Google has enabled users to toggle watermarks on and off, covering the Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models, available in both Gemini and Flow apps, though watermarks remain embedded invisibly.
Google announced that users can now enable or disable visible watermarks generated by Gemini on still images, videos, and music. Disabling these watermarks does not affect the invisible watermarks, or SynthID, nor the C2PA-standard file metadata, which remain embedded but invisible.
This watermark toggle covers Google's various models: Nano Banana for still images, Omni for videos, and Lyria for music. The setting is available in the Gemini and Flow apps, Google's video editing tools, with Search support planned for later.
Google will gradually roll out this feature in the coming days. Users can go to Settings and select Media Watermark to enable or disable the visible watermark.
However, this option will not be available in countries with laws requiring watermarks to remain. Additionally, reports indicate that in India, South Korea, and Vietnam, only subscribers to the Google AI Ultra package will have access. Organizational and educational accounts will not have this toggle setting.
This move follows Anthropic's announcement to embed watermarks in texts and files generated by Claude to comply with European Union regulations, which has sparked widespread debate among users.