Adding granular control options for who can respond to existing Google Forms
News | 23.06.2025
Last year, Google introduced a feature that gives Google Forms creators more detailed control over who can respond to their newly created forms through sharing settings. Specifically, form creators can restrict response access to certain users, groups, or target audiences—similar to how file owners can limit sharing for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Sites in Drive.
About target audiences
This feature is currently available for Google Drive, Docs, and Google Chat services.
Supported editions for this feature: (Drive, Docs, & Chat) Business Plus, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus. (Drive & Docs only) Business Standard.
Target audiences are groups of people—such as departments or teams—that you can recommend for users to share their items with. You can add them to users' sharing settings in a Google service, such as Google Drive or Chat, to encourage users to share items with a more specific or limited audience rather than your entire organization.
In addition to being available on new forms, we’re pleased to announce that starting today, this option is now accessible on existing forms. As a result, form creators can update old or existing forms to enable more precise control over who can respond to them.
This feature is useful in any scenario where you’d like to control who can respond to a form. For example, business leaders can better collect feedback from specific organizational units and prevent the form from being responded to by other teams or organization units.
Note: The target audiences feature mentioned above is only available for the Google Drive and Docs and Google Chat services. Supported editions for this feature on Drive, Docs & Chat include: Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus. Supported editions for this feature on Drive & Docs only include: Business Standard.
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