Earlier this year, Google announced that it would be updating the access experience in Google Drive. With this update, Google will stop allowing restricted access on specific files and folders within a shared folder, starting September 22, 2025. Limited access should instead be managed consistently via the limited access folder setting.
You can now share your custom Gems in the Gemini app
Gems help you tailor Gemini to your specific needs, making tasks simpler and saving you time on repetitive prompting. And now, you can now share the Gems you make, so your friends, family or coworkers can also try them out.
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. This can be particularly useful when composing an important message to a large space or a senior stakeholder, or for users communicating in a second language.
Get proactive summaries of text responses in Forms
Users will now see proactive Gemini generated insights in Forms for short-answer or paragraph questions when reviewing responses. Using Gemini to summarize responses to longer questions helps users more quickly understand the sentiment, analyze feedback, or gain insights from the form without needing to review large amounts of text in detail.