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Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Get enhanced spam protection through automatic labeling of suspected spam calls in Google Voice

To help protect you from unwanted calls and potentially harmful scams, Google Voice will now show a “suspected spam caller” label on all calls that Google believes to be spam. | Available to all Google Voice customers | Learn more. 

Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog post for additional details.

Scheduled Release Domains:

• Concentrate or disconnect with scheduled Do Not Disturb on Google Chat (Web)

Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:

• [Weekly Recap] Share Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files in Google Meet chat

For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

To help protect you from unwanted calls and potentially harmful scams, Google Voice shows a “suspected spam caller” label on all calls that Google believes to be spam. Google makes this determination using the same advanced artificial intelligence that identifies billions of spam calls each month across Google’s calling ecosystem. 

The new labels appear on the incoming call screen and in the user’s call history. Users can either: 

• Confirm a suspected spam call, which causes future calls from that number to go directly to voicemail and call history entries to be put in the spam folder 
• Mark a labeled call as not spam, after which the suspected spam label is never displayed for that number again 

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
• End users: Suspected spam labeling appears automatically when the Voice spam filter setting (Settings > Security > Filter spam) is OFF. When spam filtering is ON, all calls that Google identifies as spam are automatically sent to voicemail, and the call entry is put into the spam folder. Visit the Help Center to learn more about blocking calls and messages or marking them as spam. 

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 29, 2022 

• Available to all Google Voice customers

• Google Help: Block calls & messages or mark as spam

Google Workspace users can now access a variety of new filter effects on Google Meet on the web and mobile. These filters, such as loghead, strawberry, and working bunny, can help bring an element of fun to meetings. | Learn more. 

We’re expanding an existing mobile feature to the web that helps you find exactly what you’re looking for much faster using search chips that filter your search results. | Learn more. 

We’re expanding an existing mobile feature to the web that helps you find exactly what you’re looking for much faster using search chips that filter your search results. 

The filters available to help you find messages are: 

• From: Messages sent from specific people. 
• Said in: Messages said in a specific conversation or space. 
• Date: Messages sent during a specific date range. 
• Has file: Messages that include documents, spreadsheets, slides, and more. 
• Has link: Messages that include links. 
• Mentions me: Messages that mention you. 

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
• End users: 
• To find a specific message with the help of search filter chips: type your keyword(s) in the search bar in chat.google.com or Chat mobile app > hit enter. On the search results page, you can see the filter chips above the results > click on a filter chip to apply the filter on the search results. 
• For Chat in Gmail, type your keyword(s) in the search bar > navigate to the “messages” tab on the search results page > you can see the filter chips above the results > click on a filter chip to apply the filter on the search results. 
• Visit the Help Center to learn more about searching for Google Chat messages. 

• This feature is available now for all users.

Availability 

• Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 
• Available to users with personal Google Accounts 

Resources 

• Google Help: Search for Google Chat messages
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Improved search in Google Chat