As of August 27, 2026, Google documents a Media Watermark setting for the visible mark on media generated in Gemini Apps. If the control is available for your account, change it in Settings before creating the image, video, or music you want.
This setting is narrower than it may sound. It controls the visible watermark in Gemini Apps; it does not turn off the invisible SynthID signal or Content Credentials. It also is not a tool for editing a file you already downloaded.
Turn off the visible watermark
On a signed-in Gemini Apps session:
- Open Gemini Apps on the web or in the mobile app.
- Open Settings.
- Select Media Watermark.
- Switch the visible watermark off.
- Generate new media and check the result you receive.
Google documents the desktop path as Gemini Apps → Settings → Media Watermark and says the control applies to generated images, videos, and music.
Make the setting choice before generating the media you need. Google’s help page does not document retroactive removal, so do not rely on the toggle to change a file that has already been created or downloaded.
What changes—and what does not
Turning off Media Watermark changes the visible mark applied by Gemini Apps. According to Google, it does not disable the other provenance signals associated with Gemini-generated or Gemini-edited media:
- Visible watermark: the mark a person can see on the media. This is the element controlled by the setting.
- SynthID: an invisible signal included in AI-generated or AI-edited media in Gemini Apps.
- Content Credentials: provenance information that is not controlled by the visible-watermark switch.
That distinction matters when you inspect the result. A clean-looking image can have no visible Gemini mark while still carrying provenance information. The setting should therefore be understood as a presentation control, not as a way to make generated media indistinguishable from non-AI media.
Google’s documentation does not promise that every external detector will identify SynthID after every edit, transformation, or re-encoding. The supported claim is simply that turning off the visible watermark does not turn SynthID or Content Credentials off.
If Media Watermark is missing
First, confirm that you are looking inside Gemini Apps on the web or mobile—not Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Flow, Search, Photos, or an AI feature in another Google product. Google limits these instructions to Gemini Apps, so a different product may expose different controls or policies.
Next, check the account restrictions that Google explicitly documents. As of August 27, 2026:
| Your situation | Documented result |
|---|---|
| Personal account outside India, South Korea, or Vietnam | Look for Media Watermark in Gemini Apps Settings. Google’s listed AI Ultra country exception does not apply, but your current account screen remains the authoritative availability check. |
| Personal account in India, South Korea, or Vietnam | Google says the control is shown only with an AI Ultra subscription. |
| Work or school account | Google says the control is unavailable and generated media continues to receive visible watermarks. |
These checks are useful boundaries, not a complete diagnosis of every missing setting. Google’s page does not publish an exhaustive rollout schedule or every possible policy, platform, age, administrator, or account restriction.
If none of the documented cases explains what you see, recheck the current Google Help guidance and the setting in your own account. A control visible on someone else’s account does not establish availability on yours, and the help page does not document every possible account-state or client mismatch.
Check the right result after changing the setting
The quickest verification is practical:
- Change Media Watermark in the Gemini Apps session you plan to use.
- Create a new image, video, or music output.
- Inspect that new output for the visible mark.
- Remember that the absence of a visible mark does not mean SynthID or Content Credentials were disabled.
This separates three issues that are easy to confuse: whether your account has the control, whether a new generation displays the visible mark, and whether provenance signals remain. The setting addresses the second issue only.
If the problem is actually a failed image request or an API quota message rather than a visible mark in Gemini Apps, use the separate Gemini image 429 troubleshooting guide. API errors and limits require a different diagnosis from this account setting.
