Improving the ISEMAIL and ISURL functions in Google Sheets

August 18, 2025

Improving the ISEMAIL and ISURL functions in Google Sheets

What’s changing
=ISURL() and =ISEMAIL() are two Google Sheets functions that check whether a value is a valid URL or email address, respectively. To ensure more domains and email addresses are properly recognized by these functions, we’re improving the way they are evaluated. Moving forward, properly formatted email addresses and URLs will more accurately return TRUE when passed through =ISEMAIL() or =ISURL().

Additional details
This change, once fully rolled out, will impact both new uses of these functions as well as existing uses of these functions.

Getting started
Admins:
There is no admin control for this feature.
End users:
There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about =ISURL() and =ISEMAIL().

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially more than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 25, 2025

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts