Whether helping healthcare workers provide care at the patient’s bedside or helping manufacturers access critical information on the factory floor, mobile apps enable people to be productive from anywhere. And with the recent growth of remote work, providing all employees, not just those on the front lines, the flexibility to work the way they want has become a strategic necessity.
That’s why we continually improve mobile experiences in G Suite, helping you create, collaborate, and communicate efficiently with your team, from the palm of your hand. Today, we’re announcing several improvements to the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides mobile apps that make it even easier to view and collaborate on content, wherever you are.
Quickly review content, on any device
Do you want to read a document or review a presentation on the go? These new features will make it easier for you to consume content from anywhere.
- Flick through slideshows: With the growth of virtual meetings, teams are increasingly turning to visually rich content, often in the form of slideshows, to keep everyone committed and aligned. We continue to improve slides, making it easy to present, create, and review presentations from anywhere. Today, we’re announcing a new Slides viewing experience, with a vertically scrollable slide flow that you can pinch to zoom. This new view helps you review slides faster and you can easily switch to editing or presenting content. We will be launching this feature on Android in the coming weeks and on iOS in the coming months.
- Stay focused when reading documents: Linked content can enrich documents with useful information, but it can be distracting and interrupt your reading flow if clicking a link means opening another window or application. That’s why we’re bringing the link previews you know from Docs on the web to our mobile experiences. When you click a link in Docs, you’ll see a card with dynamic information about the content, such as the owner and most recent activity of Drive files, or titles and descriptions of public links, along with a visual thumbnail. With this information, you can stay focused and decide whether to open linked content. Link previews in Docs are now available on iOS and will be rolling out to Android in the coming weeks.
- Give your eyes and your battery a break: documents, spreadsheets and slides now support the Dark theme on Android, allowing you to work in low-light environments and keep your battery alive longer. We will be bringing this feature to iOS in the coming months.
Reliably create and collaborate on content, from anywhere
Not having to wait until you’re back at your desk to write a note, edit a spreadsheet, or assign an action item means your team can accomplish more, faster. Check out these new features that help speed up team collaboration.
- Type faster and with fewer errors, in Docs: Every week, more than 3 billion keystrokes are saved with Smart Compose in Gmail, which uses Google AI to help you compose emails electronics. Earlier this year, we launched Smart Compose in Docs on the web to help you write documents faster and reduce the chance of spelling and grammatical errors. Now, we’re bringing the power of Smart Compose to mobile devices, making it even faster and easier to write documents on the go. Smart Compose in Docs will roll out to G Suite customers in the coming weeks on both Android and iOS.
- Easily edit Microsoft Office files: Last year, the Office editing on the web, making it easy to edit, comment, and collaborate on Microsoft Office files using documents, spreadsheets, and slides. Office edition brings G Suite collaboration and assistance features to your Office files and eliminates the need to convert file types. We’ll be rolling out the Office edition to our Docs, Sheets, and Slides mobile apps on Android in the coming weeks, with iOS later this year.
- Have a dialogue centered around content: comments are an important tool for team collaboration, helping your team have discussions on a document, sheet, or slide and enabling action items that get your team moving quickly. We are improving the user interface for comments and action items in Docs, Sheets, and Slides on mobile devices, making it easy for your team to collaborate on content from anywhere. With a larger, clearer comment interface that makes it easier to scroll through and respond to comments and a quick access button to reply and @mention others, having a focused discussion with comments will be even easier. These updates are available on Android and will roll out to iOS in the coming months.
- Reply to comments directly from Gmail: last year, We introduced dynamic email to the web, making it easy to take action (like replying to comments) directly from a Gmail message. Instead of receiving individual email notifications when you’re mentioned in a comment in Docs, Sheets, or Slides, you’ll now see an updated comment thread in Gmail and can reply to or resolve the comment. , directly within the message. We’ve extended dynamic email to the Gmail Android and iOS mobile apps, to help you and your team save time and be productive, even when you’re away from your desk.
If you haven’t already, you can download our mobile apps for Docs (Android / iOS), Spreadsheets (Android / iOS) and Slides (Android / iOS), and get more flexibility to work the way you want, from anywhere place.
