Turn NotebookLM on or off for users

Let your users interact with source content using language models

As an admin, you can control who uses NotebookLM in your organization.

NotebookLM is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help you refine and organize your ideas. With NotebookLM, you can:

Easily upload PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs, or Google Slides or discover new sources.
Experience Gemini's advanced reasoning and interaction capabilities across different ways of communication like text, graphs, images, audio, and in many languages.
Chat with your notebook to get grounded information based on your sources with clear in-line citations for accuracy, transparency, and trust.
Transform your sources into approachable formats such as study guides, briefings, audio overviews, mind maps, and more.

New to NotebookLM? Find out what you can do with it. Get started with NotebookLM.

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NotebookLM features & access by Workspace edition
How NotebookLM stores your data
Turn NotebookLM on or off

NotebookLM features & access by Workspace edition

	Access to features	Access to features with enterprise-grade security & privacy	Expanded access to features with enterprise-grade security & privacy
Editions:	NotebookLM as an additional service with: Essentials Starter Workspace Individual G Suite Cloud Identity Chrome Enterprise Android Enterprise	NotebookLM as a core service with: Business Starter Essentials Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus Nonprofits Education Fundamentals Education Standard Education Plus	NotebookLM as a core service with: Business Plus Business Standard Enterprise Plus Enterprise Standard Google AI Ultra for Business Gemini Enterprise (no longer available for purchase) Gemini Business (no longer available for purchase) Gemini Education Gemini Education Premium
Features and Availability
Limits	General Access	General Access	5x more Audio Overviews, notebooks, queries, and sources per notebook. Sharing a notebook does not change limits for any collaborator.
Premium Features	-	-	Chat customization, advanced sharing, and notebook analytics
Supported countries and languages	NotebookLM is available in browser to all users 18 years of age or above in the 180+ regions where the Gemini app is available. Learn more about supported countries & territories for the NotebookLM mobile app.	NotebookLM is available in browser to all users 18 years of age or above in the 180+ regions where the Gemini app is available. Learn more about supported countries & territories for the NotebookLM mobile app.	NotebookLM is available in browser to all users 18 years of age or above in the 180+ regions where the Gemini app is available. Learn more about supported countries & territories for the NotebookLM mobile app.
Applicable Terms of Services & Data Handling
Terms of Service	Google Terms of Service	Education editions: Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service Workspace editions: Google Workspace Terms of Service	Education editions: Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service Workspace editions: Google Workspace Terms of Service
Data Protections	We value your privacy and don’t use your personal data to train NotebookLM. Our Gemini Apps Privacy Notice describes how Google handles your data when you interact with NotebookLM. If you provide feedback, humans may review your queries, uploads and model’s responses to make improvements.	Enterprise-grade security and privacy: Your uploaded files, chats and model outputs won’t be reviewed by human reviewers or used to improve generative AI models. Our Privacy Policy describes how Google Cloud handles your data when you interact with NotebookLM.	Enterprise-grade security and privacy: Your uploaded files, chats and model outputs won’t be reviewed by human reviewers or used to improve generative AI models. Our Privacy Policy describes how Google Cloud handles your data when you interact with NotebookLM.

How NotebookLM stores your data

When users import files from Drive, NotebookLM creates a new copy of each file. This new file is stored with the user's NotebookLM data, not in their Drive. Your organization's file sharing and data region settings do not apply to data in NotebookLM.

Turn NotebookLM on or off

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 group (to allow access for users across or within departments).

Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
Go to Menu Generative AI > NotebookLM.
Requires having the Services > Gemini app > Gemini Settings administrator privilege.
Click Service status.
To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.
(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, select On or Off.
3. Choose one:
  - If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
  - If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
    Learn more about organizational structure.
(Optional) To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.
Click Save.