Gmail Updates & Release Notes
17 updates curated from 19 sources by the Releasebot Team. Last updated: May 9, 2026
- May 7, 2026
- Date parsed from source:May 7, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:May 9, 2026
Improvements To Help Me Write in Gmail
Gmail adds smarter Help me write personalization with Gemini, using context from Google Drive and Gmail to draft emails that fit your topic, tone, and style while reducing app switching and copy-paste work.
As previously announced, Help me write in Gmail is evolving into an even more helpful partner that can pull in your natural voice and personalized context to get you closer to the perfect draft every time. We’ve added two new personalization enhancements:
- Topic contextualization: The feature can now connect to Google Drive and Gmail based on your prompt. It will then use the context from these apps to automatically insert relevant information into the email draft, reducing the time you spend toggling between apps to find specific details.
- Tone and style personalization: Help me write can also now create personalized email drafts that match the tone and style of your previously written emails.
With these new changes, users will save valuable time currently spent on cross-Workspace app context switching to reference correct sources, typing, copy-pasting, and formatting. Just type a short prompt, and delegate the draft writing for common use cases, including:
- Responding to inquiries from customers and partners
- Distributing information, documents, or materials to collaborators
- Reporting progress, milestones, and project-related issue to leadership
- Seeking assistance or answers from team
- Providing or asking for feedback from peers
- Sharing team announcements or progress reports to the organization
- Introducing new projects
- Exploring potential partnerships
- Teacher-parent- communications
- Grant proposals
Getting started
- Admins: This feature is available by default if both Gemini for Workspace in Gmail is enabled and Workspace Intelligence access to Gmail is enabled.
- End users: This feature is available by default and activated for prompts that have relevant context. Visit the Help Center article to learn more about drafting emails with Gemini in Gmail.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started on May 5, 2026
Availability
- Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Consumer: Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra
- Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
Resources
- Google Help: Draft emails with Gemini in Gmail
- Apr 22, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Apr 22, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Apr 22, 2026
Search faster and smarter with AI Overviews in Gmail search
Gmail adds AI Overviews in search, letting users ask natural language questions and get concise answers from across email threads. The feature now expands from consumer subscriptions to eligible business and education users with Workspace Intelligence enabled.
Your inbox is full of critical information that you need to get your work done, but uncovering it shouldn't mean running endless searches just to sift through fragmented email threads. With AI Overviews in Gmail search, you can now ask natural language questions in Gmail’s search bar and get concise summaries and answers without digging through emails.
In the Gmail search bar, type in questions such as:
- “What are the performance improvements Owen mentioned?”
- “What are the milestones we agreed to for “Project Astro”?
- “Which invoices have I already paid and which are still outstanding to Sandbox Supplies?”
- “What were the latest comments from the UX deck?”
- “What are the details of my upcoming trip to New York?”
You’ll get instant summaries that pull context from across multiple conversations. No more searching your inbox for scattered details—just the answers you need, right when you need them.
Note that we previously launched this feature to users with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions; we’re now bringing it to business and education users with eligible licenses (see availability below).
Getting started
- Admins: This feature is available by default if Gemini for Workspace in Gmail is enabled and Workspace Intelligence access to Gmail is enabled. See our blog post to learn more about admin settings for Workspace Intelligence.
- End users: You must have both “Smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet” and “Google Workspace smart features” enabled to access this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about enabling smart features and AI Overviews in Gmail search.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 22, 2026
Availability
- Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Consumers: Google AI Pro and Ultra
- Other Editions: Frontline Plus
- AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
Resources
- Google Help: Get an AI Overview in Gmail search
- Google Workspace Blog: Introducing Workspace Intelligence
- Workspace Updates Blog: Introducing Workspace Intelligence, with admin controls
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Control Workspace Intelligence for generative AI features
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- Apr 9, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Apr 9, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Apr 11, 2026
Gmail end-to-end encryption now available on mobile devices
Gmail expands end-to-end encryption for client-side encryption users on Android and iOS, letting them compose and read encrypted messages natively in the Gmail app. It supports secure email for Gmail and guest recipients with easier mobile access and compliance controls.
We’re expanding Gmail end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Android and iOS devices for Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) users. With Gmail E2EE, your users can confidentially engage with your organization's most sensitive data from anywhere on their mobile devices while ensuring data remains compliant and with your organizations sovereignty and compliance requirements.
For the first time, users can compose and read these E2EE messages natively within the Gmail app on Android and iOS. No need to download extra apps or use mail portals. Users with a Gmail E2EE license can send an encrypted message to any recipient, regardless of what email address the recipient has.
- Gmail recipients: If the recipient uses the Gmail app, the encrypted message will be delivered as a typical email thread to their inbox.
- Guest recipients: If the recipient doesn’t have the Gmail app, they can seamlessly and securely read and reply in their own native browser, ensuring that all users have a simple and secure interface, regardless of their email service or device.
This launch combines the highest level of privacy and data encryption with a user-friendly experience for all users, enabling simple encrypted email for all customers from small businesses to enterprises and public sector.
Composing a E2EE message in Gmail
Recipient without Gmail app reading in browser
Getting started
- Admins: Admin will need to enable the Android and iOS clients in the CSE admin interface in order for users to have access. This can be done in the Admin Console, visit the Help Center to learn more.
- End users: To add client-side encryption to any message, click the lock icon and select additional encryption, and compose your message and add attachments as normal. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using client-side encryption for Gmail.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now
Availability
- Enterprise: Enterprise Plus with the Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on
Resources
- Google Help: Learn about Gmail Client-side encryption
- Google Workspace Admin Help: About client-side encryption
- Google Workspace Admin Help: About Assured Controls and Assured Controls Plus
- Google Workspace Blog: New in Gmail: Making end-to-end encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations
- Mar 12, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Mar 12, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Mar 13, 2026
Use Help me schedule in Gmail to easily set up a meeting time with multiple guests
Google expands Help me schedule in Gmail to cover group meetings. A new surface in the compose toolbar proposes ideal time slots for all guests with calendar visibility, auto-pulls initial guests from the thread, allows edits, and automatically sends invites when a time is chosen.
Finding time to meet
Finding time to meet often requires numerous back-and-forth emails, particularly when coordinating between multiple internal and external stakeholders. To address this, we are expanding the "Help me schedule" functionality in Gmail (introduced in October 2025) to support group meetings.
Previously, "Help me schedule" was limited to scheduling between two individuals. With this update, users can now coordinate meetings with multiple guests directly from the Gmail compose window.
Gemini in Gmail detects when you are trying to coordinate a time within an email and will surface a Help me schedule button in the toolbar. If there is more than one recipient on the thread, Gemini will propose ideal time slots that work for you and any colleagues, if you have visibility to their calendar. While the initial guest list is pulled automatically from the email thread, users have full control to edit guests as needed.
When a recipient receives the email, they can cross-reference the proposed availability against their own colleagues' schedules. Once a recipient selects a time, a Calendar invite is automatically sent to all guests.
Core capabilities:
- Analyze schedules and suggest meeting times: Gemini proposes ideal time slots that work for you and your colleagues (that you have calendar visibility for), based on their availability, working hours, and other factors
- Manage guest list: The initial guest list for the meeting gets pulled automatically from the email thread, and users have full control to edit the guests
- Automate invites: Once a recipient selects a time, a Calendar invite is automatically sent to all guests, including external participants.
Getting started
- Admins: Visit our Help Center to learn how to manage access to Gemini features in Workspace services.
- End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about scheduling events in Gmail.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started on February 25, 2026
- Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 16, 2026
Availability
- Business: Business Standard and Plus
- Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
- AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
- Other Editions: Frontline Plus
Resources
- Google Help: Schedule events in Gmail
- Google Workspace Updates Blog: Use Help me schedule to easily set up a meeting time over email
- Feb 24, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Feb 24, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Feb 25, 2026
Sending larger attachments in Gmail: New 50MB limits for Enterprise Plus customers
Gmail for Enterprise Plus boosts file sharing with larger attachments and incoming limits. Users can send attachments up to 50MB and receive messages up to 70MB, with admin controls and a gradual rollout starting Feb 23 2026.
Gmail storage and delivery enhancements for Enterprise Plus
We are introducing a significant enhancement to Gmail’s storage and delivery capabilities for Enterprise Plus customers. To support seamless collaboration and high-fidelity file sharing, we are increasing the file size limits for both sending and receiving emails.
- Sending larger files: Users can now attach files up to 50MB directly to an email (doubling the previous 25MB limit). This allows users to send large presentations, comprehensive spreadsheets, and high-resolution PDFs as direct attachments without needing to upload them to Google Drive first.
- Receiving larger files: We are increasing the total incoming message size limit to 70MB to also support large messages and attachments. This ensures that your organization can successfully receive larger emails from external senders, improving interoperability with other email platforms.
We know that today's workflows often involve sharing data-rich files. This new update compliments our existing functionality that allows users to upload to Google Drive and share a link. While Drive is excellent for collaboration, sometimes a direct attachment is the preferred method for external partners, clients, or regulatory workflows.
This update directly addresses two key areas of friction by:
- Streamlining workflow: Users can now simply drag and drop files up to 50MB into their draft window. This reduces context switching and saves time when sharing final versions of documents.
- Improving interoperability: Users who collaborate with partners who are unable to use Drive can now leverage attachments for these larger files, ensuring these critical communications are available regardless of the recipient.
This feature is admin configurable, giving admins more control over your organization's bandwidth and storage policies.
Getting started
- Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn how to configure your settings to unlock 50M attachments for your users.
- End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on February 23, 2026
Availability
- Google Workspace Enterprise Plus
Resources
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Gmail receiving limits in Google Workspace
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Gmail message sending limits in Google Workspace
- Feb 4, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Feb 4, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Feb 4, 2026
Proofread your email with Gemini in Gmail
Proofread now offers conciseness, active voice, and style tips for Gmail drafts, expanding from Google AI Pro to more Workspace plans. Promo access boosts usage limits during rollout with per-user caps to come. No admin controls; end users can leave it on by default.
Getting started
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
- End users: This feature will be ON by default and can be disabled by the user. Visit the Help Center to learn more about proofreading your email with Gemini.
Example of Conciseness suggestion
Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher usage limits of Proofread, allowing users to experiment with this feature. Per-user usage limits may apply afterward; we’ll provide more information in a future update prior to any changes.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 4, 2026
Availability
- Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Frontline Plus
- Individual
- Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra
- Google AI Pro for Education add-on
Resources
- Google Help: Check spelling, grammar & style in Gmail
- Keyword Blog: Gmail is entering the Gemini era
- Jun 30, 2025
- Date parsed from source:Jun 30, 2025
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 18, 2026
Hardware Key Certificate Management for client-side encryption in Gmail
Gmail now lets users manage hardware key encryption certificates directly in Settings, enabling self service key management without admin uploads. This client-side encryption keeps encryption keys under your control for Workspace Enterprise Plus customers.
Gmail hardware keys and client-side encryption
Gmail now allows users with hardware keys, such as PIV/CAC smartcards, to directly manage their digital signature and encryption certificates within Gmail settings. Prior to this update, admins needed to upload encryption keys for their users – now users can configure their own keys in Gmail, without needing an admin.
Gmail > Settings > Accounts > Encryption certificates
Additional details
While Workspace encrypts data at rest and in transit by using secure-by-design cryptographic libraries, client-side encryption ensures that you have sole control over encryption keys and access to your data. Client-side encryption ensures sensitive data in the email body and attachments are indecipherable to Google servers — you retain control over encryption keys and the identity service to access those keys. For more information, check out our original announcement and the Workspace blog.
Getting started
- Admins: In order for your users to add certificates from a hardware key, you must first enable and install the Workspace Hardware Keys application to user machines.
- End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using hardware keys for encryption.
Rollout pace
- Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.
Availability
- Available for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with Assured Controls and Assured Controls Plus
Resources
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Gmail only: Set up and manage hardware key encryption
- Google Help: Learn about Gmail Client-side encryption
- Jul 8, 2025
- Date parsed from source:Jul 8, 2025
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 18, 2026
Manage email subscriptions from a single location in Gmail
Gmail introduces a centralized Manage subscriptions view to organize and unsubscribe from unwanted emails in one place. Open it from the left navigation to unsubscribe with a single click and have Gmail send the unsubscribe request. Gradual rollout across web, Android, and iOS begins mid July 2025.
Release notes
Last year, we introduced web and mobile updates that enable you to
unsubscribe from individual emails in Gmail
more easily. Today, we’re building upon this with Gmail's new "Manage subscriptions" feature.With the “Manage subscriptions” view, you can organize your subscription emails and easily unsubscribe from the ones you no longer want – all from a single place.
To find this view, click the navigation bar in the top-left corner of your inbox and select “Manage subscriptions.” Your active subscriptions are sorted by the most frequent senders alongside the number of emails they’ve sent you in the past few weeks. If there’s a sender you no longer wish to receive emails from, you can easily unsubscribe in one click, and Gmail will send an unsubscribe request to the sender on your behalf.
Additional details
If you are a bulk sender wanting to know more about unsubscribe requirements, please see additional details here.
Getting started
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
- End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing your subscriptions in Gmail, unsubscribing from an email, and blocking or unblocking an email address.
Rollout pace
Web:
- Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 8, 2025
- Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 28, 2025
Android:
- Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 14, 2025
- Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on 31, 2025
iOS:
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 21, 2025
Availability
- Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
Resources
- Google Help: Block or unsubscribe from emails
- Google Help: Manage your subscriptions in Gmail
- Google Help: Unsubscribe from an email
- Google Help: Block or unblock an email address
- Keyword Blog: Declutter your inbox with Gmail’s newest feature
- Jul 31, 2025
- Date parsed from source:Jul 31, 2025
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 18, 2026
Build and deploy a single app across Chat, Gmail, Calendar, Drive and more with the Workspace add-ons framework
Google announces GA of Workspace add-ons for Chat, letting developers build one app that works across Gmail, Calendar, Drive and Chat. New capabilities include link previews, cross‑app automation and alerts, plus updated partner integrations and a roadmap of upcoming partners.
Getting started
Developers: Visit the developer documentation to learn how Google Workspace add-ons work in Chat and other information to get started.
- Apps Script developers can quickly build a Chat app as a Workspace Add-on using the Quickstart Guide, or using the Apps Script Chat app template.
- Apps Script developers can also refer to this Youtube tutorial published by our Workspace Developer Relations team: Build a Chat app as a Google Workspace add-on with Apps Script. This details how to build a Chat app as a Google Workspace add-on with Apps Script and extend it to other Workspace applications (Calendar, Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides). Source code links are available in the description as well.
- Developers that would like to build a Chat app as a Workspace Add-on using HTTP services can follow this Quickstart Guide.
- Our Google Workspace Developers YouTube channel has also published a video showing how a Chat app can configure Calendar events, and Gmail vacation responder settings: Build a Chat app as a Google Workspace add-on with Apps Script.
Admins:
- Admins can choose to admin-install Chat apps for their users, so that the Chat app will automatically be available for end users.
- If admins allow users to install Chat apps from the Workspace Marketplace, end users can browse the Marketplace to discover and find Chat apps to install.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about Getting started as a Marketplace app admin.
End users:
- Install Chat apps from the Workspace Marketplace.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about Using apps in Google Chat.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.
Availability
- Chat apps are available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
- Developing Chat apps is available to all Google Workspace customers
Resources
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Install Marketplace apps for your organization
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Allow users to install Chat apps
- Google Workspace Marketplace: Lucid for Google Chat
- Youtube: Build a Chat app as a Google Workspace add-on with Apps Script
Additional notes
- Previously available as part of the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program, we're excited to announce that the ability for developers to build Google Chat apps using the Workspace add-on framework is now generally available.
- The Workspace add-ons framework makes it possible to build and maintain one app that works across multiple Workspace apps including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Chat. This reduces complexity and improves the experience for developers, system admins, and end-users.
- In Chat, Workspace add-ons can provide helpful features, such as:
- Previewing links from Chat messages and taking action without leaving the conversation.
- Automating tasks across Google Workspace applications.
- Receiving alerts or notifications from linked external services.
- Combining external data from 3rd party apps and services with your data from Gmail, Chat, and Calendar.
- Lucid, developers of Lucidchart, Lucidspark, and Lucidscale, recently updated their existing Workspace Add-ons to now support Chat. These integrations with Google Chat enable link previews, quick search, and access management all within Chat.
- See more details on the Lucidchart, Lucidspark, and Lucidscale integrations here.
- Soon, other partners, including Asana, Confluence, Figma, HubSpot, Miro, Polly, ServiceNow, Trello, 1Password, and more will be releasing Chat apps built on the Workspace add-ons framework.
- Aug 13, 2025
- Date parsed from source:Aug 13, 2025
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 18, 2026
Quickly add events to Google Calendar with Gemini in Gmail on mobile
Gemini in Gmail on Android and iOS now automatically detects calendar details in emails and adds an Add to calendar button. Tapping it creates calendar events (with multi‑event support) and confirms in Gmail. Admins enable features; rollout is gradual and available across Google Workspace plans.
What’s changing
Earlier this year, we introduced the ability to add an event to your calendar directly from an email using Gemini in Gmail on web. Today, we’re excited to announce this is now available on Android and iOS devices.
With this update, Gemini will automatically detect calendar related content in your email and an “Add to calendar” button will appear. Upon clicking this option, the bottom panel in Gmail will open to confirm the event has been added to your calendar.
Additional details
If Gemini detects content about multiple events in an email, Gemini will offer to add all of them to your Google Calendar.
Getting started
- Admins:
- To access Gemini in the side panel of Workspace apps, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console.
- End users:
- This feature is only available for emails in English at this time.
- The "Add to calendar" button will not appear for emails with already extracted events (like restaurants, flights, etc.).
- A calendar event created via the “Add to calendar” button will not include other guests, they must be added afterwards.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Gmail.
Rollout pace
Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on Aug 13, 2025
Availability
Available for Google Workspace:
- Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Frontline Plus
- Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on
- Google AI Pro and Ultra
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: - Gemini Business*
- Gemini Enterprise*
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.
Resources
- Google Help: Collaborate with Gemini in Gmail
- Sep 23, 2025
- Date parsed from source:Sep 23, 2025
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 18, 2026
Introducing new Gmail notification features on Android and iOS devices
New mobile email updates speed up reading on Android and iOS with Mark as Read from notifications and sender avatars on iOS. These features help you clear alerts faster and recognize important senders at a glance. Available now to Workspace and personal accounts.
We're making it quicker and easier to manage your emails on mobile with two new features:
- You can now use the "Mark as Read" feature directly on your Android device to clear a notification.
- Sender avatars are now available on iOS devices, providing you with a quick glance at the sender's picture to help you spot important senders and prioritize what to read first.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now
Availability
- Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
- Oct 2, 2025
- Date parsed from source:Oct 2, 2025
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 18, 2026
Send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone
Gmail now offers generally available client-side encryption for end-to-end encrypted emails across providers. Recipients access via guest accounts with notifications, while admins can enable it per organizational unit, delivering secure, private mail with minimal IT effort.
Securely viewing an E2EE email in a restricted version of Gmail
Users sending an email will see a notification when composing their message
Getting started
- Admins: This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the OU and Group level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Gmail E2EE on or off for your organization. Visit the Help Center for a Client-side encryption setup overview.
- End users: This feature will be on by default for users that have access to Gmail Client-side encryption. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Gmail Client-side encryption.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on Sep 30, 2025
Availability
Available for Google Workspace:
- Enterprise Plus with the Assured Controls add-on.
Resources
- Google Help: Learn about Gmail Client-side encryption
- Google Workspace Admin Help: About client-side encryption
- Google Workspace Admin Help: About Assured Controls and Assured Controls Plus
- Google Workspace Blog: New in Gmail: Making end-to-end encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations
- Oct 14, 2025
- Date parsed from source:Oct 14, 2025
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 18, 2026
Use Help me schedule to easily set up a meeting time over email
Gemini-powered Help me schedule in Gmail automates finding and inserting meeting slots based on Calendar data, making it simple to coordinate with others. It starts with two-person scheduling and rolls out by default to eligible Workspace users across multiple plans. Faster, smarter meeting planning is here.
What’s changing
Finding time to meet — especially with external clients and customers — is hard, often requiring many back-and-forth emails. The new Gemini-powered Help me schedule feature in Gmail makes it easier for you to coordinate time with others.
Gmail with Gemini will detect when you’re trying to coordinate a time within an email and will surface a Help me schedule button in the toolbar. After you click on the Help me schedule button, Gemini will automatically suggest ideal slots based on your Google Calendar and the email's context. For example, if someone asks for a 30 minute meeting next week, Gemini will recommend time slots that fit your availability.
You can customize the times that Gemini suggests by removing or adding additional options, and then insert them directly into your Gmail message. Once the recipient receives the email and selects a time that works for them, a Calendar invite will automatically be added to both individual’s calendars. At launch, this feature will only support scheduling between two individuals, not groups.
Getting started
- Admins: This feature will be on by default for eligible users. Use our Help Center to learn how to manage access to Gemini features in Workspace services.
- End users: This feature will be on by default for eligible users. Visit the Help Center to learn more about scheduling events in Gmail.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 13. 2025
- Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days days for feature visibility) starting approximately October 28, 2025
Availability
Available for Google Workspace:
- Business Standard, and Plus
- Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Google AI Pro for Education
- Frontline Plus
Also available to:
- Google AI Pro and Ultra
- Gemini Business, Enterprise*
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.
Resources
- Google Help: Schedule events in Gmail
- Oct 20, 2025
- Date parsed from source:Oct 20, 2025
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 18, 2026
Protecting Gmail users from XS-Search with Cross-Origin Opener Policy (COOP)
Gmail boosts security with Cross-Origin Opener Policy (COOP) and will enforce it on January 20, 2026. Websites and extensions opening Gmail in popups may need code updates; admins and end users can stay as is. This helps block XS-Search and other window-handle based leaks.
Gmail is enhancing user security by enabling the Cross-Origin Opener Policy (COOP). As a result, developers of websites and browser extensions opening or manipulating the Gmail page may have to update their code to ensure continued functionality when enforcement begins on January 20, 2026. There is no action needed from Workspace admins or end users.
COOP background
Cross-Site Search (XS-Search) is a type of Cross-Site Leaks (XS-Leaks) attack that targets query-based search systems, like Gmail. Attackers exploit this vulnerability by gaining control of a Gmail window, either by opening a new popup or accessing an existing one via its window handle. Once they have this access, they can gather information via a side channel to determine if specific search results exist by repeatedly loading different search terms, thereby leaking sensitive user data.
COOP is a web security feature designed to isolate the web applications from untrusted origins. This measure will prevent attackers from accessing Gmail's window handle, thereby protecting users from various Cross-Site Search (XS-Search) attacks that rely on window handles for collecting side-channel information, such as frame counting. This also significantly hinders attacks like cache probing, which rely on timing and other observations for resources that Gmail loads for search results. While these attacks don't directly collect side-channel information through the window handles themselves, COOP prevents repeated searches and thereby increases difficulty and reduces effectiveness, making them far less of a threat.
Who’s impacted
Websites or browser extensions that open Gmail in a pop-up window and interact with that window by accessing its properties (closed, location, length, focus) or invoking its functions (close, postMessage). Also, browser extensions that are injected into Gmail page and access the opener handle which is a reference to the window that opened the current Gmail page.
Additional details
To enforce COOP, the Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy header will be present in the response:
Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin-allow-popups; report-to="gmail-web-coop-coep"
Report-To:{"group":"gmail-web-coop-coep","endpoints":[{"url":"https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/report-to/gmail-web"}]}Getting started
• Developers:
◦ For websites and browser extensions opening Gmail, refactor the offending code to avoid accessing the window properties or functions through the window handle and instead, utilize alternative APIs to achieve the desired functionality (e.g., chrome.tabs, Messaging).
◦ For browser extensions injected into the Gmail page, instead of trying to communicate with or access the opener, the browser extension should be updated so it doesn't need to interact with it at all and the extension's logic should be revised to work independently. If that is not possible, browser extensions can use existing APIs (e.g., chrome.tabs) to implement their logic.
• Admins:
There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.Rollout pace
• Enforcement will begin on January 20, 2026. Rollout will be extended (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility).
Resources
• Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: preventing attacks from popups
Original source
• Making your website "cross-origin isolated" using COOP and COEP
• COOP and COEP explained
• Why you need "cross-origin isolated" for powerful features
• A guide to enable cross-origin isolation - Dec 2, 2025
- Date parsed from source:Dec 2, 2025
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 18, 2026
New to Gmail: share emails in Google Chat
Google launches a Gmail to Chat integration that lets you forward a Gmail thread into a Chat chat or space with two-way links for full context. Enabled by default where Chat is on, with rapid rollout across Workspace tiers and domains.
Overview
We’re launching a new integration between Gmail and Google Chat designed to improve team collaboration and productivity. With this feature, you can easily share a conversation from your Gmail inbox to a Chat direct message or space. No need to start your chat conversation with, "Did you see the email I forwarded?" or dig through your inbox to find the message being discussed.
Starting from a Gmail thread, you can initiate a chat with the existing email recipients, a subset, or a new group. The email is automatically forwarded and recipients can open it directly from a link in Chat.
This enables you to switch to Chat for active discussion while preserving the connection to the original message. Two-way linking helps ensure that everyone has the full context they need for a productive discussion and reduces the need to jump between tabs.
This feature is helpful in common scenarios such as:
- Resolving an issue in real time instead of going back and forth over email
- Chatting about an email with a subset of the original group before responding
- Discussing a customer email with coworkers
- Signal boosting an announcement by company leadership
- Sharing meetings notes and action items
Getting started
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Organizations must have both Gmail and Chat enabled for the feature to appear.
- End users: This feature will be on by default for users who have Chat enabled in Gmail, available on desktop at launch and on mobile soon (currently available in limited testing on mobile for selected users). Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to share in Chat from Gmail.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on December 2, 2025
- Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 9, 2025
Availability
Available for Google Workspace:
- Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus
- Nonprofits
We plan to bring this feature to Education customers in the coming months. Please stay tuned to the Workspace Updates blog for an update on availability.
Resources
- Google Help: Share in Chat from Gmail
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