Turn Search and Assistant on or off for users

Google Assistant is non available for managed Chromebooks.

As an administrator, you tin can control who uses Google Search and Assistant services with their Google Account. Merely plow the service on or off in your Admin console. Users who have it on can use their account to see personal results and access additional features. Users whose service is off can notwithstanding use some Search features, though without using information from their account or saving information to it, like to the feel for a user signed out of their account.

When the service is set to Off,users go on to have admission to services that are not controlled individually, like news.google.com and finance.google.com

Annotation:Some features may too crave the Web & App Activity service to be turned on. For details, get to Plow Web and App Activity on or off.

Command who uses Search and Assistant with their account

Before you begin: To turn a service on or off for certain users, put their accounts in an organizational unit (to control access by department) or add them to an access grouping (to permit access for users across or within departments).

  2. From the Admin console Home folio, become to Apps and then Boosted Google services.
    Tip:Scroll to see all services. Or at the top, cull a Filter to narrow the list, for example, based on condition or popularity.

  3. Click Search and Assistant.

  4. Next to Service condition, click the Down arrow"".

  5. To plough on or off a service for everyone in your organization, clickOn for everyone orOff for everyone, and and so clickSave.

  6. (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, selectOn orOff.
    3. Cull one:
      • If the Service status is set toInherited and you lot want to keep the updated setting, fifty-fifty if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is ready toOverridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or clickRelieve to go along the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Annotation: Larn more about organizational structure.

Let users access Google Workspace data

When using Search, users see theSign in button, even if they're already signed in.

  2. From the Admin panel Dwelling page, get to Apps and then Additional Google services.

  3. Click Search and Assistant and then Google Assistant settings.

  4. Click User access to Google Workspace information and services using Google Assistant and then On.

  5. Click Relieve.

  6. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, clickService statusand thenselect On for everyone or Off for everyone.

  7. Click Save.

Allow access to Google Workspace data for devices using Google Assistant

  2. From the Admin console Home page, become to Apps and then Additional Google services.

  3. Click Search and Assistant.

  4. Click Google Assistant settings and then Manage device access to Google Workspace data and services using Google Banana.

  5. Check the boxes for the devices you want to manage.

  6. (Optional) To require Voice Match or Face Match to admission Google Workspace information, bank check the Crave Face up Match or Phonation Friction match box.
    Note: Phonation Match and Face Match are non security features. For more information, encounter Face Match on Google Nest Hub Max.

  7. Click Save.
    Google Assistant settings

  8. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click Service status and thenselect On for everyone or Off for everyone.

  9. Click Save.

Manage Vocalism Friction match and Confront Match

Admins must get parental consent for users under the age of eighteen to link their Google Workspace for Education accounts to a Google Banana-enabled device to enable Vocalism Match and Face Friction match. However, Vox Lucifer and Face Match are just enabled on a user's device if they cull to enable the feature.

Vocalization Lucifer creates a unique model of a users' voice that Assistant uses to identify a user on whatsoever device where Voice Friction match is enabled. Face Match creates  a unique model of a users' confront that Banana uses to recognize a user on smart devices with a camera enabled.

Google Assistant uses Vocalization Lucifer and Face Match to tell an enrolled user apart from other users. Depending on user settings, Banana tin can apply Vocalism and Face Match to personalize user experiences and results.

To turn Voice Match and Face Match on or off:

  2. From the Admin console Home folio, become to Apps and then Additional Google services.

  3. Click Search and Assistant and then Vocalism Match and Face up Match.

  4. In the Vocalization Match and Face Match panel, choose On for anybody or Off for everyone.

  5. Click Save.

  6. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organisation, click on the Service condition sectionand thenselect On for everyone or Off for everyone.

  7. Click Save.

It tin have upwardly to 24 hours to see changes. During this fourth dimension, one-time and new settings might be intermittently enforced.

If you lot plough off Vox Lucifer and Face Match:

  • Users' Assistant-enabled devices will lose core features and capabilities.  For instance, Assistant volition no longer recognize their voice and face, so your end users might not exist able to access personal results (such every bit their calendar or reminders) on shared Assistant-enabled devices, such as speakers or smart displays.  On some devices, such as phones, Google Assistant might no longer respond to "Hey Google."
  • Voice Match and Confront Match models will be deleted from users' Assistant-enabled devices. If a device isn't connected to the internet, or if it's not running the latest version of Google Assistant,  the voice and face models might non be deleted immediately. In these cases, and on some older devices, users may need to factory reset their devices to delete their Voice Match and Face Match models.
  • Enrollment Vocalisation Match clips and Face Match images will be deleted from user accounts.
  • If yous change your listen, and turn on this setting again, users will have to re-enroll in Phonation Match and Face up Match. This means that they volition accept to requite their consent to these features, record new vocalization clips to fix Voice Match, and take new photos of their faces to gear up Face Match.

Choose to ever use SafeSearch for Google Search queries

  2. From the Admin panel Home page, go to Apps and then Additional Google services.

  3. Click Search and Assistant.

  4. In the SafeSearch for Google Search queries panel, choose to Always use SafeSearch for Google Search queries or Do not enforce SafeSearch for Google Search queries.

  5. Click Save.

  6. To plough a service on or off for everyone in your organisation, click on the Service status sectionand thenselect On for everyone or Off for everyone.

  7. Click Save.

Related topics

  • Link your voice to your devices with Vocalization Match
  • Turn a service on or off for Google Workspace users
  • Manage admission to services that aren't controlled individually
  • Turn on or off new services by default
  • Google Workspace for Pedagogy Cadre and Additional services
  • Use multiple accounts at once on your Google Assistant devices
  • Access the Google Banana with your phonation


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