Google Adds a Setting to Turn Off Gemini's Visible Watermark — SynthID and C2PA Stay

Google Gemini's official account announced on August 14, 2026 that users can decide whether images, videos, and music made with Gemini carry visible watermarks. Invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata always stay embedded.

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Google Gemini’s official account announced on August 14, 2026 that users can decide whether images, videos, and music creations made with Gemini will carry visible watermarks ¹. Toggling “Show watermark” on or off in settings sets the preference across all future images, videos, and music tracks ¹. The change rolls out over the next few days ¹.

The visible mark becomes a choice; the machine-readable one does not. The account states that invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata will always stay embedded in the background ¹. TechCrunch reports that the setting applies to the Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models ². On the same August 14, Anthropic published an explainer on how Claude’s text watermark works.