Zoho Workplace - May 2026 Updates

This is the May 2026 roundup of updates across Zoho Workplace applications, covering Mail, Calendar, Cliq, Connect, Sheet, Meeting, and Vault.

• Zoho Mail: a new MCP lets you manage your inbox through AI agents and prompts, exposing Mail functions as MCP tools with OAuth 2.0 authentication.
• Zoho Mail: Zia AI can generate Out-of-Office message content from a prompt.
• Zoho Mail: filter enhancements include Show Matching Filters to avoid duplicates and a read-only Smart Filter preview.
• Zoho Mail: you can copy and move tasks in ToDo across lists and locations.
• Zoho Mail: Streams gains font size and line spacing options and revamped settings.
• Zoho Mail: you can view delivery status and recall emails for delegated accounts from the Sent folder.
• Zoho Mail: the subtasks interface has more options to add, generate, and manage subtasks.
• Zoho Mail: Traditional Chinese language support is now available.
• Zoho Mail: account recovery can be completed using IAM push notifications.
• Zoho Mail: Zia AI can generate content and summarise emails when BYOK is enabled.
• Zoho Mail: classification labels let admins categorise and restrict confidential email data from the Compose window and Preview pane.
• Zoho Mail: detailed spam alerts now appear in the Preview pane for suspicious emails.
• Zoho Mail: you can block, trust, or unblock senders and report phishing directly from the email preview pane.
• Zoho Mail: smart alerts can be reordered by priority, and super admins can assign a user or admin role when creating a user.
• Zoho Mail: admins can limit room booking access during room setup and suppress notification emails during group cloud service imports.
• Zoho Mail: quarantined emails can be searched using multiple criteria at once.
• Zoho Calendar: an Out of Office option marks your unavailability, automatically declines invitations, and notifies organisers with a custom message.
• Zoho Calendar: MCP support lets AI assistants check availability, find mutual slots, schedule, invite attendees, and reschedule through prompts.
• Zoho Cliq: the ClickUp extension adds widget support for Goals, Targets, and Dashboards, threaded notifications, more notification types, AI-powered summaries, and an Add Comment action.
• Zoho Connect: group admins get finer control over role permissions, and network admins get clearer storage management with filtering, sorting, downloads, deletion, and audit logs.
• Zoho Sheet: MCP support lets AI assistants create spreadsheets, update table records, summarise, and fetch data.
• Zoho Meeting: AI-powered recordings add automatic summaries, transcripts, chapters, and highlights.
• Zoho Vault: the browser extension adds a password assessment for weak, reused, and compromised credentials, an Owned by Me filter, and an admin option to disable file attachment uploads.