Google Workspace Features Update Summary: June 2025

Google Workspace Update Summary - June 2025

The summary of essential information about new features and improvements for Google Workspace customers in June 2025

  Chat

⭐ See summaries of even more file types directly in Google Chat

Earlier this year, we introduced the ability for users to easily summarize Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets files shared within a Google Chat conversation. Today, we’re excited to expand this feature to PDF, Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), CSV, txt, and zip files shared as Drive links in Chat. Read more.

Availability: Available for Google Workspace: 

• Business Standard and Plus 
  
• Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  
• Frontline Plus 
  
• Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on
  
  

  Docs

⭐ Use suggestions in your client-side encrypted Google Docs

You can now see suggestions when viewing a client-side encrypted Google Doc. Those with edit access will be able to interact with suggestions, including adding, editing, accepting, and rejecting suggestions. Read more.

Availability: Available for Google Workspace: 

• Enterprise Plus
• Education Standard and Plus
• Frontline Plus
  
  

Drive

⭐ Introducing PDF summary cards in Google Drive

Today, we’re excited to expand the capabilities of Gemini in Drive files by introducing PDF summary cards. Now, upon opening a PDF, Gemini will proactively summarize the contents of the file and show relevant, clickable actions, such as “Draft a sample proposal” or “List interview questions based on this resume”. Read more.

Availability:  Available to Google Workspace customers: 

• Business Standard and Plus 
  
• Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  
• Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  
• Google AI Pro and Ultra
  

⭐ Introducing video engagement insights in Google Drive

Availability:  Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts 

⭐ Stay up to date on the latest changes to your files in Drive using “Catch me up”

Availability:  Available to Google Workspace customers: 

• Business Standard and Plus 
• Enterprise Standard and Plus 
• Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
• Google One AI Premium

Gmail

⭐ Integrate Jira with Gmail to create, update, and track work items directly in your inbox

Users can now create new Jira issues, view up-to-date information about existing issues, and take action all directly from Gmail. Read more.

Availability: Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Meet

⭐ New host management control for who can ask to join a meeting

Meeting hosts can now control who can request to join a meeting (also known as “knocking”). This option is available when the meeting access type is “Trusted” or “Restricted” and can be configured:

• From the Calendar invite
• During the meeting
• Read more.

Availability: Available for Google Workspace customers

Sheets

⭐ Generate fully editable charts using Gemini in Google Sheets

Starting today, Gemini can produce fully editable charts that regenerate if the spreadsheet data changes. Read more.

Availability:  Available for Google Workspace: 

• Business Standard and Plus 
  
• Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  
• Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  
• Google AI Pro and Ultra
  

⭐ Generate charts and valuable insights using Gemini in Google Sheets in additional languages

Earlier this year, we introduced the ability for Gemini to provide insights and generate charts based on your data in Google Sheets. Today, we’re excited to expand this feature to the following languages: 

• Spanish 
• Portuguese 
• Japanese 
• Korean 
• Italian 
• French 
• German
• Read more

Availability:  Available for Google Workspace: 

• Business Standard and Plus 
• Enterprise Standard and Plus 
• Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
• Google AI Pro and Ultra

Slides

⭐ Create a Google Vid from Google Slides

At Google I/O, we introduced the ability to turn existing Google Slides content into engaging videos using Google Vids. Today, we’re starting to roll out the first iteration of this new experience for Vids customers. Read more.

Availability:  Available for Google Workspace: 

• Business Starter, Standard and Plus 
• Enterprise Starter, Standard and Plus 
• Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus 
• Education Plus 
• Nonprofits 
• Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on
  
  

Forms

⭐ Use Gemini in Google Forms to summarize form responses

Starting today, Gemini will use the context of the form title, description, question, and the responses to generate a summary with key themes and takeaways. Read more.

Availability:  Available for Google Workspace: 

• Business Standard and Plus 
• Enterprise Standard and Plus 
• Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
• Google AI Pro and Ultra

Google Workspace

⭐ Migrate email and calendar content from Microsoft Exchange Online to Google Workspace

The ability to migrate email from Microsoft Exchange Online to Google Workspace, part of our new Data migration service, is now generally available. Admins can migrate email from Microsoft Exchange Online to Gmail directly from the Admin console in a few easy steps.  Read more.

Availability:  Available for Google Workspace: 

• Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise Essentials
• Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching and Learning add-on, Endpoint Education add-on
• Frontline Starter

⭐ Use Imagen 4 to generate images in Google Docs, Slides and Vids in multiple languages

Users can now utilize our highest quality image generation model, Imagen 4, which delivers: 

• Outstanding text rendering and prompt adherence 
• Higher overall image quality across all styles 
• Multilingual prompt support in these 20+ languages
• Read more

Availability:  Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Source: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com