Change assistant settings in Chat
Ask Chat to review or change supported AI, signature, Calendar, Drive, location, and email-label settings.
Settings Chat can change#
Chat can stage changes to your AI reply criteria, drafting style, and voice instructions; signature modes and custom signatures; Calendar timezone, working hours, minimum notice, event buffer, enabled status, and selected calendars; Drive enabled status and search mode; your saved location; and email-label automation enabled state, mode, and definitions.
For Drive, the folder list can also be replaced with a new allowed set. Ask Chat to show the current allowed folders before requesting a change, and name the folders you want included. For email-label settings, Chat can also queue a label sync when you ask it to run one. A queued sync is an operation, not a settings change that waits for confirmation.
Review the request before confirming#
Chat shows a staged request for settings changes. Check the setting and values, then reply confirm to apply them or cancel to stop. A confirmed Drive folder update replaces the allowed folder set, so verify the complete proposed list. See Understand Chat confirmations.
The Calendar, Drive, and web research defaults under Settings > AI preferences > Research & Tools > When to use affect whether the assistant can use those tools in replies. If a tool is Off, Chat will not use it. See Set tool defaults for Calendar, Drive, and web research.