In addition to its Drive app, now Gmail customers can lock Google Drive files.
When a file is locked, no one with any level of access can make edits to it.
It remains read-only mode until you unlock it.
The company wrote in a blog post announcing the change that file locking started rolling out to Rapid Release domains yesterday and will do so over the next 15 days.
Those on Scheduled Release domains will start seeing it on September 20th with a 15-day rollout period.
Google has done a lot to its productivity products lately as it scrambles to catch up with Microsoft, particularly in the AI space.
Restricting a file in Google was already something you could do with the Google Drive API or through file approvals.
File approvals is a similar feature that lets you, say, request approval for a draft that’s locked from edits for everyone, no matter whether they’ve got editor access.
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