With the Material You redesign rolled out, Google Drive is now adding search chips that let you filter by file type, owner, and last modified date anywhere in the web app.
Below the file path, you’ll soon see three filters:
- File type: Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms, Photos & images, PDFs, Videos, Shortcuts, Folders, Sites, Audio, Drawings, Archives (.zip)
- People
- Last modified
This functionality was previously offered in Google Drive search, but it’s now available “throughout Drive.” Google hopes this will help “you narrow down and find relevant files faster in any view.”
Google’s goal with the Material You web redesign is to “help you complete your most frequent tasks more quickly.” This joins the ability to hover over a file (in list view) to reveal shortcuts for quickly sharing, downloading, renaming, and favoriting. In our experience, this only appears on wide screens. There’s also a multi-select toolbar to take bulk actions.
These Google Drive search filters are rolling out starting today and will be fully available over the coming weeks for:
- Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers
- Available to users with personal Google Accounts
More on Google Drive:
- Material You is now available for Google Drive’s web app
- Google Drive begins rolling out tablet redesign with navigation rail
- Google Drive for Android rolling out PDF drawing and highlighting
- Gmail and Google Calendar client-side encryption now generally available
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