New features released across Google Workspace in April 2025 include a way to preconfigure your preferred meeting language in Google Meet, to more efficiently make sure meeting artefacts are generated in the right language, an update to the Gmail app on Android that makes your email signature consistent across devices and a new way to more easily register interest in trying out upcoming Gemini features in an alpha state. Read on to discover more about these and all of the other updates that arrived in April.
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Google Meet
Google is currently rolling out two new ways you can set the language for 📹 Google Meet artefacts. You’ll be able to indicate the meeting language ahead of time through the 📅 Google Calendar invitation or from a 📱 mobile device during the call. With eight languages supported, this provides more flexibility in ensuring that 💬 recorded captions, 📜 transcripts and ✍️ notes taken by Gemini are documented in the correct language.
💡 For a deeper dive into Google Meet artefacts, take a look at our blog post on the topic.
Google Workspace
Google Chat
The “Summarize” feature in Google Chat, through which Gemini can provide a summary of a conversation, gained support for an additional three languages: 🇩🇪 German, 🇵🇹 Portuguese and 🇪🇸 Spanish.
Gmail
The Gmail mobile app on 📱 Android also received an upgrade. Email signatures will now default to your web signature unless set otherwise, similar to the experience on iOS. The mobile app now supports web email features like images, logos and text so that your signature can remain consistent regardless of whether you’re sending emails from the ✉️ Gmail app or from the 🌐 web.
The assistive “Help me write” feature, which uses Gemini to ✍️ write or 💎 refine an email draft, has gained support for 🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇰🇷 Korean. Meanwhile, the Gemini side panel in Gmail now allows you to interact with Calendar in over 20 additional languages, enabling you to leverage AI to ask about upcoming Calendar events or create new ones in 🇨🇳 Chinese, 🇳🇱 Dutch, 🇵🇱 Polish and more.
The 🎨 design of the Gmail app on 📱 iOS will now match the Material Design 3 experience on Android and web. Additionally, when using the ✉️ Gmail app on both iOS and Android, you will now be able to utilise ✨ Gemini to generate 🖼️ custom images using text prompts – which can then be saved, copied or inserted into an email draft, all directly within the app. This eliminates the extra steps of opening separate tools or needing to 🔎 search for the right image.
Data classification 🏷️ labels in Gmail are now becoming generally available. Previously available in beta, classification labels in Gmail enable you to categorise emails based on criteria such as 🛡 sensitivity, ✅ status, 📄 document type and much more. They can be used to organise messages and apply policies, including data loss prevention (DLP) rules, to protect sensitive information.
At the end of the month, Google announced that you will be able to react to emails with 😀 emoji. You can quickly respond to emails with a 👍 thumbs-up to acknowledge receipt, share your excitement with a 🎉 party popper, show agreement with a ✅ tick and more. It’s an easier and faster way to reply and helps limit the number of “Got it," "Thanks," or "Okay" replies that could be cluttering up your inbox.
Google Docs
Last month, Google Docs increased the number of languages supported by Gemini’s ✍️ "Help me write" feature. This lets you now leverage Gemini's assistance to draft, enhance and refine your writing in 🇫🇷 French, 🇩🇪 German, 🇮🇹 Italian and 🇯🇵 Japanese in addition to the languages already supported.
Google also introduced support for 14 new programming languages to the code block function in Google Docs, including widely-used languages such as 🌐 HTML, 🐘 PHP and 📜 Typescript. This feature allows you to display and format code directly within a 📄 Google document, meaning more users are able to leverage Docs for ⚙️ technical documentation and other 🧑🤝🧑 collaborative tasks involving code.
For extra security, and as a visual warning, Google rolled out a new 🏷️ “External” badge that will appear by default in 📄 Google Docs, Sheets and Slides when collaborating with anyone external to your organisation. When hovering over the badge, you’ll also see a pop-up warning with more detail about its meaning. Similar to labels and warnings across ✉️ Gmail, 💬 Google Chat and 📹 Google Meet, the badge provides a clear signal that there might be a need to treat the file with caution which can help limit the effectiveness of 🎣 phishing scams or otherwise dangerous files.
Google Sheets
A faster way to gain insights from tabulated data was introduced to Google Sheets last month. Tables will now allow for 📊 column-level aggregation when using group-by view, helping you summarise and analyse data more efficiently.
Google Slides
The template library in Google Slides received an expansion last month. Google began rolling out a variety of new templates to help elevate your presentations and save you valuable time when creating. This means you’ll now have a wider range of templates to choose from, including those for 💼 business proposals, 📑 marketing plans, 🔎 quarterly reviews and more.
💡 Note: these templates are only available if your language preference is set to 🇺🇸 U.S. English.
Google Calendar
Just like the 📅 Google Calendar app on Android, you can now create 🎂 birthday events in Google Calendar on iOS.
Gemini
The beginning of April saw the Gemini app gain direct access to Google Workspace apps (formerly 🧩 “extensions”) on Android and iOS devices in open beta. This allows Gemini to pull content across apps like ✉️ Gmail, 📆 Calendar and 📂 Drive, eliminating the need to constantly switch between apps to get answers based on your data.
At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google announced that Gemini had achieved the German BSI C5 attestations, with third-party auditors determining that Gemini hit their thresholds for 🔐 security and 🕵️ privacy.
Within the Gemini app, Google now lets you perform 📖 Deep Research tasks with the 2.5 Pro Experimental model, its most advanced model to date. Deep Research will perform a deeper dive on a topic to deliver a more comprehensive answer.
NotebookLM
You can search, add and save all your research sources using the 🔎 “Discover sources” function. When you describe your topic of interest, NotebookLM will analyse the web and show you the 10 most relevant sources that it found. To enhance your work further, you can even use multimodal PDFs as sources for your project. NotebookLM can now analyse all 💬 text, 🖼️ images and even the 📊 graphs within PDFs to provide you with more comprehensive research.
At the end of the month, NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature gained support for over 50 additional languages in beta. Audio Overviews are AI-hosted, podcast-like discussions based on your research highlights. With additional language support, you now have the flexibility to upload your 🔬 research, 📝 notes, and 📄 documents in any of the 50 supported languages and can generate the Audio Overview in a different one – from 🇿🇦 Afrikaans to 🇻🇳 Vietnamese.
Google Vids
Google Vids now offers greater personalisation for 📹 videos, allowing you to ✏️ customise the default 🎨 colours and fonts for new scenes and objects, making it easier to set a consistent theme.
In Google Vids, it is now quicker to generate new AI 🗣️ voiceovers if the scripts have changed (whether manually or with assistance from ✨ Gemini) – a single 🖱️ click can trigger updates to every AI voiceover at once. Additionally, you can see a preview of 📜 scripts from all 🎬 scenes at once, making it easier to jump between scripts.
To further simplify your 🎬 scene edits, you can now control and expand the height of the timeline. This allows you to preview and edit more objects and audio tracks per scene at a glance, enabling you to easily synchronise elements like 💬 text overlays, 🖼️ images and 🔵 shapes with your audio.
Lastly, at the end of the month, 📹 Google Vids began expanding access to more Workspace users, allowing Business Starter, Enterprise Starter and Nonprofit tiers to leverage the AI-powered, collaborative video creation app in their work. Access to AI-enabled features in Google Vids will be available for 12 months following the rollout; after that, only non-AI features will be available to users in these tiers.
Google Admin Panel
At the start of the month, Google announced that Google Workspace apps within the Gemini app will soon be transitioning from open beta to general availability. 🧑💻 With the default setting being “on”, admins were able to review and pre-configure their ⚙️ settings last month to independently toggle whether their users would have access to Workspace apps within the Gemini app during the beta and after the full launch.
Additionally, there are now enhanced data exporting options available for Enterprise Plus tier Workspace users. Currently in open beta, the new update lets you export your organisation’s data with filters based on 📅 date range, 📂 shared drives, 🏷️ Drive labels and by multiple or single services like ✉️ Gmail or 💬 Google Chat.
Google also announced an opportunity for Google Workspace Business and Enterprise tier users to experience new Gemini features before general availability. Through early access, you can provide valuable 🗣️ feedback to Google, helping to improve these features before their full launch. 🧑💻 Admins are now able to control which 👥 users, OUs, or groups get early access to these alpha features through a new ⚙️ setting in the Google admin panel.
Google Workspace Tiers
Towards the end of April, Google Workspace launched a new tier called Frontline Plus – its most comprehensive Frontline plan. This combines the core Frontline offering with many 🔒 security features from Enterprise Plus, such as client-side encryption and data regions. It also includes access to enhanced Gemini features like 📝 “Take notes for me,” 🔊 adaptive audio in 📹 Google Meet, and automatic translation in 💬 Google Chat to help improve productivity for frontline workers.
Catch up on March's updates
Do you want to see what happened in March? You can catch up on all of the updates across Google Meet and Google Workspace from the month in our March 2025 recap.
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