You can manage access to Google services that aren't shown in the Admin console, and therefore, don't have an individual ON/OFF control.
Before you begin
For services that don't have their own ON/OFF control:
- You can only turn these services On or Off all at once. You can't set them individually.
- You can manage access to these services for all users or just specific organizational units.
- If you're not sure whether to turn off these services for your organization, you might try turning them off for only one or a few organizational units first. Then wait a few days to see if users can't access services they need.
- When you turn off these services, users' data isn't deleted. If you want your users to keep data they might have from the services you are turning off, coordinate with them to use Google Takeout to export their data before you turn off the services. For information on how to turn on Google Takeout for your users, go to Turn Google Takeout on or off for users .
- If a service later gets an ON/OFF control in the Admin console, it retains its current state of On or Off.
- For Google Workspace for Education editions only: users under the age of 18 are restricted from using these services with their Google Workspace for Education accounts, even when this setting is On. For details, go to Control access to Google services by age. If one of these services later gets an ON/OFF control in the Admin console, it is set to Off for primary and secondary institutions.
Turn services on or off
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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.
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Go to Menu
Apps > Additional Google Services.
Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.
- In the message at the top of the page, click Change.
- Choose how you want to restrict services and follow the steps: Turn services on or off for all users in your organization
Turn services on or off for users in a specific organization unit
- In the left panel, make sure Settings for all organizational units is selected.
- Choose to turn services on or off for all users.
- Click Save.
- In the left panel, select the organizational unit.
- Choose to turn services on or off for users.
- Click Override to keep this setting the same, even if the parent setting changes.
- If the organizational unit's status is already Overridden, choose an option:
- Inherit—Reverts to the same setting as its parent.
- Save—Saves your new setting (even if the parent setting changes).
It can take up to 48 hours for the new setting to take effect.
Tip: If you turn off services, consider communicating your organization's policy to users.
Choosing whether to restrict access
Reasons to restrict access to services
Some Google services don't have their own On or Off setting in the Admin console, and Google may release new services at any time. You might want to restrict users from accessing services with their managed Google Account for reasons such as:
- Company policy—Your organization might need control over the services your users can use with their organization-managed Google Accounts.
- Industry regulations—Your organization might be subject to industry regulations that require administrative control over users' data.
- School restrictions—Your educational institution might need to restrict use of services for policy reasons or because it doesn't have parental approval to provide them to students.
How restricting access to services affects users
- If you turn off Google services that you don't control individually in the Admin console, users can't use services that might be helpful to them. If users are already using these services for work purposes, restricting access to them might disrupt their work.
- If users try to sign in to a restricted service, they're usually redirected to a page that tells them the service is unavailable and why.
