Upcoming Google Workspace releases
Learn about the publicly announced products and features planned for Google Workspace. New items are added approximately every quarter, when launched features are removed from the list.
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Note: The list of releases is not an official commitment and is subject to change. Listed releases are not guaranteed to become generally available and may be modified from their current form. The table is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and French.
| Product | Feature | Feature description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admin console | Target Audience | Allows admins to set more granular recommendations for link sharing in Drive. | Launched. Learn more |
| Admin console | Service account support in Groups | Provides native support for service accounts as callers of APIs and as members of Groups. Service accounts can call APIs using group-level or admin permissions without the need to rely on domain-wide delegation. | In beta. Learn more |
| Apps Script | New Integrated Development Environment (IDE) | Apps Script’s brand new IDE features Monaco for cutting edge code editing, streaming logs, reliable debugging, and Material design, and is seamlessly integrated into the Google Workspace Developer Hub. | Launched. Learn more |
| Assignments | Slides support in originality reports | Use originality reports with Google Slides submissions. Check students’ Slides presentations for authenticity. | In development |
| Calendar | Segment working hours | Allows you to have multiple working segments each day, to better reflect your preferred working schedule. | Launched. Learn more |
| Calendar | Repeating out of office | Create and update out-of-office entries that repeat. You can specify if you want to automatically decline only new meetings or all meetings. | Launched. Learn more |
| Calendar | Calendar for Essentials customers | If you’re an Essentials customer, you can turn on Google Calendar in the Google Admin console and use it for your calendaring needs. | Launched. Learn more |
| Chat | Chat archiving | Archive Chat messages to a third-party archiving solution. You can use third-party archiving solutions to store Chat messages, reactions, and more from rooms and direct messages. Available at the domain and organizational unit levels. Early access to this feature is available to some customers. | In development |
| Classroom | Slides support in originality reports | Use originality reports with Google Slides submissions. Check students’ Slides presentations for authenticity. | In development |
| Classroom | Classroom activity logs in BigQuery and usage analytics in Google Data Studio | Export your Classroom activity logs to BigQuery, allowing for custom analysis on whether, how, and how much content students and teachers are using in Classroom. | In development |
| Classroom | Classroom audit logs in the Admin console | With audit logs, you can see who took action on your domain and quickly get to the root of Classroom-related issues, such as seeing who removed a student from a class or who archived a class on a certain date. | In development |
| Classroom | Improved offline Classroom experience on Android | We know that home and mobile internet connections aren’t always available or reliable, so we’re making the Classroom Android app work better even with intermittent connectivity. Students can access assignments, open any attachments, and work in offline Docs’ files. | In development |
| Classroom | Student engagement tracking in Classroom | Metrics and dashboards to help educators more easily understand and measure student engagement. Provides statistics to help track how students are interacting in Classroom each day. | In development |
| Classroom | Improved teacher grading workflow on Android | We're improving the teacher grading workflow on Android, allowing instructors to easily switch between students for a more seamless experience. | In development |
| Classroom | Improve image capturing and submission in Classroom on Android | Many students are now using Classroom on Android due to hybrid learning environments. We're making it easier to create, attach, and submit clear photos in a single file format for fast upload and easy grading. | In development |
| Classroom | Import class rosters from student information systems (SIS) | Provisioning classes for an entire school system can be time-consuming, especially for larger schools. You can create classes and add student rosters at scale by importing class rosters from SIS. | In development |
| Classroom | SIS grade export with Aspen | Teachers can sync assignments and grades data between their Aspen SIS and Google Classroom, eliminating the need for them to keep grades in 2 places. | In development |
| Classroom | Rich text formatting in Classroom posts on web and iOS | Users can add rich text formatting (bold, italics, underlining, and bulleting) in Classroom posts when using Classroom on the web or on iOS. | In development |
| Classroom | Notification page on Android | We’re bringing back the notification page on the Classroom Android app to complement device and email notifications. The page captures notifications from all classes from the last 30 days. Top-level filter functionality allows users to view all, read, and unread notifications. | In development |
| Classroom | Classroom app integrations with third-party EdTech tools | We’re extending the Classroom UI experience with third-party content and tools. Developers can publish and distribute Classroom add-ons in the Google Workspace Marketplace. You can deploy and manage these tools so teachers and students can access everything in one place without having to navigate numerous accounts. | In development |
| Classroom | Classroom stream image improvements | Users can add a display image as a post on the stream. | In development |
| Cloud Search | People search in Cloud Search and APIs | Allows employees to easily find, learn more about, and connect with others. For example, find out what a colleague works on or search for an expert in a certain area. | In development |
| Docs | Domain spelling | Use domain-specific data to make better spelling suggestions in Docs. Doing so helps users write mistake-free documents faster. | In development |
| Drive | Request approvals for documents | Request approvals for Drive items and lock approved versions. For example, send a document to a manager, peer, or dedicated reviewer for approval. When approved, the document is marked as approved and locked to prevent any changes. | In beta. Learn more |
| Drive | Offline pinning for non-Docs, Sheets, and Slides formats using Drive for desktop | Pin non-Docs, Sheets, and Slides files so that they're available offline through Google Drive's web interface, together with Drive File Stream. For example, ahead of upcoming travel, mark files for offline availability so that you can work without a network connection. | In beta. Learn more |
| Drive | Target audiences | Allows you to set more granular recommendations for link sharing. | Launched. Learn more |
| Drive | Labels in Drive | Set structured labels and classify files based on them. You can easily create and manage a set of classification labels, which can be applied to content (automatically or manually by select administrators) to help sort, filter, and organize your content. | In beta |
| Drive | Drive File Stream support for M1 Apple devices | Drive File Stream can run on M1 Apple devices. | In development |
| Google Workspace | People search in Cloud Search and APIs | Allows employees to easily find, learn more about, and connect with each other. | In development |
| Google Workspace Migrate | Migration support for shared drive subfolder sharing | Allows you to preserve sharing rights for additional users when migrating subfolders to shared drives. | In beta. Learn more |
| Groups | Service account support in Groups | Provides native support for service accounts as callers of APIs and as members of Groups. Service accounts can call APIs using group-level or admin permissions without the need to rely on domain-wide delegation. | In beta. Learn more |
| Jamboard | Jamboard added to Essentials | Jamboard on the web available to Essentials customers. | Launched. Learn more |
| Meet | Attendance tracking for business and enterprise | Track attendance in meetings hosted by business and enterprise customers. This feature is already available for Education and Enterprise for Education customers. | Launched. Learn more |
| Meet | Meet SIP join for third-party clients connecting through an interop gateway | We’re giving admins the option to automatically add SIP join information to new third-party calendar events, making it easier for third-party hardware solutions to find and join Meet calls. | Launched. Learn more |
| Meet | Low-light mode on Android | Automatically adjust video in low-light conditions on Android devices. Low-light mode intelligently updates your video quality so that you can engage confidently when joining a meeting from your Android device—wherever you are. | In development |
| Meet | End meeting for all | Hosts have the option to end the meeting for all participants, so they can prevent participants from staying on a call after the host has left (including in breakout rooms). | Launched. Learn more |
| Meet | Greenroom self-check | In the greenroom prior to joining a video call, users can record a short snippet of video and audio and play it back to check their peripheral selection and audio/visual quality. | Launched. Learn more |
| Meet | Multi-moderators in Meet | Meeting hosts can share hosting privileges with other meeting participants by promoting them to co-hosts. Allows the host and co-hosts to ensure that all aspects of their meetings are managed effectively and with control. | In development |
| Meet | Reactions in Meet | Easily engage and express yourself with emoji reactions in Meet. You can pick skin tones for your emoji to best represent your identity, and react in meetings in a lightweight, non-disruptive way. | In development |
| Meet | Mute all participants | To make it easier to host a meeting without interruption, hosts can easily mute all participants at once, and decide whether participants can unmute themselves or not. | Launched. Learn more |
| Meet | Improved grid view on iOS and Android | Updated layouts for meetings so that you can see more participants at once from your mobile or tablet device. | Launched. Learn more |
| Security | IRM for Drive DLP | Enable IRM (Information Rights Management) enforcement as a DLP (Data Loss Prevention) remediation action for Drive files. Enables you to enforce IRM settings on documents that match DLP policies. | In beta. Learn more |
| Security | Automated Classification with Drive DLP | Automate classification for Drive files based on content inspected by DLP. | In beta |
| Security | Metadata as a DLP condition | Configure DLP policies based on manually classified files in Drive. | In beta |
| Sheets | SmartFill | Autocomplete manual data entries and edits in Sheets. | Launched. Learn more |
| Sheets | SmartFill—People Directory | Sheets integrates with the Google Workspace People Directory to enhance SmartFill functionality by intelligently auto-completing data entry associated with employee information. | Launched. Learn more |
| Sites | Domain-created templates | Allows users to start with a templated site. Saves time and increases uniformity across sites in a domain. | In development |
| Slides | Automatic text resizing | Text boxes and placeholders have the following options—fit text to shape (text shrinks as you type), resize shape to fit text (shape grows to match text), and overflow text (only option available today). Helps users maintain layouts that require specific margins and make text styling more efficient. | In development |
| Slides | New UI for Slides on iOS | Slides on iOS updated with a new UI that makes it easier to review and comment on presentations from your mobile device. Most Slides users on mobile want to quickly access, review, and present presentations rather than edit or design slides. The new UI makes it easy to scroll through a presentation, rather than view it slide by slide. | In development |
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