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Stay up to date on the latest changes to your files in Drive using “Catch me up”

What’s changing 

We’re excited to introduce “Catch me up,” a new feature that helps users easily stay up to date on their files. 

Starting today, Gemini can identify relevant files from a user’s Drive with changes since it was last viewed and provide an overview of those changes. This includes file edits on Docs and file comments on Docs, Sheets, and Slides. While this list isn’t meant to be comprehensive, it aims to highlight changes that may be helpful and important 
Catch me up in google drive

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

“Catch me up” provides a high-level overview of important changes across documents from your Drive, or a synopsis of the main changes and comments in a particular file since it was last opened to ensure users are always up to date. 

Additional details

This feature is only available in English at this time. 

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.
  • End users: 
    • You can get a high-level “Catch me up” update by navigating to Google Drive Home and selecting the “Catch me up” nudge at the top of the page. The response will show in the Gemini side panel. 
    • For a specific doc, Gemini can help you identify if there have been changes to that file since you last viewed it and provide an overview of what changed. You can get caught up on a specific doc by going to any doclist in Google Drive > looking for files with the catch me up activity indicator (which means there are likely changes to the file since the last time you viewed it) > either clicking the icon directly, or selecting the file and clicking “catch me up” from the selection toolbar. catch me up activity indicator

Rollout pace 

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 3, 2025 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google One AI Premium 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Resources 

Stay up to date on the latest changes to your files in Drive using “Catch me up”

What’s changing 

We’re excited to introduce “Catch me up,” a new feature that helps users easily stay up to date on their files. 

Starting today, Gemini can identify relevant files from a user’s Drive with changes since it was last viewed and provide an overview of those changes. This includes file edits on Docs and file comments on Docs, Sheets, and Slides. While this list isn’t meant to be comprehensive, it aims to highlight changes that may be helpful and important 
Catch me up in google drive

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

“Catch me up” provides a high-level overview of important changes across documents from your Drive, or a synopsis of the main changes and comments in a particular file since it was last opened to ensure users are always up to date. 

Additional details

This feature is only available in English at this time. 

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.
  • End users: 
    • You can get a high-level “Catch me up” update by navigating to Google Drive Home and selecting the “Catch me up” nudge at the top of the page. The response will show in the Gemini side panel. 
    • For a specific doc, Gemini can help you identify if there have been changes to that file since you last viewed it and provide an overview of what changed. You can get caught up on a specific doc by going to any doclist in Google Drive > looking for files with the catch me up activity indicator (which means there are likely changes to the file since the last time you viewed it) > either clicking the icon directly, or selecting the file and clicking “catch me up” from the selection toolbar. catch me up activity indicator

Rollout pace 

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 3, 2025 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google One AI Premium 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Resources 

Stay up to date on the latest changes to your files in Drive using “Catch me up”

What’s changing 

We’re excited to introduce “Catch me up,” a new feature that helps users easily stay up to date on their files. 

Starting today, Gemini can identify relevant files from a user’s Drive with changes since it was last viewed and provide an overview of those changes. This includes file edits on Docs and file comments on Docs, Sheets, and Slides. While this list isn’t meant to be comprehensive, it aims to highlight changes that may be helpful and important 
Catch me up in google drive

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

“Catch me up” provides a high-level overview of important changes across documents from your Drive, or a synopsis of the main changes and comments in a particular file since it was last opened to ensure users are always up to date. 

Additional details

This feature is only available in English at this time. 

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.
  • End users: 
    • You can get a high-level “Catch me up” update by navigating to Google Drive Home and selecting the “Catch me up” nudge at the top of the page. The response will show in the Gemini side panel. 
    • For a specific doc, Gemini can help you identify if there have been changes to that file since you last viewed it and provide an overview of what changed. You can get caught up on a specific doc by going to any doclist in Google Drive > looking for files with the catch me up activity indicator (which means there are likely changes to the file since the last time you viewed it) > either clicking the icon directly, or selecting the file and clicking “catch me up” from the selection toolbar. catch me up activity indicator

Rollout pace 

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 3, 2025 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google One AI Premium 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Resources 

Stay up to date on the latest changes to your files in Drive using “Catch me up”

What’s changing 

We’re excited to introduce “Catch me up,” a new feature that helps users easily stay up to date on their files. 

Starting today, Gemini can identify relevant files from a user’s Drive with changes since it was last viewed and provide an overview of those changes. This includes file edits on Docs and file comments on Docs, Sheets, and Slides. While this list isn’t meant to be comprehensive, it aims to highlight changes that may be helpful and important 
Catch me up in google drive

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

“Catch me up” provides a high-level overview of important changes across documents from your Drive, or a synopsis of the main changes and comments in a particular file since it was last opened to ensure users are always up to date. 

Additional details

This feature is only available in English at this time. 

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.
  • End users: 
    • You can get a high-level “Catch me up” update by navigating to Google Drive Home and selecting the “Catch me up” nudge at the top of the page. The response will show in the Gemini side panel. 
    • For a specific doc, Gemini can help you identify if there have been changes to that file since you last viewed it and provide an overview of what changed. You can get caught up on a specific doc by going to any doclist in Google Drive > looking for files with the catch me up activity indicator (which means there are likely changes to the file since the last time you viewed it) > either clicking the icon directly, or selecting the file and clicking “catch me up” from the selection toolbar. catch me up activity indicator

Rollout pace 

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 3, 2025 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google One AI Premium 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Resources 

Stay up to date on the latest changes to your files in Drive using “Catch me up”

What’s changing 

We’re excited to introduce “Catch me up,” a new feature that helps users easily stay up to date on their files. 

Starting today, Gemini can identify relevant files from a user’s Drive with changes since it was last viewed and provide an overview of those changes. This includes file edits on Docs and file comments on Docs, Sheets, and Slides. While this list isn’t meant to be comprehensive, it aims to highlight changes that may be helpful and important 
Catch me up in google drive

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

“Catch me up” provides a high-level overview of important changes across documents from your Drive, or a synopsis of the main changes and comments in a particular file since it was last opened to ensure users are always up to date. 

Additional details

This feature is only available in English at this time. 

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.
  • End users: 
    • You can get a high-level “Catch me up” update by navigating to Google Drive Home and selecting the “Catch me up” nudge at the top of the page. The response will show in the Gemini side panel. 
    • For a specific doc, Gemini can help you identify if there have been changes to that file since you last viewed it and provide an overview of what changed. You can get caught up on a specific doc by going to any doclist in Google Drive > looking for files with the catch me up activity indicator (which means there are likely changes to the file since the last time you viewed it) > either clicking the icon directly, or selecting the file and clicking “catch me up” from the selection toolbar. catch me up activity indicator

Rollout pace 

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 3, 2025 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google One AI Premium 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Resources 

Understand your videos much faster using Gemini in Google Drive

What’s changing

In addition to the ability to use Gemini in the side panel of Google Drive to summarize documents or to interact with PDFs in Google Drive’s overlay file previewer, we’re excited to extend Gemini’s summarization and Q&A capabilities to videos in Drive. 

Starting today, you can use Gemini in Drive to get summaries and ask questions about the content of videos in your Drive, such as: 
  • “Summarize this video” 
  • “List action items from this meeting recording” 
  • “What are the highlights from this announcement video?" 

Understand your videos much faster using Gemini in Google Drive
Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

Videos contain a wealth of information, however going back to watch them can be time consuming. With this update, users can leverage Gemini to get what they need from their videos much faster. 

Additional details 

This feature is currently available in English only and accessible when utilizing Google Drive’s overlay previewer or a standalone file viewer (new browser tab). 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google One AI Premium 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Resources 

Introducing video engagement insights in Google Drive

What’s changing

To enhance the video player experience within Google Drive, we’ve made numerous improvements, including a new look and feel, and enhanced functionality, automatically generated captions, and most recently, video transcripts. Now, we’re introducing a feature that helps you measure the engagement on videos uploaded to Drive. 

Starting today, users can see the total number of times a video is opened under a new Analytics section within the Details panel. 

This highly requested feature will help users understand if viewers are engaging with their videos. 
see the total number of times a video is opened under a new Analytics section within the Details panel

Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: To see a video’s “open count”, go to a video file in your Google Drive > open the video > click on the three dot menu > click on Details > locate the new "Analytics" section. Visit the Help Center to learn more about storing & playing video in Google Drive. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

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

Resources 

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – May 16, 2025

6 New updates

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.


Easily connect to BigQuery data using Saved Queries in Connected Sheets 
We’re launching direct access to the BigQuery saved queries feature directly from Connected Sheets. Users can now quickly and easily create a new Connected Sheet by selecting a previously saved query under any project they have access to. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Learn more about analyzing & refreshing BigQuery data in Google Sheets using Connected Sheets, getting started with BigQuery data in Google Sheets and writing & editing a query.

Scan documents easier using Google Drive on Android devices 
To improve upon the scanning experience in the Google Drive app on Android devices, we’re increasing the size and updating the style of the scan buttons. To scan something, open the Drive app on your Android device > scan a document > edit scan (if desired) > upload to Drive. | Rollout to Rapid Release domains is complete; Rolling out now to Scheduled Release domains, with expected completion by June 30, 2025. | Available to Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about scanning documents with Google Drive.

Scan documents easier using Google Drive on Android devices

Chat apps can now create spaces with their own identity using the Google Chat API
Last year, we introduced a feature through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program that enables Chat apps to create spaces and memberships - using application identity - via the Google Chat API. This update further enhances Chat apps for real-time collaboration and allows for even more sophisticated and autonomous Chat apps by eliminating the need to create spaces and memberships on behalf of a user. This week, we’re excited to announce that this is now generally available for Google Workspace developers. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to all Google Workspace customers. | Visit the Developer blog to see an example and learn more about what this means for developers. You can also visit our developer documentation to explore how to authenticate and authorize Chat apps, and learn how to create spaces and add space members using application identity.
Chat apps can now create spaces with their own identity using the Google Chat API
Export Gemini responses to a Google Doc or Sheet from Gemini in the side panel of Google Drive
Users can collaborate with Gemini in Google Drive to perform various tasks, such as extracting data, drafting proposals, creating study guides and more. We’re excited to build upon this by giving users the ability to convert Gemini’s response directly into a Sheet or a Doc. After asking Gemini a question, click the ‘Export to Doc’ or ‘Export to Sheet’ button, and you’ll have an artifact that you can continue working on or share with others. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to Business Standard and Plus; Enterprise Standard and Plus; Google One AI Premium; Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on, and anyone who previously purchased a Gemini Business or Gemini Enterprise add-on. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Google Drive.
Export Gemini responses to a Google Doc or Sheet from the Gemini side panel in Google Drive

Create even more interactive YouTube assignments in Google Classroom
In 2024, we added AI-suggested questions that educators can easily attach to the video based on its content to save educators time. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding the collection of YouTube videos that have AI-suggested questions available. As a result, educators can create even more interactive YouTube assignments in Classroom more quickly and efficiently, with the help of Gemini. Before assigning the interactive video activity, educators will be able to edit the suggested questions ahead of attaching the YouTube video to the assignment. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available for Google Workspace Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning add-on. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about interactive questions for YouTube videos in Google Classroom.

Your users can now express interest in upgrading their Google Workspace subscription 
We’re introducing a simple way for Workspace end users to request an upgraded edition of Google Workspace from their admins. To send this request, Workspace end users will see a path to request an upgraded Workspace edition including additional Gemini features when they interact with Gemini, such as with the Gemini icon displayed across Workspace apps. This interaction will provide an end user a path to complete a request form for an upgraded Workspace edition. Super admins will receive this request by email, and from there they can choose to upgrade their Workspace subscription directly in the Admin console. | Admins can disable these requests at any time in the Admin console by going to Account > Account Settings > Gemini for Google Workspace, and deselecting the ‘User-requested upgrades’ setting — use this article in our Help Center for more information. | Please note this is only available for customers in the US and India with fewer than 300 licenses. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Learn more about Gemini for Workspace, including our recent Gemini for Workspace announcements.

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.

Use Gemini in Drive to interact with folders in 20+ additional languages
Last year, we added folder support to Gemini in the side panel of Google Drive. This week, we’re excited to announce this experience is now available in 20+ languages. | Learn more about language availability for Gemini in Drive. 

Use Gemini in Google Sheets to quickly add dropdowns, pivot tables, filters, and more 
Analyzing and manipulating data in spreadsheets can be complex and time-consuming, even for experienced users. This week, we're introducing powerful new editing options within Gemini in Sheets that are designed to help everyone accomplish more, faster. | Learn more about Gemini in Sheets. 

Google Workspace apps for Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Calendar, Keep, and Tasks are now generally available for the Gemini app 
Earlier this year, we launched Google Workspace apps (formerly known as "extensions") in Gemini in open beta. When enabled, Gemini can reference and incorporate data from these apps to generate even more informed and relevant responses, bringing Gemini’s capabilities more seamlessly into your daily workflows, helping enhance productivity. Workspace apps are available for: Calendar, Docs, Drive, Gmail, Keep, Tasks. | Learn more about Workspace apps in the Gemini app. 

Extract and categorize data in AppSheet with the power of Gemini 
At Google Cloud Next 2025, we introduced Gemini in AppSheet solutions for AppSheet Enterprise Plus users. Now you can automatically extract key information from uploaded photos, parse through complex PDFs, or even categorize, route and prioritize incoming requests based on their content – all seamlessly within your existing AppSheet apps. The new AI Task (Preview) feature, powered by Gemini, makes this a reality. | Learn more about Gemini in AppSheet. 

Upcoming Changes to Microsoft Exchange Migrations 
Beginning May 31, 2025, the legacy Data Migration Service will no longer support migrating email, calendar, and contact data from Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers (e.g., Exchange 2010, 2013, or 2016). Admins will not be able to start new migrations after May 31, 2025 – migrations that are in progress will continue until completion. | Learn more about changes to Microsoft Exchange Migrations.

Completed rollouts

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

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

Google Workspace apps for Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Calendar, Keep, and Tasks are now generally available for the Gemini app

What’s changing

Earlier this year, we launched Google Workspace apps (formerly known as "extensions") in Gemini in open beta. When enabled, Gemini can reference and incorporate data from these apps to generate even more informed and relevant responses, bringing Gemini’s capabilities more seamlessly into your daily workflows, helping enhance productivity. Workspace apps are available for:

  • Calendar
  • Docs
  • Drive
  • Gmail
  • Keep
  • Tasks

Beginning today, we’re pleased to announce that extensions for these apps are now generally available.

Who’s impacted

Admins and end users

Why you’d use them

When enabled, Gemini can interact with other Google apps and services to provide more contextual and relevant responses to your prompts and take certain actions across apps. For example, you can:

  • Gmail: ask what dates were proposed in the email about the team offsite.
  • Drive: find the document about the website clean-up project and summarize the proposal in a few bullet points.
  • Docs: reference a Doc that outlines your target audiences while performing customer research in parallel. 
  • Calendar: create an event based on specific details or based on the conversation with the Gemini app, find events for a specific day or date range, modify events in Calendar.
  • Tasks: add reminders and tasks, including those based on your conversations with Gemini, or view and update a list of your tasks.
  • Keep: create notes and lists, add items to an existing list, find content from your notes and lists, and reference your notes and lists in conversion with Gemini.

Additional details

  • Context aware access support:
    • Like all Google apps, context-access aware policies can be applied to the Gemini app. Note that at the moment, CAA policies can only be applied to Gemini on the web, they cannot be applied on mobile.
    • If these policies are not met, users will not be allowed to access Gemini.
    • If a user meets the Gemini app specific CAA policies, they can interact with Gemini. If a prompt requires access to Workspace data, CAA policies will determine if a user has access to the requested data. For example, if a user asks Gemini "What are my unread emails?", they will see the requested content if they have access or they’ll receive an error message.

  • If your prompt includes multiple actions that require separate apps or services, but one or more of the required services are not enabled, neither of the actions will be completed. For example, if you prompt Gemini to create an event on your calendar and a reminder for that event but the Tasks extension is not enabled, the event will not be added to your calendar and you will not get a reminder.

  • Google Workspace extensions are not available to Google Workspace users accessing Gemini as an additional Google service.

  • Google Workspace extensions are only available to users 13+.

  • All prompts, responses, or content the Gemini app gets via apps (fka extensions), is not reviewed by anyone to improve AI models, not used to train AI models, and not shared with other users or institutions.

Getting started

  • Admins: Access to Workspace apps is controlled by the new “Allow access to Workspace apps after Beta (upcoming general availability)” setting. Access is ON by default unless you previously took action on the setting leading into general availability. Visit the Help Center for more information on turning Workspace apps in Gemini on or off.

  • End users: If enabled by your admin, connecting Google Workspace allows users to summarize, get quick answers, and find information from Calendar, Keep and Tasks in addition to Gmail, Docs, and Drive directly in Gemini. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Google Workspace extensions.

Rollout pace



Availability

Available for Google Workspace:
  • Business Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Frontline Starter and Standard
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons:
  • Gemini Business*
  • Gemini Enterprise*
  • Gemini Education
  • Gemini Education Premium
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Availability

Use Gemini in Drive to interact with folders in 20+ additional languages

What’s changing 

Last year, we added folder support to Gemini in the side panel of Google Drive. Today, we’re excited to announce this experience is now available in the following languages: 
  • Arabic 
  • Catalan Valencian 
  • Central Standard Swedish 
  • Common Czech 
  • Dutch 
  • Finnish 
  • French 
  • German 
  • Greek 
  • Hungarian 
  • Indonesian 
  • Italian 
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 
  • Malay 
  • Mandarin 
  • Modern Hebrew 
  • Norwegian 
  • Polish 
  • Portuguese 
  • Romanian 
  • Russian 
  • Spanish 
  • Standard Danish 
  • Thai 
  • Turkish 
  • Ukrainian 
  • Vietnamese
As a result, you can now use Gemini in Drive to answer questions like: 
  • “Summarize files in @-folder” 
  • “What is the theme of the content in @-folder” 
  • “When is the due date based on files in @-folder”

Additional details 

Gemini can only answer questions about text documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and presentations. 

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. 
  • End users: 
    • If Gemini in the side panel is closed, you can: 
      • Navigate to a folder, and click on the “Summarize this folder” button, or; 
      • Right-click on a folder in the doclist, and click on “Ask Gemini” in the context menu, or; 
      • Select a folder in a doclist, and click on “Summarize this folder” in the selection toolbar. 
    • If Gemini in side panel is already open, you can: 
      • Drag and drop a folder from the doclist into the side panel, or; 
      • @-mention a folder in the side panel’s textbox. 
    • If you are searching for a folder, you can: 
      • Click the Gemini icon next to the folder in the search dropdown box. 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Google Drive. 

Rollout pace 

Availability

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google One AI Premium 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Resources