Automatically install Chat apps to your conversations

September 16, 2025
Automatically install Chat apps to your conversations

What’s changing
Chat apps will now automatically be added as needed to future conversations after being installed by a user. Previously, a user had to manually install a Chat app into every space, group chat, and direct message.

For example, the first time a user tries to start a poll with the Poll app, they will be prompted to install the Poll app. After that, when they try to create a Poll in any space, the app will automatically be installed, and users can start voting right away.

Note that users can only install Chat apps as allowed by their admin. Admins can also choose to install apps for their organization, making apps available by default for some or all users without the need for users to install apps themselves.

Getting started
Developers:

• Developers do not have to make any changes to their Chat app in order to support automatic installs.

Admins:

• Admins can choose to admin-install Chat apps for their users, so that the Chat app will automatically be available for end users.
• If admins allow users to install all, or a specific list of Chat apps, from the Workspace Marketplace, end users can browse the Marketplace to discover and find Chat apps to install and automatically be added to conversations.
• To prevent Chat apps from automatically being added to conversations, admins can either prevent users from installing the specific Chat app or restrict who can install apps in specific spaces.
• Visit the Help Center to learn more about Getting started as a Marketplace app admin.

End users:

• Install Chat apps from the Workspace Marketplace.
• Visit the Help Center to learn more about using apps in Google Chat.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.

Availability

• Chat apps are available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts.
• Developing Chat apps is available to all Google Workspace customers.