The new Home in Google Drive

In this post, we’re going to look at the new Home page in Google Drive. This was introduced as a way to find files and folders quickly.

New Home page

The Home page is found above My Drive.

It shows you files that Drive thinks you’ll want to use. This is based on various criteria like when you edit them, open them, uploaded them, when they were shared with you, or documents attached to upcoming Calendar events.

It also shows you who owns the files and where they are stored.

Apparently, with use this will get more accurate.

Change to folders list

By default, it shows you files, but you can change it to show folder suggestions by clicking the “Folders” option.

How to filter the list

You can also filter the list by file type, file/folder owner, a specific period, and the location of the files or folders.

The list of file types is based on the types of files on the list.

Clicking “People” brings up the owners list, again is based on the owners on the list.

You can filter the list by a specific period.

Finally, you can filter it by the location of the files / folders.

How to show more files

If you want to see more files on the list, just click “Show more files” at the bottom of the list.

How to change the start page back to My Drive

If you don’t want Drive to default to the Home page and want your My Drive to be the page that opens when you open Drive, you can change it by clicking on the cog icon and selecting “Settings”.

Then select “My Drive”.

For Google Workspace accounts, you’ll see the Home page at the top of the list on the left, above the “Activity” view.

I find it useful for files I often use but still often just use the search bar at the top to look for a specific file.