Reminder: Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders will migrate to Google Tasks soon

In February 2023, we shared plans for the next phase of migrating Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders to Google Tasks. As a reminder, if you use a Google account for work and school, you’ll start to see a prompt in Assistant and Calendar to move reminders created in these apps to Tasks. For more information on this migration, please refer to our original announcement.

Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Improve search results with Personalization Boost and Click Boost for Cloud Search 

To help you find relevant documents faster, we’re introducing user personalization boost and click boost for the Cloud Search API. | Available to Google Cloud Search Customers only. | Learn more. 

Enabling organizational communication with announcements in Google Chat 

We're giving Space Managers the ability to configure spaces for sharing organizational announcements. Using the new announcement-only configuration, message posting and other capabilities are limited to designated Space Managers. | Learn more. 

Fine tune access to data with additional options for Access Approvals 

In 2022, we introduced Access Approvals, which enables customers to control when Google support personnel can access specific data during support and general maintenance. Beginning this week, we’re introducing additional options that provide customers even more control over these data interactions. | Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers only. | Learn more. 

Introducing new collaboration and flexibility features for Google Sites 

We've announced even more enhancements that improve upon collaboration within Sites and give you even more control over the layout of your Site’s content. | Learn more. 

Practice sets in Google Classroom are now generally available 

We’re excited to announce that practice sets are now generally available in English in Google Classroom to Google Workspace for Education Plus and Google Workspace for Education Teaching and Learning customers. | Learn more. 

Streamlined file organization with the new Google Drive location picker 

We've added improvements to the web Google Drive location picker that enable you to quickly and efficiently select a location to organize files and folders. The updates include a new visual experience and helpful suggestions when moving files and folders or adding shortcuts to items in Drive. | Learn more. 

New community features for Google Chat and an update on Currents

Last year, we announced plans to wind down Currents, to focus efforts on community experiences that are better integrated with the rest of Google Workspace. To help our customers manage this transition, we published detailed guidance for Workspace administrators and enabled customers to opt-in for automated migration of Currents data to spaces in Google Chat. | Learn more. 

Set default label values for files in Google Drive

This week, we’re expanding the automated classification capabilities of Drive labels to support setting default label values in addition to the current admin ability to apply labels by default. | Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers only. | Learn more. 

Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog post for additional details.

Rapid Release Domains:

• Introducing new collaboration and flexibility features for Google Sites (Collaborators’ cursors)

Scheduled Release Domains:

• Move folders from My Drive to shared drives

• Full mouse support now available for Google Sheets and Slides on Android (Slides)

• [Weekly Recap] Enhancing the Google Drive mobile experience on Android tablets

Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:

• All newly created spaces in Google Chat will be in-line threaded beginning March 13, 2023

• Admins can install Chat apps for use in direct messages

• Multi-instance support now available for Google Keep on large screen Android devices

• [Weekly Recap] Expanding language support for grammar suggestions (Docs)

• Improve search results with Personalization Boost and Click Boost for Cloud Search

• Practice sets in Google Classroom are now generally available

• Expanding language support for grammar suggestions (Gmail)

For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

Source: Google Workspace Updates