Manage Google Workspace™ Access to Unconfigured Third-Party Apps

Learn how to best manage Google Workspace™ settings to allow access to unconfigured third-party apps.

Manage access to unconfigured third-party apps for users designated as under 18

This feature is only available with Google Workspace for Education editions.

Users designated as under 18 by the age-based access setting are blocked from using unconfigured third-party apps. An unconfigured third-party app is any app not yet configured with an access setting (trusted, limited, or blocked) in the Admin console. Learn about age-based access settings.

When a user designated as under 18 tries to access an unconfigured app, they’ll be blocked, but see a message with the option to request access. Note, for some Android apps, users will be blocked, but may not be presented with a screen allowing them to request access.

When a user requests access, you can allow access by configuring access for the app as described below.

If you select Allow users to access third-party apps that only request basic info needed for Sign in with Google (under the Unconfigured third-party apps setting for users designated as under 18), users designated as under 18 only need to request access to an app if the app asks for more than the basic information required to use Sign in with Google (name, email, and profile picture, if any). You’ll need to review just those apps that ask for more data, and if appropriate, configure access settings for them.

Note: Google Workspace Marketplace apps might have different configuration steps. For details, go to Manage Marketplace apps access for users designated as under 18.

Important: Your organization is responsible for obtaining parental consent, as required, before allowing users under 18 to access third-party apps.

 

Configure access for requested third-party apps

In the Admin console, you can review third-party apps users designated under 18 have requested access to. For apps you want to allow users designated as under 18 to access, you need to configure access settings, using the steps below.

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

On the home page, in the App access control card, you'll see: 

• Apps pending review - How many apps users designated as under 18 have requested access.
• User requests - The number of users who requested access.

2. Click Review Apps.

In Apps pending review, the requested apps are sorted by the number of user requests.

• User requests - The number of users who requested access to the app
• Org units with requests - The number and name of organizational units in which users requested access
• Requestable services - Google data the app previously requested to access from Google users

3. Click the app name to see app details.

4. For apps you want to make accessible to users designated as under 18, point to the app and click Configure access.

For apps you want to block for users designated as under 18 to access, you have two options:

• Leave as is - If you don’t configure access within 6 months, the app is removed from the list.
• Dismiss or block the app - Point at the app and click Dismiss to remove it. Or, you can configure access for the app and choose Block to prevent it from reappearing in the list.

6. Check the box for organizational units you want to configure access for.
 

• Trusted - Users can sign in with Google to the third-party app and the app can request access to Google data, both restricted and unrestricted Google services.
• Limited - Users can sign in with Google to the third-party app and the app can request access only to unrestricted Google data.
• Blocked - Users can’t sign in with Google to the third-party app and the app can’t request access to any Google data.

10. Review your selection and click Configure Access.

Note: Some changes can take up to 24 hours.

 

What are restricted and unrestricted Google services?

This is up to you, depending on which services are set as restricted and unrestricted on the Google services page. You might select Restricted if data for a Google service is more sensitive and you want to allow only a small number of apps - apps marked Trusted - to request access to data for that Google service. Or, you might select Unrestricted if data for a service is less sensitive, and you want to allow more third-party apps - apps marked Trusted and Limited - to request access to data for that Google service. Learn more about managing Google service access.