Most of us have attended meetings that might have easily been conducted by email. Google Calendar will soon give information on how you spend your workday, including how much time you spend in meetings, so you could see how much time you might save if your managers instead wrote notes. 

The goal of Time Insights is for you to acquire a better knowledge of how you spend your time so you can make changes if you’re spending too much time on Zoom calls or conference rooms. For example, if you have a lot of meetings with the same people, you might be able to combine them. 

The functionality may be used to emphasize the days and times when you are most likely to be in meetings. You’ll also get a time breakdown (including the average amount of time spent in meetings each day) as well as information on the people with whom you have the most meetings. When you hover your mouse over a person, Google Calendar will highlight all of their meetings. 

Only PCs, not mobile devices, will be able to see Time Insights. You’ll usually be the only one who sees the insights, but if you manage other people’s calendars and they’ve allowed the “manage sharing access” permission, you’ll be able to see their Time Insights as well. 

Google Workspace administrators will be able to disable the functionality, but ordinary users will not. Time Insights can, however, be hidden simply by closing the bar on the right side of the screen. 

Certain Google Workspace accounts will soon have access to Time Insights (i.e. Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus and Nonprofits users). Users on other subscriptions, such as G Suite Basic and Business, will not be able to utilize it. 

It should arrive in the next several weeks for workspace administrators. On September 6th and September 20th, Google will make Time Insights available to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains, respectively. On each type of domain, the deployment might take up to 15 days. 

Android applications that haven’t been used in a long time will soon lose their ability to access critical device functions like sensors, SMS messages, and contact lists. 

Google aims to expand the availability of “permissions auto-reset,” an Android privacy feature that immediately revokes an app’s previously granted permissions to access a device’s location, camera, microphone, and other features, starting in December. 

Last year, Google introduced the functionality for Android 11, but it will be expanded to “billions of more devices” in December through Google Play services for smartphones running Android 6.0 (API level 23) from 2015 and newer. 

“For apps targeting Android 11 (API level 30) or higher, the functionality will be enabled by default. Users may, however, explicitly activate permission auto-reset for apps targeting API levels 23 to 29 “In an Android developer blog post, Google says. 

The function is designed to assist Android users in managing privacy-sensitive app permissions when they have dozens of applications on their smartphone, many of which aren’t used frequently or for lengthy periods of time. It focuses on an app’s “runtime permissions,” or “dangerous permissions,” which allow it to access the user’s location, contact information, messages, and other personal information. 

If an app targeting Android 6 or above isn’t utilized for a few months after being released in Q2 2022, Android will automatically reset the sensitive runtime permissions that the user provided to the app. 

In developer notes, Google says that “this action has the same impact as if the user saw a permission in system settings and changed your app’s access level to Deny.” 

All Android mobile applications on consumer devices will be affected by the change. Google has established an exemption for corporate-managed applications and apps with permissions set by enterprise policy. 

App developers may also ask a user to stop auto-set for their app on Google’s platform. This might be appropriate for programs that are intended to run in the background, such as family safety apps, data syncing apps, smart device control apps, or device pairing apps.