Well, you can, and enabling offline viewing for Google Drive is as simple as checking a box! Let’s go over what you have to do.įirst, in order to view Drive files offline on the Mac, you must configure Google Chrome as your default browser, and the changes to your settings that I discuss below have to be applied within Chrome, as well. If you’re using the Google Drive app on your Mac to sync your Docs, Sheets, and Slides data, then you may think that you can’t access any of those proprietary Google file types when you’re offline.
