Turn Vids on or off for users

As a Google Workspace administrator, you can turn Google Vids on or off for users in your organization. Users who have Vids turned on can create, collaborate on, and share videos according to your organization's sharing settings.

To use Vids in your organization...

You must have a non-education Google Workspace account to use Vids in your organization. You must also:

1. Get Gemini for Google Workspace.
2. Turn on access to Gemini for Google Workspace Alpha.
3. Assign Gemini licenses to users.
4. Turn on Vids for your organization.

Note: Vids also requires the following services, which are on by default for most organizations:

• Drive and Docs
• Creating new files on Drive

If you turn Vids off...

No one in your organization can create Vids files, or open Vids files shared with them, including files shared with them from other organizations when Vids is off. This is true regardless of whether your organization has Gemini for Google Workspace.

Turn Vids on or off

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsGoogle WorkspaceDrive and Docs Google Vids.
3. To turn the service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On or Off and then click Save.
4. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Note: Learn more about organizational structure.
5. To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.
6. (Optional) To control how users share videos, manage sharing settings for your organization.