There were a multitude of updates that began rolling out across Google Meet and Google Workspace in June. Some key features introduced last month include using 🔢 room codes to join calls on Google Meet Hardware, ✍️ “Take notes for me” in 📞 Google Voice, discoverable spaces in 💬 Google Chat, alignment approvals in 📂 Google Drive and additional language support for features across 📊 Google Sheets and 📹 Google Vids.
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Google Meet
In June, 📹 Google Meet’s Full HD video capabilities were extended to Google Meet Hardware. Previously only available on the 🌐 web, meeting rooms equipped with ChromeOS-based hardware will now, when bandwidth supports it, automatically increase the video quality to 1080p whenever someone 📌 pins the room’s video feed, views the call on a 🖥️ large screen or 🔴 records the call.
A week later, Google announced that Google Meet would soon be supported on 🚗 Android Auto. With this update, you’ll be able to take advantage of your time on the road to safely 📞 join meetings and view your 🗓️ upcoming schedule from the car’s dashboard.
💡 Note: when joining a Google Meet call via Android Auto, calls will be audio-only; video (in both directions) will be disabled.
Near the end of the month, support for Google Meet in 🌐 Safari on 📱 iOS began rolling out. Now, when joining a meeting from your 🍏 Apple mobile device, you’ll no longer need to have either the ✉️ Gmail or 📹 Google Meet apps downloaded. Anyone without a Google account will only need to enter their name in Safari to request access, making the process of joining a Google Meet call easier for everyone.
In Early Preview, there is also a new way for you to connect to a 📹 Google Meet call on Google Meet Hardware with room codes. You can do this by clicking the new “Connect with room code” button on your 💻 personal device and entering a 🔢 5-character room code that is shown on the meeting room’s display. To ensure 🔐 security and accuracy, room codes automatically refresh periodically and you must also physically ☝️ tap the in-room hardware to confirm the pairing. This new join option provides an alternative for when 🔊 proximity-based detection may fail and ensures that you’ll still be able to access the call using your meeting room hardware.
💡 Note: connecting by room code is first rolling out only to hardware enrolled in Early Preview.
The last update to Google Meet in June was to its “Limit video bandwidth” setting in the Google admin panel. To further optimise bandwidth usage, the setting now affects the ⬇️ downlink connection of 📹 Google Meet calls in addition to the ⬆️ uplink connection. The uplink bandwidth was also increased for 👥 two-person calls to improve video quality.
Google Workspace
Google Chat
In addition to private and open spaces in Google Chat, a new 🕵️ “Discoverable” space setting was introduced in the middle of the month. When a space is configured as discoverable, anyone within your organisation can 🔎 search for and find it but they cannot see the conversation history and messages until their request to join is approved. The additional access option makes it easier to 👥 share groups whilst still protecting the privacy of group members and the confidentiality of ongoing discussions.
💡 Note: space access types are currently only available in space settings once the space has been created; support for choosing a type during space creation is coming soon.
Gmail
Right at the end of the month, Google announced that ✉️ Gmail delegation would now work on mobile devices. If you had already set up email delegation in Gmail on the 🌐 web, it would soon be available in the Gmail app on 📱 iOS and Android too without any additional setup. That means that a delegate can access emails as they would from a laptop with the ability to switch between inboxes, read delegated emails and send emails on the delegator’s behalf.
Google Drive
At the start of June, 📂 “Organize my files” in Google Drive graduated from beta to general availability. The feature uses ✨ Gemini to help you organise loose files by analysing your current organisational structure and recommending places to which you can move the files. A new dedicated interface appears upon 🖱️ clicking “Suggest File Moves”. Here, you can see all of Gemini’s file relocation recommendations split into two sections: moving items into existing folders and new folders for related documents. You’ll have the ability to 👀 preview and ✏️ edit the suggestions before proceeding with a batch move.
💡 Note: “Organize my files” is currently only supported in English.
The second update to Google Drive was to Android’s Document Scanner. You can now scan 📖 multiple pages in one camera shot instead of having to photograph them one by one. The new Document Scanner will automatically 🕵️ identify, 📄 separate and 📸 capture each page within the camera view whilst simultaneously detecting and removing duplicates before uploading them to Drive as one multi-page PDF.
On the same day, Google began making the ability to use ✉️ Gmail as a source when utilising Ask Gemini in Google Drive available to more people. You can now reference 🧵 email threads alongside your 📂 files and folders when using Gemini for assistance within Drive. The sources offer Gemini more context for providing you with more personalised and relevant answers.
To keep projects moving forward, Google introduced ✅ alignment approvals in 📂 Google Drive. It’s a new option that will enable you to keep ✏️ editing a partially-approved document without resetting the entire review process. Previously, when 📄 documents were sent for approval, small edits would force everyone who already signed off on the document to review and approve it all over again.
💡 Note: approvers still have the power to manually change their status back to pending to review any new changes.
Two Gemini features would be coming to the 🗄️ Google Drive app on mobile devices, it was announced on the last day of June. ✨ Ask Gemini lets you ask questions from within the Google Drive app on iOS or Android and get answers grounded in your content or other sources, such as the 🌐 web whilst 🔎 AI Overviews provide a summary and answers at the top of search results.
Google Sheets
Around the middle of the month, the building and editing capabilities of Gemini in 📊 Google Sheets gained support for an additional 28 languages. This means that you can now leverage Gemini using ✍️ natural language prompts in 🇨🇿 Czech, 🇫🇷 French, 🇬🇷 Greek, 🇮🇹 Italian, 🇹🇭 Thai and more to 👷 build entire spreadsheets, ✏️ refine existing models, ✨ use Workspace Intelligence to pull in context from other Workspace apps and more.
Additionally, Gemini in Sheets gained a new capability: to quickly diagnose and resolve broken formulae. When a formula error occurs, a new 🖱️ “Fix” button appears. Upon clicking the button, Gemini will be able to 🕵️ analyse the formula and surrounding data to provide you with an 📝 explanation of the exact problem as well as a corrected formula you can use instead.
Google Slides
From a single prompt, you would soon be able to create a complete Google Slides presentation with Gemini’s assistance: write a prompt, ground it in your existing files for context, reference brand guidelines and refine it by identifying the tone, target audience and more.
Google Calendar
🔐 Data loss prevention (DLP) rules in 📅 Google Calendar were rolled out more widely at the start of the month. Admins are now able to set up rules that will automatically 🔔 notify an admin to audit the event, ⚠️ warn users that the event includes sensitive information or completely ✋ block the event from being created if any information defined as sensitive is found within the event title, description and location.
Later in the month, more event 🎨 colours were added to Google Calendar. Instead of just 11 colours, there are now 24 default colour options for you to choose from alongside a full RGB colour picker on the web and via the API that unlocks up to 200 custom shades. New colours will be available across 🌐 web, 📱 mobile and the 🤖 Calendar API, providing you with the flexibility to personalise your individual events and step up your colour-coding system.
Next, two enhancements to the Google Calendar API began rolling out. The updates will enable an easier way for 🧑💻 admins to manage the ownership and lifecycle of secondary calendars within an organisation as all secondary Google Calendars will soon be tied directly to their original owners. The new 🔀 Transfer API will allow admins to automate a change of ownership of secondary calendars between users without requiring any ✉️ emails or seperate confirmations to be exchanged. Additionally, a new 📑 organisation filter will allow admins to quickly 👀 view a complete list of only the company-owned secondary calendars so that you can easily verify ownership and make adjustments if needed. This helps to ensure that, if required, secondary calendars will be re-assigned and not lost.
Gemini
In the middle of the month, Google introduced the ability to have ⌛ temporary chats and be able to ❌ delete your conversations within the Gemini app. This lets you have more control over your chat logs, allowing you to initiate chats with Gemini that aren't saved to your chat history as well as the ability to manually delete individual conversations as needed.
💡 Note: admins are able to configure whether or not users will have access to these options; and if your organisation uses Google Vault retention rules to retain conversations, any temporary or deleted chats will still be preserved within Vault to comply with any legal or company requirements.
By the end of the month, Google rolled out 🌍 data regions support for the Gemini app. This ensures that your Gemini conversations and data are being processed and stored in the region (🇪🇺 Europe or 🇺🇸 US) that you require.
Google Vids
Google Vids received multiple enhancements last month to its 🤖 AI avatar capabilities. Google added an additional 🧑 30 new default avatars to its library, including photorealistic and 3D cartoon styles, as well as the ability to create and direct your own 🤓 custom avatars with voices powered by Gemini Audio. Additionally, Google added support for 🌍 16 more languages for avatar speech and voiceovers so that you can now generate videos for a wider audience.
There were also two improvements to the video generation tools in Google Vids. Powered by Veo, you’re now able to use a ✍️ text prompt to ↔️ extend existing videos whilst maintaining the consistency of the characters and objects. You’re also now able to save time by generating 🎬 multiple video clips at once instead of having to wait for individual clips to process before you can start the next one.
Google Vault
Towards the middle of the month, 🔒 Google Vault gained support for retention rules and litigation holds for the Gemini app across 🌐 web and 📱 mobile. This means that, in addition to searching and exporting 💬 Gemini conversations, your chats can now be preserved and held within the Vault. 🧑💻 Admins can set default or custom retention rules to keep Gemini chat histories for a specific amount of ⌛ time and place legal holds for specific users if needed. This enables organisations to retain the information needed and comply with legal and company policies.
Google Voice
In June, Google added support for ✍️ “Take notes for me” in 📞 Google Voice. Whilst you're on a phone call, you can now enable the Gemini note-taking feature by pressing the new “Notes” button. This will allow Gemini to automatically 🔴 record the call, 📜 transcribe what’s being said, 📝 summarise key points and 📑 identify and organise action items. The notes document will be 📨 emailed to you and 💾 saved in the Voice app, which you can access after the call has ended.
💡 Note: “Take notes for me” in Google Voice is currently only available in English and will require admins to enable the feature for existing users.
Google Groups
The planned updates to the “Internal” and “External” classifications for 👥 Google Groups began rolling out near the end of the month. Additionally, there will also be 👀 clearer visual indicators for when a group includes external members, ✉️ visible changes to emails, new granular settings for controlling who is able to invite external members as well as automatic adjustment of the Groups settings when admins add external members via 🤖 APIs, resolving issues that could have been caused previously.
Google Chrome
Google also began rolling out ✨ Gemini in Chrome to more people, including those in 🌍 Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and more. The 🤖 AI browsing assistant is accessible directly within the Chrome browser where you can easily prompt Gemini to 📝 summarise articles, ❓ answer tab-related questions, ✍️ draft emails and more.
Google Workspace Studio
A new 🔁 “Repeat for each” step for Google Workspace Studio flows began rolling out during the first week of June. This new step enables your automated flows to loop over a list of items and process each item individually. This includes ✅ creating tasks for each action item in your meeting notes as well as going through a 📊 Google Sheets spreadsheet row by row. To make it easier to to use lists as inputs in later steps in your flows, you can now configure the ✨ “Ask Gemini” step to generate its output in 📋 list format in addition to 📝 standard text.
Google Apps Script
Last month, Google also added 📜 Google Apps Script as a core service in Google Workspace, enabling the ☁️ cloud-based JavaScript platform to have the same 🛡️ enterprise-grade data protection, 🧑💻 administrative controls and 🔧 technical support as other core services like Gmail and Google Drive. With Google Apps Script you can create customisations and automations within Google Workspace apps; for instance, you could create custom menus within Slides, write custom functions for Sheets and more.
Google Admin Panel
The 🔐 data loss prevention (DLP) rules within Google Workspace were expanded last month. Specifically, more 🧑💻 admins can now build automated safety rules that scan non-Workspace 🔗 file attachments to 🛑 block them based on specific parameters, such as restricted file names, custom file types or specific file extensions. Admins can also add proximity conditions to 🕵️ detect when two bits of sensitive information are within 1,000 characters of each other.
Towards the end of the month, the 🔔 “Super Admin password reset” alert in the Alert centre was broadened to include all administrators within the organisation. This means that the new “Admin password reset” alert will automatically trigger a notification whenever any admin changes their 🔑 password. This can help to keep data secure by quickly detecting any unauthorised changes.
To help save time and reduce Google Cloud storage consumption when backing up your Google Workspace data, Google introduced incremental exports so that you no longer need to re-export your entire organisation’s data each time you want to initiate a backup. Incremental exports will take frequent 📸 snapshots of your organisation’s data in addition to periodic full backups. Admins will be able to choose when to 🗓️ schedule each of the backups with the ability to configure the setting by organisational unit (OU), group or specific users.
Finally, Google announced at the end of the month that the ability to delegate 📱 mobile device management (MDM) admin privileges based on organisational units will soon be generally available, making it easier to limit permissions to only the ones that are needed.
Catch up on May’s updates
Do you want to see what happened in May? You can catch up on all of the updates across Google Meet and Google Workspace in our May 2026 recap.
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