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Google Workspace Updates: July 25 – 29, 2022

By July 29, 2022August 4th, 2022No Comments

New updates

Support for two simultaneous calls now available on Google Voice

As part of our efforts to further improve our core calling features, Google Voice now offers the ability to place or receive a second call when you are on an ongoing call. You can quickly decide if you would like to take the second incoming call by placing the current call on hold or by hanging up the current call. You can also reject the second incoming call if you would rather not be interrupted right now.The feature is currently rolling out on Web and will roll out on Android and iOS in the coming weeks. Available to Voice Starter, Standard, and Premier customers and all Voice users. Read more.

call waiting

The new integrated view is now the standard experience for Gmail

At the beginning of 2022, we announced a new integrated view for Gmail, bringing critical applications like Gmail, Chat, and Meet in one unified location. By August 5th, users who have not opted-in will begin seeing the new experience by default, but can revert to classic Gmail via settings. Within the next two months, this will become the default experience with no option to revert back. We will share an update on the Workspace Updates Blog at that time. Available to Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers only. Visit the Help Center and The Keyword to learn more.

Previous announcements

Improving the Google Workspace experience on large screen Android devices

We’ve added several new features and functionality to products like Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Keep on Android devices as part of our mission to provide a top-class user experience on large screen devices. Read more.

Dragging & Dropping from Sheets

Dragging & Dropping from Sheets into Docs and vice versa

Dragging & Dropping from Keep

Dragging & Dropping from Keep into Drive

Dragging & Dropping from Drive

Dragging & Dropping from Drive into Keep

Multi-instance support on Drive:

Multi-instance support

Migrate unmanaged accounts to your domain using new “UserInvitation” API functionality

We’ve introduced new API functionality that allows you to automate the process of finding conflicting accounts and inviting them to join your organization. Available to Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise, Cloud Identity Premium and Cloud Identity Free customers only. Read more.

Working Location enabled by default

You are now able to set your working location without having to first enable this feature in your Calendar settings. Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Business customers only. Read more.

Use the Cloud Search Query API to set Suggest Filters to enhance Cloud Search results

We’ve introduced Suggest Filters for Cloud Search. Using the Cloud Search Query API, admins can specify a filter condition that will be pre-applied to keyword suggestions as user types a query. This will surface more relevant suggestions, helping reduce the time users spend searching. Available to Google Cloud Search customers only. Read more.

Assignments audit data now available in the Admin console

Google Workspace for Education admins can now view Assignments data in their audit logs. Using this data, admins can find and act on Assignments related events such as who removed a student from a video call, when assignment files were created or submitted, and more. Available to Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Education Standard, and the Teaching and Learning upgrade customers only. Read more.

Better search and suggestion options in Gmail

Gmail has more accurate and circumstantial search suggestions with better customization as a result of our new machine learning models. Available to Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Frontline, and Nonprofits customers only. Read more.

New integrated email marketing tools for Gmail

We’ve added two new features in Gmail that you can use to easily send professional-looking emails to large audiences: layouts and multi-send. Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus, Nonprofits, Workspace Individual, and legacy G Suite Basic customers only. Read more.