Overview
- Google updated Help Me Write on Thursday to accept custom text prompts for refining AI-generated drafts and added undo and redo controls for those edits.
- The company is distributing the update across Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains and expects it to reach eligible users by July 20.
- Help Me Write continues to generate full email drafts from short prompts inside Gmail’s compose editor and expands previous preset options like Polish, Formalise, and Shorten.
- Google Workspace customers must have administrators enable both 'Gemini for Workspace in Gmail' and 'Workspace Intelligence access to Gmail' before eligible users see the feature.
- The Help Me Write change arrives alongside Gemini tools such as AI Inbox, which makes one-click summaries of unread mail, and AI Overview, which answers questions about threads, reflecting Google’s push to embed Gemini in core productivity apps.