[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Google Meet, Docs, Calendar and Gmail are the protagonists of this month, bringing updates that optimize their use. Once again, Google is looking for users to have a simple and productive experience, letting them focus on their tasks without obstacles.

What are these updates?

Noise reduction display noise reduction during Google Meet video calls

As we already know, Google removes background noises that can become annoying or interrupt conversations, helping to make video calls more productive. 

In this month, you will start to see when the background noise is being reduced in the voice indicator. In addition, you will be able to see how the noise level is reflected in the size of the ring.s reflected in the size of the ring. This way, you will not only know when the noise is being reduced but also how much noise.

Availability 

• It is available for Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus and Workspace Individual customers. 
• It is not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Education Fundamentals, Frontline or Nonprofits customers, or to G Suite Basic or Business customers. 

Easily assign tasks from Google Docs

Do you know the Google Docs checklist? It can be very useful to make a checklist of steps to follow, topics to talk about in a meeting or team tasks. We love it! In addition, you can now assign an item from the list to a user as a Task, and you can set a date and time for it and its completion status.

Availability 

• Available for all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers.

Improved quality and performance for Google Meet effects on the web

Google Meet effects are a must in video calls, whether it is a background change or a blur, we all use them. They help us to work remotely so that we don't have to ensure a "suitable" background in our video calls, you can work in your room, in a coffee shop or outdoors and no one will notice.

Google recognizes the constant use of its effects and therefore improved their performance, making them more accurate. In addition, these effects can be processed in the cloud to help those users who have devices that do not run real-time video effects correctly. 

Any other benefits? Yes, by being processed in the cloud you save battery and up to 30% of CPU on your device while optimizing the quality of the effect.

Clarification: The first effects that will carry this enhancement are. background blur y light adjustment.

Spoiler Alert! Will be added in the future for additional effects, such as background replacement.

Availability 

Improved background and foreground separation:

• Available to all users on eligible devices.
  

Cloud-based processing:

• Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus and Workspace Individual customers on eligible devices in eligible countries (North America, Europe, North Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia). Please visit the Help Center for more information on the availability.
• Not available for Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Frontline and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers. 

Context of location for events and RSVPs in the Calendar

To facilitate communication and coordination within the hybrid work, you can now select a new way of confirming attendance that allows Google to automatically update where you will be at that moment, integrated to the work location you indicate. Much simpler!

In addition, you can view an attendee's work location or out-of-office status directly in the guest list section of a Calendar event. 

Availability 

• It is available for Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Education Standard, Teaching & Learning Upgrade, Nonprofits and legacy versions of G Suite Business. 
• Not available for Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Frontline and legacy versions of G Suite Basic customers and users with personal Google Accounts. 

Flame ControlGoogle Meet for USB peripheral devices

More features to help make your Meets highly productive and smooth! Knowing that most users use different devices for their meetings, you can now control, mute and activate sound with headphones, speaker-microphones and other USB peripheral devices.

Configure it! First steps:

• In the waiting room prior to the call. HClick Audio > Call Control > Connect Device. You must connect your USB peripheral.
• During a call. Click More options (three dots icon) > Audio > Call control > Connect device.

Note: At the moment, this feature is only available in Chrome or Chromium-based browsers. Also, Bluetooth devices are not supported. 

Spoiler Alert! It is expected that in a few months you will be able to mute videos, end meetings and more.

Availability

• It is available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as customers of legacy G Suite Basic and Business editions.

Improvedsearch options and suggestions in Gmail

A continuous improvement that Google is developing month by month is the search in Gmail. From now on, it will offer suggestions for more precise and personalized searches, thanks to machine learning. 

What changes will you see? When you search for a conversation, file or contact information you will see:

• Contextualized contact suggestions, with user intent sorting for first names and e-mail addresses. For example, suggestions are reordered to make contact searches more likely to match first names or email addresses rather than last names.
• Personalized suggestions based on exchange history, e.g., how often you interact with another user via Gmail.

Availability 

• It is available for Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Frontline and Nonprofits customers. 
• It is available to users with personal Google Accounts.
• Not available for Google Workspace Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and legacy versions of G Suite Basic and Business customers.

Did you know about the new updates? Do you have any questions about Google Workspace? Our Google specialists can help you.

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