Google Workspace Update: September 2025

Google Workspace Update Summary - September 2025

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

  Calendar

Enhancing meeting privacy for copied Calendar events

When users copy or duplicate events in Calendar, the Meet conference won’t be copied over. This ensures that Meet access and meeting notes remain tied to the original event and its attendees.  Read more.

Availability: All Google Workspace customers, as well as users with personal Google accounts

Seamlessly join Google Meet conferences from any calendar app

With this launch, the Google Meet link will be added to the location field when a Google Calendar user invites a user of a different calendar app (such as Microsoft Outlook) to a meeting with Google Meet.  Read more.

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

  Chat

Get real-time push notifications for reactions on your messages in Google Chat

Chat users can now receive real-time push notifications for reactions on their messages. This can help users stay on top of reactions on their messages and avoid missing potentially important updates. Read more.

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

Refine Google Chat messages with Gemini to communicate with confidence and clarity

You can now use Gemini to refine messages you’re composing within Google Chat on the web. Gemini can help you improve clarity, conciseness, and accuracy in wording, grammar, and spelling. Read more.

Availability: Available for Google Workspace: Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, Google AI Pro for Education, Google AI Ultra for Business, Frontline Plus

  Drive

Revamping the scanned documents editing experience in Google Drive on Android devices

When scanning documents with Google Drive on your mobile device, you can crop or rotate your file, adjust its color by applying filters, erase shadows, and more. Read more.

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

See file summaries on the Home page in Google Drive

You can now see Gemini summaries directly within the suggested files surfaced on the Home page in Google Drive. These summaries will show on select Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDFs in your suggested file list. Read more.

Availability: Available for Google Workspace: Business Standard, and Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Plus, Google AI Pro for Education.

Forms

Get proactive summaries of text responses in Forms

Now, users will see proactive Gemini generated insights in Forms for short-answer or paragraph questions when reviewing responses. Read more.

Availability: Available for Google Workspace: Business Standard, and Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Plus, Google AI Pro for Education

Gmail

Introducing new Gmail notification features on Android and iOS devices

You can now use the "Mark as Read" feature directly on your Android device to clear a notification. Read more.

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

Meet

 Ask Gemini in Meet: Your Personal Meeting Assistant

Ask Gemini in Meet will soon be available in Google Meet for select Google Workspace customers, offering advanced features to improve your meeting experience.  Read more.

Availability: Google Workspace Business Plus customers at this time. It will become available for Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and other Google Workspace customers in late 2025 or early 2026, once we’ve collected and applied critical user feedback to improve the feature.

Sheets

Understand changes more quickly with condensed version history in Sheets

Google are introducing a new condensed view for version history in Google Sheets. By default, Sheets will now only show rows with cells that had changes in the selected version. Read more.

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

Gemini in Google Sheets now provides smarter, more conversational formula generation

Gemini can provide a full, reasoned response, making formula generation smarter and more resilient, and helping users to understand the formulas and calculations happening in their sheets.  Read more.

Availability: Available for Google Workspace: Business Standard, and Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Plus, Google AI Pro for Education

Slides

Use Gemini to refine text in Slides

You can now refine text within a text box in Google Slides using Gemini. In just a few clicks, you can ask Gemini to help rephrase, shorten, formalize, or bulletize the current text using pre-set options optimized for Slides.  Read more.

Availability: Available for Google Workspace: Business Standard, and Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Plus, Google AI Pro for Education

Source: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com