Enhance your Google Keep notes on Android with rich text formatting

What’s changing

Building upon our recent updates to Google Keep on Android devices, such as multi-instance support and the single note widget, we’re adding rich text formatting options to new notes on Keep. This highly requested feature enables you to customize and add emphasis to your text through bolding, underlining, italicizing, and heading styles. 

You will be able to access rich text formatting in existing Keep notes on Android devices in the coming weeks. 
Enhance your Google Keep notes on Android with rich text formatting

Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating or editing a note. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

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

Resources 

Third-party app access enhancements for Google Workspace for Education

What’s changing

Through the app access control settings, we’re making it easier for Google Workspace for Education admins to control how third-party apps access their organizations' Google data when users sign-in using their Google Workspace for Education accounts. 

Users designated as under 18 using the age-based access setting are required to request access to apps that aren’t already configured by admins with a trusted, limited, or blocked access setting.


All Google Workspace for Education Admins must review and confirm access settings for third-party configured apps that are currently accessible to your users by Oct 23, 2023 in order for users designated as under 18 to maintain access to those third-party apps. You’ll have the option to allow users designated as under 18 to skip requesting access for all unconfigured apps that only ask for basic profile information for authentication purposes. These apps will be accessible for users designated as under 18 without further configuration on your part.

Who’s impacted

Admins, end users, and developers 


Why it matters 

Third-party app settings are important for protecting users’ data. We are providing enhanced app access controls to manage access to third-party applications for users designated as under 18. Google Workspace for Education Admins are required to confirm third-party app settings for third-party apps currently accessible by users in their institution by October 23, 2023 to avoid disrupting access to third-party applications for users designated as under 18. 


Additional details

If you’d like to set different levels of access for specific sets of users, you can now configure third-party app access by organizational units.


Getting started 

Rollout pace 

  • This feature is available now. 

Availability 

  • Available to Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade 

Resources 

Join client-side encrypted meetings from your mobile device

What’s changing 

Beginning today, you can join a client-side encrypted meeting directly from the Google Meet and Calendar apps. 


Client-side encryption gives users direct control of their encryption keys and the identity service that authenticates those keys. Further, client-side encryption ensures that Google cannot access audio and video content under any circumstances. Our original announcement has more information about client-side encryption in Meet.


Getting started


Rollout pace



Availability

  • Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, and Education Plus customers hosting client-side encrypted calls 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Education Fundamentals, The Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Frontline, and Nonprofits customers

Resources



Launching the Merchant Support Service

On August 23rd, 2023, we introduced new features in the Content API for Shopping to help you display detailed information about product and account issues to your merchants, and enable those merchants to request re-review or perform other actions. The new MerchantSupport service provides more transparency about our policy-related requirements to your merchants. These methods should be used for merchants based in the EEA, but can be used globally.

Here are the 2 new methods (developer guide):
  • Render account issues: provides UI elements with text in the language you select to display account issues to your merchants and redirect link to Merchant Center for merchants to request a re-review or perform other actions
  • Render product issues: provides UI elements with text in the language you select to display product issues to your merchants and redirect link to Merchant Center for merchants to request a re-review or perform other actions
All issue texts returned from MerchantSupport methods above are localized. Clients can request texts in any Merchant Center supported language. Please note that merchants need to have access to their Merchant Center account in order to perform the actions.

If you are based in EEA, we highly recommend implementing MerchantSupport methods by the end of the year, so that your merchants will have more information regarding our policy-related requirements, and have access to our new features. In the future we will expand the MerchantSupport service to let you request re-review or perform other actions directly with the Content API for Shopping. With this future addition, your merchants will not have to be redirected to Merchant Center, they will be able to request the action directly in your UI.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us via the forum.
Benji Rothman, Content API for Shopping Team

Deprecation of Structured Data Files v5.4

Today we’re announcing the deprecation of Structured Data Files (SDF) v5.4. This version will be fully sunset on February 27, 2024.

Please migrate to v6, the most recent version, by the sunset date. Once v5.4 is sunset::

  • The default version of partners and advertisers using those versions will be updated to the oldest supported version, v5.5.
  • sdfdownloadtasks.create requests declaring the sunset versions in the request body will return a 400 error.

If you run into issues or need help with your migration, please contact us using our support contact form.

- Trevor Mulchay, Display & Video 360 API Team

Chrome Dev for Android Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Dev 118 (118.0.5963.0) for Android. It's now available on Google Play.

You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Krishna Govind
Google Chrome

Introducing Workday app for Google Chat

What’s changing

We’re adding a new Workday app for Google Chat that allows you to perform quick actions in Workday, such as requesting time off, filing expense reports and looking up colleague's information, all without leaving Google Chat. 
Introducing Workday app for Google Chat

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

  • This feature is available now for all users. 

Availability 

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

Resources 

Displaying Microsoft Outlook users as organizers in Google Calendar

What’s changing

Previously, if a Microsoft Outlook user invited a Google Calendar user to a meeting event, the Outlook user’s display name would not appear at all in the list of meeting attendees on Google Calendar. Starting today, we’re updating this experience so that the Outlook user who organized the meeting is listed amongst the other meeting attendees in Calendar as the meeting organizer. 


Getting started 

  • Admins and end users: No action required as you’ll automatically see these updates. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Calendar Interop. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

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

Resources 

The comedy of errors

Every now and then we get questions about errors that we may have shown for sites in Search Console, and every now and then we encounter folks who seem to be confused about where an error came from. This is understandable: there are many issues that can arise when accessing websites, but all of them, without exception, map to a certain system that makes the access possible. In this illustrated short story we will try to shed some light on the errors and perhaps make them look a little less scary. Let's dig in!