Confusing "Created by others" Tab/Tag in "Your apps" After Recent UI Update (Created by Others" Miscategorized)

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Hello Google AI Studio Team,

I’m experiencing significant confusion regarding the categorization of my apps in the “Your apps” library within Google AI Studio, specifically since the recent UI update (around October 21-22, 2025).

The Issue:

Several of my saved app prompts, which I created entirely from scratch using the + New app button and typing the initial prompt myself (e.g., projects related to visualizing platform posts), are now appearing under the “Created by others” tab in the “Your apps” library. Some of these also display a [Created by others] tag next to their name when viewed.

This is highly concerning because it implies these apps were not created by me or might be shared, which contradicts how they were made and their actual permission settings.

Verification Steps Taken:

To ensure my projects were private and to understand this labeling, I performed the following checks:

  1. IAM Permissions: I checked the Google Cloud Console IAM & Admin page for the underlying project associated with my AI Studio work. The permissions clearly show that my email address is the sole Principal listed, with the “Owner” role. This confirms the project and its resources are private and solely owned by me.

  2. Test App Creation: I created a brand new test app directly within the updated AI Studio UI by:

    • Clicking + New app.

    • Typing a simple prompt (“TEST”).

    • Clicking “Build ->”.

    • Renaming the auto-generated app to “My Private Test App”.

    • This “My Private Test App” correctly appeared under the “Created by you” tab in my library, as expected for an app initiated from scratch.

  3. Contradiction: The successful test with “My Private Test App” confirms that the + New app workflow shouldplace apps under “Created by you.” However, my older apps (like the ones for visualizing platform posts), which I state were also created using the exact same + New app workflow, are incorrectly appearing under “Created by others.”

Conclusion & Question:

Based on the IAM proof and the test app results, the “Created by others” label/tab appears to be incorrectly applied to apps that were genuinely created from scratch by the user via the + New app button, likely due to a bug introduced with the recent UI update.

This labeling is extremely misleading and causes significant user concern about project privacy, even when underlying permissions are secure.

Could the Google AI Studio team please:

  • Clarify the intended logic behind the “Created by you” vs. “Created by others” tabs/tags?

  • Investigate whether there is a bug causing apps initiated via + New app (especially older ones) to be miscategorized under “Created by others”?

  • Confirm that this label does not reflect the actual sharing or privacy status of the app, which is governed by IAM permissions?

Thank you for looking into this confusing UI behavior.

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Hi @J_Karmin , I have encountered the same issue, where an app created by myself is being labeled as “Created by Others“. Did you find any resolution to this issue? Look forward to your reply, thanks!

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I’ve encountered the same problem, and it seems to occur when the app code is still saving and I leave Build mode before it’s finished. Now, I just wait patiently for the save to complete.

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Hi @J_Karmin,

I am not able to reproduce this issue. Can you please confirm, if you are still facing the issue?

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Hi,
just noticed that most of my apps suddenly have the label”Created by others” and when I click on the app to lunch it it says “Page not Found”. What is going on??

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I have the same issue? Did you fix it or not?

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Well yea, sort of. So I think something happened that is related to GoogleDrive.
Anyway, I could see all my Apps in GoogleDrive “Google AI Studio” folder. Then I noticed that the apps that Worked were in their own Docs folder in “My Device” in Google Drive. And there was another Google AI Studio Folder with the new files that were working. So I have 2 such folders, and one of them seems to be invisible to AI studio.. The apps also got different icons than my old apps, so something is going on..
Anyway, here is what I did to solve it in the end.
First I downloaded the apps from the “old” or “other” Google Drive Google AI Studio as ZIP files.
Then, I created a new app in AI Studio. An app that can read the contents of the zip file and put it all into a new textfile which I then copy and paste into a new Session (Create new app) in AI studio.
It works surprisingly well. Several apps got recreated correctly and some seemd to almost work, but then I simply unpacked the zip, dragged tjose files into VS Code and compared them to what was in AI studio, and you can actually drag n drop the missing files directly to your code tree.

So, while it would have been nice to have some sort of Recreate app from zip” feature, in the end I solved it the hard-ish but still doable way.

Hope this helps other with the same issue.