Google announced this morning that its Drive client for Windows 11 on Arm is out of beta and generally available to all users.
“Last year, we introduced a new beta that supports running Google Drive on Arm-compatible Windows PCs, and today we’re excited to announce this is now generally available,” a new post to the Google Workspace Updates blog notes. “Compiled for ARM64, this release enables users to easily sync and store files online from Windows PCs powered by Snapdragon processors.”
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Google issued the beta version of Drive for Windows 11 on Arm last November and I’ve been using it successfully on my Snapdragon X-based Surface Laptop 7 ever since. With this release, the client is available to anyone using Google Drive for consumers or Google Drive as part of a Workspace subscription, including those with individual subscriptions. If you installed the beta, as I did, you will automatically be updated to the release version.
Google notes that Drive for Windows 11 on Arm requires Microsoft WebView2, which is bundled with Windows 11 and Microsoft Edge. But if you’ve somehow managed to uninstall it, you can reinstall WebView2 from the Microsoft website. This client does not work with Windows 10 on Arm.