Tag Archives: Rapid Release

Present content from camera in Google Meet

What’s changing

We’re introducing a new capability that lets users directly present content from their camera feed into a meeting, for example a document camera, video production tool, or an external camera. This is helpful for customers who utilize external production systems or other dedicated cameras to share video content during meetings, including:

  • Streaming produced video content (e.g., for town hall meetings).
  • Professional sharing live feeds from external video source (e.g. microscope, camera)
  • Educators presenting paper content using a document camera.

Additionally, Presenting content from a camera supports up to 1080p/30FPS.


Additional details

We're also introducing several improvements to the overall screen sharing functionality to make presenting smoother and more efficient:
  •  Starting any type of screen sharing (i.e. desktop, window or tab) is faster than before.
  • Additionally, video quality during screen sharing is sharper and provides better handling of dynamic scenes, such as scrolling text or video content.
  • To minimize disruptions, any previous presentation will now automatically resume if a second presenter stops sharing their screen.
  • We've also updated the user interface to make the screen sharing button larger and positioned more intuitively alongside other key controls, making it easier to find when you need it.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace
  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Frontline Standard
  • Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Education Plus, the Teaching & Learning add-on, as well as the Endopoint Education Upgrade
  • Workspace Individual Subscribers

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Use suggestions in your client-side encrypted Google Docs

What’s changing 

You can now see suggestions when viewing a client-side encrypted Google Doc. Those with edit access will be able to interact with suggestions, including adding, editing, accepting, and rejecting suggestions. This update adds to existing functionality for client-side encrypted docs, which includes comments and action items. Further, this added functionality helps brings user experience parity to encrypted documents while ensuring your data is behind encryption keys you control, including the identity provider used to access those keys

Suggestions in a client-side encrypted doc


Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available to Google Workspace 
  • Enterprise Plus
  • Education Standard and Plus
  • Frontline Plus

Resources


Use suggestions in your client-side encrypted Google Docs

What’s changing 

You can now see suggestions when viewing a client-side encrypted Google Doc. Those with edit access will be able to interact with suggestions, including adding, editing, accepting, and rejecting suggestions. This update adds to existing functionality for client-side encrypted docs, which includes comments and action items. Further, this added functionality helps brings user experience parity to encrypted documents while ensuring your data is behind encryption keys you control, including the identity provider used to access those keys

Suggestions in a client-side encrypted doc


Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available to Google Workspace 
  • Enterprise Plus
  • Education Standard and Plus
  • Frontline Plus

Resources


Upload code folders or import your GitHub repositories directly into the Gemini app

What’s changing 

Starting today, we’re expanding the ability to upload code folders to select Google Workspace users. Additionally, all Google Workspace users can now easily add their GitHub repositories into the Gemini App, providing Gemini the context of their codebase.

In the text box select “Add files +” and select “Import code”


You can choose to upload code from GitHub when importing code into Gemini.


You can import code from public or private repositories, and ask questions about it, including:
  • Code understanding: You can ask Gemini to help you understand the codebase, answer questions about specific functions
  • Improve code: You can ask Gemini to make the code more efficient, suggest code additions and improvements
  • Generate code: You can ask Gemini to write event handlers for the attached code to recommend products to users
  • Debug your code: You can ask Gemini to help identify why your code is generating an error message and how to resolve it.

Additional details

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available to Google Workspace
  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Also available with the Gemini Education and Education Premium add-ons

Resources



Upload code folders or import your GitHub repositories directly into the Gemini app

What’s changing 

Starting today, we’re expanding the ability to upload code folders to select Google Workspace users. Additionally, all Google Workspace users can now easily add their GitHub repositories into the Gemini App, providing Gemini the context of their codebase.

In the text box select “Add files +” and select “Import code”


You can choose to upload code from GitHub when importing code into Gemini.


You can import code from public or private repositories, and ask questions about it, including:
  • Code understanding: You can ask Gemini to help you understand the codebase, answer questions about specific functions
  • Improve code: You can ask Gemini to make the code more efficient, suggest code additions and improvements
  • Generate code: You can ask Gemini to write event handlers for the attached code to recommend products to users
  • Debug your code: You can ask Gemini to help identify why your code is generating an error message and how to resolve it.

Additional details

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available to Google Workspace
  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Also available with the Gemini Education and Education Premium add-ons

Resources



Google Meet and Cisco Webex interoperability now includes presented content via a wired HDMI connection

What’s changing

We’re expanding the interoperability between Google Meet and Cisco Webex to include the ability to present content via a wired HDMI connection. This functionality will allow you to:

  • Present HDMI content into Webex meetings from Google Meet hardware devices
  • Present content into Google Meet meetings from supported Cisco devices. Wired presentations using HDMI and USB-C are supported, as well as wireless presentations using Apple AirPlay and Miracast. 

This is designed to make it even easier for our customers and their users to connect and collaborate with people outside of the Meet ecosystem. To learn more about interoperability between Google Meet and Cisco Webex, check out this previous announcement.

Presentation via HDMI in a Webex meeting on Google Meet hardware

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

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

Resources


Google Meet and Cisco Webex interoperability now includes presented content via a wired HDMI connection

What’s changing

We’re expanding the interoperability between Google Meet and Cisco Webex to include the ability to present content via a wired HDMI connection. This functionality will allow you to:

  • Present HDMI content into Webex meetings from Google Meet hardware devices
  • Present content into Google Meet meetings from supported Cisco devices. Wired presentations using HDMI and USB-C are supported, as well as wireless presentations using Apple AirPlay and Miracast. 

This is designed to make it even easier for our customers and their users to connect and collaborate with people outside of the Meet ecosystem. To learn more about interoperability between Google Meet and Cisco Webex, check out this previous announcement.

Presentation via HDMI in a Webex meeting on Google Meet hardware

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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