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title: Faster Blocks & Third-Party Uploads
description: Long Steps feel snappier to design, and uploading from Google Drive and other apps is smoother.
date: 2025-12-18
status: published
author: /people/pathwright-team.person.md
---

# Faster Blocks & Third-Party Uploads

Two highlights from our December updates:

**Faster Blocks in long Steps.** We made a big performance improvement to Blocks, especially in long Steps with lots of [Question Blocks](../help/create-a-path/content-case-studies/question-blocks-create-a-quiz-test-survey-or-self-check.help.md). If a big Step, quiz, or test has felt sluggish to design, it should now feel noticeably snappier.

**Smoother uploads from other apps.** We upgraded the file uploader in the [Media Manager](../help/create-a-path/how-to-add-content-with-blocks/media-manager.help.md), as well as the one learners use:

- Uploading files from Google Drive works reliably.
- Your sign-in to Google Drive, Dropbox, and other file sources is remembered securely, so you won't have to sign in again as often.
- Uploads can be paused and resumed, and the uploader got a bit of visual polish.

Read more in [our December update](../updates/2025-12-18-december-updates.update.md).