini in Google Forms to quickly create a new form

Previously, users might inadvertently reveal their presence on a confidential thread by hitting "Reply All" while BCC'ed. With this update, Gmail will now display a prominent warning prompt to confirm your intent before the message is sent to all recipients, ensuring that your participation remains private unless you choose otherwise.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature is available by default.
• End users: This feature is available by default and will trigger automatically when a BCC'ed recipient attempts to "Reply All" on a thread.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

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

In the coming weeks, we’re starting the rollout of visual screenshots for the ‘Take notes for me’ feature in Google Meet. Visual screenshots automatically capture presented content (such as slides, diagrams, and charts) directly into the generated meeting notes document, ensuring critical visual context is preserved alongside spoken summaries and transcripts. | Learn more.

Streamline collaboration in Google Docs with Gemini-powered comment workflows

We’re introducing Gemini-powered comment workflows in Google Docs to help you quickly understand and respond to collaborator feedback. These new features enable Gemini to read, summarize, and act on comments throughout your document, saving you time and streamlining collaboration. | Learn more.

Generate and edit visuals with Gemini in Google Docs

You can now create and edit images, diagrams, and infographics directly alongside your text using Gemini in Google Docs. These images leverage the context of your document, so you can generate relevant visuals to accompany your writing without ever leaving Docs or relying on external tools. Plus, you can refine your existing visuals and graphics using simple natural language prompts. | Learn more.

Updated options to better view Google Calendar on large monitors

To provide users with more control over their viewing experience, we’re updating information density options for the calendar grid. These updates allow users to customize how calendar events scale on their screens to accommodate various monitor sizes and personal preferences. | Learn more.

Create and import scatter charts with multiple x-series in Google Sheets

Google Sheets now supports creating and editing scatter charts with multiple independent x-series. This update allows users to map separate data series to their own unique x-axis, rather than forcing all series in a single chart to share the same horizontal axis domain. | Learn more.

Use Gemini in Google Forms to quickly create a new quiz

Help me create in Google Forms now supports generating quizzes. With this launch, you can quickly create a quiz by writing a specific prompt for Help me create describing the quiz you want to create. Your prompt can reference Google Drive files like Docs, Slides or PDFs to use as sources for the quiz, should you choose. | Learn more.

Prevent accidental disclosures with new Reply All BCC warnings in Gmail

To help protect your privacy and ensure intentional communication, we are introducing a new caution notification in Gmail. This feature is designed to prevent accidental information disclosure by alerting users when they are about to "Reply All" to a thread where they were originally BCC’ed. | Learn more.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Google Sheets now offers enhanced support for combo charts, providing a more seamless experience when creating multi-series visualizations. | Learn more.

A centralized hub for meeting resources on the new Google Meet homepage

Finding the right notes or attachments for a meeting shouldn't feel like a scavenger hunt. We’re introducing a revamped Google Meet homepage on the web to help you stay organized and prepared throughout your entire meeting workflow. | Learn more.

Redesigned Google Classroom homepage with tailored views based on user’s role

Soon, Google Classroom will introduce a redesigned homepage globally across all editions to help teachers, students, and administrators easily find relevant content, resources, and tools tailored to their specific roles. | Learn more.

Gemini Alpha is now Gemini Beta

We’re updating the name of the Gemini Alpha program to "Gemini Beta." This new name more accurately reflects both the scale and the quality of the features that enter this launch stage. Please note that this is solely a branding change. This update does not alter any customer configurations, data privacy constraints, or pricing tiers. | Learn more.

Google Meet now organizes your meeting notes, transcripts, and recordings in your Google Drive

We’re making it easier for users to find meeting notes, transcripts and recordings in Google Drive. | Learn more.

View supporting calendar delegates in meeting guest list

When viewing a guest list in Google Calendar on the web, you will now see a new icon next to leaders who have a calendar delegate assisting them with scheduling support. Hovering over the icon will display the person’s information, allowing you to easily initiate a chat with them directly. | Learn more.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

This update helps users quickly identify and contact the appropriate scheduling support for a leader to streamline communication and event coordination.

This icon is visible in several calendar views:

• Event details view
• Full-screen creation
• Side-by-side scheduling view

New icon surfacing the calendar delegate of a leader in the guest list in event details view

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: There is no end-user setting for this feature. Simply hover over the icon next to the person’s name to see more information about their scheduling support.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 23, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on August 3, 2026

Availability

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

As a reminder, we’ll continue to announce new Gemini Beta features in the Google Developer Program (GDP) forum and the Gemini Beta Help Center. You must be an active Workspace customer and register to access GDP content; follow these instructions to sign up.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no change to existing admin controls. You will begin to see the "Gemini Beta" label replace "Gemini Alpha" in the Admin console and Help Center articles over the next several weeks.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this change.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 22, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn access to Google Workspace with Gemini Beta on or off
• Google Developer Program: Workspace Alpha Forum

• After a meeting, we’ll automatically upload these files to a new folder in the host’s My Drive called “Google Meet.”
• Within that “Google Meet” folder, these files will be automatically organized into subfolders for each meeting. Files from different instances of a recurring meeting will share one folder.
• Any meeting attendees with access to the meeting files will see shortcuts to these source files in their “Google Meet” Drive folders too..

Previously, these files were only uploaded to the host’s My Drive, not the attendees’, and the files weren’t organized by meeting.

Note: Shortly after we roll out this change, we’ll automatically move the existing “Meet Recordings” folder into the new “Google Meet” folder and rename it “Legacy Meet Recordings.” Users may see both “Meet Recordings” and “Google Meet” in their Google Drive for a brief period during this transition.

Getting started

• Admins: Existing "Meet Recordings" folders will be renamed to "Legacy Meet Recordings" and moved under the new "Google Meet" folder topology. Admins should audit any API scripts or automated workflows that rely on specific folder names or IDs.
• End users: Users will see their meeting artifacts automatically organized into meeting-specific sub-folders within the "Google Meet" folder, with shortcuts for easier findability.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on July 22, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on July 30, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

• Google Meet Help: Record a video meeting
• Google Meet Help: Take notes for me in Google Meet

The new homepage provides a centralized view of your meeting agenda and essential artifacts, allowing you to:

• Prepare effectively: Quickly access meeting descriptions and calendar attachments for upcoming calls. 
• Follow through easily: Find meeting notes, recordings, and transcripts from past meetings without digging through your inbox or Drive.
• Manage your time: Use the new week and month navigators to look ahead at your schedule or revisit previous discussions.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. The new homepage experience will be available to all users with access to Google Meet on the web.
• End users: The new homepage experience will be available to all Meet users on the web. Visit meet.google.com to get started.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 21, 2026 
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 17, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers and Workspace Individual subscribers

Resources

• Google Meet: Google Meet Homepage
• Google Meet Help: Use the Google Meet homepage

The new experience, which will begin rolling out on July 27, 2026, is personalized based on a user's role and available features:

• For teachers, a new dashboard gives actionable insights, highlights student classwork interactions, tracks assignment completion, and surfaces a feature spotlight to help discover instructional tools and resources.

• For students, a dedicated ‘Enrolled’ view reminds learners of coursework that is due soon and helps them manage their deadlines.

• For school leaders and IT administrators, the homepage provides a centralized view to monitor high-level performance analytics, access shortcuts for backend administrative settings, and discover relevant tools to support educators and staff.

Users who have multiple roles (such as a teacher taking a professional development class) can easily change their view dashboard by clicking into another role (for example, Teaching, Enrolled, or Admin). When a user loads the homepage, it returns to the previous role view.

To help users control their view and focus on what matters most to them, all new homepage modules are collapsible.

Please note that not all features and views will be available to all users. Eligibility is determined by the user’s role, feature access, account type, and settings.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for the new Classroom homepage. Gemini and Gemini Notebook features will only appear if the user is in an OU with Gemini in Classroom, Gemini app, and/or Gemini Notebook enabled. Visit the Help Center to learn about managing access to Gemini in Classroom, Gemini app, Gemini Notebook, and the option to turn these services on or off for users in the Admin console.
• End users: There is no end user setting for the new Classroom homepage. Visit the Help Center to learn more about the new Classroom homepage.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1-3 days for visibility) starting July 27, 2026

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Classroom Help: Navigate your Classroom Homepage
• 2026: What’s New in Google for Education: Overview of Classroom Homepage

User creating a combo chart in Google Sheets

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW) has been updated to support FIDO2-compliant physical security keys as a second factor for authentication. This update helps organizations improve their security posture by enabling administrators to enforce 2-Step Verification (2SV) using hardware security keys at the Windows login screen. | Learn more.

Improvement to in-room problem reporting for Google Meet hardware

Maintaining an enterprise-grade video conferencing environment requires visibility into the health of its devices. We're introducing new ways to see Google Meet hardware user-reported feedback directly in the Admin console. | Learn more.

New refinement capabilities allow custom editing with Help me write in Gmail

Users can now edit and revise their email drafts in Gmail via the prompt bar, using custom refine instructions in Help me write. Previously the refines were limited to preset options like Polish, Formalize, and Shorten. | Learn more.

Now available: group conversations with external collaborators in Google Chat

For many teams, it’s essential to be able to work in real-time with partners from outside your organization. We’re improving external collaboration in Google Chat by making it possible to create group conversations that include external users. | Learn more.

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

We’re renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. While it remains a standalone product focused on being your premier research tool, the new name reflects how it will evolve to do more across the Google ecosystem. | Learn more.

Easily control the emotions and pacing of AI avatars and AI voiceovers in Google Vids

Users can now easily steer voiceover and avatar speaking in Google Vids by typing content within brackets like “[excitedly]”. | Learn more.

Expanded language support for Gemini in Google Docs

We are now expanding support for these features to 11 more languages, including Mandarin, Dutch, Malay, Hebrew, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Indonesian, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. These new additions join our previously supported languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, French, Korean, German, and Italian. | Learn more.

Generate higher quality AI video clips and edit any video with Gemini Omni in Vids

Users now have access to Gemini Omni directly within Google Vids. Omni provides higher quality video generation with significant improvements over previous models. Additionally, Omni’s world understanding unlocks simple video edits so you can ask Omni to tweak the video you have to get the video you need. | Learn more.

Cast yourself in AI video clips using your personal avatar with Gemini Omni in Vids

Users now have access to Gemini Omni directly within Google Vids. With Gemini Omni, you can create videos using your personal avatar to scale your presence without the studio time. Use a secure verification process to capture your likeness and then select it as a character in Omni generations within Vids. | Learn more.

New Google Meet 'Take notes for me' settings for admins and end users

To help users remember to capture notes for meetings when it’s most valuable, we’re updating the admin and end user settings that let them pre-configure AI note-taking for Google Meet. | Learn more.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Personal avatar user experience

• Secure verification: Verify and manage your personal avatar directly within your Google Account.
• Seamless integration: Easily add your personal avatar from the selector in Vids.
• Administrative oversight: Admins can manage or disable this feature through the Admin console.

A note on language and region availability

At launch, personal avatars are available in English only for users 18 years and older. They’re not available in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom. Learn more about personal avatar privacy settings.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be ON by default and can be disabled or enabled at the domain level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing personal avatars in Vids.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using personal avatars in Vids.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 16, 2026 
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 5, 2026 

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Education: Education Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Other Editions: Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*

*Users with AI Expanded Access add-on licenses have higher limits on usage of Omni in Vids.

Resources

• Google Docs Editors Help: Create, use & manage your personal avatar with Gemini in Google Vids
• Google Docs Editors Help: Use Omni in Google Vids

Admin settings

Previously, admins could only enable or disable automatic note-taking for all meetings. Today, we’re starting to roll out a third option, which will allow admins to enable automatic note-taking only for meetings with three or more people.

Customers on Business Standard and Business Plus plans will soon see this setting turned ON by default; the setting will be OFF by default for customers on Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Frontline Plus plans, as well as those with the Google AI Pro for Education add-on. There will be no impact to the end user experience on any plan before September 21, 2026. If you want to change your settings, you can do so in the Admin console.

If you currently participate in the Gemini Alpha program, and previously tested this setting, it may already be ON. Please review the current state of the settings for your organization in the Admin console before September 21, 2026.

End user settings

We’re also introducing a way for end users to enable note-taking only for meetings with three or more participants. Once the “For all meetings I host with 3+ guests” option rolls out, users should revisit their settings to confirm they’re configured as desired. This option will become available no sooner than September 21; stay tuned to the Workspace Updates blog to be notified when that rollout starts.

Getting started

• Admins for Business Standard and Business Plus organizations: This new setting is ON by default. If you wish to change your settings, you should do so before September 21, 2026, to avoid any impact for end users. Visit the Help Center for more information on how to adjust these settings.
• Admins for Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline Plus, and Google AI Pro for Education organizations: This new setting is OFF by default. You can adjust this setting in the Admin console once it appears, but it will not affect the end user experience before September 21, 2026. Visit the Help Center for more information on how to adjust these settings.
• Admins for organizations participating in Gemini Alpha program: Your settings may be impacted by previous configurations. Please review your settings before September 21, 2026, to ensure they’re configured correctly.
• End users on all plans: The default set by admins will go into effect for end users no sooner than September 21, 2026. Users can override this default in the Meet user settings after that date. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Meeting settings for “take notes for me”.

Rollout pace

Admin setting

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Rolling out now, with expected completion by August 3, 2026

End user setting

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting no sooner than September 21, 2026*

*We’ll post an update on the Workspace Updates blog when the end user setting rollout begins.

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Other Editions: Frontline Plus
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

Resources

• Google Meet Help: Take notes for me in Google Meet
• Google Workspace Updates  Blog: New user controls for Take notes for me

Omni in Vids user experience

• Generate clips with higher quality: Generate higher quality videos with improved text rendering, physics, and realism using Google’s latest Omni Flash model.
• Edit videos by typing changes: For example, fix the color-grading, restyle the visuals in anime, or remove that New York siren in the background with a simple text instruction in Vids.

A note on language and region availability

At launch, editing non-AI videos with Omni is not available in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Texas, or Illinois.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature does not have an admin control.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Omni in Vids.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 16, 2026 
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 5, 2026 

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Education: Education Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Other Editions: Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*

*Users with AI Expanded Access add-on licenses have higher limits on usage of Omni in Vids.

Resources

• Google Vids Editors Help: Use AI to generate video clips

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Steering suggestions in Vids scripts

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We are now expanding support for these features to 11 more languages, including Mandarin, Dutch, Malay, Hebrew, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Indonesian, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. These new additions join our previously supported languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, French, Korean, German, and Italian.

Reimagined Gemini experience in Docs

With this update, Google Docs offers a centralized place to generate, write, and refine your documents with Gemini. Powered by Workspace Intelligence, Gemini leverages data across Drive, Gmail, Chat, and the web to provide personalized, context-aware assistance.

• The upgraded Help me create experience enables you to generate relevant, fully formatted first drafts that synthesize information from your files, emails, chat, and the web.
• With Help me write, simply prompt Gemini from the bottom bar or side panel to make edits across your doc, or select text to focus Gemini’s attention. Gemini’s suggested edits are only visible to you until you approve them.
• Match writing style helps maintain a consistent tone and style across your entire doc, no matter how many people are working on it.
• With Match doc format, Gemini can mirror a source document to generate content that adheres to the original's formatting (e.g., fonts and colors) and structural elements (e.g., headings and table columns).

To generate new docs from scratch, open a new doc, enter your prompt, and click submit. To edit existing docs, simply hover over the spark near the bottom of your doc and type a prompt in the bottom bar.

Getting started

• Admins: These features are available by default if Gemini for Workspace in Drive is enabled. Note that enabling Workspace Intelligence expands the range of supported use cases.
• End users: You must have Workspace smart features enabled to use these features. Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating personalized documents with Gemini in Google Docs.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 15, 2026 
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 1, 2026 

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Education: Education Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Education Add-ons: Teaching and Learning
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*; Google AI Pro for Education*

*Users with AI Expanded Access and Google AI Pro for Education add-on licenses will have higher limits on usage of Match writing style and Match document format tools.

Resources

• Google Docs Editors Help: Write & edit with Gemini in Docs
• Google Docs Editors Help: Learn how Gemini in Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Docs, Drive, Sheets, Slides, Meet & Vids protects your data

Previously, teams using Google Chat could only create 1:1 conversations with external users, or create a space in Chat with external access enabled.

With this update, it’s now possible to create group conversations with multiple external users, reducing friction and streamlining external collaboration. No additional configuration is required, and access for external users is enabled once they accept an invitation through an email notification. Group conversations with external members are labeled with a visible badge to help ensure that users are aware of the context for all conversations in Chat.

Getting started

• Admins: External group DMs share the same admin controls as external spaces. Ensure that the External spaces & group direct messages admin setting is enabled for your organization to allow users to create or join external group DMs.
• End users: If allowed by their admin, end users can add external users when they create a new group DM. External users can’t be added to existing group DMs that only have internal users. External users who are added to group DMs will receive an email invitation and must accept the invitation to participate in the group conversation.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Rolling out now, with expected completion by July 17, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 24, 2026 

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers and Workspace Individual subscribers

Resources

• Google Chat Help: External group DMs in Google Chat
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Control external Chat & spaces chat options

Whether you need to add a missing detail to the second line or include a deadline for your request, simply type the instruction and Gmail will instantly update the draft for you.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature is available by default if both Gemini for Workspace in Gmail is enabled and Workspace Intelligence access to Gmail is enabled.
• End users: This feature is available by default. Visit the Help Center article to learn more about drafting emails with Gemini in Gmail.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Rolling out now, with expected completion by July 20, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra
• Other Editions: Frontline Plus
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Resources

• Gmail Help: Draft emails with Gemini in Gmail

We’ve also updated user-side feedback options to replace generic reporting with structured actionable feedback making it easier and more intuitive for room participants to report problems.

Redesigned user interface

The new feedback menu on Google Meet hardware now features responses that are tailored to the reporting context (In-Call, Out of Call, Live stream). These new feedback options collect better details, making it easier for admins to understand and troubleshoot the issue.

In-Call Feedback: Users are presented with call specific options to report a problem , like “Can’t see others” or “Poor audio or video quality.”

Out-of-Call Feedback: When filing feedback from the touchscreen landing page, users now see a new set of join-related problems, including “Can’t join Meet call” and “Can’t join Teams call.”

Livestream Feedback: Users viewing large-scale livestreams will see dedicated options to report a problem.

Admin console improvements

The Google Meet hardware section of the Admin console now features enhanced monitoring tools. Feedback is no longer proxied as a background telemetry event; it is now a primary, sortable “device information” column within the device list.

Enhancements include two new columns on the device list page, including:

• Last feedback submitted - A sortable column displaying the exact timestamp of a device’s most recent report, which can be filtered by 1, 3, 7, or 30 days. Clicking the timestamp opens a side panel containing specific feedback details.
• Feedback in the last 28 days - A cumulative count of reports filed for a specific device over a rolling 28-day period, allowing for the identification of recurring faulty devices.

The Google Meet hardware device list featuring new “Last feedback” and “Feedback in last 28 days” columns

Admins can get more information about a specific “Last feedback” by clicking on the date, a side panel will open providing the specific feedback details:

The feedback side panel on the Admin console now shows the new set of problems customers have reported

In addition, we’re introducing a new "With feedback in last 7 days" filter, which instantly prioritizes devices with recent reports and repositions the feedback columns to sit next to the device name for immediate visibility.

A new filter to glance at devices with feedback filed in the last 7 days.

Getting started

• Admins: Ensure the “Let users send feedback to Google” checkbox is selected in GMH Settings > Data Sharing > Feedback is ON  at the domain or organizational unit (OU) where the device is enrolled. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
• End users: Users can report feedback during or after a call or livestream via the “Report a problem” button. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)  starting on July 14, 2026

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Meet Hardware Help: Get support for Google Meet hardware
• Google Meet Hardware Help: View & edit device information
• Google Meet Hardware Help: Monitor the health of devices
• Google Meet Hardware Help: How to report a problem from a meeting room device

Getting started

• Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about enforcing 2SV.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)  starting on July 13, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Prepare to install GCPW

You can now join video conferences on Google Meet hardware via SIP through a Pexip interop gateway. This brings universal connectivity for users to join meetings hosted on any SIP-compatible platform directly from their Meet rooms. The functionality is available for room hardware based on both Android and ChromeOS. | Learn more.

Occupancy counting now available for Google Meet on Neat room hardware

Occupancy counting is now available for Android-based Neat room hardware to help measure how meeting rooms are used. This feature brings the same occupancy counting capabilities found on ChromeOS devices to Android-based hardware. | Learn more.

Fill with Gemini in Sheets now available in 11 additional languages

We're leveraging the capabilities of the AI function in Google Sheets, Fill with Gemini eliminates the need for complex formulas, helping you easily generate text, summarize information, categorize data, or analyze sentiment at scale with generated content appearing directly in the cells you choose. | Learn more.

New calendar sharing permission level and changes to recurring event visibility

We're introducing a new calendar sharing permission level: “Make changes (see private events as free/busy)”. This allows you to grant someone edit access to your calendar while keeping the details of your private events entirely hidden. This is especially useful for leaders who assign delegates to help them manage their calendars. | Learn more.

Convert your Google Slides to videos in 7 additional languages

Google Vids already lets you convert your Slides content into Vids with AI-generated scripts, voiceovers, background music, and animations for presentations and accounts in English. We’re now expanding support to French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. | Learn more.

Streamline identity lifecycle management in Google Workspace with new inbound SCIM support

We are excited to announce the general availability of Google Workspace inbound SCIM APIs to help IT administrators standardize identity lifecycle management. This new capability allows you to sync your Google Workspace directory in real time with any SCIM-compatible Identity Provider (IdP), HR system (HRIS), or custom application. | Learn more.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

With inbound SCIM, when a Workspace end user’s account permissions are changed via their organization’s IdP, their access to Workspace data and any downstream apps, such as Gemini Enterprise, will also be updated in real time. Previously, customers would need to build custom integrations using Google directory APIs.

SCIM overview

System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) is an open protocol that synchronizes directory information between identity systems. With inbound SCIM, Google Workspace acts as a SCIM Service Provider, enabling compatible Identity Providers (IdPs) to automatically provision, update, and deactivate users and groups in real time.

Inbound SCIM offers:

• Automated lifecycle management: IT teams no longer need to manually create user accounts or update details for Workspace, saving significant time and costs.
• Seamless onboarding and day-one productivity: New employees have access to all Workspace productivity tools the moment they start, creating a frictionless onboarding experience.
• Enhanced security with instant deprovisioning: When an employee leaves your organization or changes roles, SCIM instantly pushes an update request to Workspace. This eliminates the security risks associated with orphaned accounts and makes compliance audits significantly easier.
• Simplified admin experience: Inbound SCIM offers a one-click token generation experience and admin controls to lock synced groups from your external source to prevent manual changes in Workspace that would conflict with your identity provider.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be available by default and can be disabled/enabled at the domain level. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
• End users: This is an admin-facing feature only.

The Manage external directories page in the Admin console showing Inbound SCIM setup

Configure a new Inbound SCIM connection with external IdP

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting July 9, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Get started with Inbound SCIM

We’re now expanding support to French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. 

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about converting Google Slides into Google Vids.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on June 30, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on July 20, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Education: Education Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Other Editions: Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Resources

• Google Help: Convert Google Slides into Google Vids

Previously available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, and German, both Fill with Gemini and the AI function are now expanding to users in Mandarin, Dutch, Malay, Hebrew, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Indonesian, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.

Getting started

• Admins: Fill with Gemini is an entry point to the existing AI function. It will be hidden if the Smart features for Google Workspace setting is disabled. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing Google Workspace smart features for your users.
• End users: You must have Workspace smart features enabled to use Fill with Gemini. Users can trigger Fill with Gemini by dragging a selection or selecting empty cells to see the prompt menu. Visit the Help Center to learn more about filling columns with Gemini.

Rollout pace 

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 7, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
• AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*

*Starting July 15, 2026, users with AI Expanded Access licenses will have higher limits on usage of Fill with Gemini and the AI function in Sheets. 

Resources

• Google Docs Editors Help: Use the AI function in Google Sheets
• Google Admin Help: Set smart features & controls on or off for users

Delegates assigned this restricted permission level will only be able to create, delete, and edit non-private events. Private events will appear to delegates as “busy” blocks on the calendar grid, and delegates will not be able to edit or reschedule them. In addition, private events won’t show up in any search results for delegates.

Changes to visibility for recurring events

We’re also introducing changes to the way visibility settings are applied to recurring events.

• Users can no longer make changes to the visibility of a single event in a recurring series. Any changes to visibility will be applied to all events in the series.
• Existing events in a recurring series will be updated to match the strictest visibility setting of any event in that series. In other words, if one event in the series is marked private but the others are not, all events in that series will be changed to private.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Users can grant delegates this new permission level in their Calendar settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more about sharing your calendar.

Rollout pace

• Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 7, 2026

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Calendar Help: Share your calendar

Understanding room occupancy helps organizations optimize real estate and room design based on user needs. For instance, organizations can track if rooms with older video hardware are being avoided in favor of rooms equipped with better tracking cameras and audio bars.

Admins can review occupancy data in the Google Admin console and optionally download it as a spreadsheet. This feature does not collect or store any personally identifiable information (PII). Because occupancy detection processes data locally on the device, the camera LED indicator may remain off during counting depending on the hardware vendor. Refer to vendor documentation for device-specific information.

Review room booking and occupancy in the Admin console

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be off by default and can be enabled at the domain, organizational unit (OU), or group level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning on occupancy detection.
• End users: There is no end-user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started on July 6, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet on Neat AOSP hardware devices. 

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn on occupancy detection
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Track room and device usage with Meet hardware

The SIP functionality for Meet hardware enables critical in-meeting interactions, such as DTMF (Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency) capabilities that allow users to navigate meeting IVRs (interactive voice response systems), e.g., "Press 1 to raise your hand" and entering numeric meeting passcodes.

Distinct administrator settings are provided for managing SIP dial-out functionality separately from other Pexip-based integrations.

Join SIP calls with a single touch from the room agenda

SIP interoperability setting for administrators

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be off by default and can be disabled or enabled at the domain, OU, or group level. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 6, 2026

Availability

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

*Functionality requires a separate Pexip subscription

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Allow Meet hardware to join third-party video conferencing services
• Google Meet Hardware Help: Meet interoperability FAQ

In April 2026, we updated Meet to improve video quality on high-resolution displays. We’re now updating the way the Admin console setting that limits video bandwidth works to reduce data usage and improve call quality. | Learn more.

Educators and students can now share Gemini Canvas creations directly to Google Classroom

Educators and students of all ages can now seamlessly attach Gemini Canvas artifacts, like websites, quizzes, interactive games, infographics, and more, to Google Classroom assignments and posts. | Learn more.

Assign mobile device management admin privileges based on organizational unit

We’re giving admins more granular control over how mobile device management privileges are delegated. Specifically, admins can be assigned privileges for specific organizational units (OUs), adding another layer of security by scoping access only to necessary OUs. | Learn more.

Data regions support for the Gemini app now available

The Gemini app adheres to your organization’s data regionalization requirements. As with Google Workspace, admins have the flexibility to configure controls for EU storage and processing, US storage and processing, or both, including granular settings down to the organizational unit (OU) level. | Learn more.

Create fully native and editable presentations with Gemini in Google Slides

You can now create a full, multi-slide presentation using Gemini in Google Slides. With a single prompt, you can ground the presentation in existing content from Google Drive, match the style of another presentation, and build fully editable slides, allowing you to make any necessary adjustments. | Learn more.

Ask Gemini in Drive now available on mobile

In April, we announced the general availability of Ask Gemini in Drive on the web. We’re now bringing this feature to the Drive Android and iOS apps. | Learn more.

Work with delegated Gmail accounts from mobile devices

Previously, users could only work with delegated Gmail accounts through the web interface. We are updating the Gmail app for iOS and Android to allow delegates to read, manage, and compose emails on behalf of a delegator directly from their mobile devices. | Learn more.

AI Overviews in Drive now available on mobile

In April, we announced the general availability for Drive AI Overviews in Drive on the web. We’re now bringing this feature to the Drive Android and iOS apps. | Learn more.

Import 3D bar charts into Google Sheets

Google Sheets now fully supports the import of 3D bar charts. Previously, when users imported files containing 3D bar charts into Sheets, they would be displayed as 2D bar charts. With this update, importing these types of files, including from Microsoft Excel, will yield a more seamless experience. | Learn more.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

3D bar chart imported into Google Sheets

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding and editing a chart in Google Sheets.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Available now
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 13, 2026

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Docs Editors Help: Add & edit a chart or graph

Instead of searching through endless files and opening dozens of tabs to find the information you need, you can now get instant answers right at the top of your search results. Gemini does the heavy lifting for you, scanning your documents to provide clear, reliable summaries.

Here is how it helps you work smarter:

• See the big picture: Get a quick summary of information pulled from multiple files without needing to open each one.
• Ask naturally: There’s no need to use complicated search tricks. Just ask a question as you would to a colleague, like "What’s in our Spring 2026 catalog?"
• Get the right answer: Gemini automatically understands what you’re looking for, whether it’s a quick fact, a project summary, or a list of specific documents, and adjusts its response to match.
• Dig deeper with ease: If you need more information, you can go from a quick summary to a deeper conversation with Ask Gemini in just one click.
• Control your AI Overviews scope: Use AI Overview search settings to choose which Google Workspace apps Gemini uses to find files and generate AI Overviews.

This feature will roll out in English and an additional 28 languages (the same as those supposed for Gemini in Drive side panel) over the next several weeks.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature is available by default if Gemini for Workspace in Drive is enabled.
• End users: You must have Workspace smart features enabled to use AI Overviews in Drive. Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting answers directly in Drive search.

Rollout pace

• Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started on June 26, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

Resources

• Google Help: Search & retrieve your files in Drive with Gemini

Ask Gemini in Drive offers you a dedicated, immersive workspace designed for deep focus. You can now engage in high-context, multi-turn conversations to efficiently explore and understand content across Drive, other Workspace apps, and the web.

Key features include:

• Dedicated conversations: Engage in focused discussions about specific sets of files and folders. By grounding your questions in the relevant content, you get more precise, actionable answers.
• Persistent conversation history: Easily pick up where you left off. Your past chats are saved, allowing you to quickly revisit previous insights about specific folders or projects without starting over.
• Secure and compliant: Ask Gemini in Drive is built directly into the Drive architecture, it never copies or replicates your files. It honors your existing data protection and security controls, including access permissions, DLP policies, and IRM, ensuring Gemini only accesses content you are authorized to see.

This feature will roll out in English and an additional 28 languages over the next several weeks.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature is available by default if Gemini for Workspace in Drive is enabled.
• End users: You must have Workspace smart features enabled to use Ask Gemini in Drive. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Ask Gemini in Drive.

Rollout pace

• Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started on June 26, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

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Try the following to create more relevant, compelling presentations in less time:

• Add a prompt: In the Slides side panel, add a prompt to generate a presentation.
• Ground it in your content: Add as many reference files directly from Drive as you need to provide context.
• Stay on-brand: Attach an existing deck to use as a style reference to ensure your presentation matches your desired look and feel.
• Refine the plan for your presentation: Answer any follow-up questions to refine the presentation’s tone, style, content, or audience. You will also have the chance to edit or approve the presentation outline before the actual slides are created.

Note: At launch, this feature will be supported in English only.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about generating a presentation with Gemini.

Note: Through at least August 1, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for creating multi-slide presentations using Gemini in Google Slides, allowing users to experiment with this feature. Users will see a notification when they use this feature to inform them of the limited higher promotional access period. Per-user usage limits will apply after that date; we’ll provide more information in the Help Center in advance of updated usage limits going into effect.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started on June 29, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*

*Once promotional limits are no longer in effect, users with AI Expanded Access add-on licenses will have higher limits on usage of Gemini in Slides.

Resources

• Google Slides Help: Generate presentations with Gemini in Google Slides
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Reimagining content creation with Gemini in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive

Example experience for an admin with OU-level permissions

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By removing the friction of exporting or linking external files, this feature helps teachers diversify their lesson materials and enables students to share creative outputs more efficiently. The integration ensures that rich, interactive media is easily accessible to everyone in the class, supporting a more engaging and dynamic digital learning environment.

Getting started

• Admins:
• The ability to share Gemini Canvas artifacts will be ON by default and can be managed via a new Admin console setting. Additionally, sharing is governed by your organization’s existing Drive sharing policies. If Drive content is set to be shareable outside the organization, your Gemini assets will be as well. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
• To share Gemini Canvas artifacts to Google Classroom, students and educators must also be in a group or OU with Gemini set to On. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Gemini on or off for users.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. If enabled by your admin, you can share your Gemini canvases and media to Classroom, select Share > Share to Classroom > select the class and/or assignment you want to share it with. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Gemini.

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• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

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• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

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• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Share chats, canvases, and generated media from the Gemini app securely via Google Drive
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn conversation sharing on or off
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn the Gemini app on or off

Previously, the ‘Limit video bandwidth’ setting only limited video bandwidth on the uplink; it now limits bandwidth on the downlink as well. In addition, we’re improving quality for two-person calls by increasing the uplink bandwidth usage in this scenario.

Updated setting for Meet default video quality

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• Admins: Your existing settings will remain applied.  Visit the Help Center to learn more about configuring default video quality.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

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• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 29, 2026

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• Google Admin Help: Manage Meet settings (for admins)
• Google Admin Help: Configuring default video quality

Enhanced security monitoring with expanded Admin password reset alerts

Join Google Meet calls from Safari on iOS devices

Google Apps Script is now a Google Workspace core service with enterprise-grade data protection

Connect to Google Meet hardware with room codes now in Early Preview

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Stricter classifications for Google Groups to enhance data security and privacy

Read Along in Google Classroom is now available to all education users to support foundational literacy

Streamline your data backups with incremental exports for Google Workspace

• Frequent incremental backups - supplementing the baseline with frequent incremental backups, such as backing up data from the "last x days" every "y days"
• Capture data from the last 5 days, running every 3 days
• Capture data from the last 7 days, running every 5 days

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• Create a presentation
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• Convert a file to Google slides

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• Admins: Access to the Classroom app in Gemini will be ON by default for all Education domains and can be disabled at the OU or group level. For all other domains, access will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the OU or group level. Access can be turned on or off with a new Classroom app setting in the Gemini section of the Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Google apps in Gemini on or off for your organization.

• End users: Your admin configuration will determine if you can use the Classroom app in Gemini. Access to the Classroom app in Gemini will be ON by default and can be disabled at the end user level in the connected apps section of the Gemini app settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using apps connected to Gemini.

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Convert rubric files and images into Google Classroom rubrics with help from Gemini

Introducing the Workspace Policy API mutate endpoints for DLP

Google Meet now supports sending 1080p HD video from ChromeOS meeting room hardware

Google Vault now supports retention rules and litigation holds for Gemini app

• Default retention rules: Set default retention rules for the Gemini app for a finite or indefinite retention period.
• Custom retention rules: Create custom retention rules for the Gemini app by organizational unit (OU) or the entire domain for a finite or indefinite retention period.
• Litigation holds: Place holds on the Gemini app data for a specific OU or a list of users.

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Notification in comments

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Image of "External" badge displayed in Google Docs

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• Admins: This feature is ON by default and can be disabled at the domain and organizational level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Out-of-Domain Warnings on or off for your organization.
• End users: This feature is ON by default. There is no end-user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about sharing files from Google Drive.

Image of the Google Workspace Admin console, Sharing settings, showing the "Highlight external files" option enabled

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• Easy, SQL-free configuration: A user-friendly side panel guides you through configuring your anomaly detection analysis without writing a single line of SQL.
• Clear, built-in formatting: Results are cleanly rendered with new columns for is_anomaly (a boolean indicator) and lower_bound/upper_bound intervals to help you quickly sort, filter, and interpret the findings. 
• Customizable thresholds: Take control of your analysis by setting a specific time period, anomaly probability threshold (defaulting to 0.95), and filtering input data
• Automated refresh ability: Just like other Connected Sheets objects, your anomaly detection extracts can be scheduled to refresh automatically, ensuring your insights are always current.

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An example of the audit log and log details for a DBSC event in the admin console

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• Admins: This feature will be ON by default and can be managed via a new Admin console setting. Additionally, sharing is governed by your organization’s existing Drive sharing policies. If Drive content is set to be shareable outside the organization, your Gemini assets will be as well. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

• End users: If enabled by your admin, you can share your Gemini conversations, canvases, and media from the web interface using the standard Drive sharing menu.

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Simplify decision-making with Polly, now available for Google Chat

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Keep your sources up to date with automatic Drive syncing in NotebookLM

Gemini LTI Update: Include your LMS sources when using NotebookLM in Powerschool Schoology

More granular admin controls for Workspace Studio steps and starters

Easily identify data irregularities with anomaly detection in Connected Sheets

Ask Gemini in Google Meet is becoming more easily accessible on web

Prevent account takeovers with Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC), now generally available in the Chrome browser for Windows

Share chats, canvases, and generated media from the Gemini app securely via Google Drive

Google Chat external interoperability with Microsoft Teams via NextPlane OpenHub is now available 

Available in beta: Convert your client-side encrypted Slides after a Vault or Takeout export

Keep track of student progress with learning standards and skills in Google Classroom

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• Admins: This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the OU level. Admins can leverage iOS AppConfig through their MDM provider to enforce these restrictions for each Workspace app. Visit the Help Center to learn more about preventing accidental data leaks on iOS devices.

• End users: There is no end-user setting for this feature.

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• Admins: When configuring DLP rules in the admin console, admins can locate the new content conditions of file extension, file name, and file type under content conditions. Admins can also select the option of proximity matching to set a maximum distance between two pieces of matched texts. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

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• Admins: The feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the organizational unit (OU) or group level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about DLP for Calendar.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

DLP settings in the admin console to configure policies for sensitive data, including actions and alerts when creating Calendar events

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Introducing the ability to loop over a list of items in Workspace Studio

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Quickly scan multiple pages in Google Drive on Android

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When checked, "Require all approvers to review the same content" resets pending approvals if the file content changes. This is the default behavior.

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JavaScript is a primary driver for interactivity across the web, but if it's not used with care, interactions can feel sluggish, and lead users to perceive your website to be non-responsive or altogether broken. Thankfully, the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric was created to address this specific user experience problem.

INP measures all interactions made with a page during its lifecycle, and reports a single value that is representative of a website's speed in responding to user inputs. Simply put, if a page's INP is at or below the good threshold, all interactions made with a page can be said to be reliably fast.

redBus, a bus booking and ticketing website based in India, undertook a substantial effort to improve their website's INP, even during the time when it was still considered an experimental metric. As a result of their efforts, they were able to increase sales by 7%, illustrating once again the relationship between web performance and business health. Here's what redBus did to improve their website's INP.

Top goals #

When redBus set out to optimize their website's INP, they had three goals in mind:

1. Provide a better user experience for users by focusing on interaction latency regardless of network speed and device capabilities.
2. Optimize their website to keep interactions as fast as possible.
3. Ensure that responses from their API were as light as possible to ensure fast data transfer to the front end.

The journey #

redBus categorized interaction latency in two ways:

1. Interaction latency caused by blocking JavaScript on the client. When interactions use excessive JavaScript that blocks the main thread, rendering is delayed, and this affects a page's INP.
2. Network latency caused by API calls. While network activity is not something that INP measures, an interaction reliant on a call to a remote API can feel sluggish on slower networks, or if requests result in large responses.

redBus was initially quite confident that the INP for their website would be good, but the Real User Monitoring (RUM) data for this metric at the 95th percentile told a different story.

How redBus measured INP #

redBus relied on the web-vitals JavaScript library built by Google to track not just INP, but all important user experience metrics for all pages across their website. In addition to the web-vitals JavaScript library, redBus used ELK to analyze INP data that was collected on the front end.

However, how you track your website's INP in the field may be quite different from how redBus approached the problem. We highly recommend that you read about how to find slow interactions in the field to learn how to best to track INP for your websites, and subsequently how to reproduce them in the lab before you begin optimizing interactions.

Once redBus had a system in place for tracking INP, they were able to analyze the data in order to gain a better understanding of where slow interactivity was present.

Use cases #

When users search for fares on the redBus website, they can change the date on the search page to filter selected fares for the desired destination. The interaction to change the date on this page was slow, and was a cause of poor INP.

Additionally, when a user scrolls through fares, additional fares are lazy-loaded from the API. Though scrolling itself isn't factored in how INP is measured, the scroll event listener itself schedules a lot of work that must run on the main thread. This work was causing contention on the main thread that increased interaction latency, leading to poor INP on the search page.

How redBus optimized INP for the search page #

To improve the search page's INP, redBus made several optimizations:

• The scroll event handler was debounced in order to reduce the amount of times the event callback would fire in a given period. By lowering the frequency in which scroll event callback ran, the main thread was able to respond more quickly to user interactions on the search page.
• The resulting rendering work was prioritized by using a requestAnimationFrame callback. requestAnimationFrame tells the browser that the work in the callback must be done before the next frame.

Additionally, the following further optimizations were made to the search results page:

• New batches of results were fetched on the second to last card on the search results page in order to improve the user experience and visual performance by triggering lazy loading earlier.
• Fewer results were fetched on each network call during lazy loading. By reducing fetches from 30 to 10 results, a reduction in INP ranges at 870 to 900 down to 350 to 370 were observed.

While these changes significantly improved the INP of the search page, there was still the problem where the change event on the search page's input fields would call an expensive reducer function to update the user interface. This resulted in unnecessary rerendering of the user interface, which affected the page's INP.

To optimize this interaction, redBus managed the state of input components locally and synced it with the Redux store only when an input's blur event was fired. This change reduced the number of rerenders and eliminated unwanted rerendering of the user interface by calling the reducer less frequently.

With this change, the page's INP improved by 72%, resulting in a faster and smoother user experience that users are more likely to engage with.

Business impact #

The relationship between business health and page performance is well-known. Though INP is a relatively new metric compared to other Core Web Vitals, redBus observed better business outcomes by focusing on improving this important user-centric performance metric. The result was a 7% overall increase in sales.

In short, INP helped to paint a picture of runtime performance issues on the redBus website. With the knowledge that there were improvements to be made, redBus was able to observe the problem, reproduce it, and use that crucial information to make optimizations that were beneficial to redBus and its business.

The fuzzy beginning #

When Google initially introduced INP as an experimental metric with the potential to evolve into one of the Core Web Vitals metrics, the Economic Times team took up the challenge to fix it before it graduates into one, since providing a world class user experience is crucial to our core business values.

INP has been one of the most difficult metrics to solve thus far. In the beginning, it was unclear on how to measure INP effectively. What made it more difficult was the lack of community support—including most Real User Monitoring (RUM) providers not supporting it yet. However, we had Google RUM tools like Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX), the web-vitals JavaScript library, and others supporting it, which gave us a sense of where we stood while we were evaluating the path ahead. Our INP was close to 1,000 milliseconds at the origin level when we started.

One thing that emerged while fixing INP in the field was that one of the lab metrics to target could be Total Blocking Time (TBT). TBT was already well documented and supported by the community. Despite already meeting the thresholds for Core Web Vitals, however, we weren't doing as well on the TBT front, as it was over 3 seconds when we began.

What is TBT, and what steps did we take to improve it? #

TBT is a lab metric that measures the responsiveness of a web page to user input during page load. Any task that takes more than 50 milliseconds to execute is considered a long task, and the time after the 50 millisecond threshold is known as the blocking time.

TBT is calculated by taking the sum of the blocking time of all long tasks during page load. For example, if there are two long tasks during load, the blocking time is determined as follows:

• Task A takes 80 milliseconds (30 milliseconds more than 50 milliseconds).
• Task B takes 100 milliseconds (50 milliseconds more than 50 milliseconds).

The page's TBT will be: 80 milliseconds (30 + 50). The lower the TBT, the better, and TBT also correlates well with INP.

Here’s a quick lab comparison of our TBT before and after taking steps to improve it:

Minimize main thread work #

The browser’s main thread handles everything from parsing HTML, building the DOM, to parsing CSS and applying styles, as well as evaluating and executing JavaScript. The main thread also handles user interactions—that is, click, tap, and keypresses. If the main thread is occupied with doing other work, it may not respond to user inputs efficiently, and may lead to a janky user experience.

This was the most difficult task for us, since we have our own algorithms to detect user identity for serving ads based on subscription status and third party scripts for A/B testing, analytics, and more.

We took small steps at first, such as de-prioritizing loading of less critical business assets. Second, we used requestIdleCallback for non-critical work, which can help to reduce TBT.

if ('requestIdleCallback' in window) {
  this.requestIdleCallbackId = requestIdleCallback(fetchMarketsData.bind(this), {timeout: 3000});
} else {
  fetchMarketsData(); // Fallback in case requestIdleCallback is not supported
}

Specifying a timeout is recommended when using requestIdleCallback, since it makes sure that if the given time is elapsed and the callback is not already been called, it executes the callback immediately after the timeout.

Minimize script evaluation time #

We also lazy loaded third party libraries using Loadable components. We also removed unused JavaScript and CSS by profiling the page with the coverage tool in Chrome DevTools. It helped us to identify areas where tree shaking was needed to ship less code during page load, and therefore reduce the initial bundle size of the application.

Reduce DOM size #

Per Lighthouse, large DOM sizes increase memory usage, causes longer style recalculations, and produces costly layout reflows.

We reduced the number of DOM nodes in two ways:

• First, we rendered our menu items at the user’s request (on click). It decreased the DOM size by around 1,200 nodes.
• Second, we lazy loaded less important widgets.

Because of all these efforts, we reduced TBT significantly, and our INP was reduced accordingly by almost 50%:

At this point, we nearly ran out of easy wins to further reduce TBT (and INP by proxy), but we knew we had a lot of room for improvement. This is when we decided to upgrade our custom-built UI boilerplate to the latest version of React along with Next.js to make better use of hooks to avoid unnecessary re-rendering of components.

Due to more frequent updates and comparatively lesser traffic as compared to the other portions of the website, we began to migrate our topic pages to Next.js. We also used PartyTown for offloading additional heavy main thread work to web workers, along with techniques like requestIdleCallBack for deferring non-critical tasks.

How has improving INP helped The Economic Times? #

Current TBT and INP on origin #

At the time of publishing this post, the TBT for our origin was 120 milliseconds, down from 3,260 milliseconds when we began our optimization efforts. Similarly, the INP for our origin was 257 milliseconds after our optimization efforts, down from over 1,000 milliseconds.

INP CrUX trend #

The traffic received on topic pages represents a significantly smaller portion of overall traffic. Hence, it was an ideal place for experimentation. The CrUX results along with the business outcomes were very encouraging, and led us to expand our efforts across the entire website to reap further benefits.

Akamai mPulse TBT Analysis #

We use Akamai mPulse as our RUM solution, which measures TBT in the field. We observed a consistent decrease in TBT, clearly mapping to the outcomes of our efforts to reduce INP. As can be seen in the screenshot below, TBT values eventually dropped from approximately 5 seconds in to around 200 milliseconds in the field.

Business outcome #

Overall, our efforts to bring down TBT by 30 times, along with migrating to Next.js helped us reduce INP nearly by 4 times, which eventually led to a 50% decrease in bounce rate and 43% uplift in pageviews on topic pages.

Conclusion #

To summarize, INP extensively helped to determine runtime performance issues on parts of the Economic Times website. It has proven to be one of the most effective metrics to positively impact business outcomes. Due to the very encouraging numbers we've observed as the result of this effort, we are motivated to scale our optimization efforts to other areas of our website and reap additional benefits.

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