Google Meet, Google’s reply to video calling providers like Zoom, is getting a group of useful tweaks to its hand-raising feature as a part of ongoing updates to Workspace. The new modifications, spotted by 9to5Google, embrace a brand new hand-raising animation, notification sound, and changes to how hosts are made conscious of raised palms.

While the replace is minor, for anybody who makes use of Google Meet in a big group setting or repeatedly attends webinars, the tweaks shall be useful — plus, the brand new animation actually is sweet.

Here’s Google’s breakdown of the modifications you’ll discover because the replace rolls out to Workspace customers:

• An up to date and improved visible icon and animation on the video tile
• The tiles of individuals with raised palms could also be moved to be extra seen within the video grid
• An audio notification for all contributors when the primary raised hand is raised
• A clickable notification which exhibits the variety of raised palms and which hyperlinks to an ordered queue of all contributors with raised palms
• That a participant’s hand shall be mechanically lowered after they communicate

Google says the brand new function shall be out there for any assembly created by hosts with Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Nonprofit, and G Suite Business accounts.

For the extra thrilling modifications to Workspace introduced on the I/O 2021 Developers Conference, you’ll have to attend a bit longer. Google simply rolled out Workspace to anybody with a Google account and enabled its new Chat and Rooms options (replacements for G Chat and Slack). Bigger modifications like sensible chips, which makes all Workspace apps extra interoperable and fluid, are nonetheless a methods off.