Google Adds a Toggle to Strip Visible Watermarks From Gemini Output While Keeping SynthID and C2PA

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Google began rolling out a 'Media Watermark' on/off setting in Gemini on August 14, 2026, removing the visible watermark from images, video, and music generated by the Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models, with the toggle also present in Flow and Search support coming. The invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA provenance metadata stay embedded, so detectability is nominally preserved — but only for anyone with a SynthID detector, which is not the general public. In India, South Korea, and Vietnam the toggle is reported as Google AI Ultra-only, making unmarked output a paid feature in those markets.