You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks

Google will still embed invisible SynthID and C2PA watermarks into AI-generated images, videos, and music.

by Emma Roth

Aug 14, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

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Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new “Media watermark” setting in Gemini and Google’s AI video generator, Flow.

When 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 and C2PA metadata embedded in the background, according to Josh Woodward, the...

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