Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #23 / 01-NOV-23

Google Meet Series One Desk 27 and Acer Chromebase for Meetings devices will automatically adjust your lighting

Currently, Google Meet automatically adjusts your lighting for meetings on the web, helping to improve your video quality in underexposed environments. Google is now expanding this functionality to meetings taken on Google Meet Series One Desk 27 and Acer Chromebase for Meetings devices. If these devices detect that your video appears underexposed, it will adjust the brightness to improve how you appear in the meeting.

Introducing an updated and more inclusive emoji picker in Gmail

You can now access a more complete emoji selection and set emoji skin tone and gender preferences with the modernized emoji picker in the web version of Gmail. This update enables users to express themselves more authentically using emoji variations in Gmail.

How to make sure you can easily regain access to your Google Account

Since phishing attempts continue to be a major cybersecurity issue, Google wants to make sure that if someone is trying to access your account, it’s actually you. Fortunately, there are two easy steps you can take now to prepare in case you ever get locked out of your account: setting up a recovery email and phone number.