Google Drive now lets you control who has access to specific folders within your shared drives

Google introduced a new Google Drive feature last year that lets shared drive managers restrict access to certain folders within a shared drive. So far, this feature has been limited to select beta testers, but the company is now expanding availability to all users.

In a recent Workspace Updates blog, the company says that the option to restrict folders to specific users is rolling out in shared drivers and My Drive to all users. It highlights that shared drive managers and My Drive owners can now restrict file and folder access using one of two ways. They can either limit users from accessing individual files or folders by changing the role of that specific user with the “Update item only” option or restrict access to an entire folder by changing its share settings. However, Google plans to remove support for the first method by next year.