Google Drive: Anonymous Animals - what is it?

In this practical tip, we explain what the anonymous animals mean on Google Drive.

Google Drive: what do the anonymous animals mean?

• The anonymous animals in documents in Google Drive stand for current viewers of the document. Each individual animal corresponds to an individual Google user.
• In order to distinguish users, but still keep their identity anonymous, the anonymous animals are divided into individual species. These include giraffes, dinosaurs and dolphins.
• The anonymous animals are usually displayed when the document can be viewed by anyone with the link. If, for example, a Google Doc is only released for selected users by entering email addresses, they will be displayed with their Google names.

You can find out what you can do if the upload to Google Drive is slow in the next practical tip.