{"slug": "you-can-now-turn-off-google-geminis-visible-watermarks", "title": "You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks", "summary": "Google now allows users to turn off visible watermarks on AI-generated images, videos, and music through a new 'Media watermark' setting in Gemini and its AI video generator Flow, while still embedding invisible SynthID and C2PA watermarks. The toggle removes the 'sparkle' watermark from content made with Nano Banana and Omni models, but invisible markers remain for verification, according to Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs, Gemini, and AI Studio. The setting will roll out to Search but not in countries requiring visible watermarks.", "body_md": "Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With [the update](https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2088277477672255830?s=20), you can toggle off a new “Media watermark” setting in Gemini and Google’s AI video generator, Flow.\n\n# You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks\n\nGoogle will still embed invisible SynthID and C2PA watermarks into AI-generated images, videos, and music.\n\nGoogle will still embed invisible SynthID and C2PA watermarks into AI-generated images, videos, and music.\n\nWhen toggled off, Google will remove the “sparkle” watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company’s Nano Banana and Omni models. Though visible watermarks are now optional, AI-generated content will have invisible [SynthID watermarks](/2023/8/29/23849107/synthid-google-deepmind-ai-image-detector) and [C2PA metadata](/2024/8/21/24223932/c2pa-standard-verify-ai-generated-images-content-credentials) embedded in the background, [according to Josh Woodward](https://x.com/joshwoodward/status/2088259244193960386?s=20), the vice president of Google Labs, Gemini, and AI Studio. That means you can still verify if an image has one of these markers by [asking Gemini or Search](/tech/933424/google-synthid-c2pa-content-credentials-expansion) if it’s AI-generated.\n\nWhile this change might make it more difficult to quickly discern if an image or video is AI-generated, many users have already been editing out visible watermarks. Other AI image generators, like OpenAI and Meta’s, also don’t apply visible watermarks. Instead, [OpenAI relies on SynthID and C2PA](/ai-artificial-intelligence/933442/openai-synthid-content-credentials-c2pa-expansion) to signal whether something is AI-generated, while [Meta launched its own Content Seal standard](/tech/968680/meta-ai-detection-labeling-content-seal-watermarks-synthid). Anthropic also [announced this week](/ai-artificial-intelligence/977823/anthropic-claude-ai-watermarks-c2pa-text-images) that it’s applying invisible watermarks to both AI-generated text and images.\n\nGoogle plans on rolling out its new watermark setting to Search as well, but the toggle won’t launch in countries that require visible watermarks.\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-now-turn-off-google-geminis-visible-watermarks", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/980416/google-gemini-ai-watermarks-removal", "published_at": "2026-08-14 16:39:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 16:47:03.083779+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini", "Flow", "SynthID", "C2PA", "Josh Woodward", "OpenAI", "Meta"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-now-turn-off-google-geminis-visible-watermarks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-now-turn-off-google-geminis-visible-watermarks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-now-turn-off-google-geminis-visible-watermarks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-now-turn-off-google-geminis-visible-watermarks.jsonld"}}